Souter’s home won’t be targeted
Weare residents on Saturday rejected a proposal to evict U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse to make way for the “Lost Liberty Hotel.”
A group angered by last year’s court decision that gave local governments more power to seize people’s homes for economic development had petitioned to use the ruling against the justice.
But voters deciding which issues should go on the town’s March ballot replaced the group’s proposal with a call to strengthen New Hampshire’s law on eminent domain.
“This is a game,” said Walter Bohlin. “Why would we take something from one of ours? This is not the appropriate way.”
Castaic, Calif.
Up to 2,000 riot at high-security prison
A riot at a maximum-security jail Saturday left one inmate dead and more than 100 injured, including 20 hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said.
About 1,800 to 2,000 inmates were involved in the riot that lasted nearly an hour at the remote North County Correctional Facility, said Deputy Steve Suzuki. About 200 inmates engaged in “serious fighting,” he said.
It appeared no weapons were used, but inmates tossed mattresses and banged heads against bunk beds, officials said. Smaller fights broke out for at least four hours after the main brawling ended.
A 45-year-old black inmate who was a registered sex offender was killed and the riot was race-related, Suzuki said. Black and Hispanic inmates at the facility were being segregated and a lockdown was ordered systemwide.
Detroit
One killed amid Super Bowl revelry
A shooting early Saturday outside a group of bars near some of the city’s Super Bowl weekend festivities killed one woman and wounded a man.
The incident occurred about 1:30 a.m. as thousands of Super Bowl weekend revelers converged on downtown for parties at bars and clubs.
The woman’s mother identified the victims as Kyle Smith, 24, of Detroit, and her friend, Jeff Peterson, 27, of Dearborn. Peterson was being treated at Detroit Receiving Hospital after having surgery.
Waco, Texas
Small plane chased from Bush airspace
Two fighter jets forced a small plane to land after the pilot flew too close to President Bush’s ranch in central Texas while he was spending the weekend there.
The Secret Service on Saturday confirmed that the pilot violated restricted airspace over the ranch on Friday night several hours after the president arrived, and was forced to land at nearby Waco Regional Airport.
The pilot was interviewed and sent on his way, said Tom Mazur, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington. The matter, which appeared to be an inadvertent violation, was referred to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
Dozens injured on casino-bound bus
A casino-bound tour bus slid down an exit ramp and over an embankment and rolled completely over, injuring more than three dozen people, authorities said.
Two people remained in intensive care Saturday.
The accident happened shortly before 11 p.m. Friday at a ramp off the Garden State Parkway about seven miles west of Atlantic City. The southbound Academy Bus Lines bus failed to stop at the bottom of the ramp. It crossed a street and plunged down the embankment, rolling over and coming to rest upright in a shopping plaza parking lot 25 feet below.
“It’s possible it was mechanical failure. That’s what we’re leaning toward,” said Lt. Ted Kammer, spokesman for the Egg Harbor Township Police Department.