Laura Silsby Blamed for Illegal Transport of Children
Defendant Attorney Edwin Coq is blaming Baptist missionary leader Laura Silsby (pictured above) for the botched attempt to transport 33 children out of Haiti. Coq says that the other nine missionaries were unaware of the laws and the paperwork needed to pull off such a task, but that Silsby was fully aware and led the entire group astray. [Washington Post]

Unemployment Report to Be Released on Friday
Today the job loss report for January will be released, and it is expected that the number of jobs shed during the first month of the year will be even worse than previous months. While 2010 is expected to generate 1 to 2 million jobs, analysts say it will be at least three to four years before employment is back on track. [ABC News]

U.S. Committed to Recovering Americans from Haiti
The United States is committed to finding each person lost due to the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. One place that had the highest number of Americans is the Hotel Montana, which is said to have been flattened like a pancake in the quake. The roof of the building is only inches from the ground. While 21 people were extricated from the building shortly after the quake, 28 people were removed posthumously. Investigators still have many more bodies to remove. At least 100 bodies have still not been claimed from the hotel. In all, 4,000 Americans haven't been located. [Boston Herald]

Ohio to Lead in Executions for 2010
Ohio is set to become the leader in lethal injection executions this year. They have already executed three inmates for the year and are scheduled to execute nine more. Ohio is also the first state to employ the one-dose lethal injection; previously, it was using the three-dose injection but stopped due to complaints that the process was too painful and inhumane. [MSNBC]

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