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Nigeria Criminalizes
Crane Cable Breaks Dropping Equipment
NEW YORK --- New York City officials say a piece of me- chanical equipment being lifted by a crane at an office building in Manhattan broke free and fell about 28 stories to the sidewalk below.
Ten people including two construction workers were in- jured, but none of the injuries was considered life-threaten-
ing.Officers who responded to the high-rise building in Mid- town East found that a crane's payload heading to the top of the building had broken free.
MJ’s Son Prince Jackson Graduates From High School
TJ Jackson, the cousin and guardian of Prince Jack- son congratulates him.
Prince Jackson has graduated from high school.
The family of the late Michael Jackson took to so- cial media this weekend to share how proud they were of the 18-year-old.
Among them was TJ, Prince's cousin and legal co- guardian, who posted a pic- ture of the two beaming Jackson men to Instagram.
Prince's sister, Paris, his grandmother, Katherine and his aunt, La Toya were also gathered at Buckley High School in Sherman Oaks on Saturday, along with several other friends and relatives. Prince has previously indi- cated that he wanted to attend the University Of Southern California to study film, busi- ness or mechanical science.
Tito Joe 'TJ' Jackson, 36, is the youngest son of Michael's older brother Tito. He was granted co- guardianship of Michael's three children, including 17- year-old Paris and 13-year- old Blanket, in 2012 along with 85-year-old grandmother Katherine.
N.J. Police Kill Man At Public Library
Kevin Allen was fatally shot at the public library.
Female Genital Mutilation
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Nigerian President Good- luck Jonathan signed a measure this week that crimi- nalizes female genital mutila- tion, in one of his last official acts before yielding the coun- try’s top office to Muham- madu Buhari, the International Business Times reports.
This 2013 version of the bill sets out a maximum pun- ishment of four years in prison and a 200,000 naira ($1,000) fine for carrying out FGM.
Some 19.9 million Niger- ian women living today are thought to have undergone
Incoming president Buhari.
the practice, and human rights advocates hope the de- cision will spur about 26 other African countries to outlaw the procedure, the re- port says.
LYNDHURST, N.J. --- Thirty-six-year-old Kevin Allen allegedly brandished a knife and charged at police during an altercation that led to his fatal shooting at a pub- lic library in front of students.
Lyndhurst, N.J., Police Chief James O’Connor an- nounced Saturday at a late night news conference that Allen was wanted for violat- ing probation terms of a work-release program, and that an officer recognized him as he entered the Lyndhurst public library.
The officer then con- fronted Allen on the third floor of the building, where Allen is said to have resisted arrest by struggling with the police officer, O’Connor said.
Police said Allen then pulled a knife when a second officer arrived and allegedly “charged” at the pair.
As gunfire rang out, peo- ple fled the library, and ad- ministrators later closed the building as more police ar- rived to investigate the shoot- ing.
Overdraft Fees To Top $1 Billion For Top 3 Banks
According to CNN, you aren't alone if you've ever been hit with an overdraft fee from your bank.
America's three biggest banks -- JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo -- made more than $1.1 billion on overdraft fees in the first three months of the year.
Despite efforts to curb these charges after the finan- cial crisis, they are still a big money maker for banks.
If the fee collection pace keeps up, the big three banks are on track bring in $4.5 bil-
lion in overdraft charges by the end of this year. That works out to about $20 for every American adult.
Banks aren't supposed to charge customers overdraft fees when they use an ATM to get cash unless the customer chooses or "opts in" to get the cash despite the fee.
That said, banks can still levy a fee if someone's balance goes negative because a check is cashed or an automatic pay- ment such as rent goes through and there aren't suffi- cient funds to cover it.
Lawyer Believes Police
Airman That Went On
WASHINGTON, D. C. --- An attorney has claimed Daron Wint, the suspect accused of holding hostage and murdering a family in Washington, D.C., is not 'ca- pable of killing anybody.'
Police in Washington be- lieve Wint, who is charged in the deaths of a wealthy businessman, his wife, son and a housekeeper, may have had help committing the crime.
Lawyer Robin Ficker told ABC News on Saturday 'I have completed 30,000 cases in the Maryland courts and I've met a lot of criminals and of course people who aren't criminals in my life.
'I do not believe and his parents, his mother, his brother, his sister, as I don't believe that he is capable of killing anybody.
'He's not the type, he's not a street thug, he's a gentle person.
'I believed that when I represented him 10 years ago and I believe it after talking to him for two hours today.'
Daron Dylon Wint, 34, of Lanham, Maryland, was arraigned May 22 on a first degree murder charge.
He is accused of holding captive construction busi- ness owner Savvas Savopoulos and the others until he got $40,000 in cash, then killing them and setting fire to their house in the up-
Shooting Spree In Walmart
Had No Apparent Motive
Daron Wint was arrested for the murder of Savvas Savopoulos, his wife, son and housekeeper.
scale Woodley Park neigh- borhood of the capital.
The killings 'required the presence and assistance of more than one person,' a Washington D.C. Metropoli- tan Police detective wrote in an affidavit filed in court on May 22.
Police identified Wint from DNA found on the crust of a pizza that was delivered to the house late on May 13, the affidavit said.
However, Ficker told ABC News 'He doesn't eat pizza. If he was hungry, he wouldn't order pizza.'
Police allegedly found more than $10,000 in money orders in Wint's car and a stack of $100 bills and more money orders in the truck, court documents said.
Police have said Wint had worked for Savopou- los' company, American Iron Works.
BISMARCK, N.D. — An autopsy will determine if a man had drugs or alcohol in his system when he fatally shot one worker and injured a second before killing himself at a North Dakota Wal-Mart store, police said Wednesday.
Police said the shooting at the store in Grand Forks a few minutes after 1 a.m. Tuesday may have been random. In- vestigators have found no link between the gunman, 21- year-old Marcell Willis, and the store or the employees whom he shot.
Willis was stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base. According to his social media, he’s a college graduate who had been working a second job. Just hours before his death, he wrote on Facebook “Go Hawks,” in reference to the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA. Willis had driven to the store with two friends who didn’t know anything about his plans.
Police on Wednesday
AIRMAN MARCELL WILLIS
identified the victims as Gre- gory Weiland, 70, of Grand Forks, who was killed, and Lisa Braun, 47, of Grand Forks, who was injured.
Willis was given medical treatment at the scene and taken to Altru, where he was pronounced dead, Zimmel said.
Zimmel said police be- lieve the airman fired only three shots before shooting himself.
Police did not identify the type of handgun or its caliber.
Have Wrong Man In
Murder Of D.C. Family
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