Man charged in killing dog to retaliate for eviction

Man charged in killing dog to retaliate for eviction
TOOELE, Utah -- A man has been accused of stabbing a dog to death with a sword in retaliation against its owner, a hotel owner who had evicted him.
Daniel Painter, 30, was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault and cruelty to animals.
Police said Painter attacked a chow-Labrador mix named Kabu with a sword early Sunday.
Kabu's owner, Garth Jones, he was awakened early Sunday to the sound of a thud and a yelp.
Jones said he saw his dog being repeatedly stabbed by Painter, whom he had recently evicted from the Kirk Hotel in Tooele, about 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Jones said the man then threatened him and chased after him, but Jones was able to run into his office and call police.
Milosevic given lawyers
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal imposed two defense lawyers today on Slobodan Milosevic in an effort to end repeated trial delays and because doctors have warned that representing himself threatens the former Yugoslav strongman's health.
The tribunal's judges appointed British attorneys Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins, until now court observers ensuring fair proceedings, as Milosevic's defense counsels. They will take over the case from Sept. 7 when his first witnesses are due to be called.
The former Yugoslav president protested the decision to impose a lawyer on him and said he will appeal.
Judges and prosecutors agreed Milosevic could still name a lawyer of his choice -- his legal research is being handled by three assistants from Belgrade -- and that he could remain actively involved in conducting his defense.
Indictment in Smart case
SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge unsealed an indictment Wednesday against a homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, a day after the self-proclaimed prophet was ruled competent to stand trial.
The grand jury indictment of Brian David Mitchell, returned last September but kept under wraps, includes kidnapping and sexual assault charges against him and his wife, Wanda Barzee.
The indictment will move the case toward trial without a public preliminary hearing that might have required sensitive testimony from Elizabeth. Mitchell was expected to be arraigned today, when a trial date could be set.
Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom would not comment on whether Elizabeth testified for the 15-member citizen panel in the routinely secret proceeding.
The 50-year-old Mitchell and Barzee, 58, are charged with kidnapping Elizabeth, then 14, from her bedroom at knife point in 2002. The girl was allegedly taken into the foothills near her home for nine months, sexually assaulted and kept as Mitchell's second wife.
Soldier's death probed
SEOUL, South Korea -- The U.S. military said today that it is investigating the death of an American soldier found dead in his barracks near the South Korean capital.
U.S. Army Spc. Dean G. Todd-Eckard, 21, from Canyon County, Calif., was found dead in his room in Camp Carroll north of Seoul on Tuesday morning, the 8th U.S. Army said in a statement.
Todd-Eckard served in a communications-electronics maintenance section of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 307th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade.
Drug-trafficking museum
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A sprawling hacienda once owned by Pablo Escobar, emblematic of the drug lord's excesses, may soon house a museum highlighting the evils of drug trafficking, a top Colombian official said.
Escobar, a leader of the now defunct Medellin cocaine cartel, was killed in 1993 in a hail of police bullets after waging a war of terror in Colombia.
Last month, a court in the state of Antioquia, where the Hacienda Napoles ranch is located, gave the Colombian government official title to the property after a 15-year battle with Escobar's family.
Associated Press