Survivor of death march dies at 105

Survivor of death march dies at 105

ST. LOUIS

A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn’t expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, embodying the power of a positive spirit in the face of inordinate odds.

“Doc” Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the Bataan Death March, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded.

Son of ex-leader of Bermuda convicted

LOS ANGELES

The physician son of Bermuda’s former premier was convicted Monday of fondling female patients — including a 15-year-old girl and an undercover police officer — during inappropriate breast and pelvic exams.

Kevin Antario Brown, 40, stared forward and shook his head as he was found guilty on 21 counts of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation by a physician, sexual penetration by a foreign object and committing a lewd act.

The jury deadlocked on eight other charges against Brown, who was known for his charity work and whose Urban Health Institute benefited from a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion in 2008.

Brown’s father, Ewart Brown, stepped down as Bermuda’s premier last year.

Man arrested in Ky. in fake-bomb case

LOUISVILLE, Ky.

A 50-year-old man was captured Monday at his ex-wife’s Kentucky home and charged with breaking into an Australian home and chaining a fake bomb to a teenager’s neck, the FBI said.

Paul “Doug” Peters was staying at a home in La Grange, Ky., when he was arrested by a FBI SWAT team, said Elizabeth A. Fries, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kentucky office. La Grange is about 30 miles northeast of Louisville.

He faces charges in Australia that include kidnapping and breaking and entering, said Luke Moore of the New South Wales Police who are located in Sydney.

PM: UK must reverse ‘moral collapse’

LONDON

Britain must confront a culture of laziness, irresponsibility and selfishness that fueled four days of riots that left five people dead, thousands facing criminal charges and hundreds of millions in damages, Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged Monday.

As rival political leaders staked out their response to England’s unrest, Cameron pledged to deliver a raft of new policies by October aimed at reversing the “slow-motion moral collapse” that he blames for fostering the disorder.

63 die in bombings in 17 cities in Iraq

BAGHDAD

A relentless barrage of bombings killed 63 people Monday in the most sweeping and coordinated attack Iraq has seen in more than a year, striking 17 cities from northern Sunni areas to the southern Shiite heartland. The surprising scope and sophistication of the bloodbath suggested that al-Qaida remains resilient despite recent signs of weakness. Such attacks, infrequent as they are deadly, likely will continue long after American forces withdraw from the country.

Associated Press