LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY “They were screaming, they were yelling: ‘Help us! Help us!’” Justin Grizzle, a police officer among the first to respond to the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting last year.

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Sheriff: Alabama teen planned bombing

PHENIX CITY, Ala. - An Alabama teenager who described himself as a white supremacist made journal entries about a plot to bomb classmates three days after the Newtown school massacre and began building small, homemade explosives, a sheriff said Monday.

Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said that he believed the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a factor because the first date in the boy’s journal describing the plan was Dec. 17 - three days after the Connecticut killings.

Seventeen-year-old Derek Shrout is charged with attempted assault after authorities say he planned to use homemade explosives to attack fellow students at Russell County High School.

Taylor said the teen told investigators that he’s a white supremacist and five of the six students he named in his journal are black. The journal was found by a teacher, who turned it over to authorities.

The teen said little during an initial court appearance Monday. District Judge David Johnson set bail at $75,000 and the teen’s attorney said the family expected to post it by the end of the day for his release.

The judge ordered the teen not to contact anyone at his school and not to use the Internet without parental supervision.

Alaskan drill ship towed, anchored

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill vessel pulled from rocks off a remote Alaska island reached shelter Monday morning in a Kodiak Island bay.

The Kulluk was lifted off rocks at 10:10 p.m. Sunday.

It reached its anchoring point about 12 hours later in Kiliuda Bay, where it’s out of the worst of waves and wind offered by the Gulf of Alaska.

Shell incident commander Sean Churchfield said the vessel came off the grounding relatively easy under tow by the 360-foot anchor handler Aiviq.

Salvors reported swells of 15 feet, which diminished after the vessels reached protected waters.

The trip covered about 50 miles at about 4 mph.

The Kulluk was attached to a second vessel, a tugboat, after it reached the bay.

NYC terror suspect accused in 2nd plot

NEW YORK - A suspect in an alleged al-Qaida plot against the New York City subways also was part of a terror campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway, U.S.

prosecutors said.

Abid Naseer pleaded innocent Monday through his attorney, Steven Brounstein. The lawyer declined to comment outside court.

The judge ordered Naseer, who was extradited last week from Britain, held without bail until his next court date, on March 7.

Prosecutors aim to prove that Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance and was in frequent contact with other alleged al-Qaida operatives. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.

Naseer was one of 12 people arrested in a counterterrorism operation in April 2009, but all were subsequently released without charge. They were ordered to leave Britain, but Naseer avoided being deported to Pakistan.

Naseer was rearrested in July 2010 at the request of prosecutors in Brooklyn, where a federal indictment named him as a co-defendant with Adis Medunjanin. In January 2011, a British judge approved Naseer’s extradition.

Immigration called U.S.’ top law cost

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report Monday on the government’s enforcement efforts from a Washington think tank.

The report Monday from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan group focused on global immigration issues, said that in the 2012 budget year that ended in September, the government spent about $18 billion on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol. Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion, the report’s authors said.

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