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Georgia officer killed, 1 injured
Americus, Ga. — A man fatally shot one Georgia police officer and wounded a second before fleeing an apartment complex near a college campus that went on lockdown as a precaution, authorities said.
The shooting took place when the officers were responding to a domestic dispute in Americus, about 130 miles south of Atlanta, Americus police Chief Mark Scott said.
Officer Nicholas Smarr, 25, died and Georgia Southwestern State University Officer Jodi Smith was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, Scott said. Both suffered head wounds.
The suspect, 32-year-old Minguell Kennedy Lembrick, was still at large.
Glenn hospitalized in Ohio
Columbus, Ohio — Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has been hospitalized for more than a week.
Hank Wilson with Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs said Wednesday that the 95year-old Glenn is at the James Cancer Hospital, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he has cancer.
Wilson said he didn’t have other information about Glenn’s condition, illness or prognosis.
Glenn apologized for his poor eyesight this year at the renaming of Columbus’ airport after him. He said then he’d lost some of his eyesight because of macular degeneration and a small stroke. Glenn had a heart valve replacement in 2014.
Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. He served as a U.S. senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999.
100 die in Indonesian quake
Meureudu, Indonesia — Rescue workers, soldiers and police combed through the rubble of a devastated town in Indonesia’s Aceh province early Thursday, resuming a search for earthquake survivors that was halted at night by rain and blackouts.
At least 100 people died in the quake that struck northeast Sumatra before dawn on Wednesday. Hundreds were injured and dozens of buildings were destroyed. The worst damage appears to be in Pidie Jaya district near the epicenter.
Some people spent the night outdoors while thousands of others took refuge in mosques and temporary shelters.
Killer quakes occur regularly in the region, where many live with the memory of a magnitude 9.1 quake that struck Dec. 26, 2004, off Sumatra. It triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 100,000 Acehnese.
Toronto school attack thwarted
Toronto — Police allege a 17-yearold boy plotted an attack on a Toronto high school that would have coincided with the 27th anniversary of an antifeminist rampage that left 14 women dead at a Canadian university campus.
Toronto police received a tip Wednesday from someone from the U.S. West Coast, where the person saw the threat mentioning the École Polytechnique massacre on a blogging site.
Toronto high school Oakwood Collegiate Institute was the target.
Police seized a machete, a hatchet, two swords, four knives and arrows after conducting a search at a home Tuesday.