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SAN DIEGO — A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.
Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez admitted entering the United States illegally to rob a Border Patrol agent, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Alvarez said he lured Agent Robert Rosas out of his car on the night of July 23 and struggled with him over a firearm.
Rosas, 30, was shot four times in the head, once in the neck and three times in the torso. He was found near Campo, Calif., without a pulse. His Border-Patrol issued gun was missing.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval late today ruled in favor of residents who alleged the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. Many in Katrina have argued that Katrina, which struck the region Aug. 29, 2005, was a manmade disaster caused by the Army Corps’ failure to maintain the levee system protecting the city.
Judge: Corps’ negligence caused Katrina flooding
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SANFORD, N.C. — Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road Monday, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother was accused of offering her for sex, police said.
Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance told The Associated Press that searchers found Shaniya Davis’ body southeast of Sanford in central North Carolina.
Two people have been charged in her disappearance, including her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25.
Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution. A first court appearance for Davis was scheduled Monday afternoon, and police said she did not yet have an attorney.
Authorities also charged Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, with kidnapping after they said he was seen in surveillance footage carrying Shaniya at a Sanford hotel. Authorities said McNeill admitted taking the girl, though his attorney said he will plead not guilty.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Feds move to seize four U.S. mosques and New York skyscraper owned by Muslim group with alleged ties to Iran.
Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran
Military officials say Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 and wounding 29 in last week’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas will face 13 charges of premeditated murder under the military’s legal system.
He could face the the death penalty if convicted.
CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately. The longtime host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” said today on his show that it would be his last. He said CNN had allowed him to be released from his contact, which would enable him “to pursue new opportunities.” He said he was considering a number of options.
The longest-running anchor on CNN’s air, Dobbs was one of the nation’s leading financial journalists before turning his program in a more opinionated direction. His persistent advocacy against illegal immigration angered many.
Lou Dobbs abruptly announces resignation from CNN
A Minnesota soldier is among those killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Kham Xiong, of St. Paul, died in the attack Thursday, said Tim McGowan, principal of Community of Peace Academy, a school attended by Xiong. McGowan said Xiong’s father, Chor Xiong, informed the school of his son’s death. Family members picked up pictures of Xiong on Friday for a memorial service, McGowan said.
A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S. was fatally shot this afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said. Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich., were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Ten followers listed in a criminal complaint were also being rounded up in the area.
Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon, and was killed by gunfire from agents, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said. In a court filing, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam, or prayer leader, of a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Authorities investigating the stabbing death of a priest arrested the church janitor Saturday, alleging he stabbed the cleric 32 times with a kitchen knife after arguing with him in the rectory.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said that 64-year-old Jose Feliciano was charged in the murder of the Rev. Ed Hinds, whose body was found Friday in the rectory kitchen of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Chatham.
The Minnesota Health Department is reporting three more deaths from complications of the H1N1 flu, according to an Associated Press report.
All three people had underlying health conditions, and two were children less than 7 years old. The children were from Steele and Freeborn counties.
