ACTOR GARY BUSEY IS BOOKED AFTER ARGUMENT WITH HIS WIFE
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Actor Gary Busey was taken into custody for investigation of domestic violence after an argument with his wife escalated into a confrontation, authorities said.Busey, 54, was booked for investigation of misdemeanor spousal battery after his wife called authorities Monday night, sheriff's Deputy Joan Raber said. The actor was freed early Tuesday after posting $2,500 bail.
Tiana Busey had no visible injuries and was not hospitalized, Raber said.
Tiana Busey told authorities that her husband "grabbed her shoulders and wrestled her to the ground" during an argument, Deputy Mark Bailey said.
In 1997, a United Airlines flight attendant said Busey struck her after she bumped him. Criminal charges were not filed.
EX-WIFE OF MURDERER TAKES A STAND -- FOR HER DAUGHTERS
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- Thomas Capano's ex-wife made no excuses for her husband, a once-prominent lawyer convicted of killing his mistress. She just wants him to live -- for the sake of his four young daughters.
"I'm not here to stand by my man. I'm here to stand by my daughters," Kay Ryan said Monday. She adopted her maiden name last year after divorcing Capano and ending their 26-year marriage.
On Jan. 18, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Capano, a former state prosecutor and high-profile political adviser. He was convicted of murdering Anne Marie Fahey, the governor's scheduling secretary, and dumping her body at sea in June 1996.
TOP U.S. COURT CLEARS THE WAY FOR CANADIAN TO BE EXECUTED
HOUSTON (AP) -- A Canadian awaiting execution in Texas has failed in his attempt to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider whether his case violated international law.
The high court refused Monday to hear the appeal of Joseph Stanley Faulder, clearing the way for him to receive a new execution date.
At the same time, a Canadian delegation led by Parliament member Art Hanger concluded that the country should drop efforts to block his execution.
"We feel he has, indeed, received due process. More than due process, actually," said Hanger.
DEAL WITH PROSECUTORS BRINGS END TO CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A 19-year-old man who for nearly a year maintained his innocence in the ax murders of a minister and his wife has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.
Paul Brightman will spend 65 years in prison for killing the Rev. C. Frederick Mathias and his wife, Cleta, in 1996.
Brightman had claimed he was helping a friend burglarize the Mathias home when they returned. He told police he handed an ax to Sean Rich, who used it to kill the pair. Rich was 15 at the time.
TEEN GETS PRISON SENTENCE IN GRUESOME N.Y. SLAYING
NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenager who fatally stabbed and disemboweled a drinking companion in Central Park has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
State Supreme Court Justice Michael Corriero imposed the maximum penalty allowed for a juvenile on Christopher Vasquez, 16, convicted in December of manslaughter in the death of Michael McMorrow, 44.
Vasquez blamed the 1997 killing on girlfriend Daphne Abdela, 16.
2 TINIEST OCTUPLETS GETTING NOURISHMENT THROUGH TUBES
HOUSTON (AP) -- The two smallest and weakest of the seven surviving Houston octuplets have been taken off milk feedings and are receiving nourishment from intravenous tubes.
Doctors have had trouble feeding Ikem and Gorom Louis, a boy and a girl, with breast milk and formula, which is important for their development.
2 KILLED WHEN DIESEL TANKER COLLIDES WITH CARS, EXPLODES
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- A diesel tanker carrying 9,000 gallons of fuel collided with two cars on a highway west of Fort Lauderdale, killing two people and injuring two others.
The tanker on a ramp to Interstate 595 hit a car and exploded, said Todd LeDuc, spokesman for Broward County Fire Rescue. Witnesses said the car hit another car and the tanker rolled over.
Names of the victims were not released. The 46-year-old driver was in fair condition.