Boys drown after truck rolls into lake

Hindsville, Ark. Two boys drowned at the end of a family fishing trip after the pickup truck they were sitting in rolled into a lake, authorities said.

The boys, ages 8 and 3, were with their 5-year-old sister on Sunday when one of the children somehow knocked the truck into gear, authorities said. The truck rolled down a hill and plunged into Lake Hindsville. The parents saved the girl.

The victims were not identified.

The parents were admitted to a hospital for observation and counseling.

Man kills parents, dog with bat, then calls 911

San Diego A man bludgeoned his parents to death with a baseball bat, then called 911 to tell police what he had done and waited outside the home for officers to arrive, authorities said.

Michael Brown, 48, a house painter, is suspected of killing his 70-year-old stepfather and 69-year-old mother and critically injuring his 44-year-old brother, police said. All of the victims suffered head injuries.

Brown was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney would not say what prompted the attack.

Police said Brown also beat to death the family’s dog and injured his own dog at his home about 12 miles away. His dog had to be destroyed.

Clover-hunting inmate wants greener pasture

Mercer, Pa. George Kaminski, who has spent more than half of his life behind bars, has one more reason to hate prison.

“There are no four-leaf clovers here,” Kaminski, 53, told The Herald of Sharon for Friday’s editions.

Kaminski, serving time for crimes including burglary and shooting at a police officer, has collected a world record 72,927 four-leaf clovers since 1995. He found all of them on the grounds of various Pennsylvania prisons.

But now that he moved to a minimum-security facility with fewer clovers, he’s worried about the competition.

Edward Martin Sr., of Soldotna, Alaska, claims to have collected more than 76,000 four-leaf clovers. The 73-year-old retiree has applied to Guinness to be recognized as the new record holder.

“I’ve got file cabinets full of clovers,” said Kathy Dawson, Soldotna’s mayoral assistant. “The mayor had kids from the schools counting all these clovers, and there are still more to be counted.”

Kaminski complained that the competition with Martin is unfair.

“The guy’s got the whole world – I have two or three acres,” Kaminski said from the visitor’s room of State Correctional Institution-Mercer, about 55 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Firing phrase in Turkish ‘Apprentice’ less harsh

Ankara, Turkey Turkey’s Donald Trump is a little kinder.

Instead of the harsh “you’re fired!” uttered by Trump in the “The Apprentice,” Tuncay Ozilhan, who fronts the Turkish version of the U.S. reality show, ousted the first candidate vying for a high-paying job in his conglomerate with the slightly gentler: “I don’t want to work with you.”

First to go in the series that kicked off Sunday was a Macedonian-born cake shop owner whose team failed to impress with this week’s task of selling roasted chestnuts in the streets of Istanbul.

Ozilhan is the 57-year-old chairman of the Anadolu Group, which was founded by his father and another partner in the 1950s. The group has interests in brewing, soft-drinks, the automative sector, finance and office supplies.

In the show, which will run for 13 weeks, eight women and eight men compete for the lucrative monthly salary of about $11,000 within the Anadolu Group. Ozilhan fires one or more candidates each week according to how well they perform with the tasks he assigns.

Ozilhan generally shies away from media attention. But he agreed to front the show because of his desire to help aspiring entrepreneurs.

“I accepted because I believe that I can be a guide for the young,” Ozilhan said in a recent interview. “I see it as a social duty.”