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Nation+WorldNewsfeed U.S.sailorsfreed:ThisframegrabfromaTuesdayvideobytheIranianstate-runIRIB News Agency shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf. The 10U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran a er their two small boats allegedly dri ed into Iranian territorial waters around one of Iran's Persian Gulf islands a day earlier have been freed, the United States and Iran said Wednesday. "There are no indications that the sailors were harmed during their brief detention," the Navy said in a statement from the commander of the U.S. Fi h Fleet in Bahrain. IRAN IRIB NEWS AGENCY VIA AP FORT CAMPBELL, KY DefenseSecre- tary Ash Carter laid out broad plans Wednesday to defeat Islamic State militants and retake the group's key power centers in Iraq and Syria. And he announced that a special com- mando force has now arrived in Iraq. Speaking to troops from the 101st Airborne Division who will soon de- ploy to Iraq, Carter also said he would meet in Paris next week with his defense counterparts, mainly from Europe, and will challenge them to bring more capabilities to the fight. He said he will be meeting with defense leaders from France, Austra- lia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Carter's broader message signaled the completion of a military plan to help Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces retake Mosul in northern Iraq and to assist the Syrian moderate forces oust Islamic State militants from their headquarters in Raqqa. —TheAssociatedPress U.S. MILITARY Pentagonlaysoutplantotake back Mosul, Raqqa from IS PASADENA The Al Jazeera Amer- ica cable news network said Wednes- day it will shut down two and a half years after its launch, a victim of a rough business environment and po- litical headwinds it could not con- quer. The channel, an offshoot of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera cable net- work, had trouble persuading ca- ble and satellite companies to carry it, and viewers to watch. It failed despite a promise to offer serious- minded journalism and some award- winning work. The cable network will shut down on April 30. It launched in October 2013. Al Anstey, CEO of Al Jazeera America, said the economic climate for media forced the decision. Al Jazeera will expand its inter- national digital news operations so they will be available in the United States, Anstey said, adding that de- tails will be available in the next few months. — The Associated Press MEDIA Cable news network Al Jazeera America to shut down It's been a turbulent ride for stock market investors this year and it got worse Wednesday. A broad downturn in U.S. stocks on another volatile day for crude oil prices knocked the Standard & Poor's 500 index down 10 percent from its November peak. That's known as a correction on Wall Street, and it's the second time in less than five months for the S&P 500 index, which is regarded as the bellwether for the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial aver- age also tumbled, losing more than 300 points before closing within 25 points of its own correction level. The rocky start to the year reflects mounting worries on Wall Street about a slowdown in the global econ- omy, plunging oil prices and the im- plications for U.S. companies. It also deepens the pain for many investors after a flat year of returns last year. The S&P 500 index is now down 7.5 percent this year, while the Dow is off 7.3 percent. — The Associated Press WALL STREET Stocks plunge; S&P 500 down 10% from November peak WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised doubts about whether Puerto Rico should be treated as a sovereign state with powers that go beyond its status as a territory of the United States. The justices considered the ques- tion during arguments in a criminal case involving two men who claim that Puerto Rico and the federal gov- ernment can't prosecute them for the same charges of selling weapons without a permit. The double jeopardy principal pre- vents defendants from being tried twice for the same offense. But there is an exception that allows prosecu- tion under similar state and federal laws. Several justices said Puerto Rico's power to enforce local laws really comes from Congress, which in the- ory could take it away. The case has broad political and legal implications that could affect Puerto Rico on issues ranging from taxation to federal benefits. — The Associated Press DOUBLE JEOPARDY CASE High court raises doubts over Puerto Rico sovereignty PARIS A deadly avalanche hit a high school group skiing in the French Alps on Wednesday, killing two students and a Ukrainian skier and seriously injuring three others, officials said. French President Francois Hol- lande said mountain emergency ser- vices with sniffer dogs and a helicop- ter were engaged in a rescue opera- tion