Teen bites back when police dog gets loose

 INDIANAPOLIS — It was a story of "girl bites dog" for a teenager who thought she was in a battle for her life with a police K-9.

The dog attacked Natalie Bradley-Wilson outside the Kingdom Hall in the 8200 block of Five Points Road Sunday.

"When it bit me over here again, I ended up biting his neck," she said.

The 18-year-old felt she was in a struggle for her life with a police K-9 from the off-duty officer's yard nearby.
"The officer was at his own home, cleaning out his police car. The dog may have been inside the car, ended up outside the car," said IMPD Sgt. Paul Thompson. "The dog was not on a leash at that time."

"It jumped back up and got me again. I ended up falling down with the dog," Bradley-Wilson said.

No one knows why the dog targeted Bradley-Wilson, who was standing in the church parking lot a few hundred feet away, passing other people.
"I ended up falling down with the dog. He started biting me everywhere," she said.

The K-9's handler was still in his yard, unaware.

"I had a hold of his collar," Bradley-Wilson said.

The dog then tore open her forearm.

"Then directed its attention at me here, bit me here. At that point, I was really terrified. If it gets my jugular vein, there's no way I can survive," she said.

The teen tried holding the dog's muzzle shut, then tried biting the dog back to shock it.

"It didn't act like it even cared that I bit it," Bradley-Wilson said.

A friend chased the dog off with a briefcase, but not before he was also bitten.

"I started screaming. At that point, I was hysterical," the victim's mother said.

Sgt. Thompson said the dog's handler was remorseful.

"As any handler in an accident would, he felt very badly," he said.

The victim and her mother want the dog out of service. It's more likely the officer will take the heat.

"This is what we consider an accident, but does not take away responsibility from the handler," Sgt. Thompson said.

"To me, it just seemed to feel like an eternity the dog was on me," the girl said.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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Obama talks of working with victorious GOP

Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama attends a DNC Moving America Forward Rally at Cleveland State University …

 

 

 

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he has spoken to the Republican leaders of the House and Senate and told them he looks forward to working together.

The president said some election nights are more fun than others. He said that regardless of who wins or loses, the outcome is a reminder that power in this country rests not with elected officials but with the people they serve.

Obama spoke at a news conference Wednesday in the East Room of the White House.

Democrats lost control of the House in Tuesday's midterm elections and lost seats in the Senate. The results were widely seen as a repudiation of Obama's agenda.

'Born again' Aiyegbeni targets Europe

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Yakubu Aiyegbeni has set his sights on European qualification after firing Everton to victory over Stoke on Saturday. The Nigerian striker scored his first goal since April to secure a 1–0 triumph and maintain the Toffees’ revival.

Everton has climbed to eighth position on the back of a 5-match unbeaten run and Yakubu feels they can go even higher. “It is not going to be easy but we want to play in Europe next season,” he said.

“Hopefully, we will start doing the right thing on the pitch and we will get into Europe - but there is still a long way to go.” Yakubu admits it was a relief to end his goal drought but insists he is now feeling in peak condition after being plagued by injuries throughout his time at Everton.

“As a striker, sometimes you have good chances and you don’t take them, but I was there at the right time and took it really good,” he explained.
“It is really good to score goals. It had been six or seven games and I hadn’t scored, so to get a goal will give me more confidence and I am going to score goals.
“I think my fitness is really good, better than last season.

“Hopefully, I can score goals and help the team, and the team can achieve something this season.”
Jermaine Beckford is taking time to settle following his summer move from Leeds while last season’s top scorer Louis Saha is only just feeling his way back into action after almost two months out injured.

But with the return of Saha, Yakubu feels competition in the squad is growing and that will only help him.
“It is always like that playing for Everton,” said Yakubu, who hit 21 goals in his first season at the club following his £11.25million move from Middlesbrough in 2007. “You have to fight for your place and whenever you get the chance, you have to take it.

“It has been really great, but we will fight together and work as a team. “We knew when we were at the bottom we were not under pressure because we had good players and we could turn things around.
“We have done it already and we don’t want to stop.”

