Wash. teen arrested in death of girl, 6

Wash. teen arrested in death of girl, 6

BREMERTON, Wash.

A 17-year-old was arrested Saturday in the death and sexual assault of Jenise Wright, a 6-year-old girl whose body was found near the Washington state mobile-home park she vanished from last weekend, authorities said.

The boy was arrested without incident by deputies and FBI agents at his home in the same Bremerton-area mobile-home park, Kitsap County sheriff’s Detective Earl Smith said at a news conference. The Washington state crime lab made positive confirmation of the suspect through forensic evidence.

Smith said Saturday that the boy was being interviewed and will be booked with second-degree murder, manslaughter and rape in the girl’s death.

Volkswagen recalls some Tiguan SUVs

NEW YORK

Volkswagen of America is recalling 151,389 Tiguan SUVs due to the possibility of stalling.

No accidents or injuries have been reported. The problem is with fuel pumps on some models from 2009 to 2014. Gas bubbles may form in the fuel system when winterized fuel is used in warmer months or warmer areas, which could lead to the car stalling.

Volkswagen is notifying all owners of the vehicles about the recall. Dealers are installing revised software in the cars to fix this issue.

European firm signs shale ethane-gas deal

PHILADELPHIA

A European firm has signed a deal to buy a type of Marcellus Shale natural-gas liquid from Antero Resources Corp.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Austrian petrochemical company Borealis has signed a 10-year contract to buy ethane coming from the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The liquid, a raw material in plastics production, would be piped to the Sunoco Logistics Partners terminal in Marcus Hook and loaded onto ships. Antero is based in Denver, Colo.

The new agreement would start in 2016, when Sunoco expects its second Mariner East pipeline will begin service.

NAACP: FBI should probe police shooting

FERGUSON, Mo.

The St. Louis County NAACP says it wants the FBI to investigate the death of a teenager shot by police.

St. Louis County police say a large crowd confronted officers, yelling such things as “kill the police” after a police officer fatally shot a male in a St. Louis- area neighborhood Saturday. Police haven’t identified the victim or said what led to the shooting.

St. Louis County police were called in to investigate.John Gaskin, a member of the St. Louis County NAACP, says St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told the organization’s officials the person killed was a teenager.

Trial fact: Food safety relies on honor system

ALBANY, Ga.

Jurors in Georgia are hearing evidence at the nation’s first federal criminal trial stemming from a deadly outbreak of food-borne illness. And after the first week of testimony, one fact stands out that may make people queasy: America’s food safety largely depends on the honor system.

Witnesses say Stewart Parnell and others at Peanut Corp. of America knowingly shipped products contaminated with salmonella before an outbreak that killed nine people and sickened 714 across 43 states five years ago. Their plant was shut down, the company went bankrupt and the government ordered one of history’s largest food recalls, but by then consumers had been eating tainted peanut butter, ice cream, energy bars and other products for months.

Associated Press