NEIVA, Colombia - Thousands of people were evacuated after a long-dormant volcano erupted late Tuesday and again early Wednesday, provoking avalanches and floods that swept away houses and bridges.

The Nevado del Huila volcano's eruptions were its first on record since Colombia was colonized by the Spanish 500 years ago.

There are about 10,000 people living in the area around the volcano, and about 3,500 had been evacuated, Luz Amanda Pulido, director of the national disaster office, told The Associated Press after flying over the volcano in southwest Colombia.

There were no reports of deaths or injuries.

The eruption sent an avalanche of rocks down the volcano's sides and into the Paez and Simbola rivers, causing them to flood.

"The bridges were swept away, the highway used by the indigenous in the zone was destroyed for various kilometers (miles) and the problem we have now is the lack of a route to deliver goods and medicines to the population," Police Gen. Orlando Paez said.

Experts were not ruling out more eruptions.

"The seismic activity remains light but permanent, and we can't rule out another bigger event in the next hours or days," said Mario Ballesteros, director of the government's Institute for Geology and Mining.

The Nevado del Huila, which is topped with a crown of ice, is Colombia's third-highest peak at 18,484 feet. Located 170 miles southwest of Bogota, it became active again in March with a series of internal rumblings.

In 1985, the town of Armero was wiped from the map and 25,000 people were killed when another volcano, the Nevado del Ruiz, exploded and set off a series of mudslides. It was Colombia's worst natural disaster.

British Airways passengers delayed 13 hours after crew refuses to fly, citing sleepiness

LONDON (AP) - Passengers on a British Airways flight from New Delhi to London were delayed about 13 hours when members of the cabin and flight crew reported they were too sleepy to fly, a company spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.

Crew members said they had not slept enough because of noise at their hotel, said Laura Goodes, a BA spokeswoman.

A report Monday in the Hindustan Times had quoted airport officials as saying the pilot "felt sleepy."

"The crew hadn't had enough rest. The safety regulations of British Airways don't allow them to operate in such conditions," the newspaper quoted BA spokeswoman Rhadika Raikhy as saying. "The entire crew had a disturbed night."

The flight's 210 passengers, who had not boarded the plane, were sent to hotels. Each was booked a separate room, but passengers at one hotel were forced to double up after rooms ran out, Goodes said.

"There's a lot of anger and outrage here," one passenger, Neal Thapar, told The Times of London earlier. Thapar, a public relations consultant from London, said he had to share a double bed with a man he had never met.

Goodes said the company would apologize to passengers.

Preacher's wife says husband abused her, but gun fired accidentally when she pointed it at him

SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - A preacher's wife testified at her murder trial Wednesday that her husband abused her physically and sexually, but she said the shotgun fired accidentally as she pointed it at him in their parsonage bedroom.

Mary Winkler heard a "boom" but she said she did not pull the trigger, prompting prosecutor Walt Freeland to ask her later if she understood how a trigger worked.

"You know that pulling a trigger is what makes it go boom?" Freeland asked.

"Yes, sir," Mary Winkler replied. She said she remembered holding the gun, but not getting it from the closet.

She said she just wanted to talk to her husband, Matthew, when she went into their bedroom that day in March 2006, but she was too terrified. "He just could be so mean," she said.

But, she told Freeland, her husband did "nothing" for which he deserved to die.

Her depiction of her marriage contrasts radically with the description by the prosecution, whose witnesses described Matthew Winkler as a good father and husband. The couple's 9-year-old daughter, Patricia, testified she had a good father and she never saw him mistreat her mother.

Matthew Winkler, 31, was fatally shot in his back. A day later, his wife was arrested on the Alabama coast 340 miles away, driving the family minivan with her three young daughters inside.

Mary Winkler said she planned to return to Selmer but wanted time alone with her daughters. "All I knew was that the stupid gun had went off, and nobody would believe me and they would just take my girls away from me," she said.

Mary Winkler said despite being abused, she still loved her husband.

"I was ashamed," she said, explaining why she told no one of the abuse. "I didn't want anybody to know about Matthew."

Mary Winkler testified her husband punched her in the face, kicked her at times and refused to grant her a divorce. Shortly after they were married, "he just got me down and told me that I was his wife and we were family now, and he just screamed and hollered," she testified.

