Deputy charged in taped shooting

A sheriff's deputy who was videotaped shooting an unarmed Iraq war veteran after a car chase was charged Tuesday with attempted voluntary manslaughter.

The videotape showed the veteran lying on the ground outside the car as Deputy Ivory Webb pointed a gun at the man. After an apparent order to "Get up," the man rose and was shot in the chest, shoulder and left thigh.

Webb was to surrender at an arraignment set for today. If convicted, he could face up to 18 ½ years in prison.

The Jan. 29 shooting of Senior Airman Elio Carrion came to national attention because a resident videotaped the scene after a car in which Carrion was riding crashed in Chino, about 45 miles east of Los Angeles. Carrion, 21, had been at a party that night at his parents' home after recently returning from Iraq.

Teacher defends Bush-Hitler lecture

A high-school social-studies teacher who was put on leave after comparing President Bush's State of the Union address to speeches made by Adolf Hitler defended his lecture Tuesday, saying he was trying to encourage students to think.

"My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society," Jay Bennish said on NBC's "Today Show."

Bennish is on paid leave from Overland High School in suburban Aurora while Cherry Creek School District investigates whether his Feb. 1 lecture violated a policy requiring balanced viewpoints be presented in classes. A student recorded at least part of the lecture in Bennish's world geography class and took it to a Denver radio station, which played parts of it on a talk show.

Bennish told "Today" the excerpts broadcast weren't representative of the full lecture. "This is 20 minutes out of a 50-minute class. The rest of the class provides the balance," he said.

"My job as a social-studies teacher is to argue alternative perspectives and viewpoints so that students are aware of those point of views," he told "Today."

Five weeks after ABC anchorman Bob Woodruff was seriously injured in an Iraqi explosion, he remains hospitalized but is able to say a few words and is starting to walk, his brother said Tuesday.

"In the last couple of days, he's taken a lot of great leaps forward," David Woodruff said.

Bob Woodruff and ABC cameraman Doug Vogt were standing in the hatch of an Iraqi vehicle, reporting on the war from the Iraqi troops' perspective, when the roadside bomb exploded Jan. 29.

Woodruff, 44, is still on pain medication as he recovers from head injuries and other wounds. But he recognizes people, can tell his daughter he loves her, and has said a few words in Chinese and German, his brother told ABC's "Good Morning America."

Vogt left Bethesda Medical Center in late February and is undergoing rehabilitation, the network said.

Also

Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, is back on the job in Concord, N.H., after spending a month receiving treatment for an alcohol problem.

Compiled from The Associated Press