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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Police in Indonesia say a would-be suicide bomber failed to detonate in a packed church in western Indonesia during Sunday Mass and injured a priest with an axe before he was restrained. According to national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar, the assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar but a bomb in his backpack did not go off.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says Kurdish militants have launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a civilian airport in the southeast of the country, causing minor damage and no injuries. The Anadolu Agency said Sunday the target of the rebels linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, was a police checkpoint at the Diyarbakir Airport. It says passengers were taken to safety after the attack and flights resumed after a brief pause during the police investigation.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been rescued and two men remain missing after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Dawne Massey says in a statement early Sunday that department officials responded at 8:53 p.m. Saturday to a report that a Cessna aircraft carrying three people had crashed into Lake Ponchatrain near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
DURANT, Miss. (AP) — A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections says the man arrested in the killing of two nuns in Mississippi has a criminal record and is currently on probation. She says Rodney Earl Sanders was convicted of a felony DUI and sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015 and was later released from prison and is on probation. She says he was also convicted of armed robbery and served six years. He was sentenced Oct. 17, 1986.
CHICAGO (AP) — The investigation is ongoing into the killing of NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin on a Chicago street. Nykea Aldridge was killed Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller near a school. Police are trying to determine if the 32-year-old mother of four was hit by a stray bullet during a robbery. Police say she was not the intended target. Detectives are interrogating two "people of interest."
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