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Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Birds From Cuba In Pants

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

MIAMI (AP) - A Miami man faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly trying to smuggle birds from Cuba into the United States in his pants. The U.S. Attorney's office says Alberto Diaz Gonzalez pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to import undeclared wildlife from the Caribbean

Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eugenio Velazquez doesn't fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug cartels. The dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico belongs to Tijuana's elite, equally at

Syria's civil war spills into Lebanon, 4 dead

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By BARBARA SURKAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's civil war spilled over into neighboring Lebanon once again on Sunday, with gun battles in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad's regime that left four dead. Nine Syrian judges and

Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaida leader

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By RASOOL DAWAR and ISHTIAQ MAHSUDAssociated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in the latest blow to the Islamic militant network. Sheik Khalid

Washington could become pot source for neighbors

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By TERRENCE PETTYAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Now that marijuana is legal in neighboring Washington state, Portland police are offering some helpful advice to Oregon pot users. Sure, you can go over to Washington state to "smoke some weed," a police advisory states, but you might

Booze, smokes on agenda for quirky gov't group

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By DANIEL WAGNERAP Business Writer BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an

UN says Congo's army committed rapes in east

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Preliminary investigations by the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo indicate that Congolese army soldiers committed rapes, looting and other human rights violations after they retreated from the key city of Goma following its capture

Autopsy: Border Patrol agent fired gun 10 times

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Border Patrol agent in Southern California who shot and killed a mother of five after she hit him with her vehicle fired his gun 10 times from the hood of her car as he tried to get the woman to stop, according to an autopsy report released

West Texas WWII vet to get posthumous purple heart

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By JUAN CARLOS LLORCAAssociated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A World War II veteran who was injured after getting struck by a German tank in France will be posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and two bronze stars on Friday after a decades-long effort by his family in Texas. Pvt. Juan C.

With war shifting, US, Russia talk Syria's future

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press DUBLIN (AP) - Diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war moved forward Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joining Russia's foreign minister and the U.N. peace envoy to the Arab country for extraordinary three-way talks