4-year-old, dog rescued from well

4-year-old, dog rescued from well

BROOKHAVEN, Miss.

A 4-year-old boy and his dog were rescued from a well in Mississippi.

Clifford Galey, civil defense director for Lincoln County, told The Daily Leader newspaper that the boy had been trapped in a well nearly 25 feet deep. The hole was only about 11/2 feet wide.

Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing told The Clarion-Ledger on Monday night that rescuers had tried to hoist the boy up with a rope, but the youngster didn’t know how to attach it. However, he was rescued a few hours later to the cheers of emergency workers.

The well was about 70 miles south of Jackson. Galey said crews sent water down the well to hydrate the boy.

Muslim flight attendant alleges discrimination

MONTGOMERY, Ala.

A Muslim flight attendant for ExpressJet says she was wrongly suspended from her job last month because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers, citing her religious beliefs.

Charee Stanley, a Detroit-based flight attendant for ExpressJet, filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The airline had agreed to give Stanley a religious accommodation, saying she could work out an arrangement with the other flight attendant on duty so they could serve alcohol instead. She was suspended only after a colleague complained, said Lena Masri, an attorney with the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Officer injured after gunman fires on SUV

LAS VEGAS

A man with a semi-automatic handgun walked up to a Las Vegas police SUV waiting at a red light and opened fire, striking one officer in the right hand, authorities said.

Police said the officer was taken to the University Medical Center’s trauma center. He was hospitalized in good condition for the nonlife-threatening injury. The suspected gunman was later arrested.

Police called the shooting an ambush, although no motive or details were given.

Zimbabwe cools off on pursuing case against hunter

HARARE, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean authorities seem to have cooled off on pursuing the case against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, amid fears that extraditing the American bow hunter for killing Cecil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe’s hunting business.

It has been a month since Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri announced that the police would process paperwork to extradite Palmer for participating in a hunt that authorities here said was illegal. On Monday there were no new developments in the matters, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told The Associated Press.

North, South Korea to reunite families

SEOUL, South Korea

North and South Korea have agreed to hold Oct. 20-26 reunions of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s.

Seoul officials said today that 100 mostly elderly family members from each country will meet at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea.

The decision came after talks among the rivals’ Red Cross officials at the border village of Panmunjom. The Koreas agreed to push for the reunions after striking a deal last month that eased animosity that saw them threatening war.

Associated Press