Security Council adopts sanctions on bin Laden

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Wednesday against Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida terror network and remnants of the Taliban.

The resolution, adopted unanimously, requires all countries to impose an arms embargo and a travel ban on individuals and groups associated with them, while freezing their financial assets.

The United States strongly backed the resolution. A U.S. official said it will help accomplish the Bush administrations goal of going after the Taliban and al-Qaida wherever they may be hiding and operating.

The new sanctions replace sanctions imposed on the Taliban in November 1999 to pressure the hard-line militia to hand over bin Laden for trial in the 1997 bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa.

Three slain, three wounded at law school

GRUNDY, Va. -- A gunman killed three people and wounded three others during a shooting spree Wednesday at a tiny law school in the western Virginia foothills, officials said.

The slain included a student, a faculty member and the dean of the Appalachian School of Law, L. Anthony Sutin, said Ellen Qualls, a spokeswoman for Gov. Mark Warner, a served on the school's board until he took office last week.

State police believe students were able to apprehend the suspect, Qualls said. Details on the suspect or the capture were not immediately available, but Qualls said the weapon used was a .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun.

Three students were wounded and taken to Buchanan General Hospital, Qualls said. Their conditions were not immediately known.

Algerian gets 24 years for airport bombing plot

NEW YORK -- An Algerian was sentenced to 24 years in prison Wednesday -- the maximum -- for his role in a plot to detonate a suitcase bomb at the Los Angeles airport amid the millennium celebrations.

Mokhtar Haouari, 32, who lives in Canada, was convicted last summer of federal charges he supplied fake IDs and cash to two others in the plot.

The plot was foiled when its mastermind, Ahmed Ressam, was arrested in Washington state in December 1999 while trying to enter from Canada in a car with a trunk full of explosives. Ressam had been trained in terrorist camps financed by Osama bin Laden, according to investigators.

At the time, prosecutors said that the attack on the crowded airport in the days before Jan. 1, 2000, could have been the bloodiest act of terrorism against the United States since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Report on Concorde cites debris on runway

PARIS -- An official French report released Wednesday said one factor in the crash of an Air France Concorde jet was maintenance that "did not conform to the regulations" at Continental Airlines, whose DC-10 shed a piece of stray metal on the runway.

The report by French investigators suggested that the Federal Aviation Administration audit Continental's maintenance operations.

Continental rejected the allegations, called an audit unnecessary and blamed the "inherently unsafe design" of the supersonic Concorde for the July 25, 2000, crash outside Paris that killed 113 people.

Lawmaker would outlaw answering door naked

ATLANTA -- One state representative says it should be against the law to answer the door naked. Rep. Dorothy Pelote -- who in the past has introduced legislation to require short fingernails for students and to stop grocery baggers from licking their fingers -- told other lawmakers from her county that there ought to be a law against answering the door nude.

"The law allows a person to come to the door naked. It just doesn't let him go outside," said Pelote, D-Savannah. "I don't even want him coming to the door naked."

On Wednesday, Pelote said she never meant to imply she planned to propose such a bill.

--From wire reports