<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Registered sex offender running for mayor in Wilmer, Texas : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>55475</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55475/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Registered sex offender running for mayor in Wilmer, Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Caught soliciting 15 year old in an internet sting.  So he copped a plea so he had to register, but was not convicted.  That made him eligible to run for mayor.<br/><br/>*Yes the law says even if it was a cop on the other end, he was guilty of solicitation of a minor.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>149</score><crdate>3/24/2008 3:59:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-24T15:59:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50735</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50735/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas Mayor in Mess Over Shih Tzu Theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grace Saenz-Lopez was forced to quit her job as Mayor of Alice, Texas, for keeping her neighbor&#8217;s dog, but insists it was a rescue.<br/><br/>*Pic unrelated.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>209</score><crdate>2/15/2008 11:49:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-15T11:49:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65565</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/65565/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Village re-elects dead mayor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday's municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>126</score><crdate>6/16/2008 9:13:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-16T21:13:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20253</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20253/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man With One Leg Kills Sex Offender Dating His Ex-Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[From story: <br/>&quot;He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>15</score><crdate>5/14/2007 5:46:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T05:46:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70171</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70171/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Release of convicted sex offender concerns community]]></title><description><![CDATA[About to be released from jail, a convicted sex offender accused of making a list of young girls (ages between 6-17) to look up, will be put on probation and the district attorney says they can't do anything about it.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>58</score><crdate>7/26/2008 1:00:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-26T13:00:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65398</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65398/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mayor releases shelter dogs into National Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mayor James Valley says &quot;I believe that God created the heavens and earth and in that these animals will be able to fend for themselves, and of course it's going to be survival of the fittest,&quot; Update to this story <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=8573598" rel="nofollow">http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=8573598</a></div>]]></description><comments>20</comments><score>555</score><crdate>6/14/2008 5:15:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-14T17:15:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48607</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48607/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&#8216;Sex, Lies and Texting&#8217;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once known as America's first hip-hop mayor, Kilpatrick, 37, had notably toned down his living-large lifestyle in his second term as the mayor of Motown. But this week, his partying past caught up with him. The Detroit Free Press published text messages between Kilpatrick (who is married with children) and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty (divorced with children), that seem to confirm what both have denied under oath: that they had an illicit affair.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>47</score><crdate>1/28/2008 12:38:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-28T00:38:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9554</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9554/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas mayor wants to outlaw the N-word]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ordinance would require anyone saying it to pay a $500 fine. Future TV showings of &quot;Blazing Saddles&quot; will cost about $15,000.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>106</score><crdate>1/25/2007 4:20:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-25T16:20:19+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>