Deputies kill gunman at Tennessee school
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An armed man was fatally shot by deputies Monday at an east Tennessee high school after he went inside and pointed a gun at the principal's head, a sheriff said.
"There's no doubt in my mind he went there to kill someone today," Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson said at a Monday afternoon news conference hours after the gunfire at Sullivan Central High School. "I don't know who, and I don't know why."
WJHL-TV reported that Anderson said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will likely determine the motive.
No students or teachers were hurt and school was dismissed at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Anderson said Thomas Richard Cowan, 62, of Kingsport confronted a security officer Monday morning after entering the school about 9 a.m.
Man surrenders in killing of 2 officers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of killing two police officers in a small Alaska village surrendered to authorities Monday.
Alaska State Troopers said John Marvin Jr. turned himself in shortly after 9:30 a.m. in the southeast Alaska village of Hoonah. Marvin, who was taken with no injuries, is charged with two counts of first degree murder.
Marvin, 45, barricaded himself in his home after the shootings of officers Tony Wallace and Matt Tokuoka late Saturday. The officers died sometime after the shootings.
A motive for what troopers called an ambush has not been disclosed.
During the standoff, troopers and other law enforcement agencies maintained their positions through the night into Monday, authorities said. Troopers had urged residents in the shoreline community of about 800 to stay away from the area.
Teacher in sex case is no-show at school
MORTON, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state teacher who won his job back after a conviction for inappropriately touching girls called in sick Monday as some parents demonstrated outside school.
Superintendent Tom Manke says he'll have to confer with the district's attorney and school board to decide what eventually happens with middle school history teacher Michael Moulton. Many parents have already pulled their students out of his classes in Morton. Manke says they'll be taught through an online program.
Manke says he's still determining how many students might be left in Moulton's classroom.
Many parents are outraged that Moulton won his job back on appeal.
Man dies a week after goat attack
COLBERT, Ga. (AP) — Officials say an 88-year-old man died a week after a goat attacked him outside his home in northern Georgia.
Madison County Coroner Michelle Cleveland said Monday that Vestal Davis died Saturday at Athens Regional Medical Center.
A Madison County sheriff's office report says Davis told a deputy that he went outside and a neighbor's goat charged him and knocked him to the ground repeatedly in Colbert, about 70 miles east of Atlanta.
The deputy says the 69-year-old neighbor who owns the goat says it escaped from its pen, but he did not know about the attack.
Civilian to defend GI in WikiLeaks case
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — An Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks has chosen a civilian attorney to lead his defense team.
The Army says former military attorney David Coombs, of Providence, R.I., will represent Pfc. Bradley Manning against charges he leaked video of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed a Reuters news photographer and his driver. WikiLeaks posted the video on its website in April.
Investigators say the 22-year-old intelligence analyst also is a person of interest in the leak of nearly 77,000 Afghan war records WikiLeaks published online in July.
Cabdriver-slashing draws hate charges
NEW YORK (AP) — An arts student accused of slashing a Muslim taxi driver's neck has been indicted on hate-crime charges, prosecutors said Monday as the student's lawyer lashed out at media interest in a case that comes amid debate over attitudes about Muslims and a plan to build a mosque near ground zero.
Michael Enright, the 21-year-old accused of telling the driver to "consider this a checkpoint" before allegedly stabbing him last week, waived his right to be in court as his indictment was announced Monday. He was being held without bail in a psychiatric ward until an arraignment next month on charges of attempted murder and assault, both as hate crimes.
Authorities said Enright, who traveled to Afghanistan last spring with a group to promote interfaith understanding, uttered an Arabic greeting before making his "checkpoint" remark and attacking driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a folding knife Aug. 24. Police have said Enright was drunk.
Woman who poisoned 2 men dies in prison
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman who killed her husband and later her boyfriend by poisoning them with antifreeze died Monday at a state prison where she was serving a life sentence, prison officials said.
Lynn Turner, 42, was found unresponsive Monday in her cell at Metro State Prison and could not be revived, said Sharmelle Brooks of the Georgia Department of Corrections.
The former 911 operator from north Georgia was convicted in 2004 of killing her husband, police officer Glenn Turner, in 1995. Authorities first thought he died of natural causes but reopened the investigation in 2001 after her boyfriend, firefighter Randy Thompson, was found to have been poisoned.
Parents admit tying son to table nightly
CLEVELAND (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old Cleveland boy have pleaded guilty to hog-tying and duct-taping him to a coffee table on a nightly basis for months.
Thirty-seven-year-old Andreia Huffman and 32-year-old Jason Dunikowski of Cleveland pleaded guilty Monday to a 196-count indictment. Charges include 180 kidnapping counts, child endangering and, against the mother, felonious assault.
The prosecutor has recommended a 17-year sentence for the mother and 15 years for the father.
Parents deny guilt in faith-healing death
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon couple who belong to a church that practices faith healing have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of their infant son.
The Oregonian reports that attorneys for Dale R. Hickman and Shannon M. Hickman entered the not guilty pleas Monday during an arraignment before Clackamas County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Jones.
Their son was born in September 2009, about six weeks premature. No one with medical training attended the birth.