WASHINGTON — Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents’ behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama’s visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White House late Friday to personally brief Obama in the Oval Office.
Patrick Desmond is no stranger to filming in Delaware County. His first films, “Absence of Light”; and “Psycho Street”; were both filmed here in Delaware County. Patrick’s current film in production, “Closed Casket”, has already began filming in the county. The movie, which draws inspiration from “The Twilight Zone” and “Tales From the Crypt” stars horror-movie-icon Michael Berryman. Berryman has been scaring audiences since the 1970’s, when he stared in Wes Craven’s chilling cult classic “The Hills Have Eyes.”
Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria’s anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others lay in the streets — either dead or gravely wounded, witnesses said.