INTERNATIONAL
Suicide bombers assault UN office in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosive vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.
The brazen attack began when four militants drove up to the U.N. compound in a car laden with explosives and fired a rocket toward the entrance, said Dilawar Shah Dilawar, deputy police chief of Herat province.
The militants tried unsuccessfully to blow up the gate with the rocket so they could drive the car inside the compound, he said. When that didn’t work, three of the militants got out of the car and the fourth blew up the vehicle, killing himself. The explosion destroyed the gate, allowing the three to get inside.
“The three attackers were wearing police uniforms covered with burqas,” Dilawar said, referring to the long, flowing garment that many Afghan women wear in public. “All of them had suicide vests and AK-47s.”
Slovenian city elects nation’s first black mayor
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia has elected its first black mayor, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where he lives.
In fact, Peter Bossman, a Ghana-born physician, could be the first black mayor elected anywhere in his region of Europe.
Bossman, who settled in this tiny Alpine nation in the 1970s to study medicine in what was then known as Yugoslavia, won a runoff election in Piran on Sunday with 51.4 percent of votes.
The candidate is a member of Slovenia’s governing Social Democrats. He was previously a member of the Piran City Council.
 
NATIONAL
San Diego judge unseals files of priests accused of sexual abuse
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Thousands of pages of documents from the sealed personnel files of Roman Catholic priests accused of sexually molesting children have been released on the orders of a San Diego judge.
Attorneys for plaintiffs in the litigation against the Diocese of San Diego made some of the 10,000 pages of files on 48 priests public on Sunday.
Retired Judge William C. Pate ruled Friday that internal church documents pertaining to priests who had been convicted, credibly accused or named in molestation lawsuits could be released.
Attorneys say the files could show how much the diocese knew about abusive priests, when they knew it and if church officials engaged in a cover-up.
A spokesperson for the diocese did not immediately return a call for comment Sunday.
 
STATE/LOCAL
Former policeman files suit against city, parish
NAPOLEONVILLE (AP) — A former Thibodaux police officer has sued the city and the Assumption Parish sheriff. He claims he was unfairly forced to resign in connection with allegations that he falsified a 2008 report about two Assumption inmates allowed to travel to the city in a parish vehicle.
The former officer, Rodney Rhodes, is under indictment for malfeasance because of incident, which resulted in a major shake-up at the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.
According to Sunday’s Courier, Rhodes also alleges that the named defendants violated his civil rights during the course of their investigation into the incident.
Assumption Sheriff Mike Waguespack is named in the suit filed last week in Assumption district court by attorney Jill Craft.
Waguespack has alleged that there was a conspiracy among Rhodes, former jail warden Mike Brown and other law-enforcement officers.
The sheriff maintains the goal was to embarrass him publicly by setting up the apprehension of the inmates — one a killer and the other a sex offender — for maximum media exposure in Thibodaux rather than stopping them before they arrived.
Nicholls State student killed in hayride accident was intoxicated
THIBODAUX, (AP) — A Nicholls State University student who died last month in an on-campus hayride was heavily intoxicated and had an anti-anxiety drug in his system at the time of his death, according to toxicology tests done by the Lafourche Coroner’s Office.
Nathan Trepagnier, a history sophomore from New Orleans, was on a trailer being pulled east on Bowie Road as part of Nicholls’ homecoming festivities Sept. 25 when he fell forward into the roadway.
He was 19.
 
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