Toddler dies after being struck by car
WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) >> Police say a 2-year-old boy
has died of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car on a western New York road near his home.
The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office says Leo Butler died Friday morning at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. He was struck by a car around 8 p.m. Tuesday when he wandered onto Route 5 in Waterloo near Mac’s Drive In.
The sheriff’s office says the 79-year-old woman driving the car wasn’t at fault. Authorities were investigating how the toddler was able to wander onto the road.
Man arrested in dousing of officers
A New York City man has been charged in the latest caught-on-video case of people dousing police officers with water.
Robert Perez was arraigned on Friday on harassment, disorderly conduct and other misdemeanor charges. A phone message seeking comment was left with his attorney.
The 24-year-old Perez was arrested in connection with the drenching of two police officers by a crowd with buckets of water on Sunday in the Bronx.
In recent days, there’s also been an arrest in the dousing of two police officers in Brooklyn. Officers investigating another police drenching in Harlem arrested two more people for dumping water on a woman nearby.
Police officials have expressed outrage over the incidents and conducted an aggressive search for suspects.
Authorities say man wanted to join Taliban
A New York City man has been arrested on charges accusing him of wanting to join the Taliban to fight American forces.
Prosecutors say the FBI arrested Delowar Mohammed Hossain on Friday morning at Kennedy Airport before he could carry out a plan to travel to Afghanistan.
The 33-year-old Hossain is being held without bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan. His attorney, Amy Gallicchio, declined to comment later Friday.
Hossain is charged with one count of attempting to provide material support for terrorism.
A criminal complaint says Hossain sought to recruit a government informant to join the Taliban with him. It says he told the informant he was eager to kill American soldiers.
Subway backpack posed no danger, police say
Police say a backpack left on a New York City subway platform before a man jumped in front of a train turned out to contain an umbrella and a thermos.
The unidentified man jumped in front of a Manhattan-bound A train at the 80th Street station in Queens at about 6:45 a.m. Friday. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Bystanders told police the man had left a backpack on the platform before he jumped. Subway service in the area was suspended while the bomb squad investigated the backpack as a possible explosive device.
A police spokesman says the investigators determined that the “device” was an umbrella and a thermos.