Ship is damaged by gigantic wave
Charleston, S.C. A seven-story wave damaged a cruise ship returning from the Bahamas over the weekend, smashing windows, flooding more than 60 cabins and injuring four passengers.
The Norwegian Dawn was diverted from its route when the ship ran into rough weather on its way back to New York on Saturday. The 965-foot-long vessel docked in Charleston harbor for repairs, departed for New York on Sunday and is expected there today.
The ship’s hull was damaged, but the vessel was not taking on water, a Coast Guard official said.
Suspect grabs gun, kills police detective
Providence, R.I. A Providence detective was killed with his own gun at police headquarters Sunday by a suspect who was not handcuffed and got hold of the weapon, police said.
James Allen, 50, a 27-year police veteran, was questioning Esteban Carpio about the stabbing of an 84-year-old woman, who survived the attack. Carpio was not under arrest, and his handcuffs had been removed.
Carpio, 26, allegedly grabbed Allen’s gun, shot him, broke a window and jumped. He was captured soon after. Government-building security has been a concern since March, when a man facing a rape retrial in Atlanta allegedly overpowered a court deputy, took her gun and killed the judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a customs agent.
Just weeks before, the husband and mother of a Chicago federal judge were slain in her home.
Sex offender charged in Florida girl’s death
Ruskin, Fla. A registered sex offender confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago, saying he had gotten into an argument with her and had choked her to death in her home, the sheriff said Sunday.
David Onstott, 36, was charged with first-degree murder Sunday, a day after police found Sarah Lunde’s body in a fish pond.
Sarah had last been seen April 9 after returning from a church trip. The next day, Onstott visited the family’s home, he and the girl got into an argument and Onstott choked her to death, police said.
Ex-dictator’s victims want Colorado ranch
Denver Thousands of Filipino victims of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ police are asking a federal judge to give them a 520-acre Colorado ranch they say Marcos had bought secretly.
The request, in a lawsuit filed Friday, comes as the plaintiffs seek to collect the $2 billion a jury awarded them in 1995 after find- ing Marcos responsible for execu- tions, disappearances and torture.
The suit alleges JL Ranch in El Paso County was bought for the dictator in 1979 and now is controlled by a corporation registered in the Netherlands Antilles. None of the plaintiffs has received any money as appeals have dragged on.