Milwaukee ex-police officer who stole cousin's identity gets probation, but must leave U.S.
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A former police officer who stole his dead cousin's identity to get on the force will not go to prison but must leave the country, a judge decided Monday.,”STATE
Milwaukee ex-police officer who stole cousin's identity gets probation, but must leave U.S.
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A former police officer who stole his dead cousin's identity to get on the force will not go to prison but must leave the country, a judge decided Monday.
Oscar Ayala-Cornejo, 25, was charged in federal court with falsely representing himself as an American citizen after an anonymous tip led the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to him.
He was arrested May 31 and agreed to a plea deal about two weeks later. He was fired from the department in June.
He was sentenced to a year of probation. The maximum sentence could have been three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Ayala did not fight deportation. He has said he plans to live with family in Mexico and study computer engineering.
Father finds two men, including his son, dead in Racine
RACINE, Wis. (AP) – A Racine man checking on his son after he failed to show for a Thanksgiving gathering found him and another man dead in an apartment.
Racine police went to the apartment about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Hours later, they still didn't know what killed the two men, Sgt. Mike Polzin said.
Autopsies were to be conducted Friday.
Police said there were no obvious signs of forced entry into the apartment, and the bodies had no signs of trauma.
At least one of the victims lived in the apartment, Polzin said.
The men were 19 and 20 years old, Polzin said. Their names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
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Bush-Maliki deal sets framework for long-term US presence in Iraq, details to be worked out
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush on Monday signed a deal setting the foundation for a potential long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq, with details to be negotiated over matters that have defined the war debate at home – how many U.S. forces will stay in the country, and for how long.
The agreement between Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confirms that the United States and Iraq will hash out an "enduring" relationship in military, economic and political terms. Details of that relationship will be negotiated in 2008, with a completion goal of July, when the U.S. intends to finish withdrawing the five combat brigades sent in 2007 as part of the troop buildup that has helped curb sectarian violence.
"What U.S. troops are doing, how many troops are required to do that, are bases required, which partners will join them – all these things are on the negotiating table," said Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, President Bush's adviser on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The proposal underlines how the United States and Iraq are exploring what their relationship might look like once the U.S. significantly draws down its troop presence. It comes as a Democratic Congress – unsuccessfully, so far – prods Bush to withdraw troops faster than he wants.
Bush and al-Maliki signed the new U.S.-Iraq "declaration of principles" during a secure video conference Monday morning.
Cheney experiences irregular heartbeat during treatment for cough
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, experienced an irregular heartbeat Monday and was taken to George Washington University Hospital for evaluation.
The condition was detected when Cheney was seen by doctors around 7 a.m. at the White House for a lingering cough from a cold. He remained at work throughout the day, joining President Bush in meetings with Mideast leaders.
"During examination he was incidentally found to have an irregular heartbeat, which on further testing was determined to be atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart," said spokeswoman Megan Mitchell.
She said Cheney went to the hospital around 5 p.m. She said that if necessary, he would be receive cardioversion, a procedure that involves the delivery of an electric impulse to the heart.
About 2.8 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat, and cases are increasing as the population ages.
The condition occurs when the heart's top chambers, called the atria, get out of sync with the bottom chambers' pumping action. It is not immediately life-threatening, and the heart sometimes gets back into rhythm on its own. Many times, patients aren't aware of an episode of atrial fibrillation.
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