Syria says 25 dead in massacre, Turkish plane missing

The Syrian regime on Friday accused rebels of carrying out a "brutal massacre" of 25 of its supporters, as neighbouring Turkey held emergency talks after a Turkish military plane went missing near Syria.

Monitors said regime forces fired on demonstrators in second-largest city Aleppo killing at least eight people while another was killed in the province of the same name.

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, meanwhile, urged the international community to raise the level of pressure on both sides in the conflict which monitors say has cost more than 15,000 lives since March 2011.

"It's time for countries of influence to raise the level of pressure on the parties on the ground and to persuade them to stop the killing and start the talking," he told a press conference in Geneva.

In neighbouring Turkey, the plane incident triggered an emergency summit of military, intelligence and government officials.

NTV private news channel reported citing unnamed military sources that the plane crashed in Syrian territorial waters, but there was no violation of the Syrian border.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, quoted by local media, said the two pilots were alive. Syrian and Turkish coastal guards were collaborating to reach the plane wreck, NTV said earlier.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a higher toll for the pro-regime losses in the latest reported massacre, saying at least 26 government supporters -- most of them members of the feared shabiha militia -- had been killed.

The Britain-based watchdog also reported that government forces opened fire on demonstrators in Aleppo province killing nine, as activists called nationwide protests.

In the capital, troops fired on demonstrators in the upscale district of Mazzeh, the watchdog said, without giving any immediate word on casualties.

Protesters in other areas of Damascus and its suburbs were also fired on, the Observatory said, adding that two children were shot dead in two different areas of Damascus province, although not at demonstrations.

In Syria's third largest city Homs, residents held a small protest despite a renewed bombardment by government forces of rebel-held neighbourhoods, activists said.

The bombardment scuppered a new Red Cross attempt to evacuate trapped civilians as the United Nations said up to 1.5 million people needed aid.

It came after at least 168 were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, the highest single-day death toll since a UN-backed ceasefire was supposed to take effect on April 12, the Observatory said.

In the reported massacre, "armed terrorist groups... kidnapped a number of citizens in Daret Azzeh area in the countryside of Aleppo, according to official sources in the province," the state SANA news agency said.

"The terrorist groups... committed a brutal massacre against the citizens... through shooting them dead and then mutilating their bodies." it added.

"Initial information indicates that more than 25 of the kidnapped citizens were killed... with the fate of the rest of the kidnapped people still unknown."

Amateur video posted on YouTube and distributed by the Observatory showed piles of mangled bodies of young men, their clothing soaked in blood. At least two of the bodies in the footage were wearing fatigues.

"These are shabiha of (President) Bashar al-Assad's regime," the narrator said, without identifying himself.

The Observatory said a total of at least 52 people were killed in violence across the country on Friday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), meanwhile, said up to 1.5 million Syrians now need humanitarian aid, up from the one million estimated at the end of March.

"The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate," said the latest OCHA bulletin.

On the diplomatic front, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday met his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem, urging Damascus to do more to implement the plan of peace envoy Kofi Annan.

"We called on them (the Syrian regime) to back up their declarations about readiness to implement the Kofi Annan plan with deeds," Lavrov told state television after the meeting in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg.

"They have already done a lot but they can and must do much more."

Lavrov said Muallem had promised him in the name of Assad that the government was ready for a "synchronised" withdrawal of troops from Syrian towns as long as the rebel opposition did the same.

"The minister assured me of this today," he said.

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Internet Business Expert: How to Keep Your Online Business Going ...

The overall economy is expected to grow just 2 percent. The times may be dire in 2012, but you can be sure that internet marketing has still much potential to reach. In order to keep your online business afloat, there are some ways you could keep your online business going.

Set Goals
Start your year by setting goals for your internet marketing regardless whether you are getting started or already in the midst of your business. If you do not have a goal, you will not be sure of your direction and what you are doing to achieve. Take that goal and live and breathe it. Set steps to reaching these goals.

