Stabbing suspect described as genial
Stabbing suspect described as genial
HARTFORD, Conn.
A teacher at the Connecticut high school where a student was stabbed to death says the suspect is a teenager with a good sense of humor who gave no indication of trouble.
Authorities have not released the name of the suspect, but two people who saw him taken into custody say he is 16-year-old Chris Plaskon.
Plaskon is charged with murder as a juvenile offender in Friday’s slaying of fellow student Maren Sanchez at Jonathan Law High School in Milford. An attorney for Plaskon says his client is under psychiatric evaluation.
Teacher Mark Robinson says he coached Plaskon in football for two years and describes him as funny and from a family with deep roots in the community.
Student Imani Langston says Plaskon is known for being a class clown.
Tornadoes damage homes in N. Carolina
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.
Residents, meteorologists and emergency officials in eastern North Carolina were surveying the damage Saturday from multiple tornadoes that damaged more than 200 homes the previous day and sent more than a dozen people to the emergency room.
Meteorologists said Saturday that tornadoes with winds of more than 111 mph touched down in Pitt and Beaufort counties Friday, and they were continuing to investigate storm damage.
Elsewhere, Texas, Oklahoma and other states in the Plains and Midwest were bracing for severe storms expected to start Saturday and continue overnight. There, the main threat will be large hail and damaging wind gusts.
Attacks kill at least 6 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD
Two attacks killed at least six people Saturday in the Iraqi capital, where police also discovered nine bodies, some of them riddled with bullets, officials said.
The bloodshed comes a day after a coordinated bomb attack on a campaign rally for a militant Shiite group killed at least 33 people, fueling fears that Iraq’s already simmering sectarian tensions will boil over into retaliatory violence just days ahead of critical parliamentary elections.
An al-Qaida breakaway group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombings on the Baghdad rally, where some 10,000 backers of Asaib Ahl al-Haq were in attendance. The Islamic State said on a militant website that the attacks were to avenge what it called the killing of Sunnis and their forced removal from their homes by Shiite militias.
Diggers find ‘E.T.’ games in landfill
ALAMOGORDO, N.M.
A decades-old urban legend was put to rest Saturday when workers for a documentary film production company recovered “E.T.” Atari game cartridges from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert.
The “Atari grave” was, until that moment, a highly debated tale among gaming enthusiasts and other self-described geeks for 30 years. The story claimed that in its death throes, the video-game company sent about a dozen truckloads of cartridges of what many call the worst video game ever to be forever hidden in a concrete-covered landfill in southeastern New Mexico.
The search for the cartridges of a game that contributed to the demise of Atari will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video-game company of the early ’80s.
Associated Press