Small jet crashes after takeoff; 2 die

A small jet crashed Saturday at one of the city's airports after being instructed to take off quickly because of an incoming airliner. Both people on the jet were killed.

The Cessna Citation 500 was preparing to leave Hobby Airport when controllers told its pilot to take off because a Southwest Airlines 737 with some sort of problem was approaching, said Tommy Dowdy, district chief for the Houston Fire Department.

The Southwest plane, with 119 passengers, was diverted to the city's other major airport, Bush Intercontinental, where it landed safely. Southwest spokeswoman Ginger Hardage said a cockpit gauge on Flight 422 reported a high oil temperature.

After takeoff, the Citation apparently began experiencing some sort of problem and asked if it could return to Hobby, Dowdy said.

The jet crashed while landing on one of the runways.

The plane was registered to the Texas Arrhythmia Institute, a heart clinic in Houston.

Dead list ordered to avoid vote fraud

A judge concerned about the potential for voter fraud in Tuesday's election has ordered the state to compile the names of all adult New Jersey residents who have died since 1985.

The case stemmed from Republican complaints that an estimated 13,000 people who apparently have died remain on voter registration lists, including 4,755 people who reportedly voted in last November's election.

Bomb plotter killed in prison attack

A Jewish Defense League activist imprisoned for his role in a plot to bomb a California mosque and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman was killed at a federal prison in Phoenix, an FBI spokesman said Saturday.

Earl Krugel, 62, was killed in an assault Friday evening at the Federal Correctional Institution, said FBI agent Richard Murray.

Krugel's wife, Lola, of Los Angeles said FBI investigators told her an inmate had struck her husband on the head from behind with a cement block.

Compiled from The Associated Press