Missing mother’s SUV found in creek
Denton, Texas A sport utility vehicle belonging to a missing pregnant woman was found in a creek Monday as police searched for her and her 7-year-old son two days after a pool of blood was found in their home.
Officers riding on horseback and using dogs concentrated the search in a rural area of Denton, about 30 miles northeast of Fort Worth, after a landowner found the SUV belonging to Lisa Underwood and her son, Jayden. The vehicle was partly submerged in the creek.
A statewide Amber alert was issued after the woman had failed to show up for her baby shower Saturday. The alert was expanded to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Police would not give details of what they found at Underwood’s Fort Worth home, but a police report said relatives checking her house found blood on the living room floor.
Two workers wounded at Mississippi shipyard
Pascagoula, Miss. A veteran employee opened fire at a shipyard Monday, wounding two co-workers, police said.
Police charged Alexander L. Lett, 41, with two counts of aggravated assault and were trying to figure out what had prompted the shooting in southern Mississippi.
Lett was a quality inspector who had worked at Northrop Grumman Ships Systems for more than 20 years, police said. It is Mississippi’s largest private employer, with more than 12,000 workers, and builds ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.
About 30 people were in the vicinity Monday when Lett began shooting inside a warehouse with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, police said.
John Raitt, musical star of ‘Carousel,’ dies at 88
Los Angeles Though he joked later in his life that he’d become best-known as singer Bonnie Raitt’s father, John Raitt was famous in his own right as the robust baritone who had livened such musicals as “Carousel” and “The Pajama Game.”
Raitt died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., his manager said. Raitt was 88.
Raitt was known as a top star, touring with Mary Martin in “Annie Get Your Gun” and playing lead roles in “Destry Rides Again,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Kismet” and “Zorba.”
John Emmett Raitt was born Jan. 10, 1917, in Santa Ana, Calif.
Bonnie and two brothers, Steven and David, were born to Raitt’s first marriage to Marjorie Haydock.
Two teens face charges in shooting of teacher
Towson, Md. Two 18-year-olds were charged with murder Monday in the killing of a popular teacher who was shot in a mall parking lot.
John Edward Kennedy and Javon Clark are being held without bail.
A passer-by found William Bassett, 58, lying in a pool of blood outside Towsontowne Center mall in Towson on Friday.
The shooting appeared random, Baltimore County police said.
According to documents, Kennedy and Clark acknowledged driving to the mall with the intention of committing a robbery, and Kennedy admitted he had tried to rob someone and had shot him.
Bassett had taught science for 31 years at St. Paul’s, a private Episcopal school in Brooklandville, a suburb of Baltimore.