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“He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight. I spoke to him seconds

after it happened. He was just horrified.”

Cynthia Scott, the wife of truck driver William Scott, whose oversized load hit a bridge girder in Washington, sending a section of Interstate 5 into the river below Article, this page

16 hurt in bus crash near Atlanta airport

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. - Sixteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta’s airport, officials said.

About 10 a.m., College Park police received calls about the crash on the road that loops around the world’s busiest airport. It appears the shuttle struck the side of a tractor-trailer that was attempting a U-turn on the divided road, Sgt. Keith Stanley said.

All 16 people on the bus were taken to area hospitals.

Originally, a fire official said it was 18. The driver of the bus suffered multiple broken bones and had to be pulled from the wreckage by rescuers, Stanley said. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening, he said.

A Grady Memorial Hospital spokesman said emergency personnel there are treating 10 people, eight with minor injuries and two with serious wounds. The other victims were taken to Atlanta Medical Center.

5.7 earthquake hits Northern California

GREENVILLE, Calif. - Residents in rural northeastern California assessed damage to their homes and businesses Friday from a magnitude-5.7 earthquake, one of the strongest temblors to hit the densely forested region in decades.

The quake, centered near Greenville, downed chimneys and sent items tumbling from grocery-store shelves when it hit shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. It also ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water, leaving 300 people under a boil advisory until further notice.

“Without question, it’s the strongest quake I’ve ever felt here,” Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood said. “It was very unsettling, and it lasted long enough to create a measure of anxiety.”

Despite the damage, no injuries have been reported.

The earthquake was felt in Reno, Nev., about 100 miles south; as far away as San Francisco, 230 miles southwest; and in Oregon. About four dozen aftershocks have been reported, including a magnitude-4.9 temblor that struck early Friday.

Judge: Arizona sheriff violated rights

LOS ANGELES - Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., violated the constitutional rights of Hispanics who were stopped and detained as part of a crackdown on illegal aliens, a federal judge said.

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow issued a decision Friday after a trial without a jury that ended Aug. 2.

The Maricopa County sheriff’s office “has no authority to detain people based only on reasonable suspicion, or probable cause, without more, that such persons are in this country without authorization,” Snow said in the 142-page ruling. “It is not a violation of federal criminal law to be in this country without authorization in and of itself.”

The judge forbade the sheriff’s office from detaining Hispanic drivers and passengers only on the suspicion they are illegal aliens or to use race as a reason to stop a vehicle.

The sheriff’s office was also ordered not to detain Hispanics stopped for a traffic violation longer than needed to resolve the violation if there was no reason to believe they broke the law.

U.S. man arrested in Czech murder case

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said Friday.

Citing the Czech police investigation, a federal complaint filed Thursday in Virginia seeking Kevin Dahlgren’s arrest said Dahlgren killed his relatives at their home in Brno on Tuesday or Wednesday. The victims had been stabbed in the head and neck, and it appears that Dahlgren tried to burn three of the four bodies in the basement of the home, according to the complaint. Dahlgren had been living with his aunt and uncle in Brno since April 30.

Dahlgren made an initial appearance Friday morning in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.

Prosecutor Patricia Haynes said in court that Czech authorities have not yet officially charged Dahlgren with murder. She said U.S. authorities sought to hold Dahlgren until formal charges are filed in the Czech Republic, probably in the next 60 days.

Dahlgren, shackled in a green jail jumpsuit and guarded by two U.S. marshals, said he expects to hire an attorney and that his parents in California would pay for the lawyer. He did not name the attorney.

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