Four people were arrested when drug agents in Osceola County busted a suspected marijuana grow house on Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Agents of the Osceola County Investigative Bureau obtained a warrant for the home at 5775 Jones Road in St. Cloud after receiving a tip, officials said.

Narcotics agents and a SWAT team entered the home, discovering 42 marijuana plants and almost 35 pounds of marijuana, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Four people were arrested in the raid, 43-year-old Guillermo Alcorta, 52-year-old Mercedes Camacho and two men who have not yet been identified.

Alcorta was charged with marijuana cultivation and trafficking, as were the two unidentified men.

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By COLLEEN LONG and SAMANTHA GROSS

NEW YORK 11 A man who confessed to a string of New Year’s Day arson attacks at an Islamic cultural center and four other sites where he had personal grievances was arrested on a hate crime charge, police said.

Ray Lazier Lengend, a 4-year-old of Guyanese descent, hurled crude firebombs at the Islamic center in part because he wasn’t allowed to use its bathrooms, a law enforcement official said.

He was tracked through a stolen car with Virginia license plates believed to be at the scene of at least two of the attacks Sunday evening on a convenience store, three homes and the cultural center, police said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive defense bill is on the brink of final passage after the Obama administration and Congress resolved a fierce struggle over the president’s ability to prosecute terrorist suspects in the civilian justice system. The House voted 283-136 for the $662 billion measure Wednesday night, a rare bipartisan vote that reflected strong support for annual legislation that authorizes money for the men and women of the military as well as weapons systems and the millions of jobs they generate in lawmakers’ districts. The Senate was expected to clear the bill Thursday and send it to President Barack Obama. The House vote came just hours after the administration abandoned a veto threat over provisions dealing with the handling of terrorism suspects.

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McLEAN, Va. – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against former defense secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates by 28 military members and veterans who said they were victims of sexual assault.

The suit, filed earlier this year in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, alleged Rumsfeld and Gates fostered a culture that allowed rapists to thrive and punished assault victims for filing complaints against their attackers.

But in a ruling issued Friday, Judge Liam O’Grady said the judiciary should not intervene in matters involving military discipline and dismissed the case, even though he called the victims’ allegations troubling.

The plaintiffs’ attorney, Susan Burke, said she plans an appeal.

“We are surprised, but nonetheless disappointed” by the ruling, she said in an email.

In one example, an Army Reservist said two male colleagues raped her in Iraq and videotaped the attack. S

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Jean Beal points out bullet holes in the side of her Richmond house to an investigator after a home invasion next door ended in gunfire that killed a man.

A Richmond resident opened fire on two men who broke into his home, killing one and wounding another, police said Thursday.

The shooting happened at a home on the 400 block of South 35th Street near Cutting Boulevard, in the flatlands north of Interstate 580, at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The resident and several others were inside when a group of men broke into their home, said police Lt.

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