TB patient’s name released; father-in-law works at CDC
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)—The man infected with potentially fatal tuberculosis is receiving treatment at a Denver, Colorado, hospital as federal health officials continue to track down airline passengers who may have been exposed to the illness.
The man has been identified by multiple medical and law enforcement sources as Andrew Speaker, 31, a lawyer from Atlanta, Georgia. Hospital officials have not disclosed his name.
Speaker’s father-in-law works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, an agency spokesman said Thursday. . .
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teresa Bailey and her four children are in Washington to honor her husband, John, a California Highway Patrol officer who was killed last year.
It is National Police Week and John Bailey’s name has been added to the Peace Officers Memorial in Judiciary Square along with 144 other names of of ficers who
died in the line of duty in 2006.
John was hit by a car driven by Domingo Esqueda, an illegal immigrant who was intoxicated. He was actually off duty when it happened in February 2006, said Teresa Bailey. But if he was on his way home and saw someone breaking the law, he would pull them over. . .
Teresa Bailey will be on the show at 4:00
Rampage against Anaheim family tied to breakup?
She was a college freshman whose Hindu family didn’t believe in dating before marriage. He was a Muslim, which troubled her parents, and they convinced her that he wasn’t the one.
Their breakup, investigators said, might have played a role in a string of vicious crimes that unfolded in Orange County last week: Her Anaheim Hills home was set ablaze, her mother savagely beaten and her father and sister killed. The victims had been strangled, bludgeoned, burned and stabbed, according to court records.
The young man, Iftekhar Murtaza, 22, of Van Nuys, was arrested last weekend at the Phoenix airport in connection with the slayings. He had left Southern California after investigators questioned him and was carrying a one-way ticket to Bangladesh. . .
Worker: Kidnap report not true
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A day laborer who claimed he and two other men were kidnapped from a street corner and taken in handcuffs to Tijuana has admitted he made up the story.
When San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators talked to Jose Feliz Gutierrez by phone, he said the kidnapping story he told to his sister was a lie.
“Jose stated he had left on his own accord,” said Detective Jesse Venegas in a statement released Wednesday. “The entire event was a fabrication. . .