Promote your service/products
If you are starting out in internet marketing, launch that product or service that will solve a problem. Businesses are created to solving problems. Google provides real data on the number of searches for product or service on a monthly basis and this will be a good guide to check whether the product or service that you are going to launch popular.

If business owners have an existing online business, upgrade or incorporate more interactive websites eg social media, blogging and real-time updated approach. You will have to try to get your articles and information into as many prospects hands as possible. It is important to get your tailored marketing campaigns to reach prospects at the right time with the right message. As internet marketing is a fast moving industry, always look out for new tools that will help business owners better analyse their customer behaviour.

Focus on Marketing
Marketing is the key to your online business. Many business owners focus on the wrong things or do things the old ways, your business will increase in tiny steps or continue spluttering along. Internet marketing is a fast moving industry. Business owners should be able to able use effective marketing strategies.

Mobile marketing is an example of the fastest increase that you will see in 2012's digital marketing landscape. As more people are using mobile devices to access the internet more than ever before, it is expected to grow at astonishing rates over the next few years. You will not be tapping on potential customers if you are not planning to use mobile marketing. There are a lot of new and exciting marketing strategies formulated every day in an attempt to penetrate into the mobile marketing. In January 2011, there were statistics that show that out of 600 million Facebook users, 1/3 of them were accessing their Facebook accounts using mobile devices. That amount to 200 million users. These figures indicate the impact mobile marketing will have on your sales, profits and ROI in your online business.

Video marketing is also on the rise and should keep growing through 2012. Picture speaks louder than words. Marketers are starting to comprehend that people would rather watch an entertaining video than reading an e-book in PDF file or a plain textbook. People attention span is short. They want to get information fast and in an entertaining manner. "How-to" instructional videos are ideal for people searching to find immediate solutions. These videos are the best way to show that you are knowledgeable in your niche, and that show you as an authority and expert.

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Privacy deal could dent Facebook's revenue

? Thomas Hodel / Reuters / REUTERS

A Facebook logo on a computer screen is seen through a magnifying glass.

By Roland Jones

Facebook has hit a potential stumbling block in its efforts to make money from its more than 900 million active users.

The social network has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit in California claiming?it?publicized?that some of its users had ?liked? certain advertisers?but didn't?pay the users, or give them a way to opt out.

The so-called ?Sponsored Story? feature on Facebook is essentially an advertisement that appears on the site and includes a member?s Facebook page and generally consists of another friend?s name, profile picture and a statement that the person ?likes? that advertiser.

The agreement in California could potentially complicate Facebook?s efforts to accelerate advertising revenue, experts say.

Ever since the company went public last month, critics of the website have said it faces challenges when it comes to drawing in revenue because its users are sensitive to Facebook using their personal information to generate money, and because the website?s advertising is not obtrusive enough to grab the attention of users.

?The fact is the advertisements are not irritating users,? said Rob Enderle, an analyst with Enderle Group. ?Advertisers are not getting value because Facebook does not want to upset its users.?

Enderle notes that Facebook?s non-traditional forms of advertising -- using features such as ?Sponsored Stories,? or allowing advertisers to establish product-focused pages -- are not having the same effect as more established forms of advertising, which by their nature are conspicuous and direct.

Indeed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll earlier this month showed four out of five Facebook users said they have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site. And in mid-May General Motors very publicly yanked $10 million in Facebook advertising, saying paid advertising on the site isn?t effective.

Changing the ?Sponsored Stories? feature could cost Facebook $103.2 million, economist Fernando Torres? analysis of the revenue each ad brings to the site estimated. And, according to the lawsuit, Facebook?s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the value of a ?Sponsored Story? advertisement is at least twice and up to three times the value of a standard Facebook ad that doesn?t include a friend endorsement.

But Facebook executives shouldn?t be too despondent, according to Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University's Lubin School of Business. He notes that, in general, academic studies show consumers are willing to reveal more about themselves than privacy advocates would have us believe.

