Boy airlifted from Disney cruise ship

Boy airlifted from Disney cruise ship

ORLANDO, Fla.

A 4-year-old boy was pulled from a pool on the Disney Fantasy cruise ship and airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando on Saturday, authorities said.

Brevard County and Disney rescue workers responded to the ship about 3:30 p.m. for a potential drowning at the family pool, one of three pools onboard, officials said.

The family had just boarded for a seven-day cruise to the western Caribbean.

Warrant issued for Egyptian satirist

CAIRO

Egypt’s state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for purportedly insulting Islam and the country’s leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The arrest warrant for Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, followed an order earlier this week by the country’s top prosecutor to arrest five prominent pro-democracy activists in what the opposition has characterized as a widening campaign against dissent.

Freed sex offender accused of later rape

SEATTLE

Less than a week after a King County, Wash., judge allowed a convicted sex offender to walk out of jail without having to post bail, prosecutors say the man kidnapped and raped an 18-year-old woman in North Seattle.

Ricky Lee Lewis, 55, is charged with first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape in the March 20 incident. He was being held in King County Jail in lieu of $1.03 million bail.

The judge who allowed Lewis to go free on his personal recognizance six days before the purported rape concedes he may have made a mistake.

“I’m sorry I was wrong, but that was my judgment at the time,” Superior Court Judge Ronald Kessler said Friday. “Judges take risks every day. The only way to avoid that would be to keep everybody in jail as long as possible, but that’s the easy way out.”

Deal reached on worker program

WASHINGTON

Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal timmigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, a person with knowledge of the talks said Saturday.

The agreement was reached in a phone call late Friday night with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who’s been mediating the dispute.

Combined dispatches