In brief: Jesse Jackson arrested at protest

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Saturday at a demonstration outside a south suburban gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass to property.

Jackson was arrested when he refused to move away from the entrance to Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, police said. He has protested with other community activists outside the shop in recent weeks after a 16-year-old honor student was gunned down on a city bus.

Police said the shooting was gang-related but the teen was not the intended target.

Jackson, who says the gun shop’s proximity to Chicago provides gang members and criminals easy access to firearms, has used the protests to call for stricter gun laws.

San’a, Yemen

Guard opens fire on oil workers

A Yemeni guard opened fire Saturday on a group of foreign oil workers shortly after they landed at a company airstrip, killing one and wounding five – including an American, officials said.

The shooting took place at the Occidental Petroleum Corp. in the southern Shabwa province, some 300 miles south of the capital, San’a. The provincial governor, Ali al-Maqqdishi, said the guard was mentally ill.

The U.S. Embassy in San’a confirmed the attack in a message posted on its Web site and said the American was “critically injured.”

Vienna, Austria

Funeral held for Waldheim

Former President Kurt Waldheim was buried Saturday in the presence of Austrian dignitaries who declared he was unjustly smeared by allegations linking him to the Nazis.

Waldheim, who also served as U.N. chief from 1972-81, died June 14 at his home in Vienna, with his name still on a watch list barring him from entering the United States. He was 88 years old.

Speaking at the ceremony at St. Steven’s Cathedral, President Heinz Fischer said Waldheim’s life had to be judged “as a whole,” and that he was unjustly accused of deeds “he did not do.”

There were few foreign dignitaries. Most government heads had boycotted Austria during Waldheim’s tenure as president from 1986-92, and he had asked that they not be invited to his funeral service, possibly in recognition that few would come.

Austin, Texas

Lady Bird Johnson still hospitalized

Lady Bird Johnson remained hospitalized Saturday but is doing well while undergoing medical tests and is with her two daughters, a family spokeswoman said.

“Mrs. Johnson had a good night. She’s resting comfortably. No change,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said. “Everything is good.”

The former first lady, 94, was hospitalized Thursday night at Seton Medical Center because of a slight fever. It’s hoped that she would return home soon, Christian said.

Joliet, Ill.

Husband charged in family’s killing

A suburban Chicago man found shot near the bodies of his wife and their three children in the family sport utility vehicle earlier this month was charged Saturday in their shooting deaths.

Christopher Vaughn, 32, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, prosecutor James Glasgow said at a news conference in Joliet.

Missouri authorities arrested Vaughn on Saturday morning at a funeral home near St. Louis just before the scheduled start of services for 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn and her children – Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, Glasgow said.

Their bodies were found June 14 in a 2004 Ford Expedition parked on a service road near Interstate 55 in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Kimberly Vaughn was shot once and the children were shot twice.