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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, say the driver of a school bus that crashed, killing six kids, has been arrested. Police say 24-year-old Johnthony Walker has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Walker was transporting 35 elementary school children Monday afternoon, when the vehicle flipped on its side and became mangled in a tree. Police believe Walker was driving too fast.
UNDATED (AP) — The man charged with shooting to death a San Antonio police officer says, "I lashed out at someone who didn't deserve it." Thirty-one-year-old Otis Tyrone McKane spoke to reporters as he was being led by police to the Bexar County Jail Monday. He said he wanted to apologize to the family of the slain detective, Benjamin Marconi. A St. Louis police officer shot twice in the face Sunday night, has been released from the hospital.
BERLIN (AP) — Cabin crewmembers with Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings are staging a 15-hour strike in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions. The union has called on Eurowings cabin crew based in Duesseldorf and Hamburg to walk out Tuesday from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time. News agency dpa is reporting that 50 of 88 planned flights to and from Duesseldorf have been canceled, and at least seven departures and seven arrivals in Hamburg have been scrapped.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reports say Kanye West was hospitalized after abruptly canceling the rest of his national tour. Without saying who the patient was, police say officers were called to a house on Laurel Avenue Monday afternoon for what turned out to be a medical situation. Police say West was taken in an ambulance to the hospital and was placed on psychiatric hold.
BEIJING (AP) — A top executive at the German automaker Daimler's China operation has gotten the boot after allegedly cursing Chinese people and using pepper spray in an argument over a parking spot. Rainer Gaertner, chief executive of Daimler's Chinese truck and bus division, is accused of starting an argument in an upscale Beijing neighborhood last week. Daimler says it considers the incident "detrimental" to the company regardless of what Gaertner might have said.
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