■ Mexico
Man slays his own kids
An unemployed man apparently angry at having to stay home while his wife went to work on Thursday killed his three young children then fled on a bicycle after his spouse stabbed him in the eye with scissors. Leonardo Gustavo Hernandez, 27, killed his one-year-old daughter, and two sons, ages four and five, in his home in Nezahualcoyotl, a city in central Mexico, said city Police Chief Jorge Amador. Amador said Hernandez either strangled or hung his children, but he didn't have any additional information. When his wife returned home, Hernandez allegedly turned on her, but then fled on a bicycle after she injured him in the eye with scissors, Amador said. Police were searching for him on Thursday night.
■ Brazil
New lawmaker arrested
Police arrested a newly elected federal lawmaker with the governing Workers' Party on Thursday on accusations of assisting companies that evaded over a billion reals (US$465 million) in taxes, the government news agency reported. Juvenil Alves, 47, was elected to Brazil's lower house of Congress in the Oct. 1 elections. He was among 20 people arrested in connection with the ring that operated in the city of Belo Horizonte federal police said in statement.
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