A twin-propFairchild Metroliner Mark III light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff fromMalta International Airport, killing all five French nationals on board.Malta officials say that the aircraft was part of a French customs surveillance operation tracing routes of illicit trafficking, of humans and drugs onLibyan coasts, and that the flight was heading for the Libyan city ofMisrata.(The Independent),(The Guardian)
Wendy Demchick-Alloy, aMontgomery County court judge inNorristown, sentences formerPennsylvaniaAttorney GeneralKathleen Kane to serve 10 to 23 months in county jail for leaking confidential grand jury information and then lying about it to investigators. Specifically, she was convicted on August 15 on charges of perjury, false swearing, obstruction of justice, official oppression, and conspiracy.(Reuters)
