NEW YORK — The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain earlier this month has arrived in New York to face charges in the attack.
Abduhl Wali-i-Musi was surrounded by about a dozen federal agents as he arrived in lower Manhattan late Monday. He was manacled with a chain wrapped around his waist, and his left hand was heavily bandaged from the skirmish on the ship.
The teenager — his age is unclear — was due to appear in federal court in New York today. He is the first pirate to be tried in the United States in more than century.
Florida: Navy exercises
Navies from the United States and 11 other countries on Monday launched two weeks of annual war exercises off Florida’s Atlantic coast that will include training in combating piracy and drug smuggling. Sailors, Marines and other military forces will perform live-fire exercises, undersea warfare, helicopter and amphibious operations, among other training. U.S. ships participating in the $7 million exercise are the amphibious transport dock ship, the USS Mesa Verde, the guided missile destroyer the USS Donald Cook; guided missile frigates, USS Doyle and USS Kauffman, and the U.S. Coast Guard ship Thetis.
Maryland: 4 dead in hotel
A man, two women and a teenage girl were found dead Monday inside a hotel guest room in suburban Baltimore, in Towson, though authorities have not said how they died or whether they were related. Baltimore County Police Cpl. Michael Hill said the four were related, and police weren’t looking for any suspects. However, it’s unclear whether the deaths were a murder-suicide. Hill did not say how the four died.
California: Ex-priest accuses another of sexual abuse
A former Roman Catholic priest has accused another former priest of sexually abusing him in the rectory of a church when he was a teenager. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Santa Ana Superior Court, Ben Rodriguez, 45, said he was molested numerous times between the ages of 15 and 18 in the priest’s church apartment in suburban La Habra. On some occasions, the priest gave him muscle relaxants and sleeping pills before the abuse, Rodriguez alleged. The lawsuit did not name the suspected priest, but Rodriguez identified him Monday as Gordon J. Pillon.
Utah: Four Corners marker apparently off by 2.5 miles
Tourists who think they’re putting a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners area are apparently missing the mark — by about 2.5 miles. National Geodetic Survey officials say the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles west of where it should be. Officials said Monday the accurate location lies to the east of U.S. 160 in Colorado and northeast of the San Juan River as it flows into New Mexico.
N.D.: Valley City empties out because of flooding threat
Valley City officials on Monday urged residents to stay out of town and out of the way while they wait for the Sheyenne River to retreat and work to fix flood damage to the sewer system. Mayor Mary Lee Nielson told businesses to stay closed for at least this week, unless they are absolutely needed. Nielson also had asked residents on Friday to leave the city of about 7,000 after river water overwhelmed the sewer system. The North Dakota National Guard had said late Sunday that only 423 homes in Valley City were evacuated.
Iraq: 8 U.S. soldiers hurt
A suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi military uniform killed three Iraqi police officers and wounded eight American soldiers north of Baghdad on Monday morning, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said.
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