When given a choice, people would rather give up a bit of privacy to get something for free than pay for a service and have their privacy protected, he said.

?Facebook is going to do just fine, because most of its users don?t care much about their privacy,? Chiagouris said. ?Privacy advocates tend to be people on the fringe -- who by the way in some cases have legitimate concerns; it?s just that those concerns are not necessarily shared by the masses.?

A recent examination of the accounts of 1 million Facebook users by Secure.me, a company that offers privacy services to social networks users, showed?nearly 9 out of 10 Americans share information about themselves that can be abused. Slightly fewer Europeans share such sensitive information, the company?s research found.

To continue to entice users to share their personal information on Facebook the website needs to be clear about what its users are giving up, Chiagouris added.

?They still have the largest community of people anywhere on the planet, and that?s worth a great deal,? he said. ?But they need to find a way to provide some sort of tiered service, and not through lots of privacy settings most people don?t make good use of. Facebook is constantly changing them, adding more confusion. They really have harmed themselves in that regard.?They just need to be more transparent and simple about it.?

Another upbeat sign for Facebook is its share price, which has rallied 27 percent since hitting a post-IPO low of $25.87 on June 5.

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Friday that Facebook has become the seventh company to agree to give people advance warning if its mobile applications take personal information from their mobile phones and devices.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Facebook is launching the option of subscription payments of apps, with CNBC's Julia Boorstin.

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Giant coupon company to come out of merger

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ? Coupon-clippers, take note.

The company that owns and distributes Valpak coupons to millions of homes around the U.S. is acquiring one of the biggest online coupon websites. Cox Target Media Inc., told The Associated Press it is acquiring Savings.com and its U.K.-based sister site, Savoo.com.

"What it means for the Valpak brand ... that blue envelope that's so familiar? It's going to make that experience better," said Michael Vivio, the president of Cox Target Media, which is based in Largo, Fla.

Vivio said Wednesday that in the future, customers that receive local deals in the Valpak coupon envelope will also get them from national brands. Eventually, the deals will also be available on a phone app and through other social media sites. Company officials say the acquisition expands both Valpak and the website to encompass traditional, digital, social and mobile platforms.

The acquisition means a shift in the advertising revenue model, Vivio said.

Valpak makes money in a traditional, print media way, he said: businesses pay for the ads in advance and hope there's a corresponding sales bump.

With affiliate marketing sites like Savings.com, Vivio said, the business model is different. Companies send the affiliate marketing sites coupon codes or data feeds to sites that drive traffic to their websites. When a transaction is completed, the company pays a commission to the affiliate site ? meaning the company doesn't spend a dime until a customer buys something.

"The acquisition of Savings.com creates a new business model," said Vivio. "(Companies) will be able to get the eyeballs and mass reach print delivers using the kind of business model that works in affiliate marketing."

A company spokesman said the acquisition cost about $100 million.

Loren Bendele, CEO of the Los Angeles-based Savings.com, said his company won't make the move to Florida.

In 2011, the two companies teamed up to provide online coupons from national retailers on Valpak.com.

"This acquisition gives us a much deeper relationship," said Bendele. "In the past, they took some of our content displayed it on their website. This allows us to get in the envelope and work with our merchant partners and distribute deals through the envelope."

Because Valpak "hyperlocalizes" its direct marketing deals, Bendele said Savings.com will add the social media and Internet component to those consumers, thus broadening the reach of each company.

Cox Media Group is a broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that distributes Valpak, a leading North American direct marketing company. Cox Media has $1.7 billion in revenue, along with 15 television stations, 86 radio stations, eight daily newspapers and more than 100 digital services.

Valpak is distributed to some 44 million U.S. households monthly.

Savings.com offers in-depth databases of online coupons and personalizes deal recommendations for online visitors. It also gives personalized recommendations and allows people to rate coupons and deals. The company says it has more than 5 million visitors monthly.