Speaking about their sex life, she spoke quietly and hesitantly, with eyes downcast. She said Matthew Winkler forced her to view pornography, dress "slutty" and have sex she considered unnatural.

The defense showed the jury a pair of white platform-heel shoes and a wig Mary Winkler said her husband wanted her to wear during sex. She described a skirt he wanted her to wear as "very, very short." Pornographic photos she identified as coming from their home computer were entered as evidence.

If convicted of first-degree murder, Mary Winkler could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison. But defense attorney Steve Farese said the judge would decide if the jury could consider lesser charges, such as voluntary manslaughter or reckless homicide.

A psychologist testified Mary Winkler could not have formed the intent to commit a crime because of her compromised mental condition. She suffered from mild depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which started at age 13 when her sister died and was worsened by her husband's abuse, Dr. Lynn Zager said.

Last week, prosecutors played an audiotape in which Mary Winkler acknowledged shooting her husband. She told authorities that her husband criticized her constantly and that she got tired of it and just "snapped."

"That's the problem. I have nerve now, and I have self-esteem. My ugly came out," Winkler said on the audiotape.

She told the prosecutor Wednesday she didn't know where she found that new sense of self-esteem. "I cannot tell you today the reasoning behind what I said that night," she said.

The prosecution has also said Mary Winkler was under stress because bank managers were closing in on a check-kiting scheme that she wanted to conceal from her husband. But Mary Winkler said her husband knew about the financial problems.

"We were in great debt," she said. "Nobody knew of all the credit card debt we had."

Antwerp Zoo asks visitors not to stare at the chimps

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) - We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.

New rules have been posted outside the chimp enclosure at the city zoo urging visitors not to form a bond with a particular male chimp named 'Cheetah.' He was raised by humans but is now bonding with the seven other apes at the park, a zoo official said Wednesday.

"We ask, we inform our daily visitors and other visitors that one of the monkeys is particularly open for human contact," zoo spokeswoman Ilse Segers told AP Television News. "He was raised by humans in a family and therefore we are trying to integrate him, to try to get more social integration with the group."

She said Cheetah's continued interaction with humans was "delaying the social integration of the animal in the group," and isolating the ape from the others.

A sign posted on the glass enclosure asks onlookers not to stare at the apes. "Look away when an animal seeks to make contact with you, or take a step back," it says. "Some individuals are more interested with visitors than their own kind."

Segers said the zoo was not barring visitors from looking at the chimps altogether. "Of course eye contact is not forbidden. We have more than 1 million visitors a year and of course they are very welcome still to have a look at the animals."

The 164-year-old Antwerp Zoo is one of Europe's oldest animal parks, attracting around 1.3 million visitors a year.

Storm recovery continues, thousands still blacked out as waves crash over sea walls

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)- Utility crews cut their way through downed trees Wednesday to restore service to thousands of customers still without power since a huge weekend storm battered the East Coast.

Communities from New Jersey to Maine were still coping with stream flooding after the storm dumped more than 8 inches of rain in places, along with coastal flooding brought on by astronomical high tides and heavy surf.

Seventeen deaths were blamed on the weather system.

New Hampshire safety officials made plans Wednesday to breach the 19th century Hayden Mill Pond dam at Hollis to relieve the pressure of high water from the storm and avert a failure. A dozen families living near the six-acre reservoir were evacuated Tuesday evening and National Guard troops closed part of a highway as a precaution.

More than 50,000 businesses and residences remained without power Wednesday in Maine, where Central Maine Power Co. was being helped by repair crews from neighboring New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and as far away as Pennsylvania.

Utility officials warned that some people might be without power until the end of the week.

"It's a huge number of trees that are down, so it's a big job cutting those away," said CMP spokesman John Carroll. "Plus there are 250 broken poles. That's an enormous number of poles."

Utilities in New Hampshire reported nearly 19,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity Wednesday and said some might not be reconnected until the weekend.

In many areas, road damage and fallen trees blocked repair crews' access, said New Hampshire Electric Cooperative spokesman Seth Wheeler.

