Balloon boy dad transferred to start work-release
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) The man who pleaded guilty in the balloon boy hoax has been released from a Colorado jail to serve the rest of his sentence in a work-release program.
Larimer County sheriff's office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says Richard Heene was transferred Sunday and is expected to work during the day, then spend nights at a work-release dormitory. She didn't have information Monday on where he'll work.
Heene started serving a 90-day sentence Jan. 11 after pleading guilty to falsely influencing the sheriff. His wife, Mayumi, pleaded guilty to filing a false report and must serve 20 days in jail.
Sheriff's officials say the couple's report Oct. 15 that their young son had floated away in a UFO-shaped helium balloon was a hoax.
34 recovering from carbon monoxide at Pa. church
SUGAR GROVE, Pa. (AP) -- Thirty-four people are recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning apparently caused by a blocked chimney in a northwestern Pennsylvania church.
The adults and children who got sick were attending church services and a social hour Sunday morning at Hessel Valley Lutheran Church in Sugar Grove Township, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh near the New York border.
Church member Verne Ekdahl says a young woman passed out during the church service and the church was evacuated when several others fell ill during the social hour.
Most were taken to Warren General Hospital, where four had to be flown to Pittsburgh for treatment, and six others to Women's Christian Association Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y.
Hospital officials say everyone is expected to recover.
Man arrested after Detroit airport security breach
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) -- A portion of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated yesterday after a man without a boarding pass walked through a passenger screening checkpoint and refused to obey security officers, officials said.
The man failed to stop at about 7:45 a.m. at the McNamara Terminal, the Transportation Security Administration said. He was arrested by airport police, who used a stun gun to subdue him, airport spokesman Mike Conway said.
"The Transportation Security Administration asked him to stop and he didn't comply," Conway said.
The man was questioned and was being held yesterday pending possible charges, Conway said. The FBI also was looking into the security breach, said FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold, but she couldn't release details.
Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died yesterday.
Murtha "was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in Congress, and he was incredibly effective in his service in the House," said Rep. David Obey, a Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "He understood the misery of war. Every person who serves in the military has lost an advocate and a good friend today."
He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery.
He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his bedside, the hospital said.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) The man who pleaded guilty in the balloon boy hoax has been released from a Colorado jail to serve the rest of his sentence in a work-release program.
Larimer County sheriff's office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says Richard Heene was transferred Sunday and is expected to work during the day, then spend nights at a work-release dormitory. She didn't have information Monday on where he'll work.
Heene started serving a 90-day sentence Jan. 11 after pleading guilty to falsely influencing the sheriff. His wife, Mayumi, pleaded guilty to filing a false report and must serve 20 days in jail.
Sheriff's officials say the couple's report Oct. 15 that their young son had floated away in a UFO-shaped helium balloon was a hoax.
34 recovering from carbon monoxide at Pa. church
SUGAR GROVE, Pa. (AP) -- Thirty-four people are recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning apparently caused by a blocked chimney in a northwestern Pennsylvania church.
The adults and children who got sick were attending church services and a social hour Sunday morning at Hessel Valley Lutheran Church in Sugar Grove Township, about 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh near the New York border.
Church member Verne Ekdahl says a young woman passed out during the church service and the church was evacuated when several others fell ill during the social hour.
Most were taken to Warren General Hospital, where four had to be flown to Pittsburgh for treatment, and six others to Women's Christian Association Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y.
Hospital officials say everyone is expected to recover.
Man arrested after Detroit airport security breach
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) -- A portion of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated yesterday after a man without a boarding pass walked through a passenger screening checkpoint and refused to obey security officers, officials said.
The man failed to stop at about 7:45 a.m. at the McNamara Terminal, the Transportation Security Administration said. He was arrested by airport police, who used a stun gun to subdue him, airport spokesman Mike Conway said.
"The Transportation Security Administration asked him to stop and he didn't comply," Conway said.
The man was questioned and was being held yesterday pending possible charges, Conway said. The FBI also was looking into the security breach, said FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold, but she couldn't release details.
Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died yesterday.
Murtha "was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in Congress, and he was incredibly effective in his service in the House," said Rep. David Obey, a Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "He understood the misery of war. Every person who serves in the military has lost an advocate and a good friend today."
He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery.
He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his bedside, the hospital said.
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