Tour bus crashes; 1 dead, 66 hurt

A tour bus carrying members of an extended Alabama family home from a reunion veered off a southern Kentucky highway Monday and slammed into an overpass, killing one person and injuring 66 others.

State police said the driver apparently dozed off shortly before 3 a.m., while most of the passengers were asleep. The bus veered off Interstate 65, struck an earthen embankment and rammed a concrete bridge pillar.

At least two of the injured were reported in critical condition Monday afternoon, including an 8-year-old boy and the 63-year-old driver, police said.

Canton, Ohio

$5M bond for officer accused in slaying

A police officer accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her nearly full-term fetus made his first court appearance Monday and was ordered held on $5 million bond.

Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, was expressionless as he stood behind a window separating him from the courtroom, with his girlfriend's family seated a few feet away.

Jessie Davis, 26, was missing for about a week before her body was found Saturday in a park. Cutts is the father of her 2-year-old son, and Davis' relatives have said he is the father of the baby girl she was due to deliver July 3 and planned to name Chloe.

Minneapolis

2 infants are critical; 4th sextuplet dies

Only two of the sextuplets born to a Minnesota couple were still alive Monday, and both remained in critical condition, hospital officials said.

The fourth sextuplet to die, Cadence Alana Morrison, died Saturday morning, officials at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis said. Three of her brothers died within the first week of their June 10 birth.

Parents Ryan and Brianna Morrison of St. Louis Park released a statement saying: "Though our difficult time continues, our faith remains strong."

The babies were born about 4 ½ months early. The smallest of the six weighed only 11 ounces at birth, and the largest was a little over a pound.

Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Exploding oil tank fatal to 2 teens

A crude oil-storage tank exploded as two teens were jumping on it, hurling the youths 150 yards to their deaths, deputies said Monday.

The tank exploded Saturday night during a party in Routt National Forest, about 135 miles west of Denver, Rio Blanco County Undersheriff Michael Joos said. Vapor from the 160 barrels of crude oil in the tank may have been forced out through a relief valve by the pressure of the teens jumping on the top, Joos said.

He said deputies were trying to determine whether a campfire or a cigarette lighter ignited the vapor.

The victims were identified as Samuel Hedemark, 17, of Phippsburg, and Christopher King Fuller, 19, of Yampa.

Newark, N.J.

District apologizes for censorship

Newark Public Schools said Monday it regretted ordering a picture of a male student kissing his boyfriend blacked out from all copies of a high-school yearbook and said it apologized to the student.

Student Andre Jackson, 18, said he was disappointed that the superintendent had not delivered the apology face-to-face and in public. Jackson, who noted that the yearbook is filled with pictures of heterosexual couples kissing, said he learned of the apology through the media.

The district issued a statement Monday saying that it regretted the decision and that it would issue an uncensored version of the yearbook to any student of East Side High School who wants one.

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