Detectors going in at shot-up district
SANTA FE, Texas -- Trustees of a Houston-area school district where 10 people were fatally shot in an attack blamed on a student have voted to install metal detectors at all four of its campuses.
The board of the Santa Fe Independent School District on Monday approved recommendations from a security and safety committee to accept donated metal detectors.
A 17-year-old male student remains in custody and charged with capital murder in the May 18 gunfire at Santa Fe High School. Eight students and two educators were killed. Thirteen others were hurt.
Investigators say the suspect wore a trench coat -- violating the school dress code. Trustees voted to keep the existing dress code but with stricter enforcement.
Midair crash kills 3 people in Florida
MIAMI -- Three people died in a midair crash involving two planes above the Florida Everglades, officials said Tuesday.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to an area south of Tamiami Trail, which runs through the Everglades connecting South Florida to the Gulf Coast. Florida Highway Patrol closed the road, though Alligator Alley to the north remained open.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carols Gimenez said both planes were with Dean International Flight School, which operates out of Miami Executive Airport in the southwestern part of the county.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Piper PA-34 and Cessna 172 crashed about 9 miles west of the airport. The agency said both flights were under "visual flight rules" so no flight plans were required.
The names of the victims weren't immediately released.
2 charges tossed against FBI agent
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal judge has thrown out two of the five charges against an FBI agent accused of about firing two rifle shots at the pickup of an Oregon refuge occupation spokesman at a roadblock in January 2016.
U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones on Monday struck one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of justice against W. Joseph Astarita.
In a trial set to start next week, Astarita, who has pleaded innocent, still faces two counts of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of justice in the incident in which he allegedly fired two errant shots at the truck driven by Robert "LaVoy" Finicum.
Finicum was a spokesman for the Ammon Bundy-led group that took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to oppose federal control of land in the western U.S. The disputed gunshots came as he emerged from his pickup as police moved in to arrest the leaders of the armed occupation.
Astarita, a member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, is accused of denying he fired one bullet that went through the pickup's roof and another that went astray, investigators said.
A Section on 07/18/2018