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MIAMI (AP) - An Iranian national carrying a loaded gun was arrested at Miami International Airport as he tried to board a connecting flight to Washington, D.C., officials said Tuesday.Iradj Eftekharipour, 37, told police the gun was plastic but it was a black metal revolver loaded with six bullets, said Miami-Dade police Detective Juan DelCastillo.Eftekharipour later said he was carrying the gun for his own protection, DelCastillo said.Eftekharipour had arrived on an American Airlines flight from the Caribbean nation of St. Maarten and was transferring to a flight to Washington when he was stopped by security, airline spokesman John Hotard ...

Just announced on Fox News by Shep Smith.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh on 10 charges Tuesday, alleging he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and then conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.Lindh's lawyers, nonetheless, pleaded for his release until trial, and said "highly coercive" prison conditions forced him to waive his right to remain silent - and confess his activities as a Taliban soldier to the FBI in Afghanistan.With his arraignment scheduled for Monday, the indictment accused Lindh of conspiring to provide support to terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, supplying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers and possessing weapons ...

<p>The 49-year-old New Jersey woman, who inhaled jet fuel as heat seared her body and shattered her glasses at the World Trade Center, was released from the hospital Tuesday, 140 days later, saying, "I want to get back to the way I was."</p>

FLORENCE, Miss. (AP) - A fire swept through a rural Mississippi home early Tuesday, killing a pastor, his wife and their three sons, authorities said.Fire Chief James Kelly said firefighters got the blaze under control after 45 minutes and found the bodies scattered throughout the pine dwelling, where several generations of the family had lived."There was no indication that anyone tried to get out," Kelly said.The cause of the fire was under investigation.The dead were identified by family and church members as the Rev. Sammy J. McDonald, 41, his wife, Patricia Ann, 36, and their sons, James Lowrey, 13, Allen, ...

January 29, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - The Justice Department recently bought drapes to hide two mostly nude statues seen in the background during press conferences - but Attorney General John Ashcroft is denying he ordered the cover-up.Link to Story

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Three masked men walked into a sandwich shop and opened fire on a group of people inside, killing two men and a young girl, police said.Witnesses said the gunmen appeared to be targeting a man in a wheelchair, Thomas Mitchell, 31, who died in the attack. Also killed were Parrish Freeman, 35, and Taylor Coles, 8. A woman wounded in the attack was hospitalized in serious condition Saturday.Police and officials with the medical examiner's office said Saturday they hadn't determined if the victims were related.Witnesses said Mitchell had been paralyzed in another shooting in the mid-1990s.The shooting ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A jury decided Friday that a man who stabbed and dismembered his wife should be sentenced to death.Connie Williams, 50, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He will be sentenced formally March 25.Defense attorney John Elash said he was disappointed the jury did not give more consideration to Williams' low IQ and testimony from his children that he had been a caring father. His IQ is 59, and people who test 70 or below are generally considered mentally retarded.Williams stabbed his wife, Frances, with a knife he was using to cook steak ...

MAZE, Pa. (AP) - A teen-age boy shot his parents and two sisters to death, then drove to West Virginia where he was taken into custody after a traffic stop, police said Friday.The parents and children were found dead in their home Friday morning. Steven Pannebaker, 16, was apprehended later in West Virginia, about 400 miles from the home in Maze. He was charged with four counts of homicide.Investigators had not established a motive.Authorities identified the victims as Mark Pannebaker, 37; his wife, Marcella, 35; and sisters Ellena, 13; and Amanda, 10.Police said a rifle, shotgun and a third firearm ...

Eleven-year-old Michael Foley has always been an animal lover, his mother says.He and his family have two horses and two cats. He has always been fond of his neighbor's Great Danes.Which explains why Denise Clemente Foley wasn't concerned Wednesday afternoon when her son walked next door to feed the four dogs for the neighbor, who was out of town.Then Foley heard her son's screams."(The neighbor) promised to bring Michael back a T-shirt or a souvenir if he would feed the dogs," Foley said as her son underwent emergency surgery at University Medical Center about an hour after he was savagely ...

