Man kills 2 kids, himself

Man kills 2 kids, himself
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A man killed his two young children Saturday by throwing them off the 15th floor of a landmark South Beach hotel and then jumped to his own death, police said.
Edward Van Dyk, 43, tossed his two sons, ages 4 and 8, to their deaths around 8:20 a.m., Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said. Authorities did not release the names of the two boys.
The mother of the children, Qinuo Van Dyk, 40, told police she and her husband had been having marital problems for the past six months, but hadn't argued right before the deaths, Hernandez said.
The woman heard one of her children screaming from an adjacent room in the Loews Hotel, and when she walked into the room she saw her husband going off the balcony, Hernandez said.
She looked over the railing and saw her husband and her two children lying on a mezzanine roof that is about two floors above the ground.
Clashes shake East Timor
DILI, East Timor -- Youths with machetes, slingshots and spears rampaged across East Timor's capital Saturday, attacking people, burning houses and deepening a crisis that has sent thousands fleeing in terror despite the deployment of foreign troops.
With chaos spreading, the United Nations said it would relocate employees' families and nonessential staff to Darwin, Australia.
The violence raised worries that one of the world's youngest nations is plunging into civil war seven years after its break from 24 years of repressive occupation by Indonesia.
Festering distrust between Timorese who supported independence and those who didn't fueled a months-long dispute between the military leadership and 600 renegade soldiers that exploded in this week's violence. The soldiers -- nearly half the army -- were fired in March after striking over complaints of poor working conditions and discrimination.
Did couple kill more?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two suspects accused of videotaping the rape of a woman and killing her might have other victims in their past, authorities said Saturday.
Additional charges are likely, said Ken Evans, spokesman for Jackson County Prosecutor Mike Sanders.
Richard D. Davis, 41, and Dena D. Riley, 39, were arrested Thursday after crashing their truck, ending eight days on the run. Davis was treated for injuries and turned over to police in Independence. Riley remained was in a hospital in Joplin, Mo.
With them when they were arrested was a 5-year-old girl who had been taken from a town near Pittsburg, Kan. Police said Saturday she was hospitalized in Kansas City with serious injuries but a hospital spokesman would not say whether she was still there.
Davis and Riley are charged with killing Marsha Spicer, 41, who was seen being beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled on a videotape found at the Independence apartment of Davis and Riley.
Spicer's body was found May 15 in a shallow grave near Bates City, Mo.
Minutemen build fence
PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps plans to install a combination of barbed wire, razor wire, and in some spots, steel rail barriers along the 10-mile stretch of private land in southeastern Arizona.
They hope it prompts the federal government to do the same along the entire Arizona border.
President Bush has pledged to deploy as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to strengthen enforcement at the border. The guardsmen would fill in on some behind-the-lines Border Patrol jobs while that agency's force is expanded.
But the Minutemen have said it's not enough. The group's founder, Chris Simcox, said they want a secure fence and they're starting at the site where his first patrols began in November 2002.
Associated Press