Gospel singer hurt, wife killed in crash

Loganton, Pa.

Gospel singer Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash in central Pennsylvania that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver who hit their vehicle, police said.

Wright, 61, was injured late Friday along with his 14-year-old grandson, D.J. Wright, and both were taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, a hospital spokesman said.

Betty Wright, 58, of Roosevelt, N.Y., died in the three-vehicle crash on Interstate 80, state police said. The driver of the wrong-way car, John Pick, 44, of Lewisburg, also died, police said. A passenger in the third vehicle was in fair condition, the hospital spokesman said.

Timothy Wright has released more than a dozen gospel recordings, and his latest album, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus," came out last year. He is the pastor at Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in New York City.

Greendale, Wis.

Woman, 91, trapped under car for 2 days

A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.

Betty Borowski, of the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale, was found Tuesday and remained in a hospital in critical intensive care Friday, her niece Nancy DiMarco said. The hospital would not give an update on her condition Saturday.

Borowski, who lives alone, became stuck June 29 while looking for her keys; her head apparently got pinned by the axle, Greendale Police Chief Rob Dams said. "She was pretty well wedged in there," Dams said.

Borowski appears to be recovering, DiMarco said, but may have had a minor heart attack while under the vehicle.

Charles City, Iowa

Misfire injures 37 at fireworks show

A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a Northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.

Most of the people treated after the Friday night accident in Charles City suffered minor injuries, Fire Department spokesman Eric Whipple said.

It appears there was a misfire involving 13 racks of fireworks tubes during the finale of the city-sponsored show, Assistant Fire Chief Dave Boehmer said Saturday.

The city of about 7,800 people is 125 miles northeast of Des Moines, near the Minnesota state line.

Des Moines, Iowa

2 officials at raided meat plant arrested

Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally.

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, and Martin De La Rosa-Loera, 43, also were charged last week with aiding and abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identification. Guerrero-Espinoza was charged with aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft.

Federal immigration officials raided Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, May 12.

Nearly 400 workers at the plant in Postville were detained, and dozens of fraudulent permanent-resident alien cards were seized from the plant's human-resources department, court records said.

Detention hearings for both men were ordered for Monday in Cedar Rapids.

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