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DALLAS – An elderly grandmother woke up in her Dallas home Tuesday to find her daughter and granddaughter shot to death, along with the granddaughter’s estranged husband, police said.
Police say Keith Hill, 26, killed the two women and committed suicide. He was found dead in the home with a rifle by his body. There was no sign of forced entry.
Janice Hill, 24, and her mother, Jeanne Carroll, 52, were dead when Hill’s elderly grandmother woke up around 1 p.m. Tuesday. She is in her 80s, hard of hearing and never heard the rifle shots, police Sgt. Gil Cerda said.
Keith Hill had been arrested last month for assaulting his wife, and Cerda said she had sought a restraining order against him.
An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb said Tuesday.
Eight people were arrested after authorities found the woman’s body hidden under some brush, on the side of a road several miles from the remote campsite.
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said the woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate in the ritual and then return to her home state to find other members for the group.
But Strain said the white supremacist group’s leader, Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44, shot and killed the woman Sunday after a fight broke out when she tried to leave. Foster was charged with murder and is being held without bond.
Wintry weather across much of the northern Plains caused fatal accidents in Minnesota and left a layer of ice and nearly a foot of snow in parts of Nebraska.
The National Weather Service posted winter weather advisories covering sections of Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and northern Iowa.
The Minnesota State Patrol said a 17-year-old boy died southwest of Minneapolis in Le Sueur County when his car slid head-on into a snowplow Tuesday morning. A 40-year-old died in a vehicle rollover on Interstate 35E south of Minneapolis in Dakota County, the patrol said.
The weather service said up to 4 inches of snow was possible across southern Minnesota into Wisconsin.
Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican convicted of seven felony counts last month, faces a vote by his Republican colleagues next week on whether to kick him out of the Senate’s GOP conference and strip him of plum committee assignments.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has said he’ll seek to expel Stevens from the GOP conference at a Tuesday meeting to elect party leaders for the session that begins in January.
Stevens is leading narrowly in his re-election bid but has not officially been declared the winner of a seventh full Senate term.
A 56-year-old woman who gave birth to her triplet granddaughters a month ago is recovering from a Caesarean section and hopeful that one of the girls will be home from the hospital by Saturday.
Jaci Dalenberg, 56, of Wooster in northeast Ohio, offered herself as a surrogate when her daughter, Kim Coseno, and her husband, Joe, were waiting to adopt. Coseno had two children from a previous marriage but was unable to have another baby because of a hysterectomy.
Her ovaries could produce eggs, so she and Joe Coseno, her husband of three years, tried in vitro fertilization. The embryos were implanted in Dalenberg’s uterus.
The girls were born Oct. 11 – more than two months premature and each weighing less than 3 pounds.
Florida has agreed to pay the nation’s biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion under a revised deal to obtain vast tracts of farm land to restore the Everglades.
The amount to be paid to U.S. Sugar is significantly less than the $1.75 billion price tag initially projected for the state of Florida. The deal no longer includes the company’s high-tech mill, railroad lines or a citrus processing plant.
U.S. Sugar made terms of the deal public in statements Tuesday.
The 28-acre compound that the nation’s second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group’s annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses. The Southern Poverty Law Center wants to take it all away.
On these tranquil grounds amid western Kentucky’s low, rolling hills, the Imperial Klans of America incited members to severely beat a Hispanic teen at a county fair, the civil rights group contends in a lawsuit.
The center hopes its case will bankrupt this Klan group, a tactic the center has used to decimate other racist organizations.
Jury selection begins today in Meade County, about 40 miles south of Louisville.
