Guatemalan war orphans were sold, records show

October 7th, 2009 Auction of Scrushy's lake estate set in AlabamaDADEVILLE, Ala. — Imprisoned HealthSouth Corp.

September 8th, 2009 Guatemala food-starved due to weather, economyGUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families. "This will help us access resources from the international community that are generously offered for this type of situations and to mobilize national resources more rapidly," Colom said in a statement.

September 7th, 2009 Gunmen kill 4 prison officials in GuatemalaGUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan police say four prison officials have been shot to death in three separate attacks that authorities believe are retaliation for a jail crackdown. Ministry of Interior spokesman Nery Morales says a warden, a deputy warden, a prison guard and a driver were killed Monday after officials seized cell phones and moved inmates to different prisons over the weekend to break up an extortion ring.

July 1st, 2009 Sanford backs out of vow to release records to APCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov.

June 12th, 2009 269 punished for abusing disabled in TexasDALLAS — State records show that 269 employees at Texas' 13 residential centers for the mentally and developmentally disabled were fired or suspended last year for abusing or mistreating residents. The revelations Friday come a day after Gov.

June 9th, 2009 Mich. cemetery marker now lists 61 long-dead boysLANSING, Mich. — The names of 61 boys who died decades ago at a Michigan school for orphans and troubled youth have been engraved on a cemetery monument.

June 5th, 2009 Mexico drug cartel's grenades from Guatemalan armyGUATEMALA CITY — Thousands of bullets and grenades that were part of a Mexican drug cartel's weapons cache belong to the Guatemalan army, Guatemala's anti-drug prosecutor said Thursday. Prosecutor Leonel Ruiz said investigators have determined that more than 3,800 bullets and 563 grenades seized outside Guatemala's capital in April following a shootout that left five anti-drug agents dead came from military bases in the Central American nation, which has become a major transshipment point for Colombian cocaine.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The candidates for the fourth phase of polls Thursday is a mixed bag - 164 have criminal records and 259 are millionaires, a survey said Tuesday. According to the study by the National Election Watch (NEW), '12 percent of the total 1,306 candidates in fray for the fourth phase have criminal records'.

April 25th, 2009 YUBA CITY - People of this so-called Punjabi village of northern California have raised $35,000 for the poor and orphans in India. The local Punjabi American Heritage Society, which has been in the forefront of raising funds for slum dwellers and orphans in India, organized a colourful Punjabi evening Thursday to raise the money.

April 16th, 2009 NEW YORK - A New York businessman achieved the record of all records, becoming the first person to simultaneously hold 100 Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records confirmed Wednesday evening that 54-year-old Ashrita Forman is holding 100 records that have never been bested.

March 27th, 2009 GUATEMALA - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt's son has been arrested for allegedly embezzling $15 million, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported. Enrique Rios Sosa embezzled the money during the government of President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) when he was the army finance chief.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has set a new world record after selling out all 4,000 seats for his upcoming gig at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in seven seconds. Tickets for the former Beatle's April 19 concert at the resort's The New Joint venue went on sale Feb 14 and newly-released statistics suggest the concert was the hottest ticket around, selling at a rate of nearly 600 seats a second, reports contactmusic.com.

March 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian automobile manufacturers sold 1.04 million vehicles in Feburary, up 10.61 percent from 942,955 units sold in the same period last year, official data showed Monday. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said passenger vehicle sales (excluding exports) during the month of February were 145,019, up 15.02 percent from 126,077 vehicles sold in the same period last year, Total commercial vehicles (domestic) sold in the period under review were 31,069, down 31.68 percent from 45,478 units sold in the year-ago period.

February 17th, 2009 HAVANA - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has publicly apologized for his country's role in allowing its territory to be used to train the exiles and mercenaries who participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, EFE reported. 'Today, I want to apologize to Cuba for our country having offered its territory to prepare the invasion of Cuba,' Colom said during a speech at the University of Havana.

February 14th, 2009 GUATEMALA CITY - Nearly half of Guatemala's children suffer from chronic malnutrition and their physical growth falls below the average established by the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to a study. The study carried out by the education and health ministries found that 45.6 percent of Guatemalan children suffer from chronic malnutrition, EFE reported Sunday.