New York City: Pulitzer Prize board probes 1932 award

A Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to a New York Times correspondent is under review and could be revoked because of complaints that he deliberately ignored the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions.

The review of Walter Duranty’s work was launched in April by a Pulitzer subcommittee. No Pulitzer has ever been revoked in the 86 years the prize has been awarded.

The effort was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the famine, which claimed as many as 7 million lives. Josef Stalin’s regime created the famine to force Ukrainian peasants into surrendering their land.

Florida: Abortion protester held on molestation charges

An associate of two men who murdered abortion doctors in the 1990s was arrested Tuesday on charges he molested a 15-year-old girl at a home he operates.

State troopers arrested John Burt, 65, at a rest stop about 170 miles east of Pensacola.

Burt runs Our Father’s House, a home for troubled girls and women.

In 1993, Burt was leading a protest at a Pensacola abortion clinic when Michael Griffin, who had volunteered at Our Father’s House, fatally shot Dr. David Gunn.

Burt was with Paul Hill in 1994 when Hill photographed an abortion doctor he later shot and killed. Hill was convicted of murdering Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, James H. Barrett.

New York: Handyman admits keeping sex slaves

A retired handyman pleaded guilty Tuesday to holding five women captive as sex slaves in an underground dungeon, two months after one of the victims escaped and made a frantic phone call that led to his arrest.

John Jamelske, 68, pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree kidnapping. Under a plea deal, Jamelske could serve 18 years to life. Each count carried a maximum penalty of 25 years to life in prison.

Jamelske has been held without bail since he was arrested April 7 on charges of holding a 16-year-old girl hostage for nearly seven months in a two-room concrete bunker he built 3 feet under the back yard of his suburban Syracuse home.

Following Jamelske’s arrest, police identified four other women who said they were abducted and raped by him dating back to 1988.