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Police arrest man in airport disturbance

DETROIT (MCT) ?— FBI officials have charged a 27-year-old Ohio man with violating airport security requirements after he allegedly ran past a security checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, refused orders to stop and was shot with a Taser on Monday morning.

FBI Special Agent Michael Thomas filed the criminal complaint Monday against Kaylan Policherla in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

In the report, Thomas said Policherla walked through the checkpoint and metal detector with his hands concealed within his jacket pockets. He didn't have a ticket or identification, authorities said.

He ran past the security checkpoint at the McNamara Terminal about 7:45 a.m. and refused to stop when ordered by Transportation Security Administration officers, said Jim Fotenos, TSA spokesman.

The incident caused a partial evacuation at the airport, and passengers were required to be re-screened. Flights were delayed by nearly an hour.

Sheen charged with menacing his wife

LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Actor Charlie Sheen was charged Monday with felony menacing, third-degree assault and criminal mischief stemming from a Christmas Day incident in which he allegedly held a knife to his wife's throat in their rented Aspen, Colo., home.

Colorado 9th District Court Judge James B. Boyd allowed Sheen to return to Los Angeles with his wife, Brooke Mueller, and modified a protective order that had prohibited Sheen and Mueller from seeing each other.

Sheen is scheduled to return to court March 15. He and Mueller embraced after the hearing in Aspen and left the courthouse in separate vehicles. The "Two and a Half Men" star was arrested Dec. 25 in Aspen after Mueller called police, saying she feared for her life. Sheen and Mueller had been arguing early that morning when she said she wanted a divorce, according to an affidavit.

Father's age less important in autism

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.

"Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal age," said University of California at Davis researcher Janie Shelton, the study's lead author.

Mothers older than 40 were about 50 percent more likely to have a child with autism than those in their 20s; the risk for fathers older than 40 was 36 percent higher than for men in their 20s.