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PARIS – Armed robbers wearing women’s wigs and clothing made off with diamond rings, gem-studded bracelets and other jewelry worth $108 million from a Harry Winston boutique in Paris, in one of the world’s largest jewel heists.
As Christmas shoppers strolled outside, the gunmen forced store employees to strip rings, necklaces and earrings from window displays and pull more out of safes, Isabelle Montagne, spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, said Friday.
The brazen robbery early Thursday evening took place in the presence of security guards and security cameras in one of Paris’ toniest shopping locales.
People will soon be able to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.
The Bush administration said Friday it is overturning a 25-year-old federal rule that severely restricts loaded guns in national parks.
Under a rule to take effect in January, visitors will be able to carry a loaded gun into a park or wildlife refuge – but only if the person has a permit for a concealed weapon and if the state where the park or refuge is located also allows concealed firearms.
Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been indicted and a sixth was negotiating a plea for a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead and became an anti-American rallying cry for insurgents, people close to the case said Friday.
Prosecutors obtained the indictment late Thursday and had it put under seal until it is made public.
Six guards have been under investigation since a convoy of heavily armed Blackwater contractors opened fire in a crowded Baghdad intersection on Sept. 16, 2007.
The Defense Department said Friday it shot down a missile in a simulated attack designed to test a proposed shield against strikes by long-range ballistic missiles from nations such as North Korea. The interceptor missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California knocked down a missile meant to simulate the speed and trajectory of a North Korean attack.
A man in Massachusetts is appealing a $100 ticket he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor.
A state trooper pulled over John Davis and his wife Jennifer for using the breakdown lane on Nov. 18.
The Dracut man says his wife’s contractions were three minutes apart. The couple says the trooper made them wait five to 10 minutes while he wrote a ticket for another car on Route 2, asked to see Jennifer’s belly to prove her pregnancy, then issued them a ticket.
The couple made it to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Their daughter was born five hours later.
The blockbuster asthma drug Advair does not appear to have an increased risk of serious respiratory complications seen with similar new medicines, federal health officials said Friday. But a less widely used medication, Serevent, had a significantly higher rate of complications when compared to older treatments, the Food and Drug Administration said.
