A federal jury has convicted Toledo-area men of Middle Eastern descent of plotting attacks against U.S. troops overseas and other terror-related acts.Mohammad Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum, all of whom are Muslim, were convicted on all counts of conspiring to kill or injure people outside the United States and face sentences of life in prison. An e-mail notice from the court deputy for Judge James Carr alerted people that a verdict had been reached about 2 p.m. Friday. The jury had started deliberating Wednesday morning following closing arguments that ended Tuesday. The trial started April 1 and featured 20 witnesses and more than 30 hours of recordings between the men and Darren Griffin, a government informant.
A Roman Catholic priest accused of fondling a man in a hot tub in a Sylvania Township YMCA facility was acquitted on Friday of misdemeanor sexual imposition. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge James Jensen issued his decision in the case of the Rev. Frank Murd after hearing testimony during a bench trial earlier this week.
OMAHA, Neb. - First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders. At a vigil held in an Omaha park Thursday night, people wiped tears from their eyes as Scout leaders weaved through the crowd asking, "Did you have any there?"
A North Toledo man was shot beneath the abdomen Thursday night in the 2200 block of Lagrange St. near Yates Street in North Toledo. An arrest warrant was issued for a North Toledo teenager, Toledo police said. King Brown, 26, the victim, was taken to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, officers said. He was listed in serious condition Friday morning, a hospital spokesman said.
HOUSTON — NASA engineers were trying to identify an object that floated away from Discovery and were analyzing a protrusion found on its rudder Friday, a day before the space shuttle was scheduled to land.The two issues were noticed after a routine test of the spacecraft’s flight control systems and steering jets. The astronauts reported to Mission Control that they observed a rectangular object, about 1 to 1½ feet long, floating away from the tail of the shuttle around the right wing.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 100 city blocks were under water. The hospital's 176 patients, including about 30 patients in a nursing home facility at the hospital, were being evacuated to other hospitals in the region. The evacuation started late Thursday night and continued Friday morning in the city of 124,000 residents.
YANGON, Myanmar — As individuals and aid agencies around the world dig into their pockets for funds to help Myanmar's cyclone victims, the country's ruling junta said Friday that such assistance from the United States could not be trusted. State media has previously said Myanmar feared Washington was using the cover of humanitarian aid to invade the country and steal its oil reserves. The suspicion continued Friday, when a media mouthpiece for the regime warned that "the goodwill of a big Western nation that wants to help Myanmar with its warships was not genuine" — a clear reference to the U.S. Permanent Link
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