Print

Email story

Comment

Email editor

Nation in brief

Suspects may have more victims, police say

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two suspects accused of videotaping the rape of a woman and killing her might have other victims in their past, authorities said Saturday.

Additional charges are likely, said Ken Evans, spokesman for Jackson County prosecutor Mike Sanders.

"One of the items of the investigation is possible links to other missing persons," Evans said.

Richard D. Davis, 41, and Dena D. Riley, 39, were arrested Thursday after crashing their truck, ending eight days on the run. Davis was treated for injuries and turned over to police in Independence. Riley remained in a hospital in Joplin, Mo.

With them when they were arrested was a 5-year-old girl who had been taken from a town near Pittsburg, Kan. Police said she was hospitalized in Kansas City with serious injuries.

Davis and Riley are charged with killing Marsha Spicer, 41, who was seen being beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled on a videotape found at the Independence apartment of Davis and Riley.

Spicer's body was found May 15 in a shallow grave near Bates City, Mo.

Rescuers recover body of girl swept away in flood

IRVINGTON, Ky. - Officials on Saturday recovered the body of a 4-year-old girl who was trapped inside a vehicle carried away by a flood caused by severe thunderstorms that lashed Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana.

Five other people also died in the storms this past week.

A diver found the car in Sinking Creek in about 12 feet of water, 75 yards downstream from where it left a road, said Rick Priest, Breckinridge County's emergency management director.

The body of the girl, identified as Madison McCawley, of Rosetta, was still in the car, authorities said.

The girl's mother and another adult got out of their vehicle safely Thursday night, about 50 miles southwest of Louisville, authorities said.

Elsewhere in Kentucky, lightning killed Shirley F. Cosby, 68, on the sidewalk in front of her home.

In southern Indiana, searchers found the bodies of Greg Kemp, 35, and his 4-year-old son, Isaac, both of Leopold, downstream from where their pickup truck was washed off a road. Authorities continued searching Saturday for the boy's grandfather, Robert Edwards, 55.

Elsewhere...

HOFFA SEARCH CONTINUES: Agents used a backhoe Saturday to dig at the site of a barn that had been demolished a few days earlier as the FBI resumed its search for the remains of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. It was the 11th day of searching at the Hidden Dreams Farm about 30 miles northwest of Detroit. Digging at the 89-acre site would continue through the weekend, said FBI spokeswoman Dawn Clenney.

REPORTER FIRED: The Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch said Saturday it has fired a reporter for fabricating part of a story and has begun investigating his other work. Paul Bradley, 51, who worked in the newspaper's northern Virginia bureau, was dismissed Friday. The article, published May 17, was intended to gather reaction to President Bush's speech on immigration. Bradley's fabrications, the Times-Dispatch said, included an interview that did not occur with the director of a center for day laborers and the misrepresentation that he had visited the center. "What I did was wrong and an indefensible journalistic sin," Bradley said in a statement e-mailed to the Associated Press. "I cut corners to put some color into a story and I am now paying a dear price."

[Last modified May 28, 2006, 05:30:46]