12 injured at Arizona festival
TEMPE, Ariz. – An Arizona music festival is set to resume for a Kanye West performance after as many as 12 people were injured when a crowd rushed a stage, officials said Sunday.
Tempe Police Sgt. Damon DeSpain said the department is working with other emergency responders and the event promoter to prevent a repeat of Saturday night at the Summer Ends Music Festival.
Witnesses said a horde of revelers pushed toward the stage during a reggae performance, and some people got stomped or couldn’t breathe.
Nine people were taken to a nearby hospital after the incident around 7 p.m. at Tempe Beach Park.
Vandals strike statue after pope canonizes Serra
CARMEL, Calif. – Police in Northern California say vandals defaced a statue of Father Junipero Serra at the Carmel Mission, where the remains of the recently canonized missionary are buried.
Carmel Police Sgt. Luke Powell tells The Salinas Californian that vandals struck Saturday night, damaging statues, gravesites and signs and spewing green and white paint on doors.
The Mission says a statue of Serra and other historic statues in the courtyard were toppled. Photos posted on the Mission’s Facebook page show someone wrote “Saint of Genocide” on a stone.
Many Native Americans say the missions cut their ancestors off from their traditional languages and cultures and enslaved those who converted to Christianity.
IS terrorists kill 3 Afghan police
KABUL, Afghanistan – Islamic State gunmen attacked checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three police in the group’s first attack on the country’s security forces, Afghan officials said.
The spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, said another eight police were wounded in the attack in the Achin district, bordering Pakistan.
Afghanistan responded to the pre-dawn attack with a wave of airstrikes that killed 85 IS militants, according to a statement from the Afghan intelligence agency. “All the terrorists killed were Pakistani citizens,” under the command of Hafiz Saeed, who was also killed, the National Directorate of Security statement said.
Elsewhere in the country, a car bomb near a cricket match in the eastern Paktika province killed nine people and wounded 33, according to the Interior Ministry.
Pot bundle drops from sky, slams carport
Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.
Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, near the U.S.-Mexico border, and saw pieces of wood on the ground. She found a bulky bundle wrapped in black plastic.
Inside was roughly 26 pounds of marijuana – a package that authorities say was worth $10,000 and likely was dropped there accidentally by a drug smuggler’s aircraft.
“It’s all right on top of our dog’s house,” Donnelly said of the Sept. 8 incident.
Associated Press
