Sunday, May 17, 2015
Teen suicide bomber kills 8 at bus station
POTISKUM, Nigeria
A teenage suicide bomber blew herself up and killed seven other people Saturday outside a bustling bus station in the northeast Nigerian town of Damaturu, the state medical director said of the latest in a string of attacks this week by Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram extremists. Thirty-three people were seriously injured and are being treated at the hospital, said Yobe state’s medical director Garba Musa Fika. Seven are in critical condition.
Sheriff: Toddler, 3, shoots 1-year-old
VENICE, FLA.
Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies say a 3-year-old boy shot his 1-year-old sister in the face as the two were in a car in the parking lot of a daycare.
A news release said the incident happened at 4:30 Friday afternoon in Venice, a small city south of Sarasota on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The girl was flown to All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg with nonlife-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.
Officials say the children were left alone in a car while their mother was talking to people in the parking lot. A report said the boy picked up a handgun in the car and fired it, striking his sister. Only one shot was fired.
Russian rocket with Mexican satellite fails
KIEV, Ukraine
A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctioned Saturday shortly after its launch — the latest mishap to hit Russia’s troubled space industry, whose Soviet-era glory has been tarnished by a series of launch failures.
The rocket, a Proton-M, was launched from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan. Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, said a problem involving steering engines occurred in the rocket’s third stage about eight minutes into its flight, 97 miles above the Earth. The agency said the rocket and Boeing-constructed satellite did not reach their planned orbit and almost all of the debris from the two burned up in the atmosphere.
Mom, daughter land in United States
FRESNO, TEXAS
The joyful tears shed by a Texas woman and her long-missing daughter after they returned to Houston from Mexico on Saturday signaled the end of an eight-year cross-border custody case that had mistakenly sent another girl to the U.S. against her will.
Houston resident Dorotea Garcia and 13-year-old Alondra Diaz arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday morning after a judge in the Mexican state of Michoacan on Friday returned the girl to Garcia after DNA tests that showed they are mother and daughter.
The case gained attention last month after a judge in Mexico erroneously ruled that 14-year-old Alondra Luna was the missing girl and ordered her turned over to Garcia, who brought the girl to Houston. DNA testing later showed she wasn’t Garcia’s daughter, and she was returned to her real family in Guanajuato.
Plane crash kills 4
spring branch, texas
Investigators say a Central Texas man, his wife and their two children died when the plane they were flying crashed next to a feed store shortly after takeoff.
The Comal County Sheriff’s Office identified those killed as 38-year-old pilot Michael Scott Galloway of Spring Branch, his 32-year-old wife, Heather Louise Galloway, their 10-year-old son, Clayton T. Galloway, and their 8-year-old daughter, Cheyenne Elizabeth Galloway. The Federal Aviation Administration reports the single-engine Piper PA-24 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff about 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Associated Press