ALVARADO, Texas
Infant dies in mom’s high-speed chase
A woman led police on a 25-mile high-speed chase until she crashed into a concrete median, killing her 9-month- old daughter in the collision, authorities said.
The infant, Alexxus Riza, was thrown Friday night from the sport utility vehicle, which rolled several times under an Interstate 35W overpass, said Trooper Dub Gillum of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The vehicle struck a traffic light before hitting the concrete barrier, officials said.
Aimee Andrea Riza, 36, of Keene suffered minor injuries and was charged with manslaughter, evading arrest, resisting arrest and reckless driving, Gillum said.
LOS ANGELES
15,000 march for immigrants’ rights
Thousands of people marched through downtown Saturday, demanding a way for the country’s estimated
12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush’s latest proposal.
Carrying signs saying “Amnesty Now,” about 15,000 people danced to Mexican music and passed large American flags over their heads.
Organizers said many illegal immigrants were angry about a White House plan that would grant them work visas but require them to return home and pay thousands of dollars to become legal U.S. residents.
ROMULUS, Mich.
Hot-headed pilot forces cancellation
A Northwest Airlines flight was canceled because the pilot was yelling obscenities during a cellphone conversation while people were boarding and cursed one passenger, a federal official said Saturday.
The pilot of the Las Vegas- to-Detroit flight was apparently in a heated cellphone conversation in the cockpit, then went into a lavatory, locked the door and continued the conversation, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said Saturday.
Gregor said Northwest removed the pilot from the aircraft and returned him to his home base in Detroit for an investigation.
NATIONWIDE
Much of nation in for a frigid Easter
It may be two weeks into spring, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Cold temperatures in much of the country have those celebrating Easter this weekend swapping frills, bonnets and sandals for coats, scarves and socks. Baseball fans are huddled in blankets, and instead of spring planting, gardeners are bundling their crops.
The National Weather Service was predicting record lows today for parts of the Southeast and Midwest, and an unseasonably cold weekend for much of the Northeast. Snow was forecast in parts of Ohio, Michigan and New England.
On Friday, snow had fallen in Washington, D.C., metro Atlanta and parts of west Texas and the Texas Panhandle.
