VEHICLE HITS PEDESTRIANS; ONE ARRESTED
london» Police say a vehicle struck pedestrians on a road in north London, leaving several casualties, and one person has been arrested.
Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the scene on Seven Sisters Road at 12:20 a.m. Monday. The London Ambulance Service said it was responding to the incident.
According to The Independent, a van veered off the road into worshippers leaving Finsbury Park Mosque shortly after midnight. Footage showed injured people motionless on the pavement as angry crowds surrounded a white man believed to be the driver.
No other details were immediately available.
Four missing in Greenland after quake, tsunami, floods. Authorities say
four people have been reported missing in Greenland after an earthquake off the Arctic island’s west coast triggered a tsunami that flooded a village.
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said Sunday that an earthquake late Saturday with a magnitude of around 4.0 struck northwestern Greenland near the village of Nuugaatsiaq. It said surging water is reported to have destroyed 11 buildings. Police evacuated 40 people from Nuugaatsiaq. In addition to those missing, it said nine people were injured, two seriously. Experts said the quake likely triggered a landslide into the sea, resulting in the tsunami and flooding.
Bombing at mall kills three, including French woman ●
bogota» President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to capture those responsible for detonating a homemade bomb that killed three people, including a French woman, in a busy shopping mall during the weekend and threatened to undermine years of security gains.
Santos offered a reward of about $35,000 to anyone with information about Saturday’s attack at the upscale Centro Andino in the heart of the city’s tourist district.
Tax hike doesn’t quite balance budget ●
topeka, kan.» The big income tax increase legislators enacted over Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto won’t balance the budget by itself, despite immediately boosting the state’s credit outlook.
Even though the reversal of most of Brownback’s income tax cuts will inject $1.2 billion in new revenue through June 2019, lawmakers will have to continue relying on some of the same fiscal patches they’ve employed in recent years to keep the books balanced as state law requires.
Part of the reason for the ongoing shortage is the spending increase for public schools that legislators approved last month to meet a state Supreme Court mandate. However, the state’s budget problems were deep enough that the GOP-controlled Legislature couldn’t raise taxes — or cut spending — enough to fix all of them at once.
“Cars 3” speeds to No. 1
● hollywood» “Wonder Woman” fell to second place in its third weekend in theaters, but it’s still doing the heavy lifting for the otherwise lackluster summer box office. As expected, the third installment in Disney and Pixar’s $1 billion “Cars” franchise easily took the top spot, with $53.5 million in earnings. “Wonder Woman” brought in $40.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $274.6 million.