A cop-killing spree is sparked by what seems like a minor arrest – A man is sentenced for planning to eat children – Fukushima dumped more radioactive water into the ocean than previously indicated – And the smartest man in the world makes a surprising endorsement.

An Austrian man known in his community for being a hunter owning a lot of weapons is suspected of murdering three policemen and a paramedic.  Investigators found the charred body of 55-year old Alois Huber of the lower Australian town of Melk after body armor-clad Special Forces stormed his farmhouse.  The violence began 24 hours earlier when police attempted to arrest him for poaching small game in the local woods.

A British man in America has been sentenced to 27-years in prison for plotting to kidnap, rape, and eat young boys.  40-year old Geoffrey Portway of suburban Boston, Massachusetts had a basement dungeon filled with all the usual murderer-with-a-dungeon stuff, as well as child porn that would make your stomach turn.  His lawyer said the sentence was about seven years excessive because there’s no evidence Portway actually carried out his sick plan.  We’re siding with the judge on this one.

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in Japan admits it dumped 1,130 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as a typhoon moved over plant.  That’s more than 270,000 gallons of water polluted with such isotopes as cesium and strontium.  That is in addition to the 300 tons of tainted water that is suspected to pass into the ocean everyday as it moves under the reactors, where the three missing cores melted through.

Japan is asking South Korea to lift its ban on fish imported from eight Japanese prefectures.  Seoul banned the imports because of growing fears that Japan is not containing the spread of radiation from the three heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors, spilling into the ocean via contaminated water releases.  Tokyo claims South Korea is not basing the ban on science and is threatening to press its case before the World Trade Organization.  South Korea fisheries official Son Jae-hak had earlier said that Japanese authorities had failed to provide timely and detailed information about the water leaks.

Egyptian police have arrested the Muslim Brotherhood’s main English spokesman.  The state run al-Ahram newspaper report Gehad al-Haddad was suspected of inciting violence and murder.  Two other Brotherhood officials were arrested with him.

India’s government is encouraging farmers to try a new weapon to keep wild elephants from ruining their crops:  Chili peppers.  Apparently, elephants don’t like them.  Hot peppers mixed with dung and built into “garden walls” have successfully kept tuskers at bay in Namibia.  Farmers are being encouraged to plant red hot chili peppers along paths that elephants use to infiltrate farms where they eat the crops.

Mexico’s famed Acapulco resort is trying to evacuate some 40,000 stranded tourists after Tropical Storm Manuel caused flooding, death, and destruction.  The Savannah River breached its banks flooding airports, major roads, and luxury hotels.  Supermarkets are quickly being stripped of groceries and supplies.

The smartest man in the world is endorsing physician-assisted suicide.  Professor Stephen Hawking said, “I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their lives, and those who help them should be free from prosecution.”  Hawking has lived with the effects of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) for 50-years.