Cincinnati: Report sheds new light on shooting by officer

An internal police probe has concluded that a former officer, whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man sparked three days of rioting last year, mishandled his revolver and gave conflicting statements to investigators.

Results of the probe were given to the City Council on Tuesday. If the officer was still a member of the Cincinnati force, he could be fired based on the findings, Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr. said.

Stephen Roach, 27, who is white, was acquitted of criminal charges in last April’s shooting of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas, who was fleeing police.

According to the report, Roach told homicide investigators the day of the shooting that he had believed Thomas to be a threat. Three days later, Roach said the shooting was an accident, the report says.

Los Angeles: Jury has dog-mauling case

A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a San Francisco couple whose dogs mauled a neighbor to death outside her apartment door.

Deliberations began nearly 14 months after college lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, was attacked by the two huge Presa Canario dogs. After five hours of talks, the panel went home for the night.

Marjorie Knoller, 46, who was walking the dogs, is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and owning a mischievous dog that killed a person. She could get 15 years to life in prison if convicted. Her husband, Robert Noel, 60, faces the latter two charges and could get up to four years.

New York City: Slain journalist’s work to be issued as book

A collection of articles by murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl will be published early this summer by Wall Street Journal Books, an imprint of The Free Press.

Pearl’s widow, Mariane, will write a foreword and his Journal colleagues will contribute anecdotes. “They’ll be the stories behind the stories,” said Deputy Managing Editor Stephen J. Adler.

During more than 10 years with the Journal, Pearl worked in Atlanta, Washington, London, the Middle East and South Asia, and his subjects included little-miss beauty pageants, sturgeon surgeons in Russia, rock and roll in Iran and TV smuggling by the Taliban.

Paris: Family of Sept. 11 suspect not cooperating with U.S.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s family refused to cooperate with a U.S. Justice official on Tuesday as the government sought to build a death penalty case against the only person charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

As part of the investigation, Moussaoui’s brother, Abd Samad Moussaoui, and his mother, Aicha Moussaoui, said they were asked to speak with Assistant U.S. Atty. Robert Spencer, who is in France.

Spencer was supposed to meet Tuesday with Moussaoui’s mother but Aicha Moussaoui failed to appear for the meeting in her hometown of Narbonne, in southern France. Her son appeared for his meeting on Monday but refused to answer any questions.