Juvenile arrested in shooting of student

Juvenile arrested in shooting of student

LOUISVILLE, Ky.

A juvenile was arrested Tuesday in the shooting of a high-school student that prompted a schoolwide lockdown and evacuation, police in Louisville, Ky., said.

Sgt. Phil Russell said the purported shooter was picked up about three hours after a Fern Creek Traditional High School student was wounded Tuesday afternoon.

The wounded student had nonlife-threatening injuries and was reunited with parents at University Hospital, Russell said.

Legality of firing for pot use is challenged

DENVER

Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.

Now, the state’s highest court is considering whether workers’ off-duty use of medical marijuana is protected under state law.

Colorado’s Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case involving Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical-marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test in 2010.

Coats said he never got high at work. But pot’s intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.

Coats says his pot smoking is allowed under a little-known state law intended to protect employees from being fired for legal activities off the clock. But the company argues that because pot remains illegal at the federal level, medical marijuana isn’t covered by the state law.

Hong Kong protests

HONG KONG

Hong Kong’s embattled leader attended a flag-raising ceremony today to mark China’s National Day after refusing to meet pro-democracy demonstrators despite their threats to expand the street protests that have posed the stiffest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took part in the ceremony — marking the anniversary of the founding of communist China in 1949 — as thousands of protesters watching from behind police barricades yelled at him to step down.

China took control of Hong Kong under an arrangement that guaranteed its 7 million people semi-autonomy, Western-style civil liberties and eventual democratic freedoms that are denied to Chinese living on the communist-ruled mainland.

The protesters want a reversal of a recent decision by China’s government to screen all candidates in the territory’s first direct elections, scheduled for 2017 — a move they view as reneging on a promise that the chief executive will be chosen through “universal suffrage.”

Student in custody after shooting 1

ALBEMARLE, N.C.

A student was shot by a fellow student outside a North Carolina high school just minutes before classes began Tuesday morning, and the shooting suspect then waited for police to arrive, authorities said.

The shooting happened about 7:40 a.m. as the two male students argued in an on-campus courtyard at Albemarle High School, Albemarle Police Chief William Halliburton said at a news conference.

The shooter put down his gun after firing two shots, walked into the principal’s office and waited for police, Halliburton said.

Pa. trooper dies

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.

A state trooper was accidentally shot during a gun- training exercise at a safety facility Tuesday and later died.

Trooper David Kendra was shot in the chest during a yearly training exercise at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Complex in Conshohocken, near Philadelphia, state police said. He’s the second trooper to be shot dead this month after Cpl. Bryon Dickson’s death in an ambush Sept. 12.

Associated Press