***DUPLICATION ALERTS:
AAS: Fishermen missing.
PBP: Drowned tourist (he was from Palm Beach)
ALL SPORTS: Al Michaels’ DUI arrest***
NIGERIA
At least 185 killed in attack
Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in the fishing community of Baga in the nation’s far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. Brig. Gen. Austin Edokpaye said extremists used civilians as human shields during the fighting.
WEST VIRGINIA
Student told to remove NRA T-shirt
A student was charged with causing a disruption at a middle school when he refused to remove a T-shirt that displayed the National Rifle Association’s logo and hunting rifle. Police charged Jared Marcum, 14, with disrupting an educational process and obstructing an officer. The family’s lawyer, Ben White, said the T-shirt did not appear to violate any school policy. School officials did not return phone calls Sunday about the Thursday incident at Logan Middle School.
ARIZONA
5 killed in rollover during pursuit
Five people died Saturday night after the van they were traveling in rolled over in southern Arizona as it was being pursued by Border Patrol agents, authorities say. Rural/Metro Fire spokesman Willie Treatch said 22 people were in the van at the time it rolled over between Tucson and Benson, Ariz. Seventeen other people were taken to hospitals for treatment. The extent of their injuries was not available. The Border Patrol could not be reached for comment Sunday.
TEXAS
Search ends for missing fishermen
The Coast Guard scoured a 5,400-square-mile area of the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend with planes, helicopters and boats looking for crew members of a disabled fishing vessel before calling off the search Sunday. The boat began sinking Friday morning about 115 miles southeast of Galveston, not far from the Texas-Louisiana border. The Coast Guard received a distress signal from the 50-foot vessel at 3:30 a.m., Petty Officer Richard Brahm said. The Coast Guard rescued one man who spent about two hours floating in the Gulf in a life raft. Four others are still missing.
BAHAMAS
Body of drowned U.S. tourist found
Authorities in the Bahamas recovered the body of a U.S. tourist who was caught in an ocean current as he swam off a beach on the island of Eleuthera. Superintendent Stephen Dean from the Royal Bahamas Police Force said the 31-year-old tourist was from Palm Beach, Fla. Police have not yet released his name. Dean said the man’s body washed ashore on Eleuthera late Saturday. He went missing Friday evening.
VIRGINIA
Cargo rocket test launch successful
A company contracted by NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched a rocket on Sunday in a test of its ability to send a cargo ship aloft. About 10 minutes after the launch from Wallops Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles declared the test a success after observing a practice payload reach orbit and safely separate from the rocket. The Sunday launch comes after two previous attempts were scrubbed.
BAHAMAS
Military stops boat carrying Haitians
Authorities in the Bahamas intercepted a rickety boat carrying 30 Haitian migrants, including five children. The Royal Bahamas Defense Force said the migrants were transported to Nassau. They were to meet with immigration officials and Red Cross volunteers. The migrants eventually will be sent back to Haiti. Military spokesman Origin Deleveaux said the sloop carrying five youngsters, one woman and 24 men was stopped early Sunday off Exuma Cays in the central Bahamas.
CALIFORNIA
Sports announcer accused of DUI
NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of drunken driving, authorities said Sunday. Michaels was pulled over about 9:30 p.m. Friday after officers manning a DUI checkpoint witnessed him make an illegal U-turn, Santa Monica police Sgt. Richard Lewis said. A call Sunday to Michaels’ agent was not immediately returned. Michaels was ordered to appear in court June 26.
UNITED KINGDOM
Zoo artificially inseminates panda
A zoo in Britain artificially inseminated a giant panda Sunday to increase her chances of getting pregnant. Edinburgh Zoo officials said scientists noticed Tian Tian was showing signs that weren’t “conducive to mating” with her partner Yang Guang. Officials said Tian Tian was doing well. The two animals arrived from China in 2011 and are the only pandas in Britain.
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