9/11 video released

9/11 video released
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon released Tuesday the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters building and killing 189 people in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The images, recorded by Pentagon security cameras outside the building, were made public in response to a December 2004 Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, a public interest group. Some still images from the video had previously been leaked and publicly circulated, but this was the first official release. The airplane is a thin white blur on the video as it slams into the Pentagon at ground level. Almost instantly a white flash and a huge orange fireball appear on the video, followed by a tower of gray-black smoke.
Man freed after DNA tests
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A man convicted of killing a community activist 10 years ago was freed Tuesday after DNA tests tied the slaying to another man. "All I can say is God is good," said Douglas Warney, 44, bent over in a wheelchair with advanced AIDS. Warney, who has an eighth-grade education and an IQ of 68, had confessed details about the 1996 New Year's Day stabbing of a local Million Man March organizer, William Beason, that police insisted only the killer could know. But Warney's defenders argued that he had parroted details two detectives gave him in an interrogation room at a time when he was stricken with AIDS-related dementia. Attempts to perform DNA tests that prosecutors first blocked in court in 2004 recently produced evidence pointing to a prison inmate, Eldred Johnson Jr., as the culprit. Authorities say Johnson has confessed killing Beason two weeks after slashing the throat of his landlord in Utica -- a killing he pleaded guilty to in 1998.
'Survivor' sentenced
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings. Hatch, 45, was convicted in January. The charges carried a maximum of 13 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said he issued a harsher than expected sentence because Hatch had committed perjury repeatedly during his trial. "It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied," Torres said. When Hatch was convicted, Torres said he expected to sentence him to 33 to 41 months. "I believe I've been completely truthful and completely forthcoming throughout the entire process," Hatch told the judge before he was sentenced. Hatch claimed he thought the show's producers would pay his taxes and pleaded ignorance about money matters, saying he forgot to tell his accountants about some income.
Mummy found in Peru
WASHINGTON -- A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday. The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items including jewelry and weapons, and the remains of a teenage girl who had been sacrificed, archaeologists reported. The burial was at a site called El Brujo on Peru's north coast near Trujillo. They said the woman was part of the Moche culture, which thrived in the area between A.D. 1 and A.D. 700. The mummy was dated about A.D. 450. The presence of gold jewelry and other fine items indicates the mummy was that of an important person, but anthropologist John Verano of Tulane University said the researchers are puzzled by the presence of war clubs, which are not usually found with females.
Associated Press