May 14, 2007

Suspect on U.S. most-wanted list arrested in Montreal Globe and Mail - On the run for six years, 61-year-old Richard Steve Goldberg was on the same FBI most-wanted list as Osama bin Laden. The Brooklyn-born former aerospace engineer fled after being charged with luring girls under 10 to his Los Angeles-area home, sexually assaulting them and storing images of the assaults on his computer in 2001. But over the weekend, Mr. Goldberg was found on the other side of the continent, living reclusively in a nondescript apartment block in Dorval on the Island of Montreal and using a fake name: Terry Wayne Kearns. 7:46:24 AM

Gaddafi in a coma Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is reported to be in a coma.  He was rushed to the hospital where a blood clot was discovered in his brain. His children, who live in Europe, have been summoned to Tripoli to be by his bedside. UPDATE at 5/14/07 1:51:12 pm: Looks like a false report: Libya scoffs at rumors of Gaddafi ill health. TRIPOLI — Libya Monday scoffed at rumors about veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi’s state of health after a report he was in a coma, suffering a blood clot on the brain. The state news agency JANA said the rumors about Gaddafi, the Arab world’s longest serving leader, were the subject of joking during a telephone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi Monday morning.  7:45:20 AM