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FLORIDA

4 people killed

after 3 boats collide

MIAMI — Three boats col-lided near a Miami marina around the end of a fireworks display, killing four and injur-ing a dozen others in a chaotic scene that left bodies and sur-vivors tossed overboard.

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the crash Friday night near the Dinner Key Marina in Miami, with officers plucking sev-eral people out of the water. The boaters are believed to have been out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday.

Eight people were initially taken to Miami hospitals. Two of them, man and a woman, later died. Relatives of a third victim found her body in the water on Saturday, and a fourth body was located later by investigators, authorities said.

NEVADA

Agency: Rancher must

be held responsible

RENO, Nev. — U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they agree with a Nevada sheriff’s position that rancher Cliven Bundy must be held accountable for his role in an April standoff between his armed supporters and the federal agency.

Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Bundy crossed the line when he allowed states’ rights support-ers, including self-proclaimed militia members, onto his property to aim guns at police.

Bureau spokeswoman Celia Boddington, in a state-ment Saturday, said the case remains under investigation and the bureau is “working diligently to ensure that those who broke the law are held accountable.”

But she disputed Gillespie’s contention that the agency mishandled a roundup of Bun-dy’s cattle 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The roundup was thwarted by Bundy and his armed supporters.

CALIFORNIA

Great white shark

bites swimmer

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — A swimmer was bitten Sat-urday by a juvenile great white shark that grew agitated try-ing to free itself from a hook a fisherman had thrown into the water off Southern Cali-fornia’s Manhattan Beach Pier, officials said.

The man, who was with a group of long-distance swim-mers when he swam into the fishing line, was bitten on a side of his rib cage about 9:30 a.m., said Rick Flores, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman. The man’s injuries were not life-threatening and he was taken to a hospital conscious and breathing on his own, Flores said.

Witnesses sa id the approximately 7-foot shark was thrashing around in the water for more than 30 min-utes before biting the swim-mer about 300 yards off the beach.

The fisherman cut the line, and a surfer put the injured swimmer on his board, tak-ing him ashore with the help of Los Angeles County life-guards.

MICHIGAN

Entertainer specializes

in giving bang for buck

COOPERSVILLE, Mich. — John Fletcher gets a bang out of firecrackers — especially those he wraps around him-self.

The 51-year-old Michigan performer’s act includes set-ting off 10,500 firecrackers attached to his body, The Detroit News reported Sat-urday.

“I guess I’m a little nuts,” said Fletcher, who goes by the name Ghengis John the Human Firecracker.

Fletcher said that over 16 years, he has set off 600,000 firecrackers attached to his body. His ribs have been fractured 17 times and once Fletcher says he was knocked unconscious. He also has been burned.

AROUNDTHE NATION

FROM WIRE REPORTS

By Frank Shyong

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The family of a woman allegedly thrown to the ground and punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol offi-cer is asking that the two officers involved in the incident be pun-ished, the woman’s attorney said Saturday.

“She’s not just some animal,” said attorney Caree Harper, who declined to name the woman. “She has an aunt, a sister, a brother, a father and a great-grandchild.”

CHP officials launched an inves-tigation Friday after video of the altercation was broadcast on tele-vision news outlets.

The video, shot by a passing driv-er, shows the woman walking on the shoulder of the 10 Freeway near the La Brea Avenue exit when a CHP officer on foot catches up with her, spins her around and throws her to the ground. As he struggles to sub-due her, the officer can be seen on

the video punching the woman at least eight times in the head while she is pinned on her back by his weight.

A plainclothes CHP officer appears and helps the other officer pin her to the ground at the end of the video.

The extent of the woman’s inju-

ries was unclear, but CHP officials told media at a Friday news confer-ence that she was not injured and that she was undergoing a mental health evaluation. The woman’s name is not being released, CHP officials said.

The woman is being housed at a mental health facility at Martin

Luther King Jr. Community Hospi-tal in South Los Angeles and doctors are not allowing the family to see her, Harper said.

“There is no justification for the way that he savagely beat her,” Harper said. “He’s the one that should be in a mental health facil-ity.”

CHP officials said the video cap-tured only a small part of the inci-dent. The officer was trying to stop the woman from walking into traffic and endangering herself and others, CHP officials said. They would not identify the officer, but told assem-bled media that they would conduct a full investigation.

“We will leave no stone unturned,” said CHP Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn.