"There are 18 different tree crews we've hired … just clearing trees first before the line crews can get in there and do construction," Wheeler said.

About 1,700 New Jersey residents were in emergency shelters Wednesday because of flooding, up slightly from the day before, as more rivers crested. Rescue crews went house to house by boat in a flooded section of Fairfield asking if residents of any of about three dozen homes needed to be evacuated, said State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones.

"The numbers are fluctuating, actually going down in some places as folks go home, but rising in others as people who had been holding out just give in and go to a shelter," Jones said.

Sections of some New Jersey highways were still closed by standing water Wednesday.

More than 80 New Hampshire roads remained closed by high water or damage, said Department of Transportation spokesman Bill Boynton. Most were expected to be reopened soon, but it could take weeks to repair landslide damage to Route 101 in Wilton, he said.

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch had asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to start a preliminary damage assessment in all 10 counties to determine eligibility for federal disaster relief. "Many New Hampshire communities have been overwhelmed by all the flooding," he said.

Swollen rivers in Massachusetts were receding but waves still crashed over sea walls and flooded coastal roads early Wednesday, authorities said.

Two families were evacuated from oceanfront homes in Duxbury, Mass., late Tuesday but were able to return Wednesday morning, fire Capt. Skip Chandler said. Their homes had knee-deep water on the ground floor, he said. "Thank goodness it wasn't worse," he said.

Most roads had reopened in the suburbs north of New York City, as homeowners in Westchester County piled water-ruined carpets and furniture in heaps outside.

On Fire Island, a barrier island along the south side of New York's Long Island, some homes were clinging to narrow beaches atop rickety pilings because the storm's waves had scoured the sand out from beneath them.

"There's nothing I can do," said homeowner Bill Raymond, 55. "You've got to keep your fingers crossed."

Crews move thousands of tons of rock in search for miners buried in Maryland wall collapse

BARTON, Md. (AP) - Crews moved thousands of tons of rock Wednesday in a bid to find two men trapped under at least 40 feet of rubble at a surface coal mine.

Part of one high wall of the open pit mine collapsed Tuesday, burying the men as they operated machinery, said Bob Cornett, acting district manager for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

The wall at the Tri-Star Job No. 3 mine near Barton was 100 to 125 feet high. Its collapse created a layer of rocks that ranged from 40 feet to 80 feet deep, but rescuers believe the collapse pushed the men and their equipment toward the shallower end.

"There are some very large rocks on that side that you can see gaps, spaces, vacuums or holes that potentially, if the machinery was pushed that way, there could be air pockets," Cornett said.

Workers used a large power shovel to load trucks with rock at a rate of about 2,500 tons an hour Wednesday, but work was slowed by the instability of the debris and a boulder the size of two pickup trucks, Cornett said.

He said one man was using a tracked backhoe and one was using a loader. Both pieces of equipment have enclosed cabs and CB radios, although the miners had not communicated with anyone since the collapse.

"We will continue this as a rescue operation until we know it's not," he said.

The cause of the collapse was not known, but the heavy rain during the weekend could have been a factor, Cornett said.

The miners' families were being given hourly updates.

The mine in western Maryland is operated by Tri-Star Mining Inc. of Barton. Owner George R. Beener was at the site, according to a woman who answered the phone at a mine office. She said the company had no comment and would not identify herself.

According to MSHA, the mine has had no fatal injuries since at least 1995 and was not cited for violations in its most recent inspection, which began March 5. It employed 51 people at the end of 2006 and produced nearly 653,000 tons of coal last year.

The company operates at least two other surface mines in Maryland, according to Ron Wyatt, a family liaison for MSHA.

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Ohio principal enters no-contest plea to kissing feet of 14-year-old boys over a bet

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) - A former principal who kissed the feet of three male students to settle a bet on a volleyball game entered a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor sex charge.

Robert Holloway resigned from St. Anthony of Padua School in this town west of Cleveland after the 14-year-old students and their parents reported the foot-kissing to police in February 2006.

Holloway told authorities he paid each student $15 and kissed their bare feet 50 times each in the school's library and gym to pay off the bet on a student-teacher volleyball game.

"They didn't think he would literally do it," police Sgt. Mark Carpentiere said.

