Dahmer survivor charged in death

Dahmer survivor charged in death

MILWAUKEE

The man who led Milwaukee police to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer 20 years ago was charged Friday in the death of a homeless man who drowned after he was thrown off a bridge.

Tracy Edwards — who escaped Dahmer’s Milwaukee apartment in July 1991, leading police and the world to Dahmer’s crimes — was charged along with Timothy Carr with first-degree recklessly endangered safety in the death of Johnny Jordan, 43.

According to the criminal complaint filed Friday, a witness saw Edwards, Carr and Jordan arguing on a downtown bridge. The witness says Carr, 44, and Edwards, 52, picked up Jordan and threw him off the bridge, head first. After Jordan went in, Carr jumped in from the riverbank while Edwards stayed on the riverbank, the complaint said.

Norway mourns victims of massacre

OSLO, Norway

Norway began burying the dead Friday, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage. Mourners of all ages vowed they would not let the massacre threaten their nation’s openness and democracy. An 18-year-old Muslim girl was the first victim to be laid to rest since the gunman opened fire at a political youth camp and bombed the government headquarters in Oslo.

Ultraconservatives protest in Egypt

CAIRO

Tens of thousands of ultraconservative Muslims in long beards, robes and prayer caps thronged Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in a massive show of force Friday, calling for the implementation of strict Islamic laws and sparring with liberal activists over their visions for a post-revolution Egypt. It was the first rally with religious overtones in Egypt, and one of the largest, since the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down in mid-February. The strong showing by the Islamists demonstrated their powerful organizational abilities, which likely will help them in parliamentary elections later this year.

Jeffs threatens court with retribution

SAN ANGELO, Texas

A polygamist sect leader defending himself against sexual-assault charges broke his silence Friday with a 55-minute sermon defending plural marriages as divine and later said God would visit “sickness and death” on those involved if his trial wasn’t immediately stopped.

Warren Jeffs, 55, could face life in prison if he’s convicted of sexually assaulting two underage girls. He has been representing himself since he fired his high- powered lawyers Thursday, but he made no opening statement and spent hours sitting alone at the defense table staring into space in silence while prosecutors made their case.

On Friday, however, the ecclesiastical head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints suddenly cried, “I object!” as FBI agent John Broadway testified about seizing eight desktop computers and 120 boxes and large folders of documents from the church’s remote compound in West Texas in 2008.

Judge orders Nixon transcript unsealed

WASHINGTON

Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to a grand jury about the Watergate break-in that drove him from office, a federal judge Friday ordered the secret transcript be made public.

But the 297 pages of testimony won’t be available immediately, because the government gets time to decide whether to appeal.

The Obama administration opposed the transcript’s release, chiefly to protect the privacy of people discussed during the ex-president’s testimony who are still alive.

Associated Press