■ COSTA RICA
Man ordered slaying
A court convicted a businessman of ordering the 2001 murder of a journalist who denounced fraud at a religious radio station, but acquitted a priest of the killing. Omar Chaves, was sentenced to 35 years for paying a gunman to kill journalist Parmenio Medina. Chaves ran Radio Maria with Father Minor de Jesus Calvo, who was acquitted in the murder case but convicted of fraud and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Chaves also got a 12-year prison sentence on the fraud count. Medina's reporting on the misuse of donations solicited by Calvo's radio station was believed to be the motive behind his killing. Chaves and Calvo misappropriated millions of dollars in donations made to the station, instead of spending the money on charitable works as promised, the court found.
■ UNITED STATES
Teens charged in kid's death
Two teens have been charged with killing the seven-year-old sister of one of them by beating her with imitations of moves from the Mortal Kombat video game, prosecutors said. Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, were charged as adults on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, Colorado state prosecutor Robert Miller said in court documents released on Wednesday and filed a day earlier. Margie Martinez, the sheriff's spokeswoman, said on Wednesday she did not know whether either teen had an attorney. The teens were being held at the Weld County jail, but were not permitted to accept phone calls, she said.
■ UNITED STATES
CEOs think many overpaid
With many CEOs taking home millions of dollars in pay, it is no shock that average workers regard them as overpaid. But that attitude extends to the corner office as well. Sixty-four percent of top executives view CEO compensation as excessive, a poll released on Tuesday showed. The survey of 1,572 readers of BNET.com, a business Web site, found that 77 percent of employees regarded CEOs as overpaid. The online survey was conducted from June 11 to June 18, with about 90 percent of respondents from the US.
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