SAN DIEGO -- A man's implanted heart defibrillator may have saved his life in an unexpected way – by stopping a knife.

San Diego police say the 57-year-old got into an argument with an acquaintance early Thursday near some elevators at the trolley station for the Fashion Valley shopping mall.

Police say the acquaintance pulled a folding knife and stabbed the man in the chest. The knife hit the man's defibrillator, a device that shocks the heart if it gets dangerously out of rhythm.

Police say the man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. His name hasn't been released.

Authorities arrested 60-year-old Richard Kiley at another trolley station on suspicion of attempted murder. He remained jailed Friday.

LIMA, Ohio -- A 3-day-old infant died hours after she was attacked by a family dog while sitting in a swing at her grandmother's home in northwest Ohio, a sheriff's deputy said Friday.

The baby girl, Makayla Darnell, suffered a head injury at the home near Beaverdam in northern Allen County at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, said Chief Deputy Jim Everett of the Allen County Sheriff's Office in Lima.

The grandmother, Janette Myers, 44, of Monroe Township, told investigators that the baby's mother had put the infant in a swing while she prepared to feed her, Everett said. The mother, Audrianna Myers, 22, also of Monroe Township, and the grandmother apparently were in the kitchen when they heard a whimper from the infant, according to the deputy.

The two women would only have been a few feet away from the child who apparently was in the living room near the doorway to the kitchen, Everett said. They took the baby to a nearby hospital, and she was then flown to a hospital in Toledo, where she died at about 11 p.m.

The women could not be reached for comment Friday. Their phone numbers were not immediately available.

Lucas County Deputy Coroner Dr. Cynthia Beisser said Friday that an autopsy showed that the infant died from blunt force injury to the head. She said the injury was "consistent with the story I was told of a dog biting down on the head."

The dog is in the custody of the Allen County dog warden while the investigation continues.

Dog Warden Julie Shellhammer said she could not say whether the dog is a purebred pit bull, but says it is at least a pit bull mix. The dog is a male, about 4 years old, Shellhammer said

Pit bulls will no longer be labeled as "vicious" dogs under a bill scheduled to become Ohio law next week.

The bill signed by Gov. John Kasich in February changes current law that defines a vicious dog as one that has seriously hurt or killed a person, killed another dog or is among those commonly known as pit bulls. The new measure removes the reference to pit bulls from the definition and requires evidence to prove pit bulls are actually vicious.

Some dog wardens have opposed the measure because of frequent pit bull attacks. Others have said pit bulls are not inherently vicious.

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can.

McNamee's explanations: "I misspoke; I'm sorry" and "It's never been asked that way to me."

Clemens' longtime strength coach endured a fifth day Friday of questioning – he's now spent some 24 hours in the swivel chair between jury and judge in the perjury trial of the 11-time All-Star pitcher.

Clemens is charged with lying to Congress in 2008 when he said he never used steroids or human growth hormone. McNamee is the only witness who will claim firsthand knowledge of Clemens using performance-enhancing drugs, and he never wavered from that central accusation during Hardin's cross-examination.

McNamee will return to the stand Monday in a trial moving so slowly that U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton – for the first time in more than three decades on the bench – imposed time limits to speed things up: Only 90 minutes per side for witnesses after McNamee and closing arguments limited to two hours apiece.

"I just can't let this case meander on forever," the judge said.

The trial was supposed to last four to six weeks, but it's just wrapping up its fifth week – and the government said Friday it still has nine witnesses to call, down from the 14 it estimated the previous day. If the trial isn't done by June 8, Walton said he may have to call a recess for about a month because of various scheduling conflicts.

"And then we'll have some real unhappy jurors," Walton said.

Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin spent three-plus days of cross-examination portraying McNamee as a chronic liar who frequently changes his story. Toward the end, Hardin raised numerous unsavory personal details: McNamee tampered with a dead body when he was a New York City policeman, he lied to investigators looking into a Florida incident in 2001, he had two driving-under-the-influence arrests in 2002, he got caught up in an Internet fraud investigation after ordering diet pills over the Web in 2004.

"Would you agree that you had a severe drinking problem?" was among the many accusatory questions from Hardin. McNamee answered "No, sir" to that one.

The aim was to take McNamee down little by little, and his weariness showed as he hung his head more than once. During one of many pauses in testimony, a juror reached over and handed McNamee a tissue so the witness could wipe his nose. McNamee also indicated, reluctantly, that he was hypoglycemic, thus explaining why he needed frequent breaks to elevate his low blood sugar.

