2 foreigners tied to adulterer stoning case arrested in Iran
CAIRO (AP) — Iran said Monday it arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman whose death sentence by stoning on an adultery conviction ignited international outrage.
Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said the two foreigners had entered the country on tourist visas and did not have documents to prove they were journalists.
Dramatic end nears for 33 trapped Chilean miners after 2 months
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — They’ll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests — first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth.
The dramatic endgame hastened Monday for the 33 Chilean miners who have braved two months underground, with rescuers reinforcing the escape shaft and the 13-foot-tall rescue chamber sliding, as planned, nearly all the way to the trapped men.
If all goes well, everything will be in place late Tuesday to begin pulling the men out, officials said. The lead psychologist for the rescue team recommended the extractions begin at dawn Wednesday, but no official decision had been made.
On Monday, the Phoenix I capsule — the biggest of three built by Chilean navy engineers, named for the mythic bird that rose from ashes — made its first test run after the top 180 feet of the shaft was encased in tubing, the rescue leader said.
Then the empty capsule was winched 2,000 feet, just 40 feet short of the shaft system that has been the miners’ refuge since an Aug. 5 collapse.
“We didn’t send it [all the way] down because we could risk that someone will jump in,” said Mining Minister Laurence Goldborne.
NYPD: Employee finds explosives while working in cemetery
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an employee doing gardening work dug up a garbage bag containing military-grade explosives at a historic Manhattan cemetery last year but left it at the site. It remained there until a volunteer told authorities about it on Monday.
 
Florida couple unknowingly buys real human skeleton at yard sale
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida couple thought they were buying a Halloween decoration at a yard sale, but they actually bought a real human skeleton. Judith and Mitchell Fletcher paid $8 for what they thought was a box of scary holiday decorations. When they got home, they realized they had bought real bones.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detectives took the bones to the medical examiner, who determined they came from a professionally prepared human anatomical skeleton.
 
Local officials continue oil spill fight with Coast Guard, BP
(AP) — Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser says local officials continue to regularly fight with U.S. Coast Guard officials and BP representatives about the response to the Gulf oil spill.
Nungesser says oil continues to appear in the marshland and on the shores of his parish. But Nungesser said Monday he’s concerned federal officials and oil giant BP PLC are trying to ratchet down the response efforts and equipment available for oil cleanup.
“We continue to fight more with the Coast Guard and BP than we do with the oil,” Nungesser told the Press Club of Baton Rouge.
Nungesser says he doesn’t think the federal government is better prepared to respond to another oil spill. He says there’s still not enough sense of urgency or a clear chain of command.
Lafayette man lying on tracks at night killed by train in Jennings
JENNINGS (AP) — Jennings police say a man lying on the railroad tracks at night was hit and killed by a train.
Police Chief Todd D’Albor told The American Press that 43-year-old Russell Anthony Carrier of Lafayette was hit about 2 a.m. Sunday by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train.
Detective Jean Cooley said the conductor saw something on the tracks but was unable to stop.
Judge orders pit bull killed for biting 12-year-old boy’s thigh
THIBODAUX (AP) — A Lafourche Parish judge has ruled that a pit bull that bit a 12-year-old boy without provocation must die.
The dog named Duke bit the boy’s thigh Sept. 27 as he rode his bicycle in Larose. The boy’s mother, Jaime Estay, says her son underwent surgery at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, and doctors expect a full recovery.
 
 
 
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