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VIRGINIA
Two injured in shooting at mall
A man shot and injured two women at a mall branch of a community college Friday in Virginia before he was subdued by police, a city official said. The suspected gunman was being interviewed by police Friday evening as law enforcement continued to clear the New River Valley Mall, said Christiansburg city spokeswoman Becky Wilburn. The mall in the town of about 21,000 in southwestern Virginia includes a branch campus of New River Community College. The suspect’s name and a motive for the shootings was not immediated released.
MASSACHUSETTS
Nanny indicted in baby’s death
An Irish nanny accused of violently injuring and killing a baby in her care was indicted Friday on a murder charge. A Middlesex County grand jury also accused the nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy, of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury, authorities said. McCarthy was arrested in January after the death of Rehma Sabir, who was hospitalized with severe head injuries on her first birthday, Jan. 14, and died two days later.
INDIANA
Farmers face animal cruelty charges
An Indiana barn where investigators found starving animals living on top of more than 100 rotting carcasses was the worst case of animal cruelty he has seen, a prosecutor said Friday. No charges have been filed against the owners, but Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said “many counts of animal cruelty are a possibility.” Carrie Ault, who owns the Summitville farm with her husband, said the condition of the surviving animals has been “blown way out of proportion” and the media is “over-exaggerating” the situation. Ault’s husband, Daniel, said the deaths weren’t preventable. He said some of the animals had died four months ago and he didn’t have the equipment to dispose of the carcasses.
NEW JERSEY
Former home of spies on market
A northern New Jersey home on the market features four bedrooms, an updated kitchen and a slice of Russian spy history. The U.S. Marshals Service said it’s selling a Montclair home whose previous owners were arrested in 2010 by the FBI as members of a Russian spy ring. The ring was shut down in June 2010 after a decade-long counterintelligence probe that led to the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.
NEW YORK
Jury awards $12 million in wine spat
A Florida billionaire awarded $12 million Friday by a Manhattan jury in his dispute over phony vintage wine vowed to do more to expose wine frauds. The energy maven and yachtsman also proclaimed it his happiest day since winning the America’s Cup in 1992. “Out of sight! Over the moon!” William Koch said. The verdict came against California businessman Eric Greenberg, who insisted throughout a three-week civil trial that he never intentionally sold a fake bottle of wine among auctions that generated about $42 million for him over an eight-year period. The trial involved alleged counterfeit bottles of Bordeaux labeled as if they were made from 1864 to 1950.
FLORIDA
Carnival declines to reimburse U.S.
Carnival Corp. says all maritime interests must assist without question those in trouble at sea, a duty that would not include reimbursing the U.S. government nearly $780,000 for costs associated with the rescue of the crippled Triumph cruise ship. Carnival released letters Friday replying to an inquiry by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat. The Triumph was disabled by an engine fire during a cruise in February in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of passengers and crew had to endure five days at sea with no power and under squalid conditions while the 900-foot vessel was towed to Mobile, Ala.
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