Teen to stand trial in Pa. mall shooting

Teen to stand trial in Pa. mall shooting

pittsburgh

A 17-year-old charged with shooting three people at a crowded mall in suburban Pittsburgh was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on attempted homicide, aggravated assault and other charges.

An Allegheny County detective and Mary Singleton, 47, of Murrsyville — one of two bystanders wounded at the Macy’s in Monroeville Mall that night — were the only two witnesses to testify at the 45-minute preliminary hearing Wednesday for Tarod Thornhill.

Singleton identified the Penn Hills teen as the person she saw open fire about 7:30 p.m. as she, her husband, Thomas, 48, and their 13-year-old son were walking toward the store’s exit.

Serbia arrests 8 accused in massacre

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Machine guns crackled and grenades exploded from dusk to dawn as the Bosnian Serb soldiers slaughtered more than 1,000 men and boys crammed into a warehouse outside Srebrenica.

The carnage was among the worst of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Europe’s bloodiest civilian slaughter since the end of World War II. It is the continent’s only postwar atrocity that the United Nations calls genocide.

On Wednesday, Serbia arrested eight men accused of taking part in the massacre of some 1,300 people at the warehouse on the outskirts of Srebrenica, a joint team of Serbian and Bosnian prosecutors told The Associated Press.

Japan probes death threats to Kennedy

tokyo

Japanese police are investigating phone calls threatening to kill U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and another American envoy, authorities said Wednesday.

The calls to the U.S. Embassy targeted Kennedy and Alfred Magleby, the U.S. consul general on the southern island of Okinawa, according to an Okinawa police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on an investigation by Tokyo authorities.

Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Tokyo in November 2013 as the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Truck overturns, has 30,000 lbs. of lobster

BENTON, Maine

Authorities say a tractor-trailer hauling 30,000 pounds of live Canadian lobster has overturned on an interstate in Maine.

Maine state troopers say truck driver Horst Puff, of Greenfield, Nova Scotia, reported that he swerved early Wednesday to avoid striking a car that had spun out in front of him on snowy Interstate 95 in Benton. Puff’s truck ended up on its side in the median, but he wasn’t hurt. No charges are expected against him.

State police spokesman Steve McCausland says the lobsters survived and are headed to New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

NYC officer dies; never took sick day

New york

A New York Police Department sergeant who never took a sick day in his 42-year career has died weeks shy of his retirement.

Sgt. Francis “Buddy” Murnane was just weeks away from his 63rd birthday when he died Sunday after an apparent heart attack at his home.

The NYPD says he was its longest-serving active officer.

Murnane worked on nearly every major case in the last 20 years, including the 2011 killing of Brooklyn Officer Peter Figoski and the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old boy in an elevator last summer, according to the New York Post.

Associated Press