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NILES — Two people have been arrested for arson at the Niles Walmart. Paula Kryski and Stephen Taghon have been arrested for the October 31 incident. Right now they're being held at the St. Joseph County jail before being transferred to Berrien County. Taghon is facing third degree arson and larceny. Kryski is charged with conspiracy to commit arson.

n dozens of localities in Judea and Samaria, there were more votes counted than people with voting rights, and voting percentages were higher than 100%. Jewish Press reports in the village of Itamar, results indicate that Ahmed Tibi’s Chadash-Ta’al received 52 votes, Meretz received 1 vote, and Zehut received 0. No votes were disqualified. A number of Itamar residents claim to have voted for Zehut and none for Tibi, indicating possible problems at that station. However, some experts say the over-voting claim is inaccurate, as the election committee has not updated its numbers of registered voters for some towns, rendering...

(Reuters) - The Twitter feed for the U.S. military command that oversees operations in the Middle East was hacked on Monday by people claiming sympathy to the Islamic State militant group being targeted in American bombing raids. U.S. officials said that the U.S. Central Command Twitter account and its YouTube account were suspended after being compromised. Two U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the hacking was an embarrassment but did not appear to be a security threat. The White House said it was monitoring the extent of the hacking incident.

Felicia Moon, the ex-wife of former Houston football quarterback Warren Moon was arrested and charged with public lewdness Monday at a rodeo trail ride camp.

The mystery woman who last week signed Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella out of jail following his drunken-driving arrest gave up her own promising intelligence career at the Pentagon when she couldn't juggle the demands of raising a daughter on her own, her relatives said. Laura Fay, 45, a comely blonde with two failed marriages, kept a low profile yesterday as questions con tinued to haunt the one-time Air Force colonel over her relationship with Fossella.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz admitted on Thursday he made a mistake and apologized for his handling of the promotion and pay increase of his girlfriend and staffer Shaha Riza. Wolfowitz defended an agreement he signed off on that gave Riza a promotion with a pay rise before she was assigned to the State Department to avoid a potential conflict of interest. "I proposed to the board that they establish some mechanism to judge whether the agreement reached was a reasonable outcome," Wolfowitz said in a statement he read at a news conference before meetings of finance...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - State and local prosecutors said Friday that former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr and another lawyer representing a death row inmate submitted to the governor forged letters from jurors who were falsely portrayed as wishing the condemned man would be spared. "We showed each person the declaration on their behalf and they all said they didn't say that," said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Starr and Los Angeles attorney David Senior are the clemency lawyers for Michael Morales, a 46-year-old Stockton man on death row for murdering and raping a 17-year-old San Joaquin...

The archdiocese of New York has just announced that Msgr. Clark's resignation from the Rectorate of St. Patrick's Cathedral has been accepted.

SARITA, Texas -- Shortly before Ray Fernandez' grandmother died, he says she made a startling statement that made him question his family history. "You look like your grandfather -- John Kenedy," Maria Rowland told him from her nursing home bed. Fernandez, 44, thought she meant the former president or his son, and brushed it off as something said by an ailing 93-year-old woman. But the words haunted him. He traveled to Waco to pull his mother's baptism certificate. The line for the father's name was blank. He asked a librarian, was there a local John Kenedy? He learned about a...

    Sunday, May 30, 2004 Arrested Judge To Take Leave By Lloyd JojolaJournal Staff Writer    District Court Judge W. John Brennan late Saturday announced that he would take an immediate leave of absence after being arrested earlier in the day on drug charges.    Brennan was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with possession of a controlled substance and tampering with evidence after police pulled him over near a sobriety checkpoint in Northeast Albuquerque.    Police said Brennan was "obviously intoxicated" when his vehicle was stopped. Albuquerque police also said they found him and a passenger with cocaine.    Brennan, 57, a...

<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Louisville and a community of Dominican sisters (search), alleging that one of the nuns sexually abused her.</p> <p>An attorney for Andrea Dessommes, who now lives in Australia, filed the suit Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court.</p>

Surge in Sex Cases at Air Force Base 4 Instructors, 1 Student Court-Martialed and Punished at Training Facility By Bradley Graham Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 13, 2003; Page A02 An Air Force base in Texas responsible for training intelligence specialists and firefighters experienced a surge in cases last year involving sex between instructors and students, resulting in court-martial proceedings against four instructors and one student, according to Air Force officials. Air Force regulations prohibit sexual relationships between instructors and students, considering them bad for what the military calls "good order and discipline." The disclosure of the violations at...