Did NC Teen Found Dead Fall From a Plane?

Relatives and friends of a North Carolina teenager are struggling to understand how his battered body came to be found in an upscale neighborhood in a Boston suburb, as authorities considered the possibility that he was a stowaway who fell from an airplane.

The remains of Delvonte Tisdale, a 16-year-old high school sophomore from Charlotte, N.C., were found last week on the street in Milton, Mass., according to media reports. Several siblings reportedly said Tisdale may have tried to leave home, but his father said his son was happy.

Massachusetts authorities said an investigation is under way and all possibilities are being explored. A spokesman for Boston's Logan International Airport, Phil Orlandella, said investigators have asked for flight data and were looking into a "remote" possibility that the boy fell from the landing gear well of a plane, The Associated Press said
Tisdale suffered "massive trauma," AP reported. His body was so badly damaged that the autopsy couldn't determine how he died, the Observer said.

Tisdale was a sophomore at North Mecklenburg High School and a member of the Air Force Junior ROTC. He had lived in Baltimore until he was 13, then Greensboro, N.C., and moved to Charlotte three months ago.

Ben Roethlisberger Sprained his right foot

Ben Roethlisberger has a week to prepare for the Steelers' biggest game of the season.
He'll likely need most, if not all of it, to recover after spraining his right foot in Sunday's 19-16 overtime win over the Bills.
"My foot was in the ground and someone was driving me backwards, and my foot couldn't get out of the ground, so my knee just got bent sideways," Roethlisberger said.


The Steelers (8-3) face the Ravens (8-3) in Baltimore next Sunday night with first place in the AFC North on the line. The Ravens beat the Steelers 17-14 in a Week 4 matchup at Heinz Field.
Baltimore held off the Buccaneers 17-10 on Sunday to improve to 5-0 at home. The Ravens have won eight straight at M&T Bank Stadium dating to last season.
Roethlisberger didn't have his best game Sunday, completing 20 of 33 passes for 246 yards. But he led a late scoring drive in overtime and had an 18-yard scramble in the fourth quarter to set up a pair of big field goals.
"Luckily, our D-line got to him a lot," Bills linebacker Paul Posluszny said. "But he's a great quarterback and he's tough to bring down. He's a good athlete."
Information from ESPN.com's James Walker was used in this report.

Military Pay Freeze

The president’s proposed pay freeze would wipe out plans for a 1.4 percent across-the-board raise in 2011 for 2.1 million federal civilian employees, including those working at the Defense Department. But the freeze would not affect the nation’s uniformed military personnel. It would also mean no raise in 2012 for civilian employees.
“At a time when our nation’s seniors have been denied a cost-of-living increase and private sector hiring is stagnant, it is both necessary and quite frankly long overdue to institute a pay freeze for the federal workforce,” Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican who is likely to become chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement.
This is not the first time Mr. Obama has addressed government pay to make a political point. He froze the salaries of his own top White House staff members when he took office 22 months ago and later extended that to senior political appointees throughout the government and canceled their bonuses.
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Somali man to be sentenced for attack on Norfolk-based ship

NORFOLK (AP) -- A Somali national who admitted his role in an April 10 attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa is scheduled to be sentenced in Virginia.
Under a plea agreement, Jama Idle Ibrahim is expected to be sentenced to 30 years in prison when he appears Monday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk.
His sentencing is set for 11:30 a.m.,  US Attorney spokesman Peter Carr told WVEC.com.
He entered a plea on Aug. 27 to three charges: an attack to plunder a vessel, an act of violence against persons on a vessel, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
Ibrahim was among six Somali men brought to the U.S. to be prosecuted for their alleged roles in the attack on the USS Ashland.
The five remaining defendants are to be tried.
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