MONDAY, March 31
Mar 31st, 2008 by wqrinews
46 degrees and cloudy out in Southern New England today…the complete weekend forecast in a moment.
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.
A man was convicted Friday of swindling nearly three dozen people with a tale about a broken-down lobster truck that he said he needed money to fix. He collected sums ranging from $25 to $2,500 after concocting the story. He has been charged guilty of 30 of the 31 counts against him, all felony or misdemeanor counts of obtaining money under false pretenses.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a statement calling the order “a step in the right direction” towards resolving six days of violence sparked by operations against al-Sadr’s backers in the oil-rich southern city of Basra. The Iraqi government later said it would lift a Baghdad curfew on Monday morning. A vehicle ban will stay in place in three Shiite militia strongholds in the capital.
From the Sydney Opera House to Rome’s Colosseum to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, floodlit icons of civilization went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. The environmental group WWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were. Even internet search engine Google lent its support to Earth Hour by blackening its normally white home page and challenging visitors: “We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn.”
WQRI SPORTS
In Roger Williams Hawks news…
Baseball team remains perfect in The Commonwealth Coast Conference, thanks in part to the first perfect game in Roger Williams University history. The Hawks swept the Sunday afternoon doubleheader against Wentworth Institute of Technology by the scores 1-0 and 5-3.
Women’s lacrosse team moved to 6-1 overall and 3-0 in The Commonwealth Coast Conference with its 9-6 victory Saturday over the visiting Golden Bears of Western New England College.
Men’s lacrosse team dropped a tight game to No. 13 Western New England College Saturday, falling to the visitors, 13-9.
Softball had its three-game winning streak snapped as Western New England College swept the Saturday afternoon Commonwealth Coast Conference doubleheader by the scores 5-3 and 8-4.
And in WQRI Weather
Today PM rain with high 48 low 45. Tomorrow wind and slight showers expected high 60 low 40. And Wednesday mostly sunny and windy high 48 low 32.
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