Holloway pleaded no contest Tuesday to sexual imposition and unauthorized use of public property, also a misdemeanor. He faces up to 15 months behind bars when sentenced in June.

"It's not behind me yet," Holloway said as he left court.

Carpentiere said 400 photos depicting adult foot fetish behavior were found on two school computers seized from Holloway's office. The photos depicted the scenarios that he had engaged in with the boys, Carpentiere said.

"This appears to be a legitimate sexual fetish that adults are into, which is fine," he said. "The problem here is he was engaging in this activity with juveniles."

Former Skakel classmate implicates 2 other men in slaying of 15-year-old girl

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A classmate of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel testified Wednesday that he told attorneys before Skakel's 2002 trial about a claim implicating two other men in the 1975 murder that sent Skakel to prison.

Crawford Mills, who went to a private school with Skakel in exclusive Greenwich, testified that he told Skakel attorney Michael Sherman and prosecutor Jonathan Benedict in January 2002 about Tony "Gitano" Bryant's claim that two other men were responsible for killing 15-year-old Martha Moxley.

Skakel, 46, is serving 20 years to life in prison for beating Moxley to death with a golf club. He was convicted in June 2002.

Bryant's account surfaced in 2003 after Skakel cousin Robert Kennedy Jr. did his own sleuthing in an effort to clear Skakel's name. To win a new trial, Skakel's attorneys must show that the account is evidence not available at the time of his trial and that it likely would have changed the verdict. Bryant also went to school with Skakel and Mills.

Though Mills told Sherman and Benedict about Bryant's claim in 2002, he said he withheld Bryant's name at his request. He later provided it to Kennedy.

Hope Seeley, one of Skakel's attorneys, said outside of court that there was no way to investigate the claim without knowing Bryant's identity.

"If you don't have the name, how can you find out the information?" Seeley said.

Mills testified that he also tried to tell Moxley's mother, Dorthy, about Bryant's claim while he was working in a CBS studio where she was being interviewed about the case. He said he was fired from his job after she complained.

Moxley said outside court Wednesday that she did complain about Mills.

"We just convicted Michael and he told me we convicted the wrong person," she said. "It was a very upsetting situation."

Neal Walker, another former classmate who talked to Bryant about his claim, testified that he remembers Bryant and the two men he implicates being in the posh Belle Haven neighborhood where Moxley was killed but doesn't remember seeing them the night of the murder. Bryant has said that he remembers seeing Walker that night.

Walker, son of Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker, and Mills both testified that Bryant had told them he was an entertainment lawyer who had written some screenplays, including for "Walker, Texas Ranger."

"I believe he didn't get credit for it," Neal Walker said.

In the late 1980s, Bryant was hired as an attorney at a law firm in Texas after he claimed to be a licensed attorney in other states, but when he failed the Texas bar, the law firm learned that Bryant was never licensed anywhere and he was fired, according to a former attorney who interviewed him.

Also on the stand Wednesday was Vito Colucci Jr., a private investigator working on the Skakel case who taped a 2003 statement from Bryant.

Robert Kennedy testified Tuesday that he put Skakel's attorneys in touch with Bryant, who implicated Adolph Hasbrouck and Burt Tinsley in the crime. Bryant said he was with the two men in Moxley's Greenwich neighborhood the night she was killed, but left before his friends.

According to court papers, Bryant said one friend had met Moxley and "wanted to go caveman on her," and that the two later told him: "We did what we had to do" and "We got her caveman style."

Hasbrouck's wife has called the claim a lie, while Tinsley has not returned telephone calls. Bryant and the other two men have invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

The non-jury hearing before Superior Court Judge Edward R. Karazin Jr. could last as long as two weeks.

In November, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up Skakel's appeal, which claimed a statute of limitations had expired before he was charged.

Three killed in attack on publishing house that prints Bibles in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Assailants on Wednesday slit the throats of three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Turkey's small Christian minority.

The attack added to concerns in Europe about whether the predominantly Muslim country - which is bidding for EU membership - can protect its religious minorities. It also underlined concerns about rising Turkish nationalism and hostility toward non-Muslims.

The three victims - a German and two Turks - were found with their hands and legs bound and their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in the central city of Malatya.

