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HONDURAS: In a major blow to the powerful Honduran military, the nation's highest court for the first time cleared the way for military officers to stand trial in civilian courts. The Supreme Court of Justice Thursday ruled that general amnesty offered by the government in the 1980s to ease internal strife did not apply to 10 officers accused of abducting, torturing and trying to kill six university students in 1982.TOUGH FAN: A Russian teenager seeking a glimpse of his favorite rock group fell through the roof of an auditorium and broke both legs but gamely stayed until the end of the concert. The unidentified 16-year-old was unable to get a ticket to see the rock group "Agatha Christie" perform in the northern city of Kaliningrad Thursday night, so he attempted to climb into the concert through a rooftop ventilation hatch, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The hatch collapsed, and the teen fell into the concert hall, breaking both legs. Doctors wanted to hospitalize the youth immediately, but he refused to be moved until the rock show was over.
Across the nation
ARCTIC BLAST: A blast of Arctic air and stinging wind swept across the Plains into the Midwest and South Friday, sending the temperature plummeting nearly 60 degrees overnight. The storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas and knocked out power to thousands. Cities that saw record high temperatures on Thursday woke up to a deep freeze Friday. Moline, Ill., fell to 2 degrees below zero, a 58-degree drop; Chicago went from 61 degrees on Thursday to 10 Friday with a wind chill reading of 21 degrees below zero. Indianapolis was 61 degrees on Thursday and 4 degrees Friday morning. North Georgia saw temperatures fall from the 60s into the 20s.
NO INDICTMENT: A man who killed two teenagers with a barrage of rifle fire because a fancy hubcap had been stolen will not face trial on murder charges, a grand jury in Dallas decided. Relatives of Billy Wayne Cummings, 15, and Jeremy Lowrance, 16, decried the grand jury's decision Wednesday not to indict Shedrick Bables, 23. Bables' lawyers said he thought the youths planned to steal his custom car wheels and acted within the law in trying to protect himself and his property.