at the Deux Alpes ski resort, 20 miles southeast of Grenoble. Officials say the avalanche hit 10 students and a teacher from the Ly- cee St. Exupery school in Lyon. A telephone crisis center has been set up for relatives and friends at the school, which serves over 2,000 middle school and high school stu- dents. Local officials did not give any in- formation on the number of missing but said 60 workers had been mobi- lized in the search-and-rescue oper- ation, which was being hampered by the dark and the continuing danger of more avalanches. — The Associated Press SKIING TRAGEDY French Alps avalanche kills 3, leaves 3 others injured ISTANBUL The suicide attacker who detonated a bomb that killed 10 German tourists in the heart of Is- tanbul's historic district had regis- tered as a refugee just a week earlier, Turkish officials said Wednesday, raising questions over whether ex- tremists are posing as asylum-seek- ers to inflame anti-immigrant senti- ment in Europe. Turkish authorities identified the assailant in Tuesday's attack as a Syrian man who was born in 1988, and said he was affiliated with the Islamic State group. Turkish media, including some close to the govern- ment, identified him as Nabil Fadli and said he was Saudi-born. The ex- tremist group has not so far claimed the attack. Meanwhile, Turkish police ar- rested five people suspected of di- rect links to the bomb attack which took place just steps from the his- toric Blue Mosque in Istanbul's sto- ried Sultanahmet district. The sus- pects were not identified. — The Associated Press TURKEY Istanbul suicide bomber had registered as refugee By Adam Kealoha Causey The Associated Press PHOENIX The lead prose- cutor in the case that sent newspaper heiress Patty Hearst to jail in what was then one of the most sen- sational trials in U.S. his- tory has died in Arizona. He was 83. James Browning Jr. died in the Tucson suburb of Oro Valley on Tuesday af- ter a fall, his brother David Browning said. Born in Globe, Arizona, in 1932, James Browning attended law school in San Francisco before becoming the prosecutor in San Ma- teo County, California. He was appointed U.S. attor- ney in Northern California by then-President Richard M. Nixon. He rose to even greater prominence when he won the case against Hearst, who was 19 when she was kidnapped in 1974 by a group known as the Symbi- onese Liberation Army, and then joined their cause. The self-styled radicals viewed aspects of U.S. society as racist and oppressive, and were accused of killing a California school superin- tendent. Several members of the group died in a fire and shootout with police in Los Angeles. But it was a group bank robbery that raised ques- tions about whether Hearst was forced into crime or a willing participant. The daughter of newspa- per magnate Randolph A. Hearst eventually went on trial in 1976 on bank rob- bery and other charges. James Browning helped secure her conviction, squaring off with noted de- fense lawyer F. Lee Bailey. Linda Deutsch, a retired Associated Press reporter who wrote about the Hearst trial and many others, said Browning was known as a low-key, methodical prose- cutor, particularly in com- parison to Bailey, whose courtroom theatrics would aid in O.J. Simpson's acquit- tal two decades later. Bailey had portrayed Hearst as a brainwashed victim, and Deutsch said the jury believed that un- til Browning presented his last piece of evidence. He played a jail cell record- ing of Hearst talking with a friend. She was confident, cursing and fully aware of her role with the Symbio- nese Liberation Army. It changed the course of the trial. "He was just very quiet, unassuming. So the prose- cutor who seemed to be soft spoken and not a particu- larly impressive personality turned out to be a powerful force," Deutsch said. "The Hearst family was stunned. Everybody was stunned." David Browning said his brother, a U.S. attorney, de- cided to prosecute Hearst himself because it was such a high profile case. But outside the court- room, it didn't appear like Browning looked for the limelight. Deutsch said she didn't recall Browning even do- ing interviews. "Jim Browning, in a way, didn't get the notoriety you would expect. Some- how people remembered the defense lawyers and they remembered the SLA and they remember Patty Hearst. But they didn't re- member the guy who got that case together. He was the winner." OBITUARY Pa tt y He ar st p ro se cu to r James Browning dies at 83 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr., holds a bank surveillance photo which the FBI said resembled Patricia Hearst in San Francisco. Browning, who led the prosecution of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst during a sensational 1976trial, died Tuesday in Arizona, according to his brother, David Browning. He was 83. | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016 8 A