KILLER OF FIVE SHOT HIMSELF
say a gunman who killed five people in rural northern California didn’t die from a police bullet but by his own gun.
In a final report Friday, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department said an autopsy determined 44year-old Kevin Neal shot himself in the head in his car after police forced it off a road.
Police say Neal killed his wife Nov. 13 and went on a shooting rampage in Rancho Tehama Reserve the next day that included firing at an elementary school. He killed four others, including two neighbors, and wounded eight people including a 6-yearold boy.
Bed-bug cure burns multifamily home.
Authorities say that three people have been injured and 10 people left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati.
WXIX-TV reports it’s the second time in two weeks that a fire sparked by attempts to kill bed bugs has caused extensive damage in Cincinnati.
Officials say the fire late Friday heavily damaged a five-unit building and sent three people to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. Their injuries aren’t considered lifethreatening.
Reporter apologizes for crowd tweet.
WEST PALM FLA.» President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photo of Trump’s Florida rally on Friday.
Trump tweeted Saturday that “.@Daveweigel @Washingtonpost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in.” The post included photos of the Pensacola venue as Trump spoke.
“Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS Wapo!” Trump tweeted from his Florida estate. Weigel apologized within minutes.
“Sure thing: I apologize,” Weigel tweeted. Weigel said he deleted the photo after another reporter “told me I’d gotten it wrong.”
Trump said in a followup tweet that Weigel should be fired.
Phone check ends police chase. MILWAUKEE» Milwaukee prosecutors say a man who led police on a high-speed chased told arresting officers he crashed his minivan because he became distracted checking his cellphone for directions.
The Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office said in a criminal complaint released Friday that 20-yearold Logan Michael Brandenburg made the comment unsolicited while he was being transported from a hospital to the county jail.
Dog eats 21 pacifiers.
An Oklahoma mother and father couldn’t figure out what was happening to their child’s pacifiers until the baby’s grandmother saw the family dog swipe one off a counter.
One nauseous pooch and a trip to their veterinarian’s office confirmed the couple’s hunch: Dovey had 21 pacifiers lodged in her stomach. Dovey is on the mend and has already gone home.