Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Melee at Conn. shopping mall leads to several arrests
MANCHESTER, Conn.
State and local police responded to a melee at a Connecticut shopping mall and arrested several people.
Authorities said fights broke out Monday evening at The Shoppes at Buckland Hills mall in Manchester. There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries.
Manchester police Capt. Chris Davis posted on his Twitter account that several hundred teenagers were in the mall at the time and there were several fights. He said several people were arrested and the mall was evacuated.
Police: Majority of Chicago violence is gang-related
CHICAGO
Chicago police said more than 40 people were shot over the holiday weekend, and more than three dozen guns were seized.
The shooting tally includes violence at a family Christmas party on the city’s South Side at which two people were killed and several others wounded.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the majority of shootings and homicides from Friday afternoon through Monday morning were “targeted attacks by gangs against potential rivals who were at holiday gatherings.”
He said 45 guns have been seized since Friday afternoon, which is slightly more than a typical weekend.
Pa. professor under fire for ‘white genocide’ tweet
A Drexel University professor has been summoned to a meeting with school officials after he tweeted a Christmas Eve message that appeared to support “white genocide.”
George Ciccariello-Maher, who is white and an associate professor of politics at the Philadelphia university, told The Associated Press by email Monday that his Christmas Eve message to nearly 11,000 Twitter followers – “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide” – was meant to be satirical.
Drexel was not amused, condemning Ciccariello- Maher’s tweet and saying in a statement it was “taking this situation very seriously.”
Alaska volcano erupts, sends up ash cloud
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
A volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has erupted again.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory said an eruption that produced ash started just after 2 p.m. Monday at Bogoslof volcano about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The observatory raised the aviation alert level from a watch to a warning. Temperatures recorded on cloud tops suggested an ash cloud that reached 30,000 feet.
Lightning and seismic data signaled the eruption.
The volcano erupted three times last week, with one ash cloud reaching 35,000 feet.
5 of 6 inmates recaptured after escaping from jail
NEWPORT, Tenn.
Authorities in Tennessee said they have recaptured five of the six inmates who broke out of jail on Christmas.
The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office said six inmates escaped from the jail early Sunday after removing a toilet from the wall and going through a hole behind it that led to the outside of the facility.
A statement by the sheriff said that prior plumbing repairs had loosened the concrete holding the toilet, and leaking water had rusted the bolts holding it.
Associated Press