Pediatrician abused patients, police say
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Delaware pediatrician is accused of molesting at least 16 patients, including some who appear to be no more than 6 months old, and police said the doctor used video cameras to record some of the brutal attacks in exam rooms.
Dr. Earl B. Bradley, 56, was being held on $2.9 million bond Tuesday, said Sgt. Walter Newton, a Delaware State Police spokesman. Police believe there could be more victims.
Bradley, of Lewes, faces 29 charges, including rape. He was charged last week with sexually abusing nine girls.
Giuliani won't seek statewide office
NEW YORK (AP) — After months of playing it coy and flirting with a bid for statewide office, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that he won't return to the campaign trail next year, leaving a wide-open field for New York Republicans interested in the gubernatorial and Senate races.
Giuliani, viewed by many New York Republicans as a savior for the struggling party, said his "significant commitments" to his lucrative law and consulting businesses made it impossible for him to run for office in 2010.
Airport wedding surprises passenger
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A woman in a wedding gown surprised her fiance by greeting him at a Texas airport along with a justice of the peace.
Robyn Moore and William Acosta exchanged vows Monday at Corpus Christi International Airport after he got off a plane arriving from Toledo, Ohio.
Photos were taken near a Christmas tree at a security checkpoint.
Acosta, who was wearing jeans and a sweater, says he was speechless and thrilled by the wedding Moore planned.
Robber has Santa suit but no sleigh
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — He may have been dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, but this Santa was no saint.
According to Metropolitan Nashville Police, a man wearing a Santa Claus suit — including hat, beard and mustache — and dark sunglasses robbed a SunTrust Bank on Tuesday morning, demanding money from the teller at gunpoint.
After the teller complied, the man fled in a gray midsize car.
Threats against first lady lead to arrest
HONOLULU (AP) — A woman accused of telling the Secret Service she would "blow away" Michelle Obama was in federal custody Tuesday as the Obama family planned to travel to Hawaii.
Kristy Lee Roshia, 35, was charged with threatening a family member of the president and assaulting a federal agent after being arrested Saturday less than two miles from the Kailua home where the Obama family planned to stay during a holiday visit later this week.
Roshia called the Secret Service's Boston office last month and told a receptionist, "I will kill Michelle Obama" and "I will kill Marines," according to a Secret Service affidavit.
Judge denies bail for 2 teens in death
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge denied bail Tuesday for two Pennsylvania teens who pleaded not guilty to a hate crime charge in the death of a Mexican immigrant, noting that one defendant is accused of kicking the victim in the head "as if you were kicking a field goal."
Brandon Piekarsky, 18, and Derrick Donchak, 19, were charged in the July 2008 beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez in the town of Shenandoah. A separate indictment charges three police officers with obstructing the investigation into Ramirez's death.
Judge Malachy Mannion ruled that Piekarsky and Donchak should remain locked up pending trial.
Mother, 3 children die in house fire
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a mother and her three young children died in a fire at their modest one-story home in Arkansas.
Conway Fire Chief Bart Castleberry says firefighters found flames shooting from the front and both sides of the house shortly after 8 p.m. Monday.
Police identified the victims as Jennifer Cissel and her children, 5-year-old Gwennette Snodgrass, 4-year-old Chris Snodgrass and 3-year-old Arley Snodgrass.