French general gets unusually light sentence for child pornPARIS (AP) — A French general who served as top military spokesman in the 1990s was convicted Tuesday of downloading thousands of images of pornography involving children, some as young as six months old. The general was given an unusally light sentence.—-Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai immediatelyJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel issued an “urgent” warning Tuesday to its citizens to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula immediately, citing “concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai.”The statement from the Israeli prime minister’s anti-terror office took the unusual step of calling on families of Israelis visiting the Sinai to establish contact with them.—-Man driving lawnmower charged with DUI, fishing pole theftATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — An East Tennessee man driving a lawn mower in the road has been charged with DUI. Athens police said 30-year-old Jimmy Graham Jr. smelled like alcohol and failed a sobriety test Monday. He told the officer he had consumed a beer and taken a stress reliever prescribed to him.A jailer said Graham was in custody Tuesday, and there was no record of him having a lawyer. The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens reported Graham was also charged with aggravated burglary and theft.—Oregon man awarded $1.4 million in Boy Scouts sex casePORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday when it found that the organization failed to protect a man who was molested by an assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.Jurors awarded $1.4 million to the former Portland man and decided that the Irving, Texas-based organization was liable for up to $25 million in damages that will be decided in a separate phase of the trial.Over the first three weeks of testimony, secret Scout “perversion files” — records of known sex offenders — were used as evidence.
Nation and World (4/14/10)
By The Associated Press
April 13, 2010