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WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security says he'll consider holding hearings following Wednesday's stunt in which a Florida postal carrier flew his small gyrocopter near the U.S. Capitol. Sixty-one-year-old Doug Hughes said he wanted to call attention to the need for campaign finance reform, and the Tampa Bay Times reported that Hughes had warned the Secret Service in advance. Secret Service officials dispute that.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of plotting to carry out a terror attack in the U.S. is expected to enter not guilty pleas when he's arraigned Friday. A federal indictment says Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud (ab-DEE'-RAH'-mahn shayk moh-HAH'-mud), of Columbus, left the country a year ago to train and fight with terrorists in Syria. The indictment also says Mohamud talked about going to a military base in Texas on his return to kill American soldiers with a backup plan to attack a prison.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say a dispute about a family business may have prompted a shooting that ended in the deaths of a woman, her three adult sons and one of the son's wives. Officers discovered the bodies Thursday after an hours-long standoff in a residential neighborhood. Two women and two children were able to escape the home unharmed. A neighbor tells the Arizona Republic newspaper that the family owned a transportation service.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Coast Guard cutter has arrived in San Diego with more than 14 tons of cocaine, valued at $424 million. The cocaine was seized by U.S. and Canadian forces in 19 separate incidents in the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South America, and it included a 10½-ton bust from a coastal freighter. U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy ships have seized more than 28 tons of cocaine valued at $848 million in the eastern Pacific region near Central and South America in the last six months.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ten physicians have sent a letter to Columbia University's dean, demanding that TV celebrity doctor and world-class cardiac surgeon Mehmet Oz be removed from his faculty position. The doctors accuse him of showing an "egregious lack of integrity" for promoting what they call "quack treatments" such as "miracle" weight-loss supplements. Columbia has issued a statement saying it's "committed to the principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members' freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion."
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