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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 2006
Page
17
National headlines report a early Wednesday raid in Boston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Police shouted in Spanish and English as agents surrounded an apartment building. The blitz, begun May 26, aims at illegal immigrants including viol criminals, with nearly 2,100 arrests nationwide.
New York police arrested a 21-year-old homeless man after four people were stabbed in a 12 hour span in Manhattan including three tourists. Two victims were near a Times Square hotel and two inside the subway. Victims hailed from Canada and Texas. all survived. Police recovered the knife. no formal charges announced yet.
Foreign couples from China and Canada travel to the United States for sex selection procedures, circumventing laws at home where such choices are banned. Wealthy clients pay tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, treating the procedure as a lifelong investment, with one Australian interviewee asking for anonymity.
Officials announce a national campaign reduced hospital deaths by about 122 300 in 18 months with 3 100 hospitals sharing data and implementing study tested procedures to prevent infections and mistakes.
In Blackhawk Indiana a man stabbed his two young sons and dragged them into Dean's Lake from an abandoned trailer. One child Monte Walker, 2, was rescued. his brother Collin, 4, died. The father, 32, suffered chest wounds and faces murder and attempted murder charges. Amber Alert delays noted.
Inflation accelerated in May with a 0.4 percent CPI rise and 0.3 percent core gain. Gasoline, airline fares, and hospital costs climbed, while shelter costs spurred a 3.8 percent annualized three month rise, the fastest since 1995. Wall Street rallied as the data tempered fears of widespread inflation.
In Cleveland Tennessee wildlife officials announced DNA tests matched the attacker to a 211 pound male bear captured near Chilhowee Recreation Area. Another bear euthanized earlier was wrongly killed. necropsy planned to check illness.
Iraqi interior ministry commandos stop cars at a Dora checkpoint in Baghdad as security forces deploy citywide in the largest operation since Saddam Hussein's ouster. President Bush, returning to Washington, said the crackdown aims to reduce violence in the capital. A brief clash occurred in Azamiyah with heavy gunfire frightening residents.
Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupted forcing thousands to evacuate after a gas cloud enveloped a village and dumped thick ash on scores of homes. Officials had recently lowered alert levels before the sudden crisis. Authorities warned the situation was life threatening.
The mother of a West Bank man says she is distraught after a 16 year old American, Katherine Lester, returned home from a planned marriage to her 20 year old son Absillah whom she met on MySpace. Lester flew to Israel but was stopped in Amman, Jordan, with passport seized and sent back home. The wedding is off for now.
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