AP Briefs

Mayor returns to work after receiving cancer treatment

FARMINGTON (AP) - Mayor Bill Standley advises everyone to get regularly tested for cancer, a disease he's fought twice. The mayor returned to the council this week after missing meetings to treat his illness. Standley, 70, finished treatments for squamous cell carcinoma about a month ago and is recovering from chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Sugar plant explosion kills five; three men still missing

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Sugar that was still burning three days after a refinery explosion killed at least five people and hampered the search Sunday for three other workers missing since the blast leveled portions of the plant. Crews used construction cranes to shore up three badly damaged, 80-foot storage silos that rescue workers want to search for the missing men.

U.S. Army sniper sentenced

to 10 years for Iraqi death

BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. Army sniper convicted of killing an unarmed Iraqi civilian and planting evidence on his body was sentenced Sunday to 10 years in prison. Sgt. Evan Vela faced a possible life sentence. Earlier Sunday, jurors found him guilty of murder without premeditation in the May 11 killing of an Iraqi man.