Kentucky clerk appeals order putting her in jail

Kentucky clerk appeals order putting her in jail

LEXINGTON, Ky.

A Kentucky county clerk has appealed a judge’s decision to put her in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Attorneys for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis officially appealed the ruling Sunday. The three-page motion does not include arguments as to why Davis should be released but amends Davis’ earlier appeal of the judge’s order.

Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons and stopped issuing all marriage licenses in June after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Two gay couples sued her. U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue the licenses, but she refused to do it saying she could not betray her conscience.

Parts of toddler’s dismembered body found in park

CHICAGO

Detectives investigating a lagoon at a Chicago urban park where a toddler’s dismembered feet and hand were discovered waded through cattail reeds and waist-high water Sunday, hoping to find more clues about the young victim’s identity.

A dog with a K-9 unit sniffed though shrubbery, branches and boulders on the edge of Garfield Park on the city’s west side, while investigators felt the muddy lagoon bottom with their hands, looking for other body parts or evidence.

The search began Saturday afternoon after someone reported seeing what turned out to be a left foot floating in the lagoon. Officers later found a decomposed right foot and a hand about 25 yards away, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Police cars’ decals draw complaints

DALLAS

A police department in a Texas Bible Belt community has placed large “In God We Trust” decals on its patrol vehicles in response to recent violence against law-enforcement officers, drawing criticism from a watchdog group that says the decals amount to an illegal government endorsement of religion.

The decision by police this month to unveil the phrase in Childress, an agricultural community of some 6,100 people at the southern edge of the Texas Panhandle, follows a similar move by dozens of other police agencies elsewhere in the country.

Police Chief Adrian Garcia said he decided to add the decals in response to recent attacks on law-enforcement personnel that have received broad attention, including the Aug. 28 killing of a deputy sheriff who was shot 15 times at a Houston-area gas station.

Turkish soldiers killed in attack

ANKARA, Turkey

Kurdish rebels attacked two military vehicles in southeast Turkey, the president said Sunday and suggested that several Turkish soldiers were killed in the assault. The prime minister returned to the capital to chair an emergency security meeting.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a television interview that two armored military vehicles were targeted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party near the village of Daglica, in Hakkari province, bordering Iraq and Iran. He said an official statement would be made but indicated that several soldiers were killed in the attack.

“It was attack on armored vehicles with land mines,” Erdogan said. “The information from our Chief of General Staff is very saddening.”

He said Turkey’s security forces would respond in a “different and determined” manner.

Associated Press