Police detained four men, ages 19 to 20, and a fifth suspect was hospitalized with serious injuries after jumping out of a window to try to escape arrest, authorities said. All five were carrying a letter that read: "We five are brothers. We are going to our deaths," according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the attack and said investigators were looking into whether there were other suspects or possible links with terror groups.

"This is savagery," Erdogan said.

The German victim had been living in Malatya since 2003, said Gov. Halil Ibrahim Dasoz. Anatolia identified him as 46-year-old Tilman Ekkehart Geske.

The attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Turkey's Christian community, which comprises less than 1 percent of the population.

In February 2006, a Turkish teenager shot a Roman Catholic priest to death as he prayed in his church, and two other priests were attacked later that year. A November visit by Pope Benedict XVI was greeted by several nonviolent protests. Earlier this year, a suspected nationalist killed Armenian Christian editor Hrant Dink.

Authorities had vowed to deal with extremists after Dink's murder, but Wednesday's attack showed the violence was not slowing down.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" and said he expected Turkish authorities would "do everything to clear up this crime completely and bring those responsible to justice."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Party - which opposes Muslim Turkey's membership in the European Union - said the attacks showed the country's shortcomings in protecting religious freedom.

"After today's murders, the Turkish government must … be asked whether it is doing enough to protect religious minorities," the party's general secretary, Ronald Pofalla, said in a statement.

"Freedom of religion is one of the fundamental human rights. The Turkish state is still far from the freedom of religion that marks Europe. It is the task of the Turkish government to guarantee this freedom of religion," the statement said.

About 150 people lit candles and unfolded a banner that read, "We are all Christians," in downtown Istanbul to protest the attack and show solidarity with the Christian community. But there was far less public outcry than with Dink's murder, which was followed by widespread protests and condemnations. More than 100,000 people marched at Dink's funeral.

Malatya, known as a hotbed of nationalists, is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981.

The Zirve publishing house has been the site of protests by nationalists accusing it of proselytizing in this Muslim, but secular country, and Zirve's general manager said his employees had recently been threatened.

Anatolia said the five suspects were students who lived in the same student residence in Malatya.

The manner in which the victims were bound suggested the attack could have been the work of a local Islamic militant group, commentators said, and CNN-Turk television reported that police were investigating the possible involvement of Turkish Hezbollah - a Kurdish Islamic organization that aims to form a Muslim state in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast.

"These are fanatics who continue to be present in Turkey and who at a moment's notice emerge with these acts of absurd violence," Monsignor Luigi Padovese, the Vatican representative in Turkey, was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA.

Of Turkey's 70 million people, only about 65,000 are Armenian Orthodox Christians, 20,000 are Roman Catholic and 3,500 are Protestants - mostly converts from Islam. Another 2,000 are Greek Orthodox Christians.

Associated Press writers Selcan Hacaoglu and Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.

Belgian woman honored by Israel for saving 300 children in Nazi Holocaust

JERUSALEM (AP) - An 86-year-old former teacher who risked her life to save more than 300 Jewish children from the Nazis in Belgium was granted honorary Israeli citizenship Wednesday at an emotional ceremony in which she was reunited with dozens of the people she rescued.

"What I did was merely my duty. Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do," Andree Geulen-Herscovici said softly in French in accepting the honor.

Geulen-Herscovici was a teacher in Brussels in 1942 when she witnessed a Gestapo raid on a school. That prompted her to join a rescue organization and for more than two years she took in Jewish children and hid them in Christian homes and monasteries under assumed identities.

Throughout the war, she kept track of the children, keeping a secret record of their original names and other details about them in a diary. At the end of the war, she returned as many as she could to their surviving relatives.

Geulen-Herscovici was recognized in 1989 by Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, as Righteous Among the Nations - an honor granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, including Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to save more than 1,000 Jews was documented in the Oscar-award-winning film "Schindler's List." Among these, only a few hundred have been granted honorary citizenship by Israel.

"She belongs to this unique club of courageous and honorable human beings," said Avner Shalev, director of Yad Vashem. "This is another way for us to say 'Thank you."'

Henri Lederhandler was 9 in the spring of 1943 when Geulen-Herscovici took him in. He said he still vividly remembers his first meeting with the young woman who would become his guardian angel.

