Monday, February 7, 2011

Two charged in deadly frat house gun rampage

Two men have been arrested and charged in a shooting Sunday at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people near Youngstown State University, police said Sunday. Each man is charged with aggravated murder, shooting into a house and 11 counts of felonious assault, Youngstown police Chief Jimmy Hughes said.
One suspect surrendered to police, and the other was arrested at home, Hughes said. The suspects were in a dispute, left the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, then returned and began firing, he said.
Feds try to get Internet to rural areas
Washington — The federal government is considering ways to give rural areas high-speed Internet connections. The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday to begin work on transforming a subsidy program called the Universal Service Fund to pay for broadband.
Many rural phone companies rely on Universal Service funding and could lose some of this money. New FCC rules could also pave the way for cable companies to tap the funds.
Ethanol tankers burn in Ohio
Arcadia, Ohio — Several tanker cars carrying ethanol continued to burn late Sunday after a train derailed and caused an explosion in northwest Ohio, a fire official said.
No injuries were reported after about half the cars on the 62-car train derailed in a rural area about 50 miles south of Toledo, said Capt. Jim Breyman of the Arcadia Fire Department. He estimated about eight cars — each carrying more than 30,000 gallons — exploded and caught fire.
The train was headed from Chicago to North Carolina.
In other headlines
Police find teen's body: Oregon State Police say crews have recovered the body of the second of two teens swept off a rocky outcropping into the Pacific Ocean. Friends were not able to help them, and both subsequently drowned.
Texas crash kills five: A fiery head-on collision in West Texas between a Volkswagen Beetle and a dump truck has killed five people, including three children.
World
Assange faces court hearing in sex case
London — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is headed back to a London court today for a showdown with Swedish authorities who want him extradited to face sex crimes allegations. A two-day hearing will decide Assange's legal fate.
Assange is accused of sexual misconduct by two women he met during a visit to Stockholm last year. Meanwhile, a dozen of Assange's former colleagues are creating an alternative website — OpenLeaks — for leaks to be governed by what they characterize as a revised vision of radical transparency.
Bomb defusing evacuates Paris suburb
Paris — Some 6,000 residents of a Paris suburb were evacuated from their homes while specialists defused a World War II bomb discovered on a building site. Paris police headquarters says experts successfully rendered the 880-pound bomb harmless in a few hours.
The bomb was discovered Jan. 27 on an old factory site of Renault automobiles under renovation.
Raid targets Easter Island squatters
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Police on Easter Island raided the grounds of a luxury hotel Sunday to evict indigenous protesters battling for ancestral lands and a larger share of profits from the Pacific Island's mysterious statues.
Members and supporters of the Hito clan had been squatting on the grounds of the $50 million development since August, claiming the land was swindled from their illiterate grandmother.
In other headlines
Monsoons ravage Sri Lanka: More than a million people have been displaced by flooding in north-central and northeastern Sri Lanka, officials said Sunday, as monsoon rains fell for the sixth consecutive day.
Clashes persist on Thai-Cambodian border: Artillery fire echoed across the frontier between Thailand and Cambodia today as troops clashed for a fourth day near an 11th century temple.

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