Couple and 2 friends killed in Indiana home
WAYNESVILLE, Ind. – Authorities said Sunday that four people found shot to death in a southern Indiana home were a couple who lived there and two of their male friends.
Daniel Burton, the 27-year-old son of the woman who was killed, arrived home from work Saturday night and found two of the victims dead in the living room of his Waynesville home, Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett said. He said Burton called police, who found the other two victims, including Burton’s 53-year-old mother, Katheryn Burton.
Authorities identified the others who were killed as Katheryn Burton’s longtime boyfriend, 39-year-old Thomas Smith, who also lived at the home, and two 41-year-old Columbus, Ind., men, Aaron Cross and Shawn Burton. The coroner said the Columbus men were friends of the couple, but were not related to them. Waynesville is a few miles south of Columbus.
New Orleans shooting injures 19 people
NEW ORLEANS – Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people, police said.
The FBI said that the shooting appeared to be “street violence” and wasn’t linked to terrorism.
Many of the victims were grazed and most of the wounds weren’t life-threatening, according to a police news release. No deaths were reported.
The victims included 10 men, seven women, a boy and a girl. The children, both 10 years old, were grazed and in good condition. Police said at least two people were in surgery Sunday night.
Ted Turner wins bison transfer court challenge
BOZEMAN, Mont. – Billionaire Ted Turner can keep his Yellowstone National Park bison calves.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported in a story published Sunday that Gallatin County Judge Holly Brown dismissed a request by a coalition of wildlife advocates to overturn an agreement Turner made with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
The agreement transferred dozens of bison to Turner’s private ranch near Bozeman to be taken care of for five years. In exchange, Turner gets 75 percent of their offspring.
Four wildlife groups that opposed the transfer filed a lawsuit contending the animals are a public resource that should be shielded from privatization. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs said the state should either move the animals onto public land or pay Turner to take care of them rather than give up their young as compensation.
Brown said state lawmakers gave the state wildlife agency broad decision making authority in the management of bison.
Associated Press
