Local
4-year-old child waits as dad allegedly has sex
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - An Albuquerque man is accused of leaving his 4-year-old son unattended in a pickup for hours while he had sex with his girlfriend, Albuquerque police said.
Douglas Layman, 24, was arrested on felony child abuse after a couple spotted the boy sitting on a curb outside of Layman's girlfriend's home.
The boy's skin was cold and his teeth were chattering when he was found Sunday morning in southeast Albuquerque. He was wearing only a cotton button-down shirt, pants and tennis shoes, the criminal complaint states.
"I slept in my daddy's truck, and it was too scary," the boy said when asked about the night before, according to the complaint.
The child told police he and his father came to the area "when it was dark." Neighbors reported hearing a child cry around 6 a.m.
National
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9-11 victims' relatives criticize government deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Relatives of people who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks say a federal commission accepted too many conditions in striking a deal with the White House over access to secret intelligence documents. The Family Steering Committee, a group of victims' relatives who are monitoring the work of the independent commission, criticized the agreement announced late Wednesday. Under the deal, only some of the 10 commissioners will be allowed to examine classified intelligence documents, and their notes will be subject to White House review.
Ten Commandments judge thrown off bench
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who became a hero to religious conservatives for refusing to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench Thursday by a judicial ethics panel for having "placed himself above the law." "I have absolutely no regrets. I have done what I was sworn to do," Moore declared afterward, drawing applause from dozens of supporters at the courthouse. "It's about whether or not you can acknowledge God as a source of our law and our liberty. That's all I've done."
Jurors set to consider Muhammad's case
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - The jury in John Allen Muhammad's murder trial got the case Thursday after the prosecutor said during closing arguments that Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo formed "a sniper-spotter killing team" with Muhammad as the "captain." The jury of 11 whites and one black was to begin deliberating Friday morning.
International
Japan waits on decision to send troops to Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Japan put off a decision Thursday on sending troops to Iraq, a day after the deadliest attack on coalition forces since the war, and South Korea capped its contribution at 3,000 soldiers - new setbacks to U.S. hopes for easing the pressure on its forces. U.S. troops pounded suspected guerrilla targets in the capital for a second straight night under a new "get-tough" campaign against the insurgency. And the top American administrator, L. Paul Bremer, headed back to Baghdad after two days of White House talks with orders that Iraqis should take more responsibility for governing.
Italian base bombed; death toll rises to 31
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) - In a crackdown on insurgents, U.S. troops destroyed an empty dye factory in Baghdad on Thursday and chased attackers seen firing mortars, while the death toll from a suicide bombing at an Italian paramilitary base rose to 31.
The suicide bombing was the deadliest attack against the coalition since the occupation in Iraq began.
Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino blamed the attack on Saddam Hussein loyalists and al-Qaeda terrorists. The death toll is expected to rise because one of the injured Italians is brain dead.
