PHOENIX — A restaurateur angry at being denied a liquor license threatened to shoot people at the Super Bowl and drove to within sight of the stadium with an AR-15 assault-style rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition before changing his mind, federal authorities said, following his arrest. Kurt William Havelock said in a manifesto mailed Sunday to media outlets that he would “shed the blood of the innocent,” according to court documents. “How many dollars will you lose? And all because you took my right to own a business from me,” the manifesto said.
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A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the businesses licenses of those that do. The U.S. District judge’s ruling was a defeat for employers who argued the law was an unconstitutional attempt by a state to regulate immigration, traditionally the federal government’s responsibility. The judge rejected arguments by business groups that federal immigration law severely restricts Arizona’s ability to punish people who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
Massachusetts: Flight diverted
A passenger struck a flight attendant, causing his New York-to-Paris flight to be diverted to Boston, where the man was arrested, authorities said. A French citizen was taken into custody and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said. He will be deported because of immigration violations not related to the flight, an ICE spokeswoman said. There were 136 passengers on the plane, which was traveling from Kennedy Airport in New York to Charles DeGaulle Airport.
Pennsylvania: Chicken danger
A chicken-feed additive containing arsenic and used to produce pinker, healthier, bigger-breasted birds could cause human disease, according to a study at Duquesne University. The study is the first to link a human health risk to the feed additive that has been widely used since the 1960s by commercial chicken producers to control intestinal parasites, reduce stress, stimulate growth and improve the color of chicken meat.
Ohio: Teacher attacked in class
A man charged into a Portsmouth school where his estranged wife was a teacher Thursday morning, firing a gun before stabbing her as her fifth-grade class watched, police said. He later was found dead in his home after apparently shooting himself during a standoff with police. The teacher, Christi Layne, was in critical condition at a hospital in nearby Huntington, W. Va., a hospital spokeswoman said. Christi Layne had filed for divorce Jan. 25.
New York: Sex extortion sentence
A Long Island judge Thursday sentenced an accused sex extortionist to four to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to his crimes late last year. Michael Largue, 46, of Franklin Square, and his former lover, Shawn Payne, 35, of Northport, trolled swingers Web sites for sex partners, secretly videotaped the trysts and threatened to make the tapes public if they were not paid, prosecutors said.
Australia: Apology for Aborigines
Parliament will apologize next week to thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly removed from their families under policies that lasted for decades, but the proposed apology does not include any financial compensation. About 100,000 children were taken from their Aboriginal mothers between 1910 and the 1970s under laws that argued the race was doomed and that integrating the children was a humane alternative. An inquiry by the national Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission concluded in 1997 that many stolen-generation children suffered long-term psychological effects stemming from their loss of family and culture.
Switzerland: Two Picassos stolen
Two Picasso paintings worth millions were stolen from a Swiss exhibition, police said Thursday. The paintings were stolen Wednesday evening after closing time at the Seedamm-Kulturzentrum in the small town of Pfaeffikon, near Zurich. Police have yet to catch the culprits. The two oil paintings — “Tete de cheval” (“Head of horse”) from 1962 and Verre et pichet (“Glass and pitcher”) from 1944 — were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany, police said.
Nepal: Arrest in kidney-sale scam
Police arrested the alleged mastermind of an India-based kidney transplant racket at a resort in southern Nepal, officials said Friday. Authorities said Amit Kumar ran the ring from a New Delhi suburb that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients. Police suspect that dozens of doctors were involved in the kidney racket, which had a waiting list of some 40 people hailing from at least five countries.
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