Infants among 5 stabbed in NYC home
NEW YORK -- A woman stabbed five people -- including three newborn babies -- and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighborhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said.
All of the victims in the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., were hospitalized but expected to survive.
The 52-year-old suspect -- an employee at the nursery -- was taken into police custody and was being treated for her wounds and undergoing a psychiatric examination, authorities said.
No immediate charges were filed, and police said the motive was under investigation.
Nine babies were there during the attack, and the place had at least 11 cribs, the district attorney's office said.
Police responding to a 911 call discovered a 3-day-old girl and a 1-month-old girl who had been stabbed in the abdomen, and a 20-day-old girl with cuts on her ear, chin and lip. The father of one of the children and a woman who worked there were also stabbed, police said.
Fugitive priest facing abuse charges
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A fugitive priest who fled the U.S. decades ago amid allegations of child sex abuse has been returned to New Mexico to face charges after being arrested in Morocco last year, federal officials said Friday.
Arthur Perrault, 80, a former Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and a former Air Force chaplain, has been charged in a federal indictment with seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact between 1991 and 1992 at Kirtland Air Force Base and Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Perrault, a one-time pastor at St. Bernadette parish in Albuquerque, is one of many priests who were sent to New Mexico in the 1960s from around the country for treatment involving pedophilia.
Victims, lawyers and church documents show the priests were later assigned to parishes and schools across New Mexico -- especially in small American Indian and Hispanic communities.
At a court appearance Friday, Perrault pleaded innocent to all seven counts against him.
Perrault vanished in 1992, just days before an attorney filed two lawsuits against the archdiocese alleging Perrault had sexually assaulted seven children at his parish.
Shooter's gun permit was revoked in '04
MIDDLETON, Wis. -- The gunman in a Wisconsin workplace shooting was taken to a mental health hospital and barred from purchasing firearms in 2004 after telling South Dakota police that he thought co-workers were "talking bad about him," according to court records and police.
Anthony Tong also said he believed his neighbors were spying on him after police were called to his Sioux Falls apartment. Officers handcuffed Tong for their own safety because he was acting delusional and paranoid, and seized a pistol and an AR-15 rifle from his home, according to South Dakota court documents.
The revelations raise questions about how Tong acquired the 9mm pistol used in Wednesday's attack at WTS Paradigm, a software company in Middleton, Wis. Investigators allege the 43-year-old employee opened fire in his office, seriously wounding three people and grazing a fourth before officers killed him in a shootout.
Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke said during a news conference Friday that Tong had no criminal history, but said his run-in with police in South Dakota in 2004 resulted in a judge revoking his concealed-carry permit over mental health questions. That revocation would have red-flagged him on a gun background check, making it illegal for him to purchase firearms, Foulke said.
Kidnapping suspect killed near airport
MIAMI -- A man who was at the center of an armed kidnapping FBI case was shot and killed late Thursday by police after he fired at several officers, police said.
Rapid gunfire broke out just blocks away from Miami International Airport. Police officials said city of Miami police and Miami-Dade police were working with the FBI in an ongoing kidnapping case when the shooting happened.
"The FBI was investigating a fugitive case. The suspect of this investigation fled the scene. And he was armed," FBI spokesman Brian Waterman said early Friday.
During the police pursuit, "the subject began to shoot at the officers and there was an exchange of gunfire," according to Miami police spokesman Kiara Delva. The suspect was shot and died on the scene.
The identity of the gunman is being withheld pending next of kin notification, and details about who was kidnapped were not provided by police or the FBI. Officials did not say how many shots were fired.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said at a late-night budget hearing downtown that a shooter with an "AK-47" was dead after an "exchange of gunfire" near the airport.
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