Two children run over

Two children run over
WASHINGTON -- A suspect fleeing a drug bust sped through a red light and ran over two children Saturday, killing the brother and sister as their father watched, police said.
Seven-year-old Christopher Suydan Jr. and his 8-year-old sister, Octavia, were pronounced dead shortly after being taken to Children's Hospital, police said.
Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Joe Gentile said police were making a drug arrest around noon when a man sped away from the scene in a car. Police followed the suspect for about a block before being ordered to end the pursuit and losing sight of the car, Gentile said.
The driver continued to speed down the street, crossed into the wrong lane, ran a red light and hit the two children, who were in the crosswalk of an intersection, according to witness accounts to police.
The driver, Eric Palmer, 19, of Washington, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Gentile said.
Ex-employee pleads guilty
WOODLAND, Calif. -- A former autopsy assistant who told police he stole human body parts from a medical center in part to practice his dissection skills pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property.
David Lawrence Beale, 46, also pleaded guilty Friday to drug possession and a misdemeanor count of unlawful disposal of human remains.
The former employee at the University of California Medical Center in Davis faces up to three years and eight months in state prison at an Oct. 25 sentencing, Deputy District Attorney James Walker said.
Police suspected homicide in June last year when a tip led them to human remains in the trash at a Davis trailer park where Beale once lived.
The discovery gained national attention when lawyers for Modesto resident Scott Peterson traveled there to search for evidence that Peterson's wife, Laci, had been killed by a satanic cult.
24 die in bus crash
TEHRAN, Iran -- A sleeping bus driver sent his vehicle careering off the road Saturday, killing 24 passengers and injuring 18 others while en route to Islamic pilgrimage sites in Iran, state-run Tehran radio reported.
The victims, mostly relatives or friends, were in a chartered bus that overturned some 135 miles west of the capital, Tehran, the report said.
It said 23 died at the scene and one died at the hospital.
"The driver's drowsiness was the main cause of the accident, which happened at dawn," the radio quoted a police official as saying.
Associated Press