Three college students are found dead

Three University of Wyoming students were found dead in a home near campus Sunday in what police said appeared to be a triple murder or murder-suicide.

A fourth student who lived at the house suffered superficial wounds and had yelled for neighbors to call for help, police said.

Investigators were treating the case as a triple murder but were considering the possibility of a murder-suicide, Laramie police Commander Dale Stalder said. "We just don't have all the facts yet," Stalder said.

The victims were Justin R. Geiger, 20, of South Beloit, Ill.; Amber N. Carlson, 19, of Denver; and Laramie resident Adam Towler, 20.

New York

Doctor suspected in explosion dies

The doctor suspected of blowing up his town house rather than allowing his ex-wife to benefit from its sale has died, nearly a week after suffering critical injuries in the blast, a hospital spokeswoman said Sunday.

Dr. Nicholas Bartha, 66, died late Saturday, said Mary Halston, an administrator at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Police had been unable to speak to Bartha about the July 10 explosion because he was in a medically induced coma. Authorities have said they were investigating whether he might have caused it rather than sell the town house as part of a divorce judgment favoring his ex-wife. The town house and land were worth nearly $6.4 million, according to the city's finance department.

Bar Harbor, Maine

Rescuers try to free entangled whales

Rescue crews were attempting Sunday to free two humpback whales entangled in commercial fishing nets or marine rope in New England coastal waters.

One rescue crew arrived at a site off the Maine coast early Sunday where a humpback was entangled in marine gear, said Theresa Barbo of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies in Massachusetts. People aboard a whale watch boat saw the distressed humpback Saturday.

A second rescue team was on its way to an entangled humpback off the Massachusetts coast, the whale-rescue organization said.

Oil spill fouls Christina River

Workers tried to clean up 2,100 gallons of spilled waste oil Sunday that fouled a five-mile stretch of the Christina River on the Wilmington Riverfront.

The oil spewed into the river after a hose ruptured Saturday evening during a transfer of waste oil from one tank to another at the International Petroleum Co. of Delaware facility, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The facility is operated by USFilter, a subsidiary of Siemens.

After the hose failed, a secondary containment system held 5,800 gallons of waste oil, but the remaining 2,100 gallons escaped into the river, said Vince Glorioso, a business unit manager for USFilter.

Compiled from The Associated Press