WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley said Wednesday that she is laying blame on Turkey for the nine deaths aboard the ship that was stopped by Israeli soldiers on its way to deliver materials to Gaza last month.
Recreation fee increases, including a doubling of the fee for sports leagues using city fields, were unanimously approved Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council.
Two Northern Nevada men admitted in Reno federal court that they killed wild horses last November on federal land in Pershing County, according to U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden.
LIMA, Peru — For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn’t do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. “If I would have to describe myself as an animal it would be a snake,” he wrote on his YouTube page. Perhaps wistfully wishing the past undone, he continued: “however, I want to be a lion and one day I will be a lion.” At age 22, Van der Sloot is now a caged animal. He sits in a bleak Peruvian prison, where he fears his fellow inmates.
SEATTLE — The president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild says an officer was justified in punching a young woman who shoved him in a dispute over jaywalking. Rich Neil told KCPQ-TV that punching her in the face was an appropriate use of force as the officer struggled with two women and a crowd formed. Neil says it’s wrong to call the punch police brutality or racist.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Metz had his left arm stuck in his furnace boiler for about 12 hours when he asked himself “what would MacGyver do?” and concluded that amputating the limb was his only chance for survival. The 31-year-old West Hartford man was released from the hospital Monday after getting his arm stuck in his furnace for two days and nearly cutting it off.
