■ United States
Dig for Hoffa called off
The FBI on Tuesday called off its two-week long search for the body of Jimmy Hoffa on a Michigan horse farm after failing to recover anything that might help solve the 31-year-old mystery of the Teamsters leader's disappearance. The FBI tore down a barn and excavated several sites on the Hidden Dreams Farm near Detroit looking for evidence of a makeshift grave said by a prison inmate to contain the union boss' remains. Officials said the investigation into Hoffa's apparent murder would continue. Hoffa was declared dead in 1982.
■ Mexico
Leftist's ad blitz falls short
Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised on Tuesday to increase income for the poor in a TV ad blitz that fell short of expectations he would make a major economic announcement. In a prime-time one-minute spot broadcast simultaneously on main TV channels, he said his plans for the economy would raise the incomes of families earning less than 9,000 pesos (US$796) by 20 percent. He said he would slash government costs, cut energy prices and increase welfare programs would mean more money in the pockets of the poor across the board.
■ United States
Police find caged pit bulls
Denver police, responding to neighbors' complaints about loud, late-night barking, found 36 pit bulls in cages and 38-year-old Michael Padilla, whose fingertip had just been bitten off. Padilla said he had recently brought the dogs to Colorado from Texas, for a show. However, the dogs, banned by a city ordinance, were in poor health, police said in a statement. "Many of the dogs discovered at this location had injuries that could possibly be consistent with prior altercations with another animal," police said in a statement. The dogs were taken to a pound and Padilla was served for 108 violations.
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