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Follow Tamara Lush on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tamaralush .

Associated Press

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Miami-Dade Commissioners Give Preliminary OK To Banning Sales Of Bath Salts

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Miami-Dade commissioners gave the initial nod Tuesday to outlawing sales of "bath salts," the synthetic drug that can make users aggressive and often violent.

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A Minute With: Aaron Sorkin on "The Newsroom"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aaron Sorkin has been down a similar road before.

The Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network" and creator of the behind-the-scenes account of Washington politics, "The West Wing," has a much-anticipated new series premiering on cable channel HBO on Sunday - "The Newsroom."

Rapid-fire banter, clever posturing about modern-day America and a romantic view of the workplace are all Sorkin trademarks found in his new show, which examines the world of cable TV news centered around unyielding anchor Will McAvoy, who is played by Jeff Daniels.

Sorkin, 51, spoke to Reuters about the show.

Q: Going back to "Network" and "Broadcast News," there have been quite a few accomplished looks at broadcast journalism. Seems like a daunting task?

A: ""The Newsroom" has more in common with "Broadcast News" - the romantic comedy - for sure. And both Holly Hunter's character and Albert Brooks' character on "Broadcast News" and most of our characters are for and against the same things. But if you go back and look at "Broadcast News" now, James L. Brooks, who wrote that, had a fantastic crystal ball. As did Paddy Chayefsky when he wrote "Network," to see what the future is like. But boy, "Broadcast News" was written at a time when there was no cable news, there was (sic) just three networks. Now there is this 24-hour beast to feed."

Q: Your characters want to change journalism's crumbling role in a functioning democracy and responsibility to inform the public. What ever happened to The Fourth Estate?

A: "The Fourth Estate, well the characters on this show are trying to bring it back. But I can't emphasize enough how, it sounds like you are going to be asked eat your vegetables every Sunday night and you are just not. The show is swashbuckling, it's funny, the show doesn't take itself seriously. The characters take their jobs seriously, they don't take themselves seriously. It's really not as dry and unbearable as it sounds."

Q: You've examined the world of news before, albeit sports news, when you began your TV career with "Sports Night." How is "The Newsroom" similar or different to previous outings?

A: "Like those other shows, you will like the show or not like the show, depending how on much you are invested in the characters. It's not going to rely at all on whether you care about the news or where on the political spectrum you fall.

I like writing about work places and workplace families. Really, the common theme in all these shows is , 'It's alright to be in a big city if you can find family at work'."

Q: But why take on news, or rather cable TV news?

A: "When I did "The West Wing," part of the engine behind it, was that in American popular culture, our leaders, by and large, had only ever really been portrayed as either Machiavellian or adults. And I like writing very romantically, I don't write particularly cynically, I write idealistically, and I wanted to write about a group of people who were very competent and well intentioned and they may slip on banana peels all the time, but we know that they wake up every morning thinking about us and thinking about the country and wanting to do well.

And in wanting to come up with another television series, I felt that journalism was held in at least as much contempt as government and politics, so I thought 'I will write about another group of people who defy expectations, who aren't cynical, who are optimistic, who aren't narcissistic, where it is not about ratings, where their thing is, what is a good news show and what is stopping us from doing it?"

Q: Will people believe such a thing as optimistic journalists? How was the character of McAvoy born?

A: "It's been in the oxygen supply for a long time now that the lead character, the Jeff Daniels character, was somehow based on (U.S. TV anchor) Keith Olbermann. The character is not even based a little bit on Keith Olbermann, not even inspired by Keith Olbermann. No character on this show, is based on anyone from real life. All the news events are absolutely true. We don't make up the news events. But the characters are all entirely fictional."

Q: How did you capture the complexities of journalism?

A: "I always find myself writing about things I don't know anything about. So I will surround myself with very smart people and try to ask them the right questions, try to get a conversation going. And it will be a combination of that and my imagination."