"You saved us, you rescued us from the fingernails of the Nazis," he said at the ceremony. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here today. You are like a mother to us all."

After the war, Geulen-Herscovici married a Jewish survivor and raised two children of her own. But she also maintained contact with some of her Jewish "children," many of whom later immigrated to Israel.

"And since then, I have never been alone," she said. "Through every moment of my life, you have been with me and I love you all like I love my own children."

Many of those whose lives she saved attended Wednesday's ceremony, along with their own children and grandchildren.

Shaul Harel, 70, was among them. "When you meet the woman who is responsible for you being alive," he said of Geulen-Herscovici, his voice trailing, "it's very emotional."

To honor her and others like her, the Israeli doctor organized an international conference in Israel for the Belgian children hidden during the Holocaust, of which there are an estimated 3,000.

The five-day conference, attended by some 160 survivors, coincided with Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, when the country honored the memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Dozens accompanied Geulen-Herscovici as she strolled slowly Wednesday though the Holocaust museum. Many shed tears as she neared an exhibit and pointed to a black-and- white photograph on the wall showing her with two children in her arms.

"That's Jackie," she said, motioning to one of the children.

She said she remembered them all, down to every detail she kept about them in her wartime diary.

"Even in the darkest hour of humanity there were still a few rays of light," said Belgian Ambassador to Israel Danielle del Marmol. "Andree Geulen-Herscovici was one of those."

Five prospective jurors in Spector case removed for cause

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An aspiring actress who had told lawyers in the Phil Spector murder case she considered him guilty was dismissed from the prospective jury panel Wednesday after she said she couldn't change her mind.

The young woman was one of five prospects removed through challenges for cause by both the prosecution and defense during a private conference at the judge's bench.

It was not known if any challenges were denied. Those dismissed included a native of Hong Kong who said she could not grasp the American system of justice, two women who had language difficulties and a man who said he could not forget the gunshot suicide of his nephew, which might influence him.

Five more prospects were immediately chosen and placed in the jury box for questioning.

Spector, the music producer famous for the "Wall of Sound" recording technique of the 1960s, is accused of murdering sometime actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. She was shot in the foyer of Spector's home after going home with him from her job as a hostess at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip.

Among those who remained on the prospective jury panel after the first round of cuts was a city prosecutor who was questioned by the judge on whether she could really be fair; she said she could.

Also in the box were a TV producer and a woman who said she equated the Spector case with the O.J. Simpson murder trial and felt Simpson was guilty even though he was acquitted. She said she could put that opinion aside.

Another woman who remained had been questioned by Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson about the influence of TV shows such as the "CSI" dramas, "Forensic Files" and other programs based on scientific criminal investigations.

The woman said she knew the TV dramas were not realistic in showing how cases are solved.

"They look at a bullet and know exactly what gun it came from," she said, adding she knew that is not the way it is done.

"Are you going to hold us to that standard?" the prosecutor asked.

"No," the woman said.

"You're not going to expect some high drama where people will walk in with a fancy machine and solve everything?" he asked.

The panelist said she would not.

The influence of forensic sleuthing TV dramas on real juries has been a concern for the legal system. CBS' popular "CSI" franchise includes three programs: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY." "Forensic Files" is a Court TV program.

Man with spotless driving record arrested on 1973 murder warrant

CLEVELAND (AP) - A former Cleveland man with a flawless driving record was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was finally pulled over by police in California.

Turns out Ike Pinkston had a 34-year-old murder warrant.

"I guess these warrants for murder don't really have a time limitation on them, do they?" Pinkston mused to arresting officers.

The 59-year-old was wanted in the 1971 shooting death of his sister's ex-boyfriend, Kenneth Pannell, outside a bar.

"This is actually kind of a relief," Pinkston said to the officers who pulled him over last April. "I have been doing this for over 30 years. Every time you go somewhere, you have to worry about running into a cop or seeing a cop car."

Pinkston was charged with murder but disappeared on the day his trial was set to begin in 1973. After the traffic stop last year in Antioch, Calif., east of San Francisco, Pinkston was returned to Cleveland, where he pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.