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A man was arrested and faces charges of sexual battery on a minor after two girls came forward to say he sexually assaulted them, Miami police said Wednesday. Authorities said they learned of the first case involving 61-year-old Sergio Perez Borroto after a 14-year-old girl told her parents that seven years earlier, Borroto had sexually assaulted her, but she didn’t tell anyone because she was scared. When Borroto was arrested for that case, a second girl came forward to say that the same situation had occured with her, authorities said. Authorities said they believe Borroto may have lured other children inside his house by using candy. He faces two counts of sexual battery on a minor and two counts more counts of sexual battery, which he cannot get bond for. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney. Anyone with information should call police at 305 603 6300 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305 471 TIPS.

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Residents in Ohio state will now be permitted to carry a firearm into their local drinking establishment following the revision of the state’s gun law. The new regulations, now in effect, allows those with gun licenses to carry a weapon to restaurants, nightclubs, shopping centres, hotels and museums – so long as the firearm remains concealed. Bill Seitz, a member of the Ohio Senate, who advocated for the change said: ‘An undischarged concealed weapon never hurt anybody in history. And using a gun is not allowed under this bill.’ ‘All we’re saying is they can have a piece of equipment on their body.’ The new law will also benefit drivers who are no longer required to keep their guns in a holster, case or in plain sight whilst at the wheel. However, those licensed to hold a fire arm are under a strict ‘no drinking’ policy and must keep from business that display a gun-free premiss signpost. The new law has divided opinion, with some bar owners admitting to making no special dispensation.

The U.S.-born radical Islamist and suspected al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen Friday, the nation’s defense ministry has said. “The terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed along with some of his companions,” they said in a text message to journalists. Reuters reports that Yemini forces hunted down Awlaki, though reports have not been independently verified. According to the AP, Awlaki was killed in an air raid. He has been implicated in the Christmas 2009 Detroit “panty-bombing” attempt, as well as the US army base killings in Fort Hood, TX. and a failed bombing in Times Square, the BBC reports. The U.S. had Awlaki on a “capture or kill” list, NPR says. NBC

Michelle Obama showed up at an Alexandria Target store on Thursday, showing that even millionaires love the popular discount chain. Dressed in a gray baseball cap, yoga pants and sunglasses, the First Lady toted her own shopping bags after pushing a red cart around the superstore. The Target trip comes as the First Lady is promising to put herself into the election effort like never before. More than a year out from Election Day, she is hauling in millions in campaign cash and sketching a portrait of her husband that is drawn with an intimacy that no one else could duplicate. The first lady always ends her speeches to Democratic donors with two questions: ‘Are you in? Are you fired up?’ It’s a call to arms that the Obama campaign needs more than ever this election, when the combination of a weak economy and dampened enthusiasm for the president are creating a tougher climate for raising money. Since mid-May, the first lady has headlined more than a dozen fundraisers for her husband and the Democratic Party, at sites from Burlington, Vt., to Berkeley, California. Mail Online

Sylvia Robinson, ‘the mother of hip-hop’, has died aged 76. Most famous for assembling the Sugarhill Gang, Robinson was a songwriter, performer, producer and label owner. “RIP Ms Rob,” tweeted Public Enemy’s Chuck D. “A black woman putting rap records on the map/now a scene where today women are voided out of it.” Born Sylvia Vanderpool in New York in 1936, Robinson began making records aged 14, under the name Little Sylvia, and enjoyed her first hit – 1957′s Love Is Strange – as part of the duo Mickey and Sylvia. It would be 16 years until she next reached the top 15, this time with her own song, the soul classic Pillow Talk. Despite her success as a singer, Robinson’s life changed direction in 1979, during a visit to the Harlem World disco. As a DJ played the Chic song Good Times, Robinson discovered rap. “The DJ was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy,” she told the New Jersey Star-Ledger in 1997. “All of a sudden, something said to me, ‘Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.’ I didn’t even know you called it rap.”R.I.P Sylvia Robinson.