Boeing says 12,000 jobs will be cut by Dec. 14

SEATTLE -- Boeing Co. will cut about 12,000 employees from its commercial airplanes and shared services divisions by Dec. 14 in the first round of layoffs prompted by the terrorist attacks, the company said Friday.

About 9,000 of those employees were scheduled to receive 60-day layoff notices Friday, Boeing spokesman Tom Ryan said, including about 7,000 in the Puget Sound region where the majority of Boeing's commercial jets are built.

The 3,000 remaining jobs will be cut through attrition, retirement and laying off contract employees, Ryan confirmed.

The jetliner factory in Wichita, Kan., will lose 1,645 jobs, spokesman Dick Ziegler said. "It's painful to do," he said. The factory had already lost about 450 jobs to attrition and announced layoffs this year.

Former Teamsters boss acquitted of perjury

NEW YORK -- Former Teamsters president Ron Carey was acquitted Friday of charges he lied about the illegal diversion of union funds to his 1996 re-election campaign.

"I'm so delighted," Carey said outside federal court.

Carey, 64, had been charged with perjury and other offenses for allegedly lying when he told investigators he did not know about the scheme. He could have gotten up to five years in prison on each of seven counts.

Prosecutors said the 1.4-million-member union illegally funneled $885,000 to political action groups, which in turn arranged donations to the Carey campaign from wealthy individuals. Carey's 1996 victory over James P. Hoffa was thrown out after the plot was discovered. Hoffa was elected in a new election in 1999.

Navy raises Japanese fishing vessel to surface

HONOLULU -- The Navy lifted a Japanese fishing vessel sunk by a U.S. submarine eight months ago and began moving on Friday.

Once the 190-foot vessel is in shallower waters, Navy divers will enter the wreck and try to remove the bodies of the nine Japanese men and teen-age boys who went down.

A heavy-duty ship began lifting the Ehime Maru in the middle of the night from its resting place 2,000 feet down, said Lt. Victor Lopez, a Pacific Fleet spokesman. Then the lifted vessel began its 15-mile journey to 115-foot waters, a trip that was expected to take three or four days.

"It's going well," said Cmd. David Wray, spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. "The wind and sea conditions are favorable and the Ehime Maru appears to be riding well."

Federal prosecutor, gun-control advocate, killed

SEATTLE -- A federal prosecutor who headed a prominent gun control group in his spare time was shot in his home and died early Friday.

Police said details were still sketchy Friday.

Thomas C. Wales, 49, died Friday at Harborview Medical Center. He had been shot in the neck and the side late Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Wales was a member of the fraud unit in the U.S. attorney's office here, specializing in prosecution of banking and business crime, spokesman Lawrence Lincoln said. He had been in the office since 1983.

He also was board president of Seattle-based Washington Ceasefire, a gun-control group that sponsored a failed initiative in 1997 that would have would have required handgun owners to undergo safety training and use trigger locks on their weapons.

Reservist shoots two at Fort Dix, then two police

FORT DIX, N.J. -- A military reservist shot and wounded two soldiers Friday at Fort Dix, then fled the base and shot two police officers before he was found dead in a parking lot, according to police and broadcast reports.

The shootings apparently stemmed from some sort of domestic dispute, state police spokesman John Hagerty said.

It was not immediately clear if the gunman, a military reservist, was shot by police or if he killed himself, WPVI-TV reported. He was found outside a shopping center about 10 miles from the base.

--From wire reports