NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 _ Officer shot: Police in the Chicago suburb of Park Forest said an officer shot during an exchange of fire Saturday was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Mayor John Osternburg identified the officer as Tim Jones. He was shot while investigating a report of a break-in and a vehicle theft at a vacant residence. The suspect reportedly came out of the house and fired on officers with a handgun. Police returned fire, and the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating the shooting.
2 _ Insurance fraud: Three people including the father of French train hero Spencer Stone have been indicted in a scheme to set fire to commercial buildings in the Sacramento area to collect insurance money. The indictment unsealed Friday accuses Jamal Shehadeh, 57, of setting seven fires at six commercial buildings then collecting over $1.5 million in insurance proceeds from 2009 to 2013. Prosecutors said Stone’s father, Brian J. Stone, 57, was a business consultant for Shehadeh and helped with the fraudulent insurance claims. He’s charged with 13 counts of mail or wire fraud. A third defendant was charged with three counts of mail fraud. Defense attorney Benjamin Galloway said Shehadeh denies the allegations. Stone’s attorney declined comment. Spencer Stone along with friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler were vacationing in Europe in August when they tackled a gunman with ties to radical Islam on a Paris-bound train.
_ 3 Campus graffiti: Brown University is investigating antigay and anti-Semitic graffiti found in a campus building that houses a Jewish fraternity and a fraternity with many LGBT members. Campus police will investigate, President Christina Paxson said in an email to the Brown community in Providence, R.I.
_ 4 Refugees drown: Nine Cuban migrants died and 18 others were rescued after their boat was found off the Florida coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The group’s boat was found by a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the agency said in a statement Friday. The migrants were suffering from severe dehydration and said they had been at sea for 22 days. They were picked up off the coast of Marco Island in southwest Florida. The cruise ship was taking them to its next port of call in Cozumel, Mexico.
5 _ Plane crash: Two teenagers were able to walk away after their rented airplane crashed onto a Wichita, Kan., golf course. The pilot was a 17-year-old boy and the passenger an 18-year-old woman who were on their way from Nashville to Jabara Airport in Wichita on Friday when they crashed, police said. The 1966 single-engine Mooney came down at the Tallgrass Country Club, narrowly missing nearby homes. Nikki Womack said she and her daughter saw the plane fly low over their neighbor’s home before crashing onto the course. Womack said the boy got out and was bleeding from the head, followed by the woman, who had an eye injury.