Florida

Terri Schiavo’s remains buried in cemetery

The remains of a severely brain-damaged woman who died after her feeding tube was removed in March were interred Monday in a cemetery here, her husband’s attorney said.

Terri Schiavo, 41, died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She suffered brain damage in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop.

She left no written instructions in the event she became disabled, and her husband said she never would have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.

Her parents, however, doubted she had any such end-of-life wishes.

The statement released Monday by attorney George Felos did not explain why Michael Schiavo decided to keep his wife’s remains in Florida. He had said that her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania.

Schiavo’s parents had opposed her cremation and hoped to bury her in their adopted state of Florida. The statement Monday said the Schindlers had been notified of the service and burial.

Utah

Search scaled back for missing Scout

Searchers had few clues Monday to the whereabouts of an 11-year-old boy missing from a popular Boy Scout camp in a rugged, snowcapped mountain range in Utah.

Brennan Hawkins was last seen Friday afternoon at the camp in the Uinta Mountains east of Salt Lake City.

“We have nothing to go on,” Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said.

Brennan, who had not yet graduated from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, was a visitor at the camp with a friend, whose father was volunteering at a three-day session for 1,400 older Scouts.

The sheriff said he had no reason to suspect foul play, but he had opened a criminal investigation and detectives were checking the background of every adult who was at the camp Friday.

Brennan disappeared somewhere along a quarter-mile of dirt road between the camp’s artificial climbing wall and the “chow hall,” where he was to meet his friend.

A swollen river is within 100 yards of the road, but Brennan did not have to cross it to get to the hall. Searchers used poles to probe the swift water near the camp, about 80 miles east of Salt Lake City.

MIAMI

Inmates allege jailers mishandled Quran

Two men accused of supporting terrorism by recruiting Muslim extremists are seeking dismissal of the charges, alleging that jailers mishandled a Quran and conducted inappropriate searches of their cells.

Attorneys for Adhan Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi said in court motions that jailers disrespectfully tossed Hassoun’s Quran on his bunk and left 8,000 pages of trial papers in disarray.

The incidents occurred in May and June at a federal detention center in downtown Miami and amount to government misconduct and unconstitutional intrusion on trial preparation, according to the motions filed Friday.

Jayyousi and Hassoun have been held in solitary confinement for nearly a year following two years in an immigration jail.

They are accused of conspiring in the 1990s to raise money and recruit Muslim extremists to fight in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Somalia. They allegedly recruited Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member and Muslim convert who is held by the United States as an enemy combatant.

Alicia Valle, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said Monday that prosecutors would respond in writing. Messages left at the jail were not immediately returned.