Q: Still, the media world is not foreign to you. How did you amp up your knowledge of the world of news?

A: "I visited a lot of newsrooms, including MSNBC, but also Fox, CNN , CBS - a couple more, but it's been a year and a half ago now, when I was doing that. But I was really just looking to be a fly in the wall, the way I hung out at the White House for "The West Wing," the way I hung out at ESPN for "Sports Night," ... just to get a sense of what does this place look and sound like and what are the obstacles involved in getting through a day."

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Jill Serjeant and Bernadette Baum)

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'These kids don't expect to live a full life'

Spencer Leak, director of Leak & Sons Funeral Home on Chicago's south side stands outside St. Andrews Temple during the wake of Kenneth Jones, who was killed while allegedly trying to flee an attempted robbery on Saturday, June 9, in the Park Manor neighborhood on Chicago's south side. Leak said,

By Ron Mott , NBC News correspondent

CHICAGO ? Business is disturbingly steady for Spencer Leak, Sr.

It?s not that he is unaccustomed to be being busy. After all, he is a successful funeral home director with two locations and his family has been in the funeral business for almost 80 years.

It?s just that many of the people arriving for their ?homegoing,? as the services often are called, are so young. Leak said he?s been doing upwards of 125 funerals a year for homicide victims, many of them young adults, some just teenagers, who are victims of the recent surge in violence rocking this city.

?These kids don?t expect to live a full life,? said Leak, a former executive director of the Cook County Department of Corrections. ?You get about a thousand other kids who come to these funerals. They see how it?s celebrated and they think this is how I?ll be celebrated when I get shot.?

Chicago?s police commissioner has pointed to gang-related conflicts as the driving force behind the recent surge in gun deaths. From the start of this year through June 18, at least 240 people have been killed, according to the Chicago Police Department.?

Just last weekend seven people were killed and 35 injured ? marking the third weekend in a row with gunfire victims totaling well into the double digits. The weekend before, 46 people were hurt and eight killed across Chicago. The previous weekend, 29 were injured and three were killed in shootings.

More Chicago mayhem: 35 hurt, 7 killed in shootings

Homicides are up about 35 percent over last year at a time when violent crime nationwide is?trending down. U.S. violent crime rates fell in 2011 for the fifth straight year, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data

On June 11, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a new law into effect targeting gangs. The Illinois Street Gang RICO Act strengthens penalties for organized crimes. Also, police announced plans to put officers on overtime during weekends to patrol the city?s most violent neighborhoods.

?It?s a sad indictment on us,? said Leak. ?The spike in crime we?re seeing now is not something that?s surprising to me. I?m talking to at least two-to-three mothers a week whose kids were killed in the streets of Chicago, and I?m just one funeral director.?

Nathan Weber / for msnbc.com

Pall bearers take the casket of homicide victim Kenneth Jones, 27, to a hearse after the funeral service at St. Andrews Temple on Chicago's South Side on Monday, June 18, 2012.

Leak believes the solution to reducing the incidence of murder is multifaceted, adding that police are doing all they can. But he cites a lack of religious upbringing among many of today?s young black men as a major factor in the plague of violence.

?We?ve got to start trying to get these kids into some type of church setting,? he said. ?We?ve got to preach to kids and try to show them what they?re doing is wrong.?

?More than just a gang situation?
That message is what Pastor Corey Brooks attempts to convey every day. This spring, he protested Chicago?s violence by perching himself atop a vacant motel across the street from his church on the city?s South Side. For 94 days, he sat in a tent on the roof, hoping to call attention to the problem while raising money to buy and raze the motel, which he has done.

Now, Brooks is walking across the country ? from New York to Los Angeles ? for his Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny) initiative. He wants to build a $15 million community and economic development center in the motel?s place.

Brooks has developed a reputation for undertaking the risks of officiating funerals for suspected gang members, services which have been, on occasion, marred by further violence. He doesn?t believe the violence is simply about gangs.