But Hardin also aimed for a classic "gotcha" moment while asking McNamee about the Miller Lite beer can. McNamee says he put the needle and other waste from a 2001 steroids injection of Clemens into the can, but he also says the can contained remnants from injections related to other players.

When Hardin talked McNamee through a timeline of events dealing with the can, it became apparent that McNamee had not accounted for the actual moment at which he put the items from the other players into the can.

Hardin angrily demanded to know how materials from other players "flew" or "showed up magically" in the beer can. When prosecutors objected, the lawyer said: "Well, how did they get in there?"

"I put them in the can that night" after injecting Clemens, McNamee said.

McNamee went on to say "I misspoke; I'm sorry" when explaining the apparent gap in the story. When Hardin asked whether McNamee ever told government investigators that he put the other players' material in the beer can that night, McNamee said: "It's never been asked that way before."

"Isn't this," concluded Hardin, "a classic example of you making up this stuff on the fly?"

Even though McNamee never backed down from his core testimony that he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs from 1998 to 2001, but prosecutors have their work cut out for them as they try to rebuild their key witness in front of the jury. The judge said he would allow only 90 minutes of follow-up questioning from prosecutors, and they used up 20 minutes of that allotment before court adjourned for the weekend.

To bolster McNamee's credibility, the government hopes to win an argument to include previously barred evidence that shows McNamee supplied drugs to other players who have since acknowledged that they were users. Hardin claimed that would open up a "bunch of minitrials" over each player associated with McNamee and could extend the trial for months.

The judge said he will rule on the matter Monday morning.

Late Friday afternoon, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, filed a motion to quash Clemens' subpoenas for Issa's testimony and committee documents. That committee held the hearing that Clemens testified before in 2008; Issa, a California Republican, was not chairman at the time.

The motion argues that the subpoenas are barred by the Constitution's speech or debate clause, which protects elected officials from being questioned in a lawsuit about their legislative work.

"In particular, the subpoena to Chairman Issa should be quashed because high-ranking government officials may not be compelled to testify absent extraordinary circumstances, including that the official is uniquely able to offer that testimony, unlike here," the House general counsel's office said in its motion.

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Associated Press writer Frederic J. Frommer contributed to this report.

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This fortnight much of the music industry were excited about the announcement of a Prince Tour which begins on 22 May in Australia. The UK music industry was even more exited as he personally handpicked British songstress Delilah (real name Paloma Stoecker) to open his shows.

Whilst all eyes are on the front player however, it's always interesting to see who the movers, shakers and influencers behind the scene are.

The unexpected force behind Prince is an Asian British female - Kiran Sharma. She is the manager of Prince. Yes, you read correctly. The legend that is Prince Rogers Nelson.

Kiran was shaped by her birthplace of Luton, which was "a bit rough and tough", until she was eight. At the age of nine, due to her father's work commitments, the family moved to Norwich. ''At that time ethnic minorities in Norwich were rare and I was the only Indian kid in my school and got bullied for a couple of years."

I imagine it's this early need for self-defence and survival that has shaped Kiran into the astute businesswoman she is today. She could just as easily have turned into the bullied underclass, but she didn't let it subdue her. She fought, toughened up and grew to be a bit of a tomboy. This early grounding moulded her character and she's able to roll in the best of both worlds and adapt to all societies and circumstances.

Due to her traditional Indian background, she was expected to get a corporate job, so did an engineering degree majoring in marketing, "to please everyone" although she would have preferred to do art.

From being a marketing assistant for a small magazine to account director for an international marketing agency, Kiran ticked all the boxes for her parents and peers before casting her career net even wider.

Kiran helped out a new unsigned American singer, managed a few events, put together the tours and worked hard to build her experience and reputation. Thus came her early connections with acts like Martha High, Maceo Parker, Annie Lennox, Leon Ware, Mint Condition and Prince.

For two years she worked two jobs simultaneously, working her day job until 6pm then her own company until the early hours. She admits she had no time for relationships and family, but her time was well spent as she was so passionate and was having so much fun working on building a future. ''I was working with acts that had been in the industry for over 20 years and got to learn loads from them,'' she enthuses her eyes twinkling with memories.

Of course I had to ask Kiran why she thinks Prince gravitated towards her in a business capacity in this later part of his career. "Well you would have to ask him that," she judiciously responds.

