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Afternoon Briefing

Suspect surrenders in girls’ deaths

NORWOOD, Colo.– A fifth suspect has surrendered to authorities after the child abuse deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found on a southwestern Colorado farm.

San Miguel County officials said four people were arrested Friday after the bodies of the girls were found on a farm outside Norwood, about 30 miles west of the ski resort town of Telluride. The fifth suspect surrendered Saturday.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Susan Lilly says investigators believe the girls — who were between the ages of 5 and 10 — had been dead for at least two weeks.

The two men and three women who were arrested are being held on suspicion of fatal child abuse.

Hospital shooting appeal to unfold

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case of a nurse who was shot and wounded at Danbury Hospital in 2010 while trying to protect another staff member from the shooter.

Justices are scheduled Tuesday to hear an appeal by nurse and former Marine Andrew Hull, who was awarded a Carnegie Hero medal for his actions.

Hull sued the town of Newtown after the shooting.

He said a town officer who brought the shooter, 85-year-old Stanley Lupienski, to the hospital for an emergency psychiatric evaluation failed to check him for weapons.

A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2015. The judge ruled Lupienski was not technically under arrest and therefore the officer was not legally required to search him.

Hull is appealing that ruling.

Woman found dead inside freezer

ROSEMONT, Ill. — A 19-year-old Chicago woman has been found dead in a suburban hotel’s freezer.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says Kenneka Jenkins was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m. Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont. Rosemont police say hotel staff discovered Jenkins inside the walk-in freezer a short time earlier.

An autopsy is scheduled.

Police say Jenkins was last seen at a party at the hotel early Saturday. She was reported missing Saturday afternoon.

The woman’s mother, Tereasa Martin, told the Chicago Tribune that police told her Jenkins apparently let herself into the freezer while drunk.

Martin said that if her daughter was drunk, she would have had difficulty opening the heavy freezer doors and would have realized she wasn’t entering an elevator or the hotel entrance.

‘Cyclists killed in charitable ride

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine State Police say two motorcyclists participating in a charitable ride have died in a collision with a pickup truck.

Police say the pickup’s two occupants and two other motorcyclists were also injured in the crash on Interstate 95 in Augusta early Sunday afternoon.

The motorcyclists were participating in the annual United Bikers Toy Run, delivering toys to needy children. Police say 58-year-old Jamie Gross died at the scene and 25-year-old Aaron White-Sevigny died at a hospital.

Two other motorcyclists, who were riding the same bike, 50-year-old driver Trevor Proctor and 46-year-old passenger Tori McGraw, were taken to a hospital.

The occupants of the pickup, 67-year-old William Nusom and his 99-year-old mother, Anna Nusom, were also taken to a hospital.

Police say 3,000 motorcycles participated in the toy run.

By The Associated Press

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