Palestinians delay honoring woman for deadly hijacking
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has called off a ceremony honoring a woman involved in the deadly hijacking of an Israeli bus.
The Palestinians had planned on Thursday to name a square in the West Bank city of Ramallah after Dalal Mughrabi for her part in the 1978 hijacking on Israel’s coastal highway. Thirty-eight people were killed in the assault. But they decided Wednesday to put it off.
$1.2M settlement reached in Ohio’s caged kids case
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Eleven adopted and foster children forced to sleep in cages by their adoptive parents have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Ohio county where they once lived.
Lawyers for the children contended that Huron County children’s services workers should have discovered what was before they did and removed the children. “There were red flags that should have had the county in their sooner,” said attorney Jack Landskroner.
Ex-Marine acquitted of charges, sues California city to get back job
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ex-Marine acquitted on charges of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees sued the city of Riverside Wednesday over not being rehired as a police officer.Jose Luis Nazario filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking more than $4.5 million in damages.
The suit claims Riverside violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, a federal law that prohibits discrimination against veterans. Nazario was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in 2008.
Calif. woman arrested, 60 dogs seized from crates in her home
LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California woman has been arrested after animal control officers found 60 dogs in crates inside her small Lakeside home east of San Diego.
Sixty-five-year-old Alice Via was arrested Wednesday for investigation of animal cruelty and neglect. She ran what she called the San Diego Boxer Rescue, and kept mostly boxers and Chihuahuas. San Diego County spokesman Dan DeSousa says the dogs were confined in cages stacked two high throughout the two-bedroom 750-square-foot home.
Slaughter man indicted in December killings of 2 workers
(AP) — A 53-year-old man from Slaughter is charged with killing two clerical workers at a Baton Rouge construction company that had fired him, and with trying to kill five other people there.
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Wednesday that he plans to seek the death penalty against 53-year-old Richard Matthews.
Matthews is charged with the first-degree murders of 44-year-old Dianna Tullier of Walker and 55-year-old Cheryl D. Boykin of Denham Springs, who worked at Grady Crawford Construction Co.
A third clerical worker was shot. Matthews also was charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder.
The company fired Matthews several months before the shootings on Dec. 23.
Student arrested after bringing bb gun to Shreveport, La. school
SHREVEPORT (AP) — A 17-year-old student at Huntington High School has been arrested after allegedly bringing an unloaded BB gun onto the campus. Authorities say Freddiericka Terrell was in or near the school’s auditorium when she reportedly showed the gun to a group of students during a JROTC class on Wednesday.
Ex-New Orleans official gets eight-month prison sentence for theft
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former New Orleans housing official who pleaded guilty to living in federally subsidized housing when he wasn’t entitled to has been sentenced to eight months in prison. U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance on Wednesday also sentenced 37-year-old Dwayne Muhammad to eight months of home confinement following his prison term and ordered him to pay $45,000 in restitution.
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