RENO, Nev. — Federal land managers have removed about 250 more wild horses from a Nevada range after a judge allowed a controversial roundup of the animals to resume. A U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman said the roundup in Elko County began again shortly after a U.S. District judge on Friday rescinded a temporary restraining order. The judge took the action at the request of the agency, which maintained more than 500 horses could die of dehydration in the next week if the roundup didn’t continue. Horse advocates had sought to halt the roundup.
Maine: Air threat charges
A 27-year-old Florida man accused of falsely claiming he had dynamite aboard a trans-Atlantic flight has been indicted on two charges by a federal grand jury. According to the Bangor Daily News, Derek Stansberry, of Riverview, Fla., is scheduled to be arraigned July 28 in U.S. District Court in Bangor. He was indicted on charges of interfering with flight crew members and attendants and giving false information and making threats. Prosecutors said Stansberry passed a note to a flight attendant that said he had a fake passport and told federal air marshals that he had dynamite aboard a Paris-to-Atlanta flight on April 27.
Small plane crash kills two
Two men were killed Saturday when the small plane they were in crashed into a city street shortly after taking off from Portland International Jetport, officials said. The Yak-52, a Soviet training aircraft introduced in the 1970s, crashed at about 3:30 p.m. on Western Avenue, a normally busy road lined with strip malls, retail outlets, offices and two semiconductor manufacturing plants. The crash of the two-seater plane killed the pilot, Mark Haskell, 42, and Thomas Casagrande, 66, according to the state medical examiner.
California: Reagan inferno
Authorities said a brush fire near the California ranch of former President Ronald Reagan has been knocked down after burning 10 acres and sending thick smoke over mountains north of Santa Barbara. A U.S. Forest Service spokesman said firefighters using water-dropping helicopters fully surrounded the blaze in about four hours Saturday. He said fire officials downgraded an earlier estimate that 30 acres had burned. No evacuations were ordered.
Massachusetts: Twins die
Authorities said twin toddler girls are dead after they drowned in the family swimming pool. An Essex District Attorney spokeswoman said police were called to the home in Lynnfield at about 10:20 a.m. Saturday after a report of “babies in the pool.” She said the girls may have somehow opened a remote pool cover, but authorities were still investigating what happened.
Florida: Escape in handcuffs
Police said a man who was handcuffed somehow managed to open a police cruiser’s door and escape after complaining he was claustrophobic and couldn’t breathe. Altamonte Springs police said the officer had opened the windows slightly for 19-year-old Ridgh Genesis Achille, who had been arrested Friday night on a shoplifting charge. On the way to the jail, the man somehow opened the door from the outside and took off running. The Orlando Sentinel reports that officers, police dogs and even a helicopter were still trying to find Achille on Saturday morning.
Puerto Rico: Dengue fever
Mosquito-borne dengue fever is reaching epidemic stages across the Caribbean, with dozens of deaths reported and health authorities concerned it could get much worse as the rainy season advances. The increase in cases is being blamed on warm weather and an unusually early rainy season, which has produced an explosion of mosquitoes. Health officials said the flood of cases is straining the region’s hospitals. More than 16,700 total cases had been reported across the Caribbean through early June, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
Albania: Bus plunge kills 14
Fourteen people died and 12 others were injured, many of them seriously, Saturday at about 5 p.m. when a bus went off a cliff 87 miles north of the capital, Tirana, authorities said. Police said a sudden downpour caused the accident. The bus fell 30 to 40 yards off a cliff in Dom Gjegjan village, in the district of Puka, police said. The injured were brought to hospitals in the Albanian capital, Tirana, and the northern city of Shkodra.
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