A quick-moving blaze consumed a three-story home in Massachusetts on Monday, sending firefighters scrambling up ladders to pluck screaming children from the top floor and hurting 14 adults and children, authorities said. Five adults and six children were hospitalized, including a 2-year-old boy whom a firefighter discovered crying on a bed in a smoke-filled room, authorities said. Three other people were treated at the scene.
New Jersey: Gunman kills boy
A masked, hooded gunman shot and killed a 13-year-old boy riding a bike on a sidewalk and wounded another early Monday in an attack caught on a security camera, authorities said. The man stepped from between two parked cars and fired several shots at three boys about 12:40 a.m., according to police and the video footage from a camera on an apartment building. The grainy images show flashes from the gun barrel, one of the boys staggering down the street and the gunman running away. Elijah Henderson, 13, was shot in the head and died, relatives and police said.
Maryland: Pope plans U.S. visit
Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit ground zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday. Benedict will visit only Washington and New York during his April 15-20 trip, despite invitations from bishops elsewhere around the country. He will celebrate public Mass at the new Nationals Park stadium in Washington and at Yankee Stadium, according to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican ambassador to the United States.
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