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Family: Man shot by Seattle police had dementia

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

SEATTLE (AP) - A 77-year-old man who was shot to death by Seattle police suffered from dementia, his family said Monday. Henry Lee Sr. had the disorder and other diseases, his son, Henry Lee Jr. told The Seattle Times. The man's grandson, Gabriel Lee, said he was a retired construction worker

Helicopters, hounds search for convicted killer

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated Press TILLERY, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina authorities are using a helicopter and bloodhounds to search for a convicted killer who walked away from a state prison farm nearly two hours before staffers realized he was gone. James J. Ladd was first noticed missing

Helicopters, hounds search for convicted killer

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina authorities used a helicopter and bloodhounds Monday to search for a convicted killer who walked away from a state prison farm more than five hours before the public was notified. James J. Ladd was first noticed missing

APNewsBreak: Conn. parole hearing set for Skakel

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSENAssociated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A hearing will be held next month on whether Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who was convicted of killing a neighbor in 1975, should be released from prison, a state official said Monday. Skakel's first parole hearing has been

Veteran AP reporter Mary Foster dies at 68

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mary Foster, a veteran Associated Press reporter who wrote about everything from New Orleans' love affair with food, Mardi Gras and Saints football to Hurricane Katrina, died Monday. She was 68. Foster died at her New Orleans home from

1,100 Mass. inmates' cases might be tainted by lab

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By DENISE LAVOIEAP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) - More than 1,100 defendants are now serving prison sentences based at least in part on drug tests by a chemist accused of failing to follow protocols and deliberately mishandling samples in a now-closed state drug lab, officials said Monday.

Swiss bank cleared to pursue resort sheriff's sale

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Lenders led by a Swiss bank could quickly ask for a sheriff's sale of a failed Idaho ski resort's assets now that a judge has refused to block their foreclosure case from advancing. Credit Suisse Group, whose lender group is owed some $300 million, declined to comment

New US sanctions on Iran's state-owned oil company

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran's state-owned oil company because of its links to the country's hard-line Revolutionary Guard corps. The Treasury Department's designation comes on top of existing U.S. sanctions on the National Iranian Oil Co

German woman's plea accepted in grandson's death

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

By BILL KACZORAssociated Press APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) - A German woman showed no emotion Monday as a judge sentenced her to more than 21 years in prison after she pleaded no contest to drowning her 5-year-old grandson in the bathtub of a rented beach house. The judge accepted a plea deal for

Clarification: Private Prisons-Immigrants story

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 24th

MIAMI (AP) - In a story Aug. 2, The Associated Press reported that three private prison companies in the U.S. have spent at least $45 million on campaign donations and lobbyists in the last decade, and that the number of illegal immigrants detained rose sharply during that period. The story said