US Elections 2010: Republicans to fight Obama agenda

John Boehner (right) said the Republicans would roll back President Obama's reforms

A top Republican has urged Barack Obama to change course after the president suffered a severe setback in mid-term elections.

John Boehner said Americans had voted for "limited government", and pledged to roll back Mr Obama's healthcare reform "monstrosity".

Republicans took advantage of voters' discontent to win 60 seats in the House of Representatives from the Democrats.

They also gained Senate seats, but not enough to control the upper house.

Mr Boehner, who as the new majority leader in the House is likely to become its next speaker, said the electorate had rejected the agenda of Mr Obama and the previous House speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

"I think that it's a mandate for Washington to reduce the size of government and continue our fight for smaller, less costly and more accountable government," he said.

With some counts still to be completed, projections suggested the Republicans had obtained a net gain of 60 seats in the House, more than the 54 they won in the landmark 1994 mid-terms, and the biggest exchange of seats since the Democrats won 75 in 1948.

The Republicans made a net gain of at least six Senate seats, leaving the Democrats with a slim majority.

Dozens of those House seats and several Senate ones went to candidates backed by the Tea Party conservative anti-tax movement.

The election result is a stinging setback for the president, who was elected only two years ago with so much hope and so much exuberance, says the BBC's North America editor Mark Mardell.

While there will be much talk of compromise and reaching deals, many Tea Party supporters' explicit aim is to block and undo Mr Obama's agenda, our editor says.

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Greece suspends foreign airmail service after attacks .

Parcel bombs have been sent to a number of embassies in Athens as well as abroad

Greece has suspended international airmail for 48 hours after more than 10 suspicious packages were sent to targets in Greece and across Europe.

An extreme left-wing group is suspected of carrying out the campaign and police are looking for five men in their 20s.

The packages were sent to embassies in Athens, international organisations and European leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel.

Greek police said the airmail service was being suspended to allow checks.

The country's Prime Minister, George Papandreou, said he would be "merciless to those who attempt in vain to rock social peace with terrorist acts and hurt our country's image internationally during a very difficult period".

A private courier plane, found to be carrying a suspect package from Athens and addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was rerouted to Bologna airport in Italy on Tuesday night.

When examined, the package caught fire. No-one was hurt, Italian officials said, and the contents were taken for analysis.
On Tuesday evening, two parcel bombs were destroyed in controlled explosions at Athens airport's cargo terminal. They were addressed to international police organisation Europol in the Netherlands and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

On Wednesday morning, reports said Athens police were investigating a suspect package at the Argentine embassy.

Co-ordinated' action

Parcel bombs exploded on Tuesday at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens, and several suspicious packages were destroyed.

A suspected bomb was destroyed at the Bulgarian embassy and another, posted to the Chilean embassy, in a van.

No-one was hurt in the blasts, which came a day after four parcel bombs were found in the city.

The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says it appears to be a co-ordinated attack by an extreme left-wing group.

Suspect packages either exploded or were set off in controlled explosions at the Swiss, Russian, Bulgarian embassies in Athens on Tuesday. No-one was seriously injured.

Another suspected device addressed to the Chilean embassy was found in a delivery van outside the Greek parliament and destroyed.

German officials said a parcel bomb sent to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office had come from Greece.

Sarkozy parcel

"It seems this is a continuation of yesterday's attacks and that Greek guerrillas are behind it, but we are still investigating," police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

On Monday, police arrested two suspects and found two bombs, one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the other to the Belgian embassy.

Two other bombs - one addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens and one addressed to a Dutch embassy - were also discovered.

Terrorism experts suspect the co-ordinated campaign is the work of a group called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which is trying to spark revolution in Greece during the current period of austerity.

The parcel bombs have raised anxiety levels in Greece in the run-up to this weekend's vital local elections, our correspondent says.

The elections are seen as a referendum on the socialist government's handling of the economic crisis, and Mr Papandreou has warned he may call a general election if his party is soundly defeated.