UK & USA Today Editoweb 8 May 2009

School link to more swine flu cases

Four more schoolchildren from south London have been diagnosed with swine flu, the Department of Health has said.

Yacht raid cocaine smugglers jailed

Three British men have been given 10-year prison terms for their roles in an elaborate international drugs smuggling ring smashed off the Irish coast.

PM blames 'system' for expenses row

Gordon Brown has blamed the MPs' expenses row on "the system" as he and members of his Cabinet were hit with a catalogue of new revelations about their taxpayer-funded claims.

'Armed Pensioner' Shot Dead By Police

Neighbours said officers surrounded a block of retirement flats in Fernhurst, West Sussex.

Job fears as steel plant mothballed

One of the biggest steel plants in the UK is to be mothballed, threatening the future of nearly 2,000 workers.

Drew Peterson faces charges in Ill. courtroom

Drew Peterson is in court facing allegations he drowned his third wife in a bathtub. But he's still cracking jokes.

Mock trial was at center of real legal dispute

The dozens of mock murder trials held in Atlanta's main courthouse Friday were punctuated with stubborn witnesses, compelling arguments and dizzying legal back-and-forths from high school students.

1 dead, church collapses in Kansas thunderstorms

Authorities say one person was killed and a church collapsed in southeast Kansas as heavy thunderstorms swept through the region.

Army officer, wife accused in $2.8M bribery

An Alabama Army major and his wife are accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes from a Georgia contractor who received about $21 million for delivering bottled water and building fences in Kuwait and Iraq.

Another coastal SC county combed for NY teen

Searchers are combing another coastal South Carolina county for a New York teen who went missing nearly two weeks ago in Myrtle Beach.

Ex-soldier could get death in Iraq rape, slayings

 A former soldier's life will be in the hands of a Kentucky jury after the panel convicted him of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl and killing her family in Iraq.

Charges dropped against company in Big Dig death

Federal prosecutors dismissed charges Friday against one of the Big Dig's largest contractors in connection with a tunnel collapse that killed a Boston woman, but the company pleaded guilty to lying about construction defects in another tunnel.

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