OHIO COUPLE INDICTED IN CAGING OF CHILDREN

Ohio couple indictedin caging of children
Ohioans Michael and Sharen Gravelle, above, display photos of their home. The couple, accused of forcing some of their 11 adopted special needs children to sleep in cages, were charged Tuesday with child endangerment and other crimes. A grand jury indicted them on 16 counts of felony child endangering, eight misdemeanor counts of falsifying adoption applications and a felony count of lying under oath when being qualified for adoption funding, the Huron county prosecutor said late Tuesday. The Gravelles, who live 50 miles southwest of Cleveland, have denied mistreating the children, ages 1 to 15. They have been fighting to regain custody since the children were removed and placed in foster care last fall, after a county social worker examined the wood and chicken-wire cages she likened to kennels.
Interim governmentorders election review
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's interim government ordered a review of election results Tuesday, hours after the leading presidential candidate -- who appeared set to fall short of a first-round victory -- claimed the count was marred by "massive fraud" or errors. The order is the first formal step to investigate possible fraud or irregularities committed during last week's vote and the counting process.
Super Bowl bet losertries to get lost, cops say
BASIN, Wyo. -- A man staged his own disappearance in the Bighorn Mountains after losing $40,000 on a Super Bowl bet, authorities said. Marvin Hackworth, 46, of Gillette, was reported missing Feb. 6, the day after the Super Bowl, according to the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office. Search and rescue teams spent two days looking for him in the Bighorn Mountains, where he had told his wife he was headed to "clear his head" after losing the money, the sheriff's office said in a statement. Hackworth's pickup and a trailer were found. One of two snowmobiles was missing from the trailer. Police said they received a call Friday from a woman identifying herself as Hackworth's daughter, who said she received a message from her father saying he was OK. They traced the call to Chadron, Neb., which is about 200 miles southeast of Gillette, where they found Hackworth.
Cindy Sheehan stagesprotest in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan staged a protest at one of the city's shuttered housing projects Tuesday, a day after 12,000 families left homeless by last year's hurricanes were forced to leave their federally funded hotel rooms. With her back to the boarded-up St. Bernard Housing Development, Sheehan criticized President Bush's response to the storms, saying, "Everyone in America needs to come down here and see how unsafe, how insecure he's made our world." Sheehan, who camped outside Bush's ranch in Texas to protest the Iraq war, said the slow recovery in New Orleans is tied to the siphoning of federal dollars for foreign wars. Sheehan's 24-year-old son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Associated Press