NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
Fatal school shooting: A North Carolina high school student shot and killed a fellow student during a fight in a crowded school hallway Monday, prompting a lockdown. The student accused of firing the fatal shot was arrested as officers secured Butler High School in Matthews, about 12 miles southeast of Charlotte, said police Capt. Stason Tyrrell. The male student who was shot, Bobby McKeithen, 16, died in a hospital, Tyrrell said. Jatwan Craig Cuffie, 16, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder, Tyrrell said. Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said that many students witnessed the shooting, and counselors were available.
Execution: A man who killed a South Dakota prison guard in a failed escape attempt seven years ago was executed Monday after dropping his death penalty appeal. Rodney Berget, 56, was put to death for the 2011 slaying of Ronald Johnson, who was beaten with a pipe and had his head covered in plastic wrap at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Berget admitted to his role in the slaying. Berget was the second member of his family to be executed. His older brother, Roger, was executed in Oklahoma in 2000 for killing a man to steal his car.
Nightclub clash: Seven people were shot and wounded early Monday during a Halloween party at a Southern California nightclub, police said. The shooting was reported at a club called Sevilla in Riverside. Two victims found by officers inside the club were taken to a hospital for treatment. Five others later arrived at hospitals, police said. None of the wounds were life-threatening. Investigators were trying to determine what led to the clash. No arrests were reported.
Gun violence: Gun injuries sent 75,000 U.S. children and teens to emergency rooms over nine years, according to a study that found more than one-third of those kids were hospitalized and 6 percent died. The analysis by lead author Dr. Faiz Gani of Johns Hopkins University medical school in Baltimore was published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. It is billed as the first nationally representative study on ER visits for gun injuries in U.S. kids. Related costs totaled almost $3 billion. The results show that 11 of every 100,000 children and teens treated in U.S. emergency rooms have gun-related injuries. That amounts to about 8,300 kids each year.
Trump lawsuit: President Trump was accused in a lawsuit Monday of misleading salespeople who lost money in a marketing company that he endorsed in speeches and on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The suit filed in New York City alleged Trump received millions of dollars in exchange for assuring potential salespeople for telephone company ACN there was little risk if they paid fees and incurred other expenses to start selling its phone service to others. The suit says Trump knew all along they had little chance of recouping their fees. A lawyer for the Trump Organization, Alan Garten, told the New York Times the allegations are meritless.
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