SWEDEN
Authorities search for riot suspects
Police are looking for suspects they say were involved last week’s riots in Stockholm suburbs. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said about 60 people were detained, although most have been released and are awaiting charges. Investigators said organized rioters, seasoned criminals and teenagers were involved in burning cars, smashing windows and throwing rocks at police in the low-income, predominantly immigrant areas of the Swedish capital. The unrest, which has now subsided, came after officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man who had locked himself in his apartment.
OREGON
Tip led to bomb plan, DA says
A resident’s tip last week that a student planned to set off bombs at a school may have prevented mass murder, Benton County’s district attorney said Sunday. The tip led to seizure of six homemade bombs allegedly made by Grant Alan Acord, 17, a student at West Albany High School, John Haroldson said. He said documents found included a date when the youth might have used the bombs in a plan modeled after the 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School that left 13 dead and 21 wounded. Acord was arrested Thursday at his home in Albany.
GUANTANAMO
Staffers force feed hunger strikers
U.S. Navy medical staff Sunday force-fed 35 captives at the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military spokesman said, noting that six of at least 103 hunger strikers were hospitalized. The number of prisoners participating in the hunger strike could be larger than the reported 103. Prison spokesmen said they are not allowed to include any of the 15 former CIA captives in their account of the hunger strikers, even if any are shackled into restraint chairs for twice-daily tube feedings.
ALASKA
Man charged in double homicide
A man was charged with killing an elderly Anchorage couple Saturday night and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old great-granddaughter. The man refused to identify himself and is being held without bail. Police were summoned by a 911 call to an apartment by a woman who said a man had murdered her grandmother. The suspect — wearing boxer shorts and socks — was captured a block from the scene. The couple’s granddaughter had left her 2-year-old in their care. Police said the toddler underwent surgery for sexual assault injuries.
FRANCE
Gay marriage protested in Paris
Tens of thousands of people protested against France’s new gay marriage law in central Paris on Sunday, and police clashed with right-wing demonstrators. The law came into force over a week ago, but organizers decided to go ahead with the long-planned demonstration to show their continued opposition as well as their frustration with President Francois Hollande, who had made legalizing gay marriage one of his keynote campaign pledges in last year’s election.
CALIFORNIA
Party bus crash kills woman
A 36-year-old woman was killed and her husband was hospitalized in critical condition after a crash early Sunday. Nine other people also were hospitalized after the collision on a San Francisco Bay Area highway involving a car driven by the dead woman’s husband and a party bus. The Honda coupe driven by Raul Padilla, 43, apparently slammed into the center divider of Highway 101 about 2 a.m., then came to a stop facing oncoming traffic, California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel said. After the Honda stopped, the front end of a party bus, with 18 people on board, hit the disabled car. Two other cars were also involved in the collision. Police said Padilla had been drinking.
COLORADO
Kidnap suspect arrested; boy safe
Authorities on Sunday arrested a man accused of breaking into his estranged wife’s home before blasting her with a stun gun and pepper spray and kidnapping their 3-year-old son. Monty Ray Turner was arrested without incident at a motel in Brandon, Manitoba in Canada about 1:30 p.m., said Longmont, Colo., Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur. The boy was found unharmed. Police said Turner assaulted his wife at her Longmont home Saturday and left with their child. A court order prohibits the father from contacting his wife and son.
RUSSIA
4,335-member choir performs in St. Petersburg
More than 4,000 Russian singers performed outdoors Sunday in St. Petersburg to honor the city’s 310th anniversary and to try to set a world record for the largest choir. The 4,335 singers of all ages and from nearly all of the city’s professional and amateur choirs sang from the steps of St. Isaac’s Cathedral before thousands of spectators under an intermittent rain. The spectators sang along during the one-hour concert. The 14 songs performed included some of the most popular and patriotic songs of Russia and the Soviet Union, including a hymn celebrating the country’s victory in World War II.
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