Originally published Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Nation Digest
5 children among 7 killed in Memphis house fire
A fire early Saturday killed five children and two adults, but three youngsters escaped and were being treated for burns.
Memphis, Tenn.
A fire early Saturday killed five children and two adults, but three youngsters escaped and were being treated for burns.
The two teenagers and an 11-year-old boy who escaped were hospitalized with second-degree burns on their faces and hands, Fire Department spokesman Lt. Keith Staples said.
Neighbor Lamar Boyce said the two-story brick and wood-frame house was engulfed in flames and windows were popping out from the heat.
Among the dead were a mother and four of her children, and her niece and nephew, said Alicia Bradley, 31, who said she was a cousin of the dead woman. Bradley gave the ages of those killed: the mother, 38; three girls, ages 7, 4 and 9; two boys, ages 1 and 5; and an 18-year-old man.
San Bernardino, Calif.
$10 million winner sent to prison
A man who won $10 million in a California lottery game has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed three people.
Thomas Turnour, 52, of Victorville, had pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing injury while driving intoxicated.
The winner of a SuperLotto game in 2001 was sentenced Friday in San Bernardino.
Honolulu
About 20 arrested at palace protest
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Officers arrested about 20 pro-sovereignty activists after the second takeover this year of the grounds of a Honolulu palace.
State law officers climbed a fence and made the arrests late Friday at Iolani Palace.
About a dozen men had locked the palace gates and posted signs saying: "Property of the Kingdom of Hawaiian Trust."
Hawaiian activists have long used the palace to protest U.S. occupation of the islands. A different group occupied the palace grounds in April.
Also
Paul Dhaliwal, 20, one of two brothers who survived a tiger attack that killed their 17-year-old friend last year at San Francisco Zoo, was sentenced last week to 16 months in prison for violating probation in a felony reckless-driving case.
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