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Tuesday 15 September 2015
Grand jury indicts mother in death of child found in swing
LA PLATA, Maryland (AP) — Saturday and faced an ar- and his mother were found boy from the swing and according to the town’s
A woman who was found raignment Monday morn- the morning of May 22. give him first aid, but “it website. The park is in view
pushing her dead son in a ing. The indictment charges was instantaneously clear of a few houses.
playground swing earlier Simms and her 3-year-old her with manslaughter, first- the child was dead,” she A medical examiner had
this year has been indicted son, Ji’Aire Donnell Lee, degree child abuse and said. There were no signs of previously ruled the boy
and charged with man- arrived at Wills Memorial child neglect. trauma to his body. Simms died of dehydration and
slaughter and child abuse, Park the morning of May Sheriff’s deputies went to was taken to a hospital for low body temperature. His
authorities announced 20, county sheriff’s office the park about 7 a.m. on an evaluation. death was ruled a homi-
Monday. spokeswoman Diane Rich- May 22 after being called One side of the park is cide.
The Charles County State’s ardson said in May. The to check on the welfare bordered by woods in La May 21 was cold for late
Attorney’s Office an- mother put the boy, who of the woman and child, Plata, a town southeast of May, Richardson said,
nounced that Romechia was alive, into the swing, Richardson said. The of- Washington D.C., with a “rather chilly and it drizzled
Simms, 24, was arrested where he stayed until he ficers went to remove the population of about 8,700, all night.”q
Deadly Northern California wildfire incinerates homes
JANIE HAR Adam Bailey, left, looks through the still smoldering remains cue the disabled woman poles, downed power lines
Associated Press of his home as his father-in-law Joel Miller looks on Monday, who called for help Satur- and fallen trees as they
MIDDLETOWN, California Sept. 14, 2015, in Cobb, Calif. Bailey escaped the flames day evening. The flames drove through billowing
(AP) — An explosive wildfire with his baby Saturday, just before flre roared through the prevented deputies from smoke. Several hundred
burned largely unchecked neighborhood of about two dozen homes. reaching her subdivision, people spent Sunday night
Monday after incinerating and rescue workers found at the Napa County Fair-
hundreds of homes and (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) her body when the fire sub- grounds and awoke to a
other buildings throughout sided, Lake County Sheriff’s breakfast of eggs, bacon,
rural communities north of An elderly, disabled wom- lives and they will cause in- Lt. Steve Brooks said. and doughnuts.
California’s Napa Valley, an who was trapped in her juries, and we have to do The fire exploded in size Four firefighters who are
leaving at least one person home died in the wildfire the best we can, because within hours as it chewed members of a helicopter
dead and sending tens of through brush and trees crew suffered second-de-
thousands fleeing down about 20 miles (30 kilome- we are really in a battle parched from four years gree burns during the ini-
flame-lined streets. ters) outside the famed with nature, that nature of drought, destroying tial attack on the fire. They
But it’s not the only one. A 400 homes, two apart- remained hospitalized in
second massive blaze, less Napa Valley. Others are is more powerful than we ment complexes and 10 stable condition.
than 200 miles (300 kilome- missing, but officials don’t are,” Brown said. businesses since igniting Gov. Jerry Brown on Sun-
ters) away, destroyed 135 yet know whether those Authorities flooded with Saturday, Cal Fire spokes- day declared a state of
homes as it spread through unaccounted for are else- requests for evacuation woman Lynn Valentine emergency to free up re-
the Sierra Nevada. That fire where. “These fires will take assistance could not res- said. By Monday morning, sources. He had already
was 30 percent contained. crews had gained 5 per- declared a state of emer-
Both fires have displaced cent containment of the gency for the separate
23,000 people, Mark 95-square-mile (250-sq. ki- 111-square-mile (290-sq.
Ghilarducci, director of the lometer) blaze. kilometer) wildfire south-
Governor’s Office of Emer- Residents fled from Mid- east of Sacramento that
gency Services, said at a dletown, a town of more has turned the grassy, tree-
news conference Monday than 1,000 residents, dodg- studded Sierra Nevada
with Gov. Jerry Brown. ing smoldering telephone foothills an eerie white.q
Fugitive treasure hunter captured with dozens of cellphones
ANDREW HUGGINS lier this year, according to Antekeier, were appre- gold aboard, contributing 16 photo IDs, 15 prepaid
AP Legal Affairs Writer a court filing Monday. hended in January at a to an economic panic. phone cards, six thumb
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Tommy Thompson awaits hotel where he was living The 161 investors who paid drives and three voice-
deep-sea treasure hunter sentencing in federal court near Boca Raton, Florida. Thompson $12.7 million changing devices, ac-
who spent years as a fu- in Columbus on Oct. 2 af- Thompson has faced ac- to find the ship never saw cording to Monday’s filing
gitive after refusing to tes- ter pleading guilty to a cusations of cheating in- any proceeds. Two sued of a U.S. Marshal’s inven-
tify about gold he discov- criminal contempt charge vestors since he discov- — a now-deceased invest- tory list.
ered in a historic shipwreck in April. ered the S.S. America, ment firm president and Thompson also had numer-
had dozens of cellphones, Thompson, 63, disap- known as the Ship of Gold, the company that once ous laptop computers and
along with prepaid phone peared three years ago in 1988. The gold-rush era published The Columbus tablets, a safe, prepaid
cards, photo IDs and devic- amid demands he appear ship sank in a hurricane off Dispatch newspaper. credit cards, Belize registra-
es to alter a caller’s voice, in court. He and his long- South Carolina in 1857 with Items found with Thompson tion papers and $425,380 in
when he was arrested ear- time companion, Alison thousands of pounds of included 43 cellphones, cash, the list said.q
