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State police have classified the deadly police shooting of a Forty Fort man who attacked a state trooper with a chain saw as "suicide by cop," said the commander of the state police barracks at Wyoming. William Henkle, 40, charged at 10 police officers with a chain saw before he was shot more than a dozen times outside his home at 378 River St., shortly before 5 a.m. Monday. State Police Capt. Kenneth Hill, commander of Troop P at Wyoming, said Henkle struck Trooper Michael Hartzel in the shoulder, lower back and buttocks with the chain saw before the Forty...

TORONTO -- A chain saw-wielding man who U.S. authorities allowed to enter the United States boasted he was a "trained sniper with over 700 kills" and refused to return to Canada for a court date, a top U.S. customs official revealed Friday. . . .

BOSTON — On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States. The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. The man's head was in a pillow case under a kitchen table. His common-law...

Hats off for British delinquent Fri May 27, 1:22 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A British juvenile delinquent who terrorized his neighbors with a chain saw was banned from wearing a cap or hooded sweatshirt for five years. Authorities slapped the Anti Social Behaviour Order on 16-year-old Dale Carroll of Cheetham, a suburb of Manchester, northwest England, after he was caught on a video surveillance camera taking a chain saw to a metal post. Carroll, known as "Elms" to his friends, then threatened a passing cyclist with the chain saw. It was the first time an Anti Social Behaviour Order,...

WILKES-BARRE – Ever since state and local police unleashed 39 shots at a chain saw-wielding man outside a Forty Fort home, police have heard rumblings from the public, questioning their actions: Why didn’t the officers use a taser gun instead of pumping 17 bullets into 40-year-old William Henkle? Why didn’t police back off and discuss a better plan of attack? And why not wait for the saw to run out of gas? The answer, state police Capt. Kenneth Hill said, to each is simple: The officers did not have tasers. There was no time to talk strategy. And, it’s impossible...

A Forty Fort man was killed by police this morning after he "lunged" at and cut a state police trooper with a chain saw, a state police spokesman said. State police would not release the dead man's, nor the injured trooper's name. The trooper was treated for injuries to his buttocks and released from an area hospital, according to Trooper Tom Kelly, a spokesman at the Wyoming Barracks. The incident began about 5 a.m. when police and an ambulance from the Luzerne County borough responded to 387 River St. for a man suffering a heart attack, Trooper Kelly said. They...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "God told me to." Philip Badowski made the comment in a recorded interview with police following the Dec. 2 slayings of Chester "Chet" Badowski Jr., 47, and Christine Badowski, 46. Prosecutors played the recording at Badowski's preliminary hearing Friday. General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon referred two murder and abuse of corpse charges to a grand jury and ordered Badowski held without bail. Lawyers for both sides declined to comment after the...

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Police: Chainsaw injury an accident By Norman Miller / News Staff Writer Tuesday, March 2, 2004 FRAMINGHAM -- Exactly how a man cut his nose off with a chainsaw Sunday is not known, and because police have ruled out foul play, the accident will not be investigated. "We don't have anything to investigate -- it was a medical call," said Lt. Lou Griffith. "It was just an accident." The fire department will not release the man's name due to federal regulations on patient privacy. On Sunday, the unidentified man walked up alone to the back of the Fire Headquarters building...

Gonzo-rocker and hunting activist Ted Nugent was injured today while cutting wood with a chainsaw. It apparently slipped while he tried to cut down a tree on his property in Texas. According to reports on his website (www.tednugent.com), his left knee was injured, but otherwise he's okay. He's in a cast and will be laid up for a while. Here's best wishes to a speedy recovery for our dear Uncle Ted!

TELEVISION It's not pretty, but 'Animal House' defines a generation BY GLEN GARVIN ggarvin@herald.com LOS ANGELES -- Dean Wormer: Who dumped a whole truckload of Fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween the trees are filled with underwear; every spring the toilets explode. Marmalard: You're talking about Delta, sir. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. It was rebellious, it was anarchic, it was gross. It had kids getting wasted and puking and being promiscuous, sometimes all at once. Its heroes were drunks and slobs and Peeping Toms; its villains...

BAGHDAD -- Two Army sergeants searching for saws to clear branches blocking their Humvees stumbled across a sealed-up cottage Friday. It led to their discovery of an estimated $650 million in cash.The sergeants tore down a cinder block and concrete barricade blocking the cottage door and found 40 sealed metal boxes lined up on the stone floor. Breaking open one box, they were stunned to discover 40 sealed stacks of uncirculated $100 bills -- $100,000 per stack, or $4 million in the box. In all, the 40 boxes were assumed to contain $160 million.But there was more.

Trial Set in Man's Killing A woman is accused of shooting a veteran on Mt. Baldy in 1999 for his money. She says he exposed himself to her. By Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writer A woman accused of fatally shooting a 71-year-old Korean War veteran at his mountain cabin, then chopping off his head and rolling it down Mt. Baldy, was ordered to stand trial for murder Wednesday by a San Bernardino County judge. Marcia Ann Johnson, 42, told a detective that she shot the man and severed his head, hands and feet with a chainsaw because he repeatedly exposed...

12.12.02 Bush moves with plan to thin forests By GARY HARMON The Daily Sentinel The Bush administration moved Wednesday on plans to reduce the fire hazards in the nation's forests before summer. Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman met with President Bush before announcing a series of actions aimed at trimming the amount of time it takes to approve logging projects. U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., chairman of the subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, said this step, in what Bush has dubbed his Healthy Forests Initiative, can go only so far and that Congress eventually must...

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Lawyers for one of the most audacious fugitives in Britain made a final attempt to halt his extradition to America yesterday, claiming the Texan authorities might break their promise not to execute him. New DNA evidence has allowed prosecutors to indict Robert Kleasen, 69, with the 1974 murders of Mormon missionaries – charges he evaded for 11 years by vanishing into the obscurity of Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. The bodies of Mark Fischer, 19, and Gary Darley, 20, were never found but investigators discovered blood and tissue on a saw in the taxidermy shop where Mr Kleasen worked. This led to the...