Manhunt on after bullet fragment strikes boy's head

LONDON police were searching for a male suspect after a seven-week-old boy was struck in the head by a fragment from a bullet fired from the floor above at a home in Reading.

Bullet fragments traveled through the first-story ceiling from bedroom upstairs and hit Michael Johnson, who was in his stroller, police told the Reading Eagle.

Emergency officials said the baby was flown to Hershey Medical Center with a gunshot wound on Sunday night. A hospital spokeswoman would not release his condition.

Earlier a female neighbour drove Michael and his 20-year-old mother, Ebony Sanders, to Reading Hospital about 9.30pm (local time) after hearing Ms Sanders scream.

Ms Sanders told police the shooting was an accident. She said the man who fired the shot was with her in the bedroom while her son was sleeping in the living room downstairs.

She said she heard a gunshot and turned around to see the man holding a rifle. She heard the baby crying, ran downstairs and found him bleeding.

Schwarzenegger delays prisoner's execution

CALIFORNIAN governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delayed by one day the scheduled execution of Albert Greenwood Brown - who was convicted in 1982 of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl - in what would have been the state’s first execution in five years.

Schwarzenegger announced his decision after a Marin County judge refused Brown's request to block his execution scheduled for Wednesday (local time).
The Governor's temporary reprieve issued late Monday (local time) was ordered to allow sufficient time for Brown's appeal to be reviewed by a federal judge, the Los Angeles Times reported
A US District Court judge had previously put Brown’s execution on hold in 2006 when the death chamber in which the execution would occur was deemed too cramped and dingy and was ruled to constitute "cruel and unusual" punishment.
The execution team set to deliver the death sentence was also said to be improperly trained.
The state then built a new death chamber but lawyers for Brown have argued that a federal judge should

Survivors unlikely after landslide buries 30 in Colombia

A LANDSLIDE buried about 30 people on a highway in northwestern Colombia, authorities said, adding it was unlikely there would be survivors found.

"It has been confirmed that about 30 people have been buried in the rubble from this landslide (in Antioquia department), which is quite large," John Rendon, Antioquia's disaster prevention chief said.
A torrent of 100,000 cubic meters of earth swept onto a highway in the town of Giraldo, which leads to the city of Medellin, Mr Rendon said.