Ohio worker charged with tainting coffee
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison.
The Blade newspaper reports 36- year- old Edwin Ledgard told Toledo police that he had a delusion to kill customers.
A police report says the Toledo man went to the Frisch’s Big Boy on his day off on Friday and poured into a pot of coffee a drug called Dextran, which is used to treat anemia in baby pigs. Police say another worker at the restaurant saw what Ledgard was doing.
Pakistani official’s departure leaves void
WASHINGTON (AP) — The departure of Pakistan’s man in Washington, Ambassador Husain Haqqani, leaves U.S.- Pakistani relations temporarily adrift, with few trusted gobetweens after months of bruising political sparring that followed the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Haqqani resigned Tuesday over what has become known as “memo-gate” — allegations that he sought U. S. help to head off a possible Pakistani military coup after the bin Laden operation.
Former information minister Sherry Rehman, an important player in President Asif Zardari’s ruling political party, was appointed today to replace Haqqani. With elections in Pakistan slated for March, however, Rehman will be diplomatically toothless if Zardari’s government falls.
Haqqani’s departure robs the two sides of a man who simultaneously was one of the Pakistani military’s biggest critics and a constant, needling thorn in Washington’s side, refusing American requests to expand the CIA’s drone campaign against militants or increase American intelligence personnel on the ground.
N.J. toddler found dead in stream
LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey toddler missing for about 24 hours was found dead partially submerged in a stream.
Friends and relatives tell The Asbury Park Press that 2- year-old Tierra Morgan lived in Lakehurst with her mother and was having her first visitation with her father in a month.
They say Arthur Morgan III was to return the girl to her mother, Imani Benton, Monday night.
Benton told the newspaper that she was informed by police Tuesday evening that the girl was found dead in Shark River Park in Wall Township.
Morgan was charged with endangering the welfare of a child before the girl’s body was found. Authorities have not said whether he’s a suspect in her death.
South Korea military shows off firepower
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea ( AP) — South Korean attack helicopters screamed through the skies above the Koreas’ disputed Yellow Sea waters today in a display of power exactly a year after North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on a front-line island.
The South’s military staged drills involving aircraft, rocket launchers and artillery guns to send a strong message to North Korean rivals stationed within sight just miles away, and to their authoritarian leader, Kim Jong Il.
The exercises off Baengnyeong Island represent far greater firepower than the South Korean military mounted last year in response to the barrage of artillery showered on military garrisons and fishing villages on nearby Yeonpyeong Island, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Lee Bungwoo said today.
South Korea is prepared to “ crush the enemy,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jung Seung-jo said Tuesday.
South Korea’s delayed response to the shelling at the time — the first on a civilian area since the three-year Korean War ended — drew heavy criticism and concern that Seoul was unprepared for a North Korean provocation.
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