January 16, 2002 -- FOX News Channel stars Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity appear headed for a shootout in the radio corral, The Post has learned. Link to Story

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - A few days short of her second birthday, Amy Guzman was sitting on her parents' bed between her mother and father, clutching a stuffed Winnie the Pooh and watching a Pooh video. Then the mirrored headboard seemed to explode. Amy was suddenly limp, bleeding onto her stuffed animal, mortally wounded by a ricocheting bullet fired a block away. Police say a man recklessly taking target practice fired a hunting rifle into a bustling neighborhood.The bullet struck Amy in the head, and she died hours later."This baby was our angel," Albaluz Guzman said Thursday as she mourned ...

<p>Just reported on Fox News - 55 car pile-up in Caliente, CA, near Bakersfield.</p>

Some people may view Bill O'Reilly and Howard Stern negatively, but few would go so far as to compare either of them to Osama Bin Laden.Sean Penn does precisely that in the next issue of Talk magazine."I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the Bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution" to society, says the 41-year-old star of "I Am Sam," who saves his most scathing remarks for the Fox News Channel host.Sean Penn"I'd like to trade O'Reilly for Bin Laden," says Penn, calling "The No Spin Zone" ...

APPLE VALLEY — It was 11:30 p.m. when James and Sula Thompson heard gunfire in the back yard of their Apple Valley home — then the sound of their kitchen window breaking.Deputies had chased a fleeing motorist through the area. And now the suspect, a 24-year-old woman armed with a pistol, was breaking into the Thompsons’ home near Central and Del Oro roads.A bloody smear remains on the curtain in the bedroom where a woman, running from the police, hid and fired on police from the window on Wednesday night. A handgun can be seen on the table.James Thompson, 78, ...

PARIS (AP) - An Air France jet carrying 240 passengers from Paris to Washington made an emergency landing Monday after its crew found a suspicious object on board, a company official said.Flight AF028 landed late Monday in the western French city of Brest, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.He said the object turned out to be harmless but declined to describe it or provide further details. He said the plane was to resume its flight.Earlier in the day, the plane's takeoff from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris had been delayed up to three hours because of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Lawrence Singleton, who chopped off a teen-age hitchhiker's forearms in California and was later sent to death row in Florida for killing a prostitute, has died of cancer behind bars. He was 74.Singleton died Friday at the North Florida Reception Center in Starke. He had been on death row since 1997, but no execution date had been set.In 1978, Singleton raped 15-year-old Mary Vincent, cut off her forearms and left her to die. In a decision that caused a furor in California, he won parole in 1987 after serving eight years.Outraged California communities refused to accept ...

BEIJING (AP) - An explosion at a fireworks factory in southern China killed nine people and scattered debris up to 350 feet away, state media said Monday. The blast Saturday in the southern Guangxi region came as the fireworks industry, where fatal fires and explosions are common, steps up production for lunar new year festivities.The holiday, when Chinese set off millions of firecrackers meant to scare away evil spirits, begins this year on Feb. 12.Another 25 people were injured in the explosion in Yulin, a city in Guangxi about 250 miles west of Hong Kong, according to the Xinhua News ...

Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy mortar fire over their border in southern Kashmir, a senior Indian army official said.Brigadier P.C. Das said the heaviest shelling was in the Pallanwalla sector, 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Kashmiri winter capital Jammu. Five Indian soldiers were seriously injured.The two sides also exchanged mortar fire in nearby Nowshera sector, where more than 1,000 villagers had to be evacuated from their homes overnight Sunday."This is the heaviest mortar shelling we have seen for four months," Das said, claiming that the Pakistani units had fired first.India and Pakistan regularly trade artillery, mortar and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A suspected North Korean ship that sank after an exchange of gunfire with Japanese patrol boats last week sent a suicide message before it sank, Japanese media reported on Monday.Although the unidentified ship went down with the apparent loss of all 15 hands following the exchange on December 22, the cause of the sinking remains unknown. Officials have speculated that it may have been scuttled.Citing Defense Agency and police sources, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said that among radio signals picked up by an agency monitoring facility were messages saying the crew was prepared to commit suicide ...