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Sheehan joins Rove protest

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Chanting “Try Rove for treason,” Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters disrupted a reception before President Bush’s top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser Saturday.

One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner.

Rove was speaking to the Associated Republicans of Texas. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception.

“I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son,” Sheehan told officers guarding the door. Sheehan’s oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Drexel, Mo.

Remains found in rural yard

The remains of at least two people were found in a rural Missouri yard where the bodies of as many as six people could have been dumped, sheriff’s officials said Saturday.

Officials planned to resume the search early today. Bone fragments from two sets of remains were found Friday on the three-acre wooded property northeast of Drexel in western Missouri, Cass County sheriff’s Cpl. Kevin Tieman said.

The deaths appeared to be drug-related and were not “random acts,” Tieman said. He estimated the deaths occurred over five years.

Deputies working an unrelated theft case received a tip about the remains.

Kingman, Ariz.

Stranded cat called reason for gunfire

A man angry at firefighters who refused to rescue a cat from a tree was arrested after he started shooting at the fire crew, officials said.

Jeffrey Cullen, 58, was charged with four felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

A three-person fire crew went to Cullen’s home Thursday when he reported a tree fire, but found no blaze, Hualapai Valley Fire Department spokeswoman Sandy Edwards said.

Instead, Cullen told firefighters he wanted a cat rescued from his tree and knew they would only respond to a fire call, Edwards said. A battalion chief told Cullen to call animal control or wait for the cat to get hungry and come down.

Cullen apparently didn’t like the response, Edwards said.

“He went back into the house, got a small black revolver and came outside shooting,” she said.

Deputies arrested Cullen after a brief standoff and struggle.