NEWS OF THE DAY
_ 1Elderly man slain: SWAT officers fatally shot a 107-year-old man in Pine Bluff, Ark., during a standoff at his home, police said. Lt. David Price said officers called to the home Saturday were told Monroe Isadore had pointed a weapon at two people. Officers had the threatened pair leave the home and approached a bedroom. Police say Isadore shot through the door but missed the officers. A SWAT team inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore had a handgun. SWAT officers released gas into the room when negotiations broke down. They said Isadore shot at officers who then fired back, killing him.
2Scout _ abuse: Confidential files turned over for a civil lawsuit set to go to trial Monday in St. Paul, Minn., may shed new light on the problem of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts of America. The documents were produced in litigation brought against the Boy Scouts and a former scoutmaster, Peter Stibal II, who is serving 21 years in prison for molesting four Scouts. Attorneys for one former Scout won a court order for the nationwide internal files, commonly known as “ineligible volunteer” or “perversion files.” They cover the years 19992008, much more recent than similar files forced into the open in an Oregon case last year.
3Ride _ malfunction: Twelve children were injured Sunday when a rotating swing-type ride at a fair in Norwalk, Conn., suddenly stopped, sending its riders crashing into each other. One adult was among the 13 people transported to hospitals after the mishap at Norwalk’s Oyster Festival. Police said an 8-year-old boy was admitted with non-life threatening injuries and the rest were treated and released. The ride area was shut down while state inspectors investigated, but other rides later reopened.
4Unsolved _ case: Sheriff’s detectives in Santa Barbara County say they are trying to determine who worked at a strip mall construction project in Goleta in 1979 as they seek to identify a serial killer suspected of murders and rapes more than 30 years ago. The office says the “Original Night Stalker” is suspected in at least eight killings and numerous rapes that took place from 1979 to 1986 in Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Ventura and Orange counties. Decades-old DNA evidence has linked him to the 1979 and 1981 murders of four people in Goleta. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the suspect may have come to the area to work on a construction site, possibly as a painter.
5Tahoe _ resort: A Lake Tahoe resort once owned by Frank Sinatra and frequented by his Rat Pack buddies is about to undergo a major makeover. The Cal Neva hotel-casino straddling the CaliforniaNevada line on the north shore will close for more than a year beginning Monday to allow for the multimillion-dollar project. Criswell-Radovan co-owner Robert Radovan says the 10-story hotel and 6,000-squarefoot casino will be upgraded in an effort to revive the struggling property. His Napa Valley based development company acquired the resort in April. Owners hope to reopen Cal Neva on Dec. 12, 2014, which would have been Sinatra’s 99th birthday.