5 dead in Indiana multi-vehicle crash
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana State Police say five people were killed in a seven-vehicle crash on Interstate 65 near Lafayette.
Sgt. Kim Riley says the crash happened in a construction zone just before midnight Thursday when a semi rear-ended another vehicle, causing a chain reaction and igniting a fire.
Riley says three of those killed were in a minivan. The driver of the semi that caused the crash was also killed along with a driver in another vehicle. One other person was injured.
Riley says the highway was still closed in both directions Friday morning as authorities cleared the scene and investigated the crash.
Tribbett holds benefit concert after shootings
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Grammy Award- winning gospel singer Tye Tribbett is organizing a benefit concert to help two charities established in response to the fatal shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Tribbett said in a news release that he will donate a portion of the “ Hate Won’t Win” concert’s proceeds to the Mother Emanuel Hope Fund and the Low Country Ministries Reverend Pinckney Fund.
The Rev. Clementa Pinckney was a state senator and pastor of the Emanuel A. M. E. Church in Charleston. He was one of the nine slain at the church during a Bible study on June 17.
Tribbett said the parents of victim Tywanza Sanders also will attend the concert, which will feature several well-known gospel singers in addition to Tribbett.
Tribbett has won two Grammys, including one for best gospel album.
Tulsa suburb struggles to cope with stabbings
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — People in the quiet Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow are struggling to make sense of the horrors discovered in a gray barnlike house where five members of a family were found stabbed to death and a sixth was wounded but alive.
What is more shocking to locals is that two teenage sons in the family are expected to be charged in the deaths. A ninth family member, a 2-year-old girl, was found unharmed and was transferred to state custody.
Police identified one of the suspects as 18-year-old Robert Bever, who was apprehended along with his 16-year-old brother, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile. The dead parents were identified as David Bever, 52, and April Bever, 44. The dead and wounded children were not identified.
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