LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Road rage kills 3-year-old
A Little Rock man who fired his gun into a car, striking and killing a boy, 3, did so because he thought the driver of that vehicle was following too closely, police said in an affidavit released Friday following the suspect’s arrest. Gary Eugene Holmes, 33, turned himself in at headquarters Thursday night, Little Rock police said in a statement Friday. Holmes was being held in the Pulaski County jail on preliminary charges of capital murder and committing a terroristic act in the shooting death last week of Acen King.
ROMULUS, Mich.
Lost teddy bear returned
For Detroit airport employee Steven Laudeman, the mission this week was simple: No teddy bear left behind. The Southwest Airlines ramp agent learned through social media that the 8-year-old daughter of an old friend lost her stuffed bear named Teddy after flying from Dallas to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Eleanor Dewald’s mother, Trish Dewald, put out the digital call after having no success with the airport’s lost-and-found operation. The Detroit Free Press and WDIV-TV report Laudeman retraced Eleanor’s steps before his shift began Thursday and found the bear atop a garbage can. The Dewalds were thrilled about Teddy’s return.
NEW YORK
Worker falls to death
Police are investigating a fatal fall at a Manhattan construction site. The accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. Friday at a building under construction on the city’s upper east side. Police say a construction worker, 30, fell down an elevator shaft. They say he fell from the third story to the basement. The worker was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
BETHLEHEM, N.H.
Customers go the distance
Instead of mailing her Christmas cards from her local post office, Sherry Wareing drove 20 miles roundtrip to a small post office in a White Mountains town of about 2,500. Convenience didn’t matter to Wareing, of Twin Mountain. She wanted the “Bethlehem” stamp on her envelopes. Each December, Bethlehem postmaster Brian Thompson dusts off a machine that has been there for at least six decades. Stacks of cards must be fed into it by hand, and it cancels each stamp with the word “Bethlehem.” With two days before Christmas, Thompson said about 58,000 letters had gone through the machine.
Compiled from wire reports