MIDDLETOWN — Patricia Dye, a 31-year-old woman accused last year of pretending to be a boy to build a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old Springboro girl, has been arrested in California.

Dye was in the jail in Humboldt County, Calif., on a fugitive warrant from Butler County, according to jail officials.

Dye was charged with failure to report an address change after moving from Middletown in August, according to court records. Details were unavailable about her Dec. 8 arrest.

Dye, also known as Matt Abrams, was released from the Warren County Jail in December 2010 after serving six months for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child, sexual imposition and attempted sexual imposition. D

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Seventeen years after its original passage, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was introduced for reauthorization last month with the bipartisan leadership and support of Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Mike Crapo. 

The act, the current authorization of which expired in September, was first championed by then Senator Joe Biden, passed by Congress in 1994, and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005.  Each time it was considered by Congress, the legislation has enjoyed broad bipartisan support. 

This support reflects the very real concern that abuse knows no bounds – victims can be young and old, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, all genders, from every corner of the country, urban and rural, tribal and territorial. 

This week, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services are holding our 6^th annual Tribal Consultation in New Mexico.  We are participating in discussions with tribal leaders from all over the country that will help us better serve women who are abused, raped and murdered, at rates which are nothing short of abominable. VAWA Re

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he is being factually accurate when he calls the Palestinians an “invented” people and says they are the creation of anti-Israel propaganda.

Gingrich’s chief rival for the presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. M

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EDWARDVILLE — Madison County’s board chairman will run for another term, he announced Thursday.

Alan Dunstan has served as a board member since 1980 and was elected chairman in 2002. If his bid is successful, it will be his third term as chairman.

Dunstan said he believes Madison County to be the “best, most efficiently managed county in the state.”

Dunstan, 54, said he has worked to keep the county in sound financial condition and has cut the budget each year for the past four years.

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