Arizona: Plane hits school
A small plane nosedived into a high school in a small eastern Arizona town Friday afternoon and exploded, but there were no reports of injuries on the ground, with classes out for the summer. It was not known how many people may have been on board the plane or if there were survivors.
Texas: Probe into shooting
The FBI has opened a civil rights probe against a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy at the boundary with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Friday. Mexican prosecutors, meanwhile, are investigating the case as a homicide, although it is unlikely the U.S. would agree to extradite the agent.
California: Crash kills officer
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer chasing four suspects in San Bernardino County smashed into a tractor-trailer and was killed Friday morning in a pursuit authorities said reached 100 mph. The accident happened after seven-year veteran Tom Coleman tried to pull over a car suspected of vehicle code violations, but the driver refused to stop, CHP spokesman Daniel Hesser said. Coleman gave chase but crashed a few minutes later. The suspects’ car crashed into a curb several blocks away. The four occupants were captured and arrested on undisclosed charges, Hesser said. Coleman, whose age was not released, was married with two children.
Mass.: Student detained
An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said Friday. Eric Balderas, 19, who just completed his first year at Harvard, said he was detained Monday by immigration authorities when he tried to board a plane from his hometown of San Antonio to Boston using a consulate card from Mexico and his student ID.
Plea agreement in church fire
One of the three white men who allegedly torched a predominantly black church in western Massachusetts because they were angry with President Barack Obama’s election has agreed to plead guilty, a person familiar with the investigation says. Benjamin Haskell is scheduled to appear in federal court in Springfield on Wednesday for a change of plea hearing.
Associate Press
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