Man gets 5 years for sex photos with girlfriend
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - A Clovis man has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a girl while being photographed.
Marcus Ray, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child by manufacturing and one count of sexual exploitation of a child by prostitution, a statement from the district attorney's office said. He was sentenced on Tuesday in district court.
Ray was 18 years old when he engaged in sexual acts with the girl, who was his girlfriend at the time. Police uncovered photographs of Ray and the girl April 28, 2004.
Damage award upheld for accident in welding class
SANTA FE (AP) - The state Court of Appeals has upheld a damage award of more than $241,000 to a former Santa Fe High School student who was burned in a 1999 accident in a welding class.
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The appellate court, in a ruling Friday, said there was sufficient evidence that the school district was negligent "in the selection and operation of the (welding) cutting table, and that the table was unreasonably dangerous."
A school district spokeswoman said Friday that officials could not comment because they had not heard about the court's ruling.
Juan Valencia and Georgia Cleverley, parents of Ayala Valencia, sued the district for negligence in 2001.
GOP lawmaker may vote against U.N. nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Senate Republican raised the possibility Sunday that he might vote against President Bush's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations if more accusations surface about John Bolton's alleged harassment of analysts who disagreed with his views. With a Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote expected Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska was asked whether he would endorse Bolton.
"At this point, I will ... but I have been troubled with more and more allegations, revelations, coming about his style, his method of operation," said Hagel, the committee's No. 2 Republican.
Providence detective killed with own handgun
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence detective was killed with his own gun at police headquarters Sunday by a suspect who was not handcuffed and managed to get hold of the weapon, the police chief said. The killing of James Allen, a 27-year veteran, comes after a series of attacks that have raised concerns about the security of those who work in the criminal justice system.
Report: 11 million children die before turning five
WASHINGTON (AP) - Almost 11 million children in developing countries die before the age of five, most of them from causes that are preventable in wealthier countries, the World Bank said in a report released Sunday.
About 2,000 of these children die in a week, said Francois Bourguignon, the bank's chief economist.
The causes include acute respiratory infection, diarrhea, measles and malaria, which together account for 48 percent of child deaths in the developing world, according to the report, called World Development Indicators.
Cardinals check into secure Vatican hotel
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Bringing their suitcases and personal views on the future of the church, the cardinals who will select the next pope settled in their rooms Sunday in the Vatican hotel that will be their home until the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics have a new leader. The conclave starts Monday after the 115 red-robed cardinals join a formal procession into the Sistine Chapel, where efforts to maintain the secrecy of deliberations have included installing jamming devices to foil sophisticated eavesdropping equipment.
Iraq kidnapping reports may be exaggerated
NEAR MADAIN, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops had the town of Madain surrounded Sunday after reports of Sunni militant kidnappings of as many as 100 Shiites residents, but there were growing indications the incident had been grossly exaggerated, perhaps an outgrowth of a tribal dispute or political maneuvering.
The town of about 1,000 families, evenly divided between Shiites and Sunnis, sits about 15 miles south of the capital in what the U.S. military has called the "Triangle of Death" because it has become a roiling stronghold of the militant insurgency.
Space station crew begins unloading supplies
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Cosmonauts and astronauts exchanged joyful embraces Sunday and began loading the international space station with scientific equipment and fresh vegetables after their successful docking of the Soyuz cargo ship.
A little more than two hours after the 6:20 a.m. linkup, Russian Sergei Krikalev, American John Phillips and Italian Roberto Vittori, who blasted off Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, met face-to-face with the two men who have spent the past six months aboard the orbiting station.