?It?s more than just a gang situation,? Brooks said from Coatesville, Pa., an hour?s drive west of Philadelphia, where he was walking with about 10 people. ?It?s much bigger than that. You have one of the most economically hit areas, in unemployment. You have a bunch of different social ills, no spirituality whatsoever. And violence is the result.?

Brooks said members of his New Beginnings church are taking to the streets in the neighborhood every Friday and Saturday night, from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. They walk around in groups and Brooks claims there have been no murders on those nights in the Woodlawn section of Chicago since they began the so-called ?HOODvasions.?

?We need all hands on deck. We need all of the compassionate people we can get to get their hands on this issue,? said Brooks.

?It?s not just a black issue. This is an American issue.?

Leak agrees, calling on the president, himself a Chicagoan, to address the violence and get involved in the citywide conversation that seeks solutions.

And, he argues for tougher responses to nonviolent juvenile crimes like??stealing a lady?s purse or hubcaps,? Leak illustrated.

?If we don?t get these kids when they?re 7 or 8 years old, we?ll lose them,? he warned. ?I used to get them at the jail at 17, and it was too late.?

These days the losses he gets could not be more final.

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Using Social Media For Internet And Network Marketing To Gather Leads

In society, a very important group of people is the friends. Friends are people who are there for helping out in various needs as well as in exchanging a word or two to others. For the networking business, transfer of information from one person to another is very important. It is the name of leads that is given to such people who hear about certain information.

Friends can be big part players in this kind of a set up. To further the chain of events, the friends can pass on the words from one place to another, from one ear to another. As the number of people who come across certain information keeps on growing, the number of leads is indirectly growing.

For a home based business where there is requirement of as many friends as possible, without having to go out of the house, the internet serves a great purpose. Friends, who meet up through the internet, mostly do so through the social media.

The social networking sites, allow the friends to meet up and talk about various things. Here, these virtual friends can share ideas about different topics, sometimes which might be about a multilevel marketing strategy.

Network marketing is benefited when a number of such friends are able to discuss about a product in a particular site. This is going to benefit the site owner as people start visiting the site. This would create a lead for the marketing site and increases the chance of someone becoming a member in the following level.

For being a part of internet and network marketing, people need to have a trust on the networking site as well as have a belief in themselves that they can bring in more leads. In the social media sites, a number of friends can be made in a very small time. Twitter, linkedin, orkut, facebook, etc are some of the important places where the friend list goes into many thousands. Although the approach of different sites is varying, yet, all of them have a common theme where friends are linked to each other. The format is so made that a point of discussion between a couple of friends can be visible to all other friends. This increases the inquisitiveness of others to find out about an interesting talk about a multilevel marketing.

As the discussion is going on between friends, they trust the discussion and visit the discussed site. At this point, the site owners or the service providers should be able to hold the visitors by providing informative articles, optimizing the search, and such other search engine optimization things. The rapid inroad of the friends from the social media into the network marketing is foreseeable. Once the traffic of leads is increased, people can now offer the interested parties a chance to become members as well as give them an opportunity to bring in more friends, thus extending the lead generation and making members.

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Dad won't face charges in alleged attacker's death

Heather McMinn, district attorney for Guadalupe, Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, speaks at a news conference with Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon, second from right, and V'anne Huger, right, attorney for the father, at a news conference on a Texas father who beat to death a man who tried molesting his 5-year-old daughter Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in Halletttesville, Texas. Officials said the Lavaca County grand jury met Tuesday and declined to return an indictment against the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores. (AP Photo/Ramit Masti)

Heather McMinn, district attorney for Guadalupe, Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, speaks at a news conference with Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon, second from right, and V'anne Huger, right, attorney for the father, at a news conference on a Texas father who beat to death a man who tried molesting his 5-year-old daughter Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in Halletttesville, Texas. Officials said the Lavaca County grand jury met Tuesday and declined to return an indictment against the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores. (AP Photo/Ramit Masti)

This June 16, 2012, photo shows a building near Shiner, Texas, where authorities say a Texas father beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter on June 9. A Lavaca County grand jury on Tuesday, June 19 declined to indict the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores. Emergency crews found Flores? pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body when they responded to the 911 call. (AP Photo/Victoria Advocate, Carolina Astrain)

(AP) ? A young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, authorities said Tuesday as they released a dramatic 911 tape of the dad frantically pleading for help before the hired ranch helper died.

