Bush satisfied with pre-Sept. 11 probes\nCRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush insisted Sunday he was satisfied federal agents were on top of the terrorist threat after reading a pre-Sept. 11 briefing detailing Osama bin Laden's intentions on U.S. soil.\nFor two years, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice left Americans with the impression the memo from Aug. 6, 2001 focused on historical information dating to 1998 and that any current threats mostly involved overseas targets. Yet the release, under public pressure, of the briefing showed Bush had received intelligence reporting as recent as May 2001 and most of the current information focused on possible plots in the United States.
Town worried over kidnapped engineer\nMACON, Miss. -- Relatives of an American civilian taken hostage in Iraq waited to learn what had happened to him after a Sunday morning deadline imposed by his abductors passed.\nThomas Hamill, 43, was snatched Friday by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq.\n"I'm just praying," his grandmother, Vera Hamill, said Sunday.\nHamill works for the Houston-based engineering and construction company Kellogg, Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton, his wife, Kellie, told The Associated Press.\nHis captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate.
Fla. woman charged in death of her baby\nRIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -- A woman has been charged in the death of her infant son, who had burns, bruises and broken bones when he was brought to the hospital unconscious, police said.\nLakyna Anderson, 26, was charged Friday with aggravated manslaughter in the death of 9-month-old Jamarion. She told investigators her husband was responsible for the boy's injuries and he was watching Jamarion the day he died, according to an arrest report.\nNicklous Anderson, 23, had been found by the state to have abused one of her children previously, though he was not listed as a suspect Thursday in the death of Jamarion, according to Diane Carhart, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Police were searching for him Saturday for questioning, Carhart said.
