Iran announced Monday it has increased its enrichment of uranium. It’s a defiant expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel “on an industrial scale.”
A man suspected of shooting three people at an accounting firm where he had worked was arrested a few hours later after a high-speed chase, authorities said. One victim died in the Monday morning attack. Police said they had located Anthony LaCalamita, 38, of Troy on Interstate 75, north of the suburban Detroit office building where the shootings took place.
A New York City couple is hailing a cab for a 2,400-mile ride to Arizona. Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don’t drive, and they don’t want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold. They plan to leave Tuesday on the trip to Sedona, Ariz., with New York taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz driving his yellow SUV cab 10 hours a day for a flat fee of $3,000, plus gas, meals and lodging.
Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park in Chico, Calif. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course. McLean, who used a driver, broke the age record of 101 set by Harold Stilson in 2001 at Deerfield Country Club in Florida. McLean, who has been featured in golf magazines before, will appear on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on April 24 to celebrate her accomplishment.
A long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay gained several participants in recent weeks amid complaints over conditions at a new unit of the prison. But a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday that the protest appeared to be losing steam. All were being force-fed through tubes inserted into their noses, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand. The strike, which began in 2005, has had as many as a dozen participants in recent months.
A Russian-built Soyuz capsule carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word docked at the international space station late Monday – to the earthbound applause of Martha Stewart and others at Mission Control. Charles Simonyi shelled out $20 million to $25 million to be the world’s fifth paying private space traveler.
