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Indiana man calls 911 to report he was driving drunk

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A northern Indiana man who called 911 and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road got his wish when a sheriff’s deputy arrived.

State Police say 24-year-old Matthew Devore of Logansport was arrested early Monday along Interstate 65 in Jasper County. Police said Devore had a blood-alcohol level of .09, just over Indiana’s legal limit for driving. He was being held at the Jasper County Jail on a driving while intoxicated charge.

State Police say Devore lost control of his car early Monday and it ended up in a grassy median with a flat tire.

Police say Devore then called 911, saying he was a drunk and needed to be taken off the road. A sheriff’s deputy was then dispatched to the scene.

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Ind. man calls 911, reports he's driving drunk

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A northern Indiana man who called 911 and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road got his wish when a sheriff’s deputy arrived.

State Police say 24-year-old Matthew Devore of Logansport was arrested early Monday along Interstate 65 in Jasper County. Police said Devore had a blood-alcohol level of .09, just over Indiana’s legal limit for driving. He was being held at the Jasper County Jail on a driving while intoxicated charge.

State Police say Devore lost control of his car early Monday and it ended up in a grassy median with a flat tire.

Police say Devore then called 911, saying he was a drunk and needed to be taken off the road. A sheriff’s deputy was then dispatched to the scene.

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Ky. officials: Fatal fire cause may remain unknown

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A fire that killed two adults and five children this month in southern Kentucky burned so hot they are unable to determine its cause, investigators told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

State Fire Marshal spokesman Dick Brown and Kentucky State Trooper Shane Jacobs said arson investigators weren’t able to find the exact cause of the March 9 fire and, because of extreme damage to the house, are unlikely to come to a final determination.

Brown said, however, that the fire was accidental and investigators had ruled out arson and foul play. Brown said State Police and Fire Marshal investigators found no evidence that would suggest arson.

“The investigation was able to determine the area where the fire originated but has been unable to determine the source of ignition,” Brown said. “We have no reason to believe nor can we substantiate that the fire was internationally started.”

Jacobs said it appears the blaze burned so hot, little evidence was left behind. “That’s the problem, I think,” he said.

The fire killed 27-year-old Jesse Disney; his fiancee, 22-year-old Nina Asher; her three children, 3-year-old William Gray Jr., 2-year-old Camden Gray and 8-month-old Abigail Gray; and family friends who were staying over, 2-year-old Paiten Cox and 2-year-old Brielle Cox.

Officials said all seven died from smoke inhalation.

Attempts to reach members of Disney’s family were unsuccessful Wednesday afternoon. Two listed phone numbers for Asher’s family were disconnected Wednesday. The father of the Cox children, Garfield Cox, could not be located Wednesday.

In the days after the fire, charred photos, books, children’s art, broken glass and pieces of the collapsed roof littered the lawn outside the house near Disney’s relatives.

The home in Gray, near the city of Corbin, sat off a narrow road near where much of Disney’s family lives. The rural area is populated with brick homes, trailers and small farms.

The area is home to so many family members that it’s nicknamed “Disneyland.”

The blaze shook the rural community in the foothills of Appalachia near the Daniel Boone National Forest and the Tennessee and Virginia state lines. Customers of the J&G Market, just up the road from where …read more
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2 NJ state troopers lose jobs over high-speed sports car escort

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A New Jersey state trooper has pleaded guilty to altering the license plate on his patrol car to cover up his role in escorting a caravan of sports cars that traveled at more than 100 mph.

A second trooper in the same case is applying for a pretrial intervention program that would keep his record clean.

The state Attorney General’s Office announced Monday that both have forfeited their jobs with the State Police and are barred from working in law enforcement in New Jersey.

Sgt. First Class Nadir Nassry of Phillipsburg pleaded guilty to tampering with records. The state says it’s recommending he receive probation.

Trooper Joseph Ventrella of Bloomingdale is trying to enroll in the pretrial program.

The two escorted the caravan in 2012 against State Police policy.

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Man arrested for 1985 New Orleans cold case rape

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New Orleans police have arrested a suspect in a 1985 rape.

Troy Williams, 42, was arrested in Texas and transferred to New Orleans Wednesday, where he was jailed on rape, armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and other charges, The Times-Picayune reports.

Police said they found Williams after the Louisiana State Police crime lab checked an evidence kit from the assault for DNA. The DNA found by the lab matched a sample from Williams.

Williams was 15 when the rape occurred, but will be tried as an adult.

For years, even in cases where DNA evidence was available, New Orleans police failed to process evidence kits related to rapes. That resulted in a backlog of hundreds of unresolved cases.

After Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas took office in 2010, the department began to prioritize processing untested evidence in unresolved cases, with assistance from the State Police crime lab and others. Serpas recently said the department has eliminated the backlog of untested evidence.

Police said Williams and another man assaulted a woman on the morning of Aug. 21, 1985. Authorities said one of the two men took $6 from the woman’s purse, and she was forced into a nearby alley at gunpoint. There, she was forced to disrobe and was raped, police said. The woman couldn’t scream for help because the gun was against her head during the attack, court documents state.

Afterward, the two men fled. The woman ran to her sister’s residence and called the police. She then went to a hospital and underwent a rape examination.

This past Nov. 19, New Orleans detective Orlynthia Miller-White received a report from the Louisiana State Police crime lab that DNA from the rape matched a profile of Williams stored on the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, an FBI-managed collection of DNA samples from people convicted of certain crimes.

Miller-White eventually located the victim, who said she didn’t know Williams and had never consented to having sex with him.

On Jan. 17 Miller-White obtained a warrant to arrest Williams. Although police list addresses for him in Harvey and New Orleans, records show he was arrested in Harris County, Texas.

Besides aggravated rape, armed robbery and aggravated kidnapping, he was booked with a probation violation, and on warrants from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and Gretna Police Department, the details of which weren’t immediately available.

Williams remained in jail Friday. His bail has not been set.

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Bus hits overpass in Boston, injuring passengers

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Authorities say a charter bus full of passengers has struck a bridge in Boston, injuring at least two dozen people.

The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Boston Fire Department says on Twitter that the bus carry 42 people was coming from Harvard University and was heading home to Pennsylvania when it struck an overpass in the Allston neighborhood.

Massachusetts State Police say on Twitter that the bus was too high for the roadway.

The Fire Department says some passengers are trapped. Photos on the department’s website show firefighters lifting victims strapped to boards through the roof of the bus.

Neither the Fire Department nor State Police immediately returned phone messages from The Associated Press seeking details on the crash.

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NAACP leaders reportedly call for arrest of Connecticut cops in beating video

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NAACP leaders are reportedly calling for the arrest and termination of three Connecticut police officers who were caught viciously beating a man on a YouTube video.

The Connecticut Post reports that attorneys for the apparent victim, Orlando Lopez-Soto, 27, have filed a $1 million lawsuit in connection to the video, which was recorded on May 20, 2011 in Bridgeport’s Beardsley Park.

“We want the immediate arrests of the three men who conducted this massive and brutal beating of a downed man,” said Scot X. Esdaile, statewide head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “We are calling upon the FBI, the State Police and the Bridgeport police to effectuate this arrest immediately and the city of Bridgeport to terminate these officers.”

On the video, Esdaile said he sees “a black man, a white man and a Hispanic man” repeatedly stomp and kick Lopez-Soto, who offers no resistance.

“These three men should be treated like common thugs because that’s what they are: Thugs,” Esdaile said.

Two of the three cops have previously been accused in lawsuits and complaints of beating people in custody, but have no record of being disciplined by the Bridgeport Police Department, the newspaper reports.

The video, which has been viewed at least 80,000 times, depicts Lopez-Soto running from the right side of the frame when a stun gun can be heard. Lopez-Soto then falls face down in the grass as officers Joseph Lawlor and Elson Morales run up to him and begin kicking and stomping on him.

Officer Clive Higgins then arrives in his patrol car and also begins kicking Lopez-Soto.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said he was “extremely concerned” by the video and has ordered an investigation by the Office of Internal Affairs.

The three officers, all 10-year veterans, have been placed on paid administrative duty pending the investigation.

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Search of frozen New Jersey lake resumes for 2 teens

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Authorities are searching for two missing teenagers thought to have fallen through the ice into a northern New Jersey lake.

Police received reports of screams for help coming from Budd Lake in Mount Olive Township around 6:20 p.m. Monday.

Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said two residents went out on a boat, but failed to find anyone.

Knapp said the parents of two teenage boys were notified their children are missing.

Rescuers broke through more than 100 feet of ice and a State Police helicopter illuminated the scene before the search was called off.

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Officials: Boy, 7, shot to death at Pa. gun store

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Authorities say a 7-year-old boy was shot to death outside a western Pennsylvania gun store. The boy was shot Saturday morning at Twigs Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. Store owner Leonard Mohney says he was shot in the parking lot. KDKA-TV reports that when the gun went off, the boy was in a booster seat in a car while his father was backing out of a parking space. It’s not clear who fired the gun. Nicole Howard, who works at a meatpacking company next door, tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review there was a single gunshot. Mercer County 911 supervisor Valerie Hartman says police found the boy wounded in the chest. State Police and the Mercer County coroner are investigating. Neither has released information.
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