Tuesday, October 28, 2003
June Carter Cash'sdaughter found dead
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- The daughter of late country music singer June Carter Cash was found dead in a parked bus along with a Nashville bluegrass fiddle player, authorities said.
Officials said Saturday that carbon monoxide from six propane or kerosene heaters on the bus may have killed the two and that an autopsy was planned. The bodies were found Friday afternoon.
Ted Denny, spokesman for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, said Saturday that the deaths were "suspicious." He said emergency medical workers found drug paraphernalia, including needles and pipes, on the bus near the bodies.
Investigators identified the victims as Rosey Nix Adams, who also was the 45-year-old stepdaughter of late singing legend Johnny Cash; and Jimmy Campbell, 40, a bluegrass fiddle player who performed and recorded in Nashville for more than a decade.
Adams and her husband, Philip Adams, had recently sold a home in Montgomery County and were preparing to travel in the bus. They had parked the bus behind the house for repairs.
Killings by cops spark riot
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- Crowds burned cars and buses and blocked roads near Montego Bay's airport Saturday to protest the killing of two men by police.
Police fired guns in the air and used tear gas to disperse the protesters, who numbered about 4,000, but the crowds regrouped, tossing bottles at officers and preventing them from clearing moving burnt vehicles from the roadways leading to the resort city's airport.
No injuries or arrests were reported.
Protesters set a fire at the road leading to the nearby Sandals Montego Bay resort, preventing people from entering or leaving, independent RJR radio reported.
A senior manager, who refused to give his name or confirm the report, said all guests at the 244-room resort were safe and probably unaware of what was happening.
The protests began early Saturday after police shot and killed two men who the officers said opened fire first from a car, said police Superintendent Newton Amos said.
People in the surrounding neighborhood challenged the official version and said police opened fire first on the two men, who were in their 60s.
Israelis raid hospitals
NABLUS, West Bank -- Masked Israeli troops raided two Palestinian hospitals Saturday and arrested two suspected militants, a commando-style operation the army said would be repeated in other hospitals where terror suspects might be hiding.
The troops, wearing black ski masks and carrying assault rifles, entered the Nablus hospitals before dawn Saturday. They snatched one militant from his hospital bed, where he was in critical condition, and found another in a basement with a pistol in his hand, the army said.
Human-rights groups and Palestinians condemned the raids, fearing hospitals are no longer neutral ground in the ongoing fighting, and saying that international law bans military operations in medical facilities.
The army countered that international law prevents militants from seeking refuge in a hospital. Including Saturday's actions, the army has carried out four hospital raids in the last two months -- and military officials said there would be more.
6 die in truck collision
BUTLER, Ind. -- Two pickup trucks collided head-on on a highway, killing six people and trapping survivors in the wreckage for hours, police said.
The crash happened Friday night when one truck's driver hit a car he was trying to pass, lost control and collided head-on with the second truck on U.S. 6.
DeKalb County police said it took nearly four hours to remove some of the victims from the trucks' crumpled wreckage.
Those killed included the 24-year-old driver who lost control and two passengers, both in their 40s. The 33-year-old driver of the second truck and two of his passengers, ages 29 and 36, also were killed.
Two survivors in the second truck were taken to a hospital, where one was in critical condition and the other was in fair condition Saturday.
Butler is about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
Taliban leader released
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Taliban's former foreign minister has been released from U.S. military custody and is living at his home in this southern Afghan city, the spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province said Saturday.
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil was released 10 days ago and is in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, said Khalid Pashtun, spokesman for Gov. Mohammed Yusuf Pashtun.
Muttawakil's precise whereabouts weren't known and the circumstances of his release weren't clear.
Associated Press