OREM, Utah
Students stabbed at school
As a group of boys at a Utah high school changed Tuesday morning into gym clothes for physical education class, a straight-A student pulled out a knife in the locker room and stabbed five of his classmates, sending the injured running for their lives and covered in blood, police said. The 16-year-old suspect with no record of disciplinary trouble also stabbed himself in the neck and was cornered by school workers until a police officer assigned to Mountain View High School got to the locker room and subdued him with a Taser shot. The five victims are all expected to survive. The suspect was treated and released.
CLAY, W.Va.
Mayor quits after racist post
A West Virginia mayor resigned Tuesday following a backlash after she posted a response to a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook. The Clay Town Council accepted Mayor Beverly Whaling’s resignation in a meeting late Tuesday afternoon and said it would act quickly to name a replacement for the remaining three years of her term. The resignation came after another woman whose racist post Whaling responded to was placed on leave as director of the Clay County Development Corp.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Deadly shooting at airport
A gunman lay in wait outside Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday before shooting and killing a Southwest Airlines employee in a premeditated attack that occurred while hundreds of people waited for flights nearby, police said. Michael Winchester, 52, was shot while walking between a terminal and the airport employee parking area. The unidentified suspect was later found dead in a pickup truck in a public parking garage overlooking the scene. Police said the suspect appeared to die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
NEW ORLEANS
New drug fights heart disease
For the first time, a new drug given along with a cholesterol-lowering statin medicine has proved able to shrink plaque that is clogging arteries, potentially giving a way to undo some of the damage of heart disease. The difference was very small but doctors hope it will grow with longer treatment, and any reversal or stabilization of disease would be a win for patients and a long-sought goal. The drug, Amgen Inc.’s Repatha, also drove LDL, or bad cholesterol, down to levels rarely if ever seen in people before.
Compiled from wire reports