DUXBURY, VT.
Crash suspect had record
A man accused of driving the wrong way on a Vermont interstate, crashing into a car and killing five high school students, is facing trial on an unrelated domestic assault charge, prosecutors said Monday. A police affidavit says Steven Bourgoin, 36, hit his girlfriend in the head and threatened to throw her down the stairs in May. Police say when she tried to leave with their 2-year-old child, Bourgoin got into the vehicle, drove them around and threatened to kill them. Bourgoin remained unconscious and in critical condition at a hospital Monday. Police say after crashing into the teens’ car, he took a police cruiser and crashed into seven more cars. Prosecutors say Bourgoin is their prime suspect in the teens’ deaths, but they haven’t charged him.
PAYSON, UTAH
Baby born at Wal-Mart
A Utah Wal-Mart got a special delivery when a woman had her baby while in a checkout line. The woman was buying groceries Sunday at the store in Payson when she went into labor. A Payson Fire Department spokesman said it was not the woman’s first pregnancy and things “progressed pretty rapidly.” Employees and other customers had to help deliver the baby in the store before emergency crews arrived. The mother and baby were taken to a hospital and are both healthy.
WILMETTE, ILL.
Man charged in HIV cases
A personal trainer from the northern suburbs of Chicago has been charged with knowingly transmitting HIV to three women he dated. Jimmy Amutavi, 46, faces three counts of criminal transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. Prosecutors say Amutavi was diagnosed with HIV as early as 2001, but repeatedly had unprotected sex with the women and then denied he had the virus when confronted.
LAKELAND, FLA.
Missing 4-year-old found
A missing 4-year-old central Florida girl was recovered in Tennessee on Monday, and the man who took her is in custody, authorities said. Rebecca Lewis and West Wild Hogs, 31, were located in Memphis, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said police received a call from a hospital after an employee recognized the man and the girl mentioned in the Amber Alert. The man was detained, and the girl was recovered. Neither had apparent injuries.
Compiled from wire reports