Three semen stains on Jessie M. Davis bedroom floor. Thats the only DNA evidence county prosecutors have linking Bobby L. Cutts Jr. to the home of the pregnant woman hes accused of killing.

Testimony in Cutts aggravated murder trial entered the complicated and technical field of crime scene investigation and DNA analysis on Thursday.

Stark County prosecutors are trying to prove that Cutts, a former Canton police officer, strangled Davis on June 14 because she was carrying his child and he couldnt afford to pay more child support.

He and Davis, 26, already had a 2-year-old son together. And according to DNA testing, he was likely the father of her unborn child 13.1 million times more likely than any random male, according to testimony.

Cutts has pleaded not guilty.

Area kids of all ages ring in Halloween season

BRAD HORN/Nevada Appeal Jon and Sharry Goeschi sit in front of their home at 670 Occidental Drive on Friday evening. Jon is a senior tech at Hodges Transportation and Sharry is a CNA and RN for a hospice company in Reno. Jon Goeschi starts decorating his home for Halloween on Oct. 1.

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Post-apocalypse now for 'Jericho'

So it's easy for new viewers to come in. These seven episodes go like wildfire, because every episode, something huge happens."

That scope was hinted in last spring's finale. (That hour repeats in Universal HD's full-season this weekend, ending 8 p.m. Sunday. Sci Fi encores the first four hours 7-11 p.m. Monday.) After new Jericho resident and ex-espionage agent Robert Hawkins (Lennie James) said at least one government official was part of the nuke plot, we saw that same official (Daniel Benzali) issuing orders to military officers. Yet the American flag patch on their uniforms held not the familiar 50 stars and horizontal stripes but instead 21 stars and vertical stripes.

"This season is all about the country, the wider country, dealing with this attack," Barbee said last week by phone.

Alma(TM) Lasers to Debut Five New Products at the 66th Annual Meeting ...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Alma Lasers Ltd. ("Alma Lasers"), a global developer and marketer of laser, intense pulsed light, and radiofrequency-based aesthetic devices, announced today that it will unveil five new products at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in San Antonio, Texas, from February 2nd to 4th. Company representatives will be available during this time to discuss Alma Lasers' full line of products in booth #4465 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

These new products include the Harmony(XL) Multi-Application System, Pixel CO2 OmniFit handpiece, Pixel Er OmniFit handpiece, Pixel CO2 System and Accent(XL) UniLarge handpiece. The Harmony(XL) has more power, five new contact-cooled handpieces, a high-powered Pixel(TM) 2940 for fractional ablative skin resurfacing, Pain-Free Hair Removal, and a LED handpiece for post-treatment erythema.

On Native Ground

The Administration's reaction to this assessment was to downplay the report and try to come up with alternative ways of measuring progress.

Congress will be told that violence is down in Iraq, even though the first six months of 2007 have been the deadliest for U.S. troops and the civil unrest that plagues most of Iraq has not abated.

Congress will be told that it really isn't that big a deal that the Iraqi parliament can't agree on oil revenue sharing, holding provincial elections or de-Baathification of the government.

Congress will be told that the Administration was unable to foresee that the benchmarks set for the Iraqi government would not be met - just like it couldn't foresee jetliners being flown into skyscrapers or that the levees in New Orleans would fail. Besides, those benchmarks were unrealistic, anyway.

Crisis? Only because the BCCI chose to make it one

Provided Steve Bucknor is allowed the dignified retirement he wants and deserves, at a time of his own choosing, the frequently villified ICC may be said to have come rather well out of the affair of Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds. I am not sure that the same is true of the BCCI, whose muscles were flexed somewhat indecently throughout.

The row that erupted at Sydney when some of the Australian players accused Harbhajan of calling Symonds a 'monkey' was only a crisis so long as the BCCI chose to make it so.