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News Roundup OGDEN, Utah Man arrested for church shooting A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass. Charles R. Jennings 35, was captured Sunday afternoon in nearby Box Elder County after fleeing in a stolen pickup truck, investigators said. Witnesses say they heard one gunshot during the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday at Saint James the Just Catholic Church in Ogden, and that parishioners immediately hit the floor.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition. His name immediately released. Police said the victim was deliberately targeted by the gunman and it a random act of violence. WASHINGTON Lawyer chosen as closure envoy President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with an extensive government experience to be the State new special envoy for closing down the prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press that Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Office of Guantanamo Closure.

The office was closed in January. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the appointment publicly before a formal announcement today. The move fulfills part of pledge to renew efforts to close down the prison. LONDON Putin says he steal ring Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Super Bowl ring on display in the Kremlin, but says ready to buy him another ring as a gift. Putin was reacting Sunday through a spokesman to a New York Post story quoting remarks made by Kraft at an awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last Thursday.

took out the ring and showed it to (Putin). And he put it on and he goes, can kill someone with this Kraft said, as quoted by the Post. put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked The diamond-encrusted Super Bowl ring worth about $25,000 changed hands while Kraft was visiting St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2005 with an American business delegation that met Putin. At the time, Kraft had said he gave the ring to Putin as a gift.

DALLAS Plane makes emergency landing A private jet that had former President George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing after the smell of smoke was reported in the cockpit. The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday said the jet was flying Saturday night from Philadelphia to Dallas, where Bush lives, and was diverted to Louisville, Ky. No one was hurt. Bush spokesman Freddy Ford was on board and said the plane continued to Dallas after a brief stop.

He said he never saw or smelled smoke. FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker said the Gulf- stream 4 declared an emergency due to the of smoke in the and landed without incident. LAS VEGAS Miss Connecticut wins Miss USA A 25-year-old contestant from Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme decision upholding widespread DNA tests.

Asked if she agreed with the decision, Brady said she did. Brady gets the crown and a New York apartment for one year. She is expected to spend her title reign on a nationwide speaking tour and raising breast and ovarian cancer awareness, the official cause. BAYFIELD, The Duluth News Tribune reports the shepherd mix named Schoep spent a quiet 20th birthday Saturday. He and owner John Unger became Internet celebrities last summer because of photographer Hannah tender photograph of the pair in the soothing cool waters of Lake Superior.

MEXICO CITY: A powerful two-punch earthquake shook western Mexico early Sunday, knocking out electricity and cellphone service in parts of the capital, but causing no serious damage. There were no reports of fatalities. The quake, with a magnitude of 5.8, struck around 12:30 a.m. The epicenter was about 90 miles south of Mexico City in the northern part of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located. From news services Associated Press In this June 25, 2005, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring belonging to New England Patriots NFL football team owner Robert Kraft.

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1 enemy: talk. But the invitation from North National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes with caveats: No preconditions and no demands that Pyongyang give up its prized nuclear assets unless Washington is willing to do the same ground rules that make it hard for the Americans to accept. Washington responded by saying that it is open to talks but only if North Korea shows it will comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and live up to its international obligations. we have made clear, our desire is to have credible negotiations with the North Koreans, but those talks must involve North Korea living up to its obligations to the world, including compliance with U.N.

Security Council resolutions, and ultimately result in U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. will judge North Korea by its actions, and not its words and look forward to seeing steps that show North Korea is ready to abide by its commitments and North call for talks between the Korean War foes signals a shift in policy in Pyongyang after months of acrimony. Pyongyang ramped up the anti-American rhetoric early this year after its launch of a long-range rocket in December and a nuclear test in February drew tightened U.N. and U.S.

sanctions. Posters went up across the North Korean capital calling on citizens to away the American imperialist slogans that been seen on city streets in years. The U.S. and ally South Korea countered the provocations and threats by stepping up annual springtime military exercises, which prompted North Korea to warn of a on the Korean Peninsula. But as tensions began subsiding in May and June, Pyongyang began making tentative, if unsuccessful, overtures to re-establish dialogue with Seoul and Washington.

Earlier this month, it proposed high-level talks with South Korea the first in six years. But plans for two days of meetings last week in Seoul dramatically fell apart even before they began amid bickering over who would lead the two delegations. Meanwhile, the virulent anti-American billboards plastered across the city were taken down. And on Sunday, as scores of people fanned out across Pyongyang to help carry out the latest urban renewal projects in the capital landscaping and construction the National Defense Commission issued a statement through state media proposing talks with the U.S. to ease tensions and discuss a peace treaty for- mally ending the Korean War.

North Korea fought against U.S.-led United Nations and South Korean troops during the three- year Korean War in the early 1950s, and Pyongyang does not have diplomatic relations with either government. The Korean Peninsula remains divided by a heavily fortified border. Reunifying the peninsula was a major goal of North two late leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and is a legacy inherited by current leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea is expected to draw attention to division in the weeks leading up to the 60th anniversary in July marking the close of the Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice. A peace treaty has never been signed formally ending the war.

Across Pyongyang, signboards at construction sites are marked with a countdown to July 27, giving laborers a deadline for retiling the roof of the Palace of Culture, renovating the Korean War museum, and planting trees and grass meant to beautify the city for the milestone anniversary. For the leaders, July 27 may well be their deadline for drawing the United States to the negotiating table to discuss a peace treaty. But for Washington, there will be no talks just for sake, officials say. North Korea to U.S.: Associated Press A woman rests while a man walks past her near a statue known as the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, which symbolizes the hope for eventual reunification of the two Koreas, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Bite evidence derided as unreliable in court By The Associated Press At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison.

Now a ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good. A small, mostly ungoverned group of dentists carry out bite mark analysis and their findings are often key evidence in prosecutions, even though there is no scientific proof that teeth can be matched definitively to a bite into human skin. DNA has outstripped the usefulness of bite mark analysis in many cases: The FBI use it and the American Dental Association does not recognize it. mark evidence is the poster child of unreliable forensic said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation at the New York-based Innocence Project, which helps wrongfully convicted inmates win freedom through DNA testing. Supporters of the method, which involves comparing the teeth of possible suspects to bite mark patterns on victims, argue it has helped convict child murderers and other notorious criminals, including serial killer Ted Bundy.

They say problems that have arisen are not about the method, but about the qualifications of those testifying, who can earn as much as $5,000 a case. problem lies in the analyst or the said Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist in Cincinnati. if the analyst is not properly trained or introduces bias into their exam, sure, going to be polluted, just like any other scientific investigation. It mean bite mark evidence is The Associated Press reviewed decades of court records, archives, news reports and filings by the Innocence Project in order to compile the most comprehensive count to date of those exonerated after being convicted or charged based on bite mark evidence.

Two dozen forensic scientists and other experts were interviewed, including some who had never before spoken to a reporter about their work. The AP analysis found that at least two dozen men had been exonerated since 2000, mostly as a result of DNA testing. Many had spent years in prison, including on death row, and one man Robert L. Stinson of Milwaukee was behind bars for more than 23 years. Stinson was convicted in 1985 at age 22 of raping and fatally beating 63-year-old Ione Cychosz and sentenced to life in prison.

He was exonerated and released in 2009. The count included at least six men arrested on bite mark evidence who were freed as they awaited trial. Two court cases this month are helping to bring the debate over the issue to a head. One involves a 63-year-old California man who is serving a life term for killing his wife, even though the forensic dentist who testified against him has reversed his opinion. In the second, a New York City judge overseeing a murder case is expected to decide whether bite mark analysis can be admitted as evidence, a ruling critics say could kick it out of courtrooms for good.

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