Mayor's daughter caught
in possession of alcohol
(AP) - The 14-year-old daughter of Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch†vez was cited for alcohol possession during the weekend, according to the girl's mother and police.
Officers initially arrived at the home of a friend's grandmother in response to a possible burglary report and discovered the teens in the backyard. Martinique Ch†vez and one other teen were cited for possession of alcohol, said the girl's mother, Margaret Aragon de Ch†vez.
A police report states that the two teens had been drinking and smelled of alcohol.
Man released from care
after being dragged
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - The Gallup man who was dragged behind a pickup truck for about 4,000 feet on Easter Sunday has been released from an Albuquerque hospital.
Fausto Arellano, 32, who lost 50 percent of his skin in the dragging, was released from University of New Mexico Hospital on Thursday, hospital spokeswoman Angela Heisel said Monday. She would not comment on the details of Arellano's remaining injuries or condition because of a confidentiality request by the family.
A grand jury on Thursday will hear evidence against a 19-year-old woman in the case, a Gallup prosecutor said Monday.
Groom still interested
in marrying runaway bride
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - The jilted groom whose bride-to-be ran away four days before their wedding still wants to marry fiancee Jennifer Wilbanks, saying, "Haven't we all made mistakes?"
"Just because we haven't walked down the aisle, just because we haven't stood in front of 500 people and said our I Do's, my commitment before God to her was the day I bought that ring and put it on her finger, and I'm not backing down from that," John Mason said Monday in an interview with Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" show.
Child's death prompts
tougher molestation laws
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Spurred by the killing of a 9-year-old girl, Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday signed a law imposing tougher penalties on child molesters and requiring many of those released from prison to wear satellite tracking devices for the rest of their lives. The measure gives Florida one of the toughest child-sex laws in the nation.
Iraq's prime minister seeks Sunni for ministry
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's incoming prime minister struggled to find a Sunni Arab to run the key Defense Ministry in time to join Iraq's first democratically elected government when it takes office Tuesday. A torrent of bloodshed - at least 140 killed in five days - followed the approval of a Cabinet that mostly shut out members of the disaffected Sunni minority. Disputes persisted over the Defense Ministry on Monday after Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari filled six of the seven Cabinet seats left undecided last week, said al-Jaafari aide Laith Kuba.
Investigators blame lack
of signal for agent's death
ROME (AP) - Italian investigators blamed U.S. military authorities for failing to signal there was a checkpoint ahead on the Baghdad road where American soldiers killed an Italian agent and concluded in a report released Monday that stress, inexperience and fatigue played a role in the shooting.
The investigators found no evidence, however, that the March 4 killing of intelligence agent Nicola Calipari was deliberate. The Italians also didn't object to many of the findings of fact contained in a separate American report made public Saturday.
