Gunshots fired into home, killing boy

Gunshots fired intohome, killing boy
TACOMA, Wash. -- A gunman fired through a window into a Thanksgiving party, killing a 5-year-old boy and injuring three others.
A gunman stood on the front lawn and opened fire at close range into a large crowd inside the home, neighbors said. Neighbors said they heard about eight gunshots in rapid succession.
The gunman fled.
At least three generations of one family lived in the home, neighbors said.
A critically injured 14-year-old girl was in surgery late Thursday night at Madigan Army Medical Center, police spokesman Jim Mattheis said.
A 20-year-old woman was reported in serious condition with a gunshot to the abdomen, and a 22-year-old man, who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, was in satisfactory condition, Tacoma General Hospital spokesman Peter Frohmader said.
The 5-year-old boy died at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, Frohmader said.
Suspect detainedin school poisoning
SHANGHAI, China -- A kindergarten official has been detained on suspicion he added rat poison to lunches at a rival preschool in southeastern China, hospitalizing 70 young children and two teachers, police said today.
Huang Hu, 30, was detained by police Thursday at his home near Huangpo, a town in Guangdong province where students and teachers fell ill Monday, said a police officer in the nearby city of Zhanjiang. He gave only his family name, Zhang.
Zhang said Huang, who owned the kindergarten, confessed to the poisoning, the latest in a string of attacks blamed on business rivalries or people with grudges.
The children and teachers remained hospitalized but appeared to be recovering, said doctors at Wuchuan City People's Hospital and Nanyou Hospital, where the 72 are being treated.
Huang was a medical doctor who owned a kindergarten in a village next to Huangpo, Zhang said.
He said Huang's apparent motive was jealousy because Huang's school had attracted few students and was failing, while the Anle Kindergarten in Huangpo was thriving.
Investigators believe Huang sneaked over a school wall Sunday night, entered the kitchen and added the powdered rat poison to salt used for cooking, Zhang said.
The following day, the students and teachers vomited and went into spasms after eating corn porridge served during school lunch.
Astronaut celebrateswith ride on robot arm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A spacewalking astronaut celebrated Thanksgiving by taking a thrilling ride on the international space station's robot arm from one side of the orbiting complex to the other.
John Herrington clutched a 600-pound rail car as the robot arm swung him in a 180-degree arc Thursday evening so he could relocate the wagon.
He hooted and shouted, "Oh my goodness," as he gazed down at Earth below.
It was NASA's first Thanksgiving Day spacewalk and the second one this week for Herrington, the first American Indian in space, and Michael Lopez-Alegria.
The two astronauts, visiting from the docked space shuttle Endeavour, hooked up the plumbing on the space station's newest addition, a $390 million high-tech beam.
They quickly connected the pair of lines, which eventually will contain ammonia for cooling the outpost.
Bosnian Serb sentencedto 20 years in prison
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A U.N. war crimes tribunal today convicted a Bosnian Serb of murdering five men merely because they were Muslims, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
Mitar Vasiljevic, a waiter who joined a brutal Bosnian Serb paramilitary group known for atrocities against civilians during the 1992-95 war, was acquitted of eight other counts of war crimes by the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Vasiljevic was found guilty of being part of a Serb execution squad that killed five men and severely wounded two others, shooting them from the back as they stood on the bank of the Drina River on June 7, 1992.
"They were killed for no other reason than that they were Muslim," said presiding Australian Judge David Hunt.
Hunt said the crime was aggravated by "the fact that the pleas by the men for their lives were completely ignored by the accused, [and by] the cold-blooded nature of the execution."
The court condemned the fact that killers in the Bosnian war justified their actions and sought moral absolution by claiming to fight in defense of their own ethnic group.
Associated Press