FALSE REPORT OF SHOTS CAUSES PANIC AT PARADE
WASHINGTON» A panic caused by a mistaken belief that a gun had been fired during a pride parade in Washington, D.C., sent people running through the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday evening, city officials said.
Police said some of the people who ran suffered minor injuries and seven were taken to hospitals.
“As the officers were going to the scene, there was a crowd of people going away from it, and some of the individuals in the crowd said there was a man with a gun and that someone had fired a shot,” said Guillermo Rivera, a commander with the Metropolitan Police Department.
The man was taken into custody and is facing a gun possession charge, Rivera said.
City officials said no shots were fired.
9 hospitalized when subway car derails in Boston. BOSTON» A subway car derailed Saturday in Boston, sending nine people to the hospital.
Local emergency officials said none of the injuries are lifethreatening.
Officials with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the accident occurred at about 11 a.m. Saturday when a Green Line subway car derailed inside a tunnel near Kenmore Square.
Four Seasons, NYC’S famed power lunch spot, closing again.
New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant is closing less than a year after it reopened in a new location.
The New York Times reports that the midtown Manhattan restaurant known as the original power lunch destination will close Tuesday.
The Four Seasons lost its home in the Seagram Building when developer Aby Rosen took over the landmark skyscraper in 2016.
2 killed when small plane crashes on Long Island. small plane crashed on New York’s Long Island on Saturday, killing the man and woman on board, authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Authority said in a statement that the singleengine Beechcraft A36 plane crashed in Southold at around 9:15 a.m.
Southold Chief of Police Martin Flately said in an email that the two people aboard the plane were killed. Flately said a dog that was on the plane survived.
“Person of interest” in Detroit deaths remains in custody. man who Detroit police call a “person of interest” in the deaths of three women remains in custody.
A spokeswoman for the Wayne County prosecutor said Saturday that the case remains under investigation and no charges have been filed.
Police say the homeless man was taken into custody Friday night, two days after the body of a woman was found in a vacant house on Detroit’s east side.
The bodies of the other two women were discovered in separate empty dwellings earlier this year. Investigators believe the deaths are related.
Attempt at Great Salt Lake to break float record falls short.
A gathering at the Great Salt Lake in hopes of making it into the record books fell way short.
Utah park officials invited people to a beach on the lake’s south end Saturday in an attempt to set the world record for the largest number of people floating together, unassisted, in a line at one time.
According to the Guinness World Records website, Argentina holds the current record after 1,941 people successfully floated together on the surface of Lago Epecuén de Carhué in 2017.
Police: Deputy filmed sex act involving mother, baby.
ST. GABRIEL, LA.» Authorities say a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy filmed a mother performing a sex act on her 1yearold boy.
News outlets report St. Gabriel Police arrested Shaderick Jones on Friday on multiple charges including principal to firstdegree rape.
The boy’s mother was arrested Saturday on a charge of firstdegree rape and incest. According to WAFBTV, she told investigators she was coerced into performing the sex act because Jones had a traffic arrest warrant against her.
— Denver Post wire services