The women’s relatives have not contemplated a lawsuit yet because they haven’t been able to determine her condition, Harper said. She declined to say why the woman was walking on the freeway, saying that nothing could justify the officer’s tactics.

“We are not going to let this woman be on trial,” said Harper. “We’re going to turn the attention on the wannabe MMA [mixed martial arts] cop who repeatedly punched her as she was lying on her back.”

Woman wants officers punishedThe unidentified woman said two officers beat her. The incident was caught on camera.

Associated Press

An image taken from a video provided by a motorist shows a California

Highway Patrol officer striking a woman by a Los Angeles freeway.

CALIFORNIA

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Fire raced through a row of two-story homes in southwest Philadelphia early Saturday, killing three 4-year-olds and a baby and engulfing at least 10 houses, officials said. A woman and three other children escaped through a second-floor window.

The blaze began short-ly before 3 a.m. and was brought under control in about an hour, fire officials said. At least eight row homes were gutted, leav-ing behind only charred frames. The cause of the fire remains under investi-gation, but witnesses said it may have begun on a couch on a porch.

Among the dead were 4-year-old twin girls. Their

mother, 41-year-old Dewen Bowah, told police she was in the home with seven chil-dren and managed to get her three other daughters out before jumping from second-floor window. But she couldn’t save the twins, Maria and Marialla Bowah, or 1-month-old Taj Jacque and 4-year-old Patrick San-yeah. The boys’ mother wasn’t in the home at the time.

Bowah and her three surviving daughters were taken to the hospital, but the extent of their injuries was not known.

Milton Musa told The Philadelphia Inquirer his roommate woke him up and said their home was on fire. Once outside, Musa said, he saw two children hanging from a neighbor’s window.

4 children killed after fire hits homes

Associated Press

A woman cries as she walks past burned row homes on

Saturday in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA

By Susan Haigh

Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Before she was killed in the Newtown school massacre, 6-year-old Catherine Vio-let Hubbard raised money from returnable bottles and cans to buy bones for dogs at the pound and designed business cards for an imag-inary animal shelter, listing herself as “caretaker.”

Her pretend animal shelter is now on track to become a reality as the state prepares to transfer 34 acres of a former psy-chiatric facility to a foun-dation raising money to build an animal sanctuary to honor the life of the little girl who was one of 20 first-graders killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

“It was just in her soul,” said Jenny Hubbard, describing her late daugh-ter’s love of animals. “She didn’t care if it was fuzzy or slimy.”

Plans for the sanctuary in her name include a shel-ter and adoption center for cats and dogs, a refuge for

farm and work animals, and a rescue and release program for injured, native wildlife. Plans also include a state-of-the-art veterinar-ian clinic and a welcome center where educational programs will be held. The goal is to open the main building in Newtown in 2016.

Gov. Dannel Malloy recently signed legislation instructing the Depart-ment of Agriculture to convey the state land to the private Catherine Vio-let Hubbard Foundation set up by her parents. Several steps remain before Attor-ney General George Jepsen can sign off on the final

Animal shelter honors young Newtown victimIt was in the soul of Catherine Hubbard, 6, to help animals, her mother said.

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Catherine Hubbard, 6, hugs thei family dog, Sammy. She

was a student at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

CONNECTICUT

transfer.For Jenny Hubbard and

her husband, Matt, who each have business back-grounds and wrote the sanctuary’s business plan, the project has been both a healing and humbling experience. They’ve been amazed by the outpour-ing of support. To date, $800,000 has been donat-ed, even though formal fun-draising efforts have not yet begun. Various profes-sionals, from veterinarians to a Newtown architectural firm PH Architects, have donated their services.

“We remind ourselves every day there are kids murdered across the coun-try and not everybody has the opportunity to do this for their child’s life,” Jenny Hubbard said.

A mistaken Google search ultimately led to the idea for the sanctuary. Tasked with the unimagi-nable job of writing their 6-year-old’s obituary, the Hubbards decided to ask people to donate money in lieu of flowers to the local animal control center.

But as a friend looked up the address, they instead discovered The Animal Center, a small, nonprofit group of volunteers who provide foster homes to stray cats and dogs until permanent homes can be found. Harmony Verna, the group’s vice president, remembers getting a call from the Hubbards, asking if the center would mind being listed in Catherine’s obituary. Within two weeks, $150,000 had been donated in the little girl’s name.

Given the large sum, Verna said she felt the Hubbards needed to have a say in how the money was spent.

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