Snowstorm to hit New England; Texas teen kills 3, commits suicide
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Version 0 of 1. Forecasters said parts of New England could get the brunt of a snowstorm that is heading for the East Coast. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning Sunday for southeast Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the islands. Up to 18 inches of snow could fall from Monday morning through the evening. Whiteout conditions and 40 mph winds are expected. The rest of Massachusetts, plus Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut, could see winter storm conditions with four to eight inches of accumulation Monday. The heaviest snowfall is expected during the morning commute through the afternoon. Officials say the Boston school system will be closed Monday. The weather service said New York City could get a couple of inches between Monday and Tuesday night, and the snow could even stretch into Wednesday night. — Associated Press A 19-year-old killed his mother and two neighbors before turning his gun on himself in a rural area in Texas, authorities said Sunday. Uvalde County Sheriff Charlie Mendeke said Dylan Westerburg gunned down his mother Friday afternoon in their home near Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. He then went next door and killed two brothers, Arthur Norton, 58, and Phinny Norton, 60, Mendeke said. Mendeke said investigators have not determined a clear motive for the shootings. Westerburg lived with his mother in a small cabin about 20 yards from the Nortons’ mobile home on the brothers’ property. Phinny Norton had some “sort of romantic relationship” with Westerburg’s mother, Jennifer Diane Jacques, 42, Mendeke said. Deputies had been called out to the property in the past because of domestic disputes but “nothing violent,” Mendeke said. — Associated Press A Pennsylvania man who sued the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center over a deadly, mold-linked infection that he and other organ transplant patients contracted at the facility has died. The medical center confirmed Sunday the death of Che DuVall, 70, and extended its sympathies to his family. DuVall, who had a lung transplant, is the fourth transplant patient at the hospital system who contracted the infection and died. “We again want to reassure our patients that we have taken every possible precaution to make our hospitals as safe as is humanly possible and have followed all recommendations made by federal and state regulators,” the medical center said in a statement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a December report that the four patients at the hospital system between September 2014 and September 2015 contracted the rare and often deadly infection caused by a group of molds. Three had died by the time the report was released, it said. — Reuters People wounded, killed in Florida nightclub: Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when as many as three shooters opened fire in an Orlando nightclub with a crowd of about 300 people in the predawn hours of Sunday, police in the Florida city said. Three off-duty Orlando police officers were working as security guards at the Glitz Ultra Lounge, and none of them discharged their weapons, Orlando police said. One of those shot died on the scene and the other died at a hospital, police said. Eight of the injured had gunshot wounds and one of them was in critical condition at a hospital. Three die in California car chase: Three people died in a fiery crash after a car fleeing authorities crashed into a taxi in San Francisco, officials said Sunday. Officer Vu Williams, a California Highway Patrol spokesman, said the brief chase Saturday night began after an officer tried to pull over the driver of a white Chevrolet sedan seen rotating in circles in the middle of a neighborhood street. The car drove away and the officer gave chase but stopped the pursuit after the car began racing through red lights. Moments later, the car crashed into a taxi and burst into flames. The three people killed were not identified. Two die, one hurt in California city melee: Authorities said two people were killed and one critically injured after an armed fight broke out among a group of people at a large apartment complex in Marin City, north of San Francisco. Lt. Doug Pittman, a Marin County sheriff’s spokesman, originally said at least three people had been killed Sunday morning in a melee involving people with bats and sticks. He said it was unclear what started the fight, but he confirmed that two victims were found near the entrance of an apartment. The third man was found nearby and taken to a hospital with at least one gunshot wound. — From news services |