LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He lawyered up. He’s not talking to us.”
Dan Oates, Aurora, Colo., police chief, on the cooperation of theater shooting suspect James Holmes Article, 1A
Guest charged in hosts’ killings
ALLEN PARK, Mich. - A 39-year-old house guest has been charged with killing a suburban Detroit couple who’d been hosting him, dismembering their bodies and dumping them in a river.
The Wayne County prosecutor’s office said Sunday that Roger Bowling faces two counts each of first-degree murder, mutilation of a body and having a firearm in a felony. First-degree murder carries a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole.
He is also charged with tampering with evidence. His arraignment is today.
Two bodies with no feet, heads or hands were found Tuesday in the Detroit River and a canal that feeds the river, a mile-wide body of water that separates Detroit from Windsor, Ontario.
The victims were identified as 42-year-old Chris Hall and his 32-year-old fiancee, Danielle Greenway.
Bowling was Greenway’s ex-boyfriend. Police arrested him Thursday.
NYC SUV crash kills 5, hurts 3
NEW YORK - A sport utility vehicle smashed into a concrete pillar and flipped over before bursting into flames early Sunday, killing three women and two children. The driver, along with another adult and a child inside the vehicle, were hospitalized.
A 2008 Mercedes-Benz SUV carrying eight people was traveling east on Atlantic Avenue in the New York borough of Queens around 3:15 a.m. when it hit a concrete pillar east of the Van Wyck Expressway, authorities said.
The impact flipped the car and sent it rolling over. Police said the mangled SUV ended up on its side and burst into flames.
Three adult passengers, all women, were declared dead at the scene, as were an 8-yearold girl and a 9-year-old boy.
The driver, a 45-year-old woman, underwent surgery at Jamaica Hospital, said Joann Ariola of the hospital’s public affairs department. She said a 7-year-old boy was in stable condition in the pediatric emergency room, and a man was in stable condition and likely to be treated and released. Police said the man was 26 years old.
No identifications had been released Sunday afternoon.
Israeli, Romney set to discuss peace
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will tell Mitt Romney in their Saturday meeting about Israel’s wish for Mideast peace and concerns about “the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons.”
Netanyahu said those are the same messages he conveyed four years ago to then-Sen. Barack Obama when Obama was running for president and visited Israel before the election.
Netanyahu said on CBS’ Face the Nation that as for the concern about Iran, “unfortunately it’s still with us four years later” and that he worries about the “growing arsenal of the terrorists with Iranian backers.”
Iran has repeatedly said its atomic program is for peaceful purposes only.
When asked whether he would be more comfortable with Romney than Obama as president, Netanyahu said he wouldn’t discuss it publicly.
“We extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans,” he said.
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