She went on to explain that she first met him when she booked him for a London event, but that they didn't even talk, (lesson 1, ladies - no groupie behaviour!), though eventually that all changed."

"Everyone has this perception that successful women are hard-nosed. I realised that just being myself worked for me," she tells me with a smile.

"Indian people tend to have a respect level for all other cultures and ultimately respect hard work. These things are instilled in us at kids. My granddad used to say to his four daughters, 'I can't give you a house or money, but I can give you an education. No one can take that away from you.'"

As with many big power players, Kiran's attention to charity and giving back plays a dominant part in her work. Many of her music acts began performing at charity events for the likes of Save the Children and Kiran became increasingly involved in various campaigns. Today, she is a trustee of Arms Around a Child, which supports kids affected by HIV and AIDS in India and Africa and builds orphanages for abandoned children.

Kiran was also nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year in the Asian Woman of Achievement Awards 2012, which took place on May 16 at London's Park Lane Hilton. She said: "It's great to be nominated alongside these women. The Asian Woman of Achievement Awards is such an important platform for British Asian women and I am hugely honoured to be shortlisted alongside such exceptional ladies. I met a few of them recently and they're all fascinating and I felt proud to be in their company. One thing in common we all had was our similar experiences as women of Asian background. If you can come out of this industry doing something you love and can sustain your lifestyle, and you've managed to do it in a way that's respectful to you, your culture and all around, then it's a winning situation."

Now that's business balls with a female chromosome!

Santa Clara might not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about hotbeds for international drug trafficking.

But the South Bay county's problems with drug gangs were highlighted earlier this week after law enforcement authorities announced the arrest of 12 people allegedly tied to a heroin smuggling ring.

"Santa Clara County is a major distribution hub for narcotics nationally," Deputy Santa Clara District Attorney Patrick Vaneir told CBS San Francisco. "The cartels have local cells that are based here...[Drugs are refined and repacked here and then] delivered to various locations throughout the United States."

The investigation into the drug ring allegedly headed by Carlos Jose Moreno, termed "Operation Middle Man," started in 2009 after $5 million worth of heroin was seized in East Palo Alto. Over the course of the multi-year undercover operation, undercover agents bought over three pounds of heroin from the gang.

This week's arrests occurred in Hayward, East Palo Alto and Oakland.

Local authorities teamed with with the U.S. Department of Justice and the ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit on the bust. "By combining our resources, authorities and expertise, we've succeeded in dismantling a drug ring suspected of funneling significant quantities of heroin into the Bay Area and onto our streets," said ICE Special Agent Clark Settles in an interview with the Mountain View Voice.

"Transnational gangs have become a top public safety threat as they increasingly traffic guns, drugs and human beings into California," California Attorney General Kamala Harris told PoliticalNews. "I commend the members of the South Bay Metro Task Force and Homeland Security Investigations for their work in identifying and arresting these gang-affiliated suspects."

Operation Middle Men isn't the only large-scale gang bust to occur in the South Bay in recent memory. Late last year, authorities in Gilroy carried out Operation Garlic Press, which netted over 100 arrests over a three-day period.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancée and her unborn child will be sent to an undisclosed juvenile facility where he could remain in state custody until his 21st birthday.

Jordan Brown, who was 11 at the time of the slayings, was ordered by a Lawrence County judge on Friday to be transferred to a treatment center. The teenager is to be evaluated every six months to determine if he should be released.

The judge last month found Brown delinquent, the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict, in the February 2009 deaths of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn son.

Houk, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, was shot in the back of the head with Brown's .20-gauge youth model shotgun as she slept. At the time, she was engaged to Jordan Brown's father, Christopher Brown, and pregnant with his son.

The shooting occurred after the boy's father left for work, with only Jordan Brown and Houk's two daughters, ages 7 and 4, inside the New Castle house. State police investigators say they found a spent shotgun shell dropped along a path that Brown walked with Houk's older daughter to catch a bus to school minutes after the shooting.

Defense attorney Stephen Colafella said no decisions have been made on whether to appeal.

Judge John Hodge approved a recommendation from the Lawrence County Juvenile Probation Department for Brown's placement and treatment. Prosecutor Anthony Krastek said the specifics will not be released.

The criminal case drew attention to Pennsylvania laws governing juvenile homicide suspects and prompted two Superior Court appeals, including an unsuccessful attempt by western Pennsylvania newspapers to open the trial to the public even though the judge had the discretion to close the case because the defendant was under 12 when the killings occurred.