SACRAMENTO -- explains — Authorities unravels were grappling Monday to determine what drove a young father to fatally beat his 2-year-old son on a farm road outside Turlock before a police officer arrived and shot the man to death. One motorist who tried but failed to wrestle Sergio Casian Aguilar, 27, away from the child said the assailant was forceful and hollow-eyed, muttering that there were "demons" in the boy, according to a local newspaper account. At one point, witnesses saw Aguilar, who had no criminal record or history of mental illness, bash the toddler to the pavement like a doll, and then stomp on him, authorities said. The scene unfolded late Saturday on a narrow, cracked two-lane strip of pavement surrounded by farms southwest of Turlock, about 60 miles south of Sacramento. Passing motorists called the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department to report the beating shortly after 10 p. m. Several tried in vain to stop the assault, said Deputy Royjindar Singh, a sheriff's spokesman. "They were trying to pull him off the little boy, but he would push them away and go back to what he was doing. "One motorist, Dan Robinson, 52, a volunteer fire chief in nearby Crows Landing, was among those who tried to intercede. Robinson did not return phone calls from The Times but told the Modesto Bee that at first he passed the scene and thought an animal had been hit. But when he backed up to offer help, he realized that the man was beating a small child. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday that the encounter was the most "provocative and dramatic" he had seen. "The incident ought to remind us all just how real is the threat posed by Iran and just how ready we are to meet that threat if it comes to it," he said. Both Mullen and Fallon said they could not tell if the threats heard in a Pentagon-released audio came from the Iranian boats. The Navy Times, a private newspaper, reported Friday that some Navy ship drivers think the threats may have come from a local heckler they call the "Filipino Monkey. ". immunity. A relative said the seized operations chief had quarreled with government officers. . Noting that the word "God" appears on the speaker's chair, he said, "Throughout this building there are religious symbols that are at risk if this policy is permitted to stand. "--johanna. neuman. Alaskan halibut is moist and flaky and the seared yellowtail could easily be part of the omakase at a top-notch sushi restaurant. Extend your legs behind you with your ankles and knees parallel to each other.

Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out into a rectangle less than one-fourth-inch thick . SACRAMENTO — Lawyers for injured workers Friday claimed a major victory after a judge ruled that the state's formula for calculating permanent disability benefits was arbitrary. The decision came amid a rising clamor from advocates for injured workers, labor unions and Democratic leaders of the state Legislature over a landmark overhaul of California's once-troubled workers' compensation insurance system