A Lavaca County grand jury Tuesday declined to indict the 23-year-old father in the death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47. Prosecutors said the grand jury reached same conclusion as police after reviewing the evidence: The father was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.

Flores was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property.

"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" the father yells. "I don't know what to do!"

The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP does not identify victims of sexual assault.

The tense, nearly five-minute 911 call begins with the father saying that he "beat up" a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, cursing and crying into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.

At one point tells the dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriff's deputies finally arrive.

"He's going to die!" the father screams. "He's going to (expletive) die!"

V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, sternly told reporters several times during a news conference at the Lavaca County courthouse that neither the father nor the family will ever give interviews.

"He's a peaceable soul," Huser said. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."

The attack happened on the family's ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum. Authorities say a witness saw Flores "forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area and then scrambled to find the father. Running toward his daughter's screams, investigators said, the father pulled Flores off his child and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area."

Emergency crews found Flores' pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body by the time they responded to the 911 call. The girl was taken to a hospital and examined, and authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father's story that his daughter was being sexually molested.

Although the father was never arrested, the killing was investigated as a homicide. Huser, the Lavaca County sheriff and the district attorney did not take questions during the news conference.

Philip Hilder, a Houston criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said he would have been surprised if the grand jury had decided to indict the father. Hilder said Texas law provides several justifications for the use of deadly force, including if someone committing a sexual assault.

"The grand jury was not about to indict this father for protecting his daughter," he said.

Authorities said the family had hired Flores before to help with horses on the ranch. He was not born in the U.S. but was here legally with a green card.

On Tuesday, a new "No Trespassing" sign was freshly tacked onto a gate barring entrance down a gravelly, shrub-canopied path leading to the barn and chicken coop on the ranch. Authorities say the attack happened near the barn.

Across the street, neighbor Michael James Veit, 48, described the father as easygoing and polite ? down to always first asking permission to search his property for animals that had wandered off the ranch, even though the families have long known each other.

"They won't find a jury pool here that will convict him," Veit said.

No one answered at the father's home. The front yard could pass for a children's playground: blue pinwheels sunk into patchy grass, an above-ground swimming pool, a swing set, a trampoline and a couple of ropes dangling from a tree for swinging. A partial privacy fence is painted powder blue.

A few miles away, at a home listed as belonging to the father's sister, a woman shouted through the front door that the family had nothing to say.

Veit's son was a classmate of the father's at Shiner High School in a graduating class of about two dozen. Veit said the young father was never known to be in trouble.

"Just like a regular kid, went to dances, drank beer like the rest of the kids around here," Veit said. "Never been in trouble. Never, ever. You know, I think justice is served. It's sad a man had to die, but I think anybody would have done that."

A public records search did not turn up anything for Flores.

Shiner, a town of about 2,000 people about 80 miles west of San Antonio, revolves around the Spoetzl Brewery that makes Shiner, one of the nation's best-selling independent beers. Even gas stations here sell it on tap.

Flores' death is only the sixth homicide the sheriff's department has investigated in the last eight years, and half of those killings involved one triple-murder. Shiner residents boast their squeaky-clean image on a highway welcome sign: "The Cleanest Little City in Texas."

At Werner's Restaurant, customer Gail Allen said she didn't want to speak for all of Shiner, though her comments might as well have.

"The father has gone through enough," said Allen, 59, who has nine grandchildren. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that."

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Associated Press writer Juan Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.

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