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18-month-old girl killed by 4-year-old boy at home ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 4-year-old boy shot and killed an 18-month-old girl with her father’s handgun while the two were watching a movie in a bedroom. “I’m not sure how he got a hold of a gun,” police Capt. Marie Saenz said. “It accidentally went off killing an 18-month-old child.” The children’s families are unrelated and share an apartment. Three of the four parents were home when the shooting occurred. “They heard a shot,” Detective James Flores said Monday. They went into the bedroom and found the girl, and immediately called police, he said. No one had been arrested Monday. Flores said that if charges were filed, they probably would pertain to child neglect relating to the children being unsupervised. Police said the girl’s parents kept the handgun for personal protection. “We believe at this time that the weapon was hidden and we’re just going to leave it that,” he said. “It was not out in plain view.” Police did not release the names of the families involved. The boy remained with his parents Monday, Flores said. Astronauts begin Hubble Space Telescope repairs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts hung a new, blue solar wing on the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, then flipped open the hinged 25-foot panel like the cover of a storybook. “Hello, Mr. Hubble, the telescope,” chief repairman John Grunsfeld said as the first of five planned spacewalks got under way. “We’re here to give you more power to see the planets, stars and the universe.” A second wing, the twin of the first, was to be installed during spacewalk No. 2 on Tuesday by another team of space shuttle Columbia astronauts. The $19 million set of wings, covered with ultra-efficient solar cells, should boost Hubble’s electrical output by more than 20 percent. That will be especially useful once an advanced camera is added later this week and two more science instruments are launched in two years. The telescope’s
old solar wings had become damaged by eight years of wear and tear.
7.2-magnitude Earthquake in Afghanistan kills 100 ZOW, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake sent a cliff tumbling onto a village in northern Afghanistan, crushing houses and killing at least 100 people, officials said Monday. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck Sunday afternoon, rattling buildings across six countries of Central and South Asia. Dozens were injured in Afghanistan and Pakistan but early reports had put the death toll at only one — in Kabul. However, communications in northern Afghanistan are primitive and it can take days for reports to emerge. Survivors in this remote community in the Hindu Kush mountains north of Kabul pointed to the sheered-off cliff that had roared down on their valley minutes after the earth stopped rocking. The landslide buried some 100 homes and blocked a river, causing flooding that swallowed hundreds of other homes. Crematory operator denied bond; more charges likely LaFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) — A judge denied bond on Monday for the operator of a crematory where hundreds of corpses were dumped. Ray Brent Marsh faces 118 charges of theft by deception for allegedly hiding hundreds of corpses he was paid to cremate and passing off cement powder and dirt as human remains. Magistrate Judge
Jerry Day said he denied bond because more charges are likely against
Marsh and because the defense had not detailed how Marsh would cover
a bond. It was Marsh’s third bond hearing since the grisly discovery on Feb. 15 of rotting corpses stacked in garages and stuffed into vaults at the Tri-State Crematory. So far, 339 sets of human remains have been recovered from the 16-acre property. Officials said they cannot charge Marsh with a crime until they identify the corpses he allegedly mistreated. Eighty-six sets of remains have been identified. Officers may return to job, convictions overturned NEW YORK (AP) — Abner Louima’s brother and the Rev. Al Sharpton asked city officials Monday not to allow two former officers who were charged in the Louima police torture case to return to the force. The convictions
of the former officers, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder, were thrown
out last week by a federal appeals court. They have said through
their attorneys that they would like to return, but it was not known
if either had yet applied for reinstatement. Kelly met with Sharpton, Jonas Louima and others for 25 minutes at his office. Last Thursday, a federal appeals court overturned the obstruction-of-justice convictions of Wiese, Bruder and another former officer, Charles Schwarz. Wiese and Bruder will not be tried again, but the court ordered a new trial for Schwarz on a separate civil rights violation charge. Abner Louima was attacked in a police station bathroom in 1997. The chief attacker, former officer Justin Volpe, pleaded guilty and is serving a 30-year prison sentence. He admitted he sodomized Louima with a broken broomstick. Schwarz is accused of holding Louima down during the attack; both he and Volpe deny that. Sleep problems linked with ADHD in children CHICAGO (AP) — New research suggests children who snore face nearly double the risk of being inattentive and hyperactive, providing fresh evidence of an intriguing link between sleep problems and attention deficit disorders. While the study doesn’t answer whether one condition causes the other, the researchers believe snoring and other sleep problems may be the culprit in some cases because children often express sleepiness by being inattentive and “hyper.” If it turns out to be true, this theory could help explain the paradox over why stimulants such as Ritalin can effectively treat children with conditions like attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder who already seem over-stimulated, said Dr. Ronald Chervin, a University of Michigan neurologist and sleep researcher, and the study’s lead author. ADHD is the most common neurobehavioral disorder in childhood, affecting between 4 percent and 12 percent of school-age children — or as many as 3.8 million youngsters. Data cited by Chervin suggest that between 7 percent and 12 percent of children snore frequently, with apnea — brief breathing lapses during sleep that can cause snoring — present in up to 3 percent of school-age children. |
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