NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Young suspect: A 10yearold boy was among the carjackers who robbed a woman at gunpoint in St. Louis, then led police on a brief car chase, authorities said. The child was with a 15yearold boy and two 14yearold boys who were taken into custody last week. The victim told police she had just parked her car when someone behind her pushed her to the ground. One of the youths pointed a gun at her and took the keys to her car. The four boys got into her car and drove away, authorities said. Police recovered the vehicle about a mile from the carjacking, they said. Officers recovered a gun, police said.
_2 Campaign 2020: Joe Biden overwhelmingly won the Democratic presidential primary in Kansas that the state party conducted exclusively by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden had been expected to prevail in Saturday’s vote and capture a majority of the state’s delegates to the Democrats’ national nominating commission. He took 77% of the vote. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was still in the race when the Kansas party began mailing ballots at the end of March, but he suspended his campaign and endorsed Biden. Biden won 29 delegates and Sanders got 10. Biden has 1,435 of the 1,991 delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot at the party’s national convention this summer, according to a count Sunday by the Associated Press.
_3 Amish accident: Search crews have recovered the body of the last of five Amish children who died when their buggy was swept away in a swollen Kentucky creek as they tried to cross a bridge. Six people were in the horse and buggy that overturned last week in Bath County in eastern Kentucky. The adult in the buggy made it to the stream bank and called for help. Kentucky National Guard troops helped in search efforts in the remote area.
_4 Hotel collapse: Plans to demolish the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which partially collapsed in October, have been approved after months of disagreements between the developer and the city. The developer’s attorney, Kerry Miller, said the teams could begin preparing for the demolition by Monday at the site just outside the French Quarter. The hotel was still under construction when its upper floors collapsed on Oct. 12, killing three workers and injuring dozens more. Two of the deceased workers remain in the building, and the developers say they could have the bodies recovered within 30 days and the entire structure removed within six months. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the collapse.
_5 Alligator attack: Deputies in South Carolina shot and killed an alligator that fatally attacked a woman, authorities said. Officers were called to a pond on Kiawah Island on Friday night and witnessed the attack, the Charleston County Sheriff ’s Office said. The victim was not identified. Deputies retrieved the alligator’s carcass to help with the investigation, deputies said. This is the third fatal alligator attack in South Carolina in the past four years. Before those attacks, South Carolina had never recorded a person killed by an alligator.
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