■ UNITED KINGDOM
Police continue search
Police continued their search yesterday for 14 foreign convicted criminals who are still on the run after a break-out at an immigration detention center in Oxfordshire. The men, who had served their sentences and were awaiting deportation, have been on the run since Saturday evening. "Our priority is to recapture those who have escaped," a Home Office spokesman said in a statement. A total of 26 people broke out from Campsfield House Immigration Detention Center, five miles north of Oxford, after a fire was started, causing minor damage. Ten were quickly recaptured, while two more were caught later on Sunday.
■ UNITED STATES
Teens shot in parking lot
Three teenagers in Newark, New Jersey, died and another was injured after they were lined up against a wall in a school parking lot and shot in the head, authorities said on Sunday. A woman, Ofemi Hightower, and two men, Terrance Aeriel and Deshawn Harvey, were killed, said prosecutor's office spokesman Paul Loriquet, who did not know their ages. Aeriel's 19-year-old sister, Natasha, was in fair condition at a hospital on Sunday afternoon. "All four were good kids," Loriquet said. He said three of them had student identification from Delaware State University.
■ UNITED STATES
City asked to pay for mistake
The Army Corps of Engineers, which accidentally dumped sand filled with old military ordinance on the beach in Surf City, New Jersey, now wants the town to help pay to remove it. Local officials are angered by the suggestion that they should help foot the bill for a federal government goof that already has cost the town an unknown amount of tourism business. "If they're talking about getting any money out of Surf City to pay for their mistakes, they can forget about it," Mayor Leonard Connors told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
■ UNITED STATES
Eavesdropping law signed
President George W. Bush at Camp David, Maryland, has signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants. The law, approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives just before Congress adjourned for its summer break, was deemed a priority by Bush and his chief intelligence officials. "When our intelligence professionals have the legal tools to gather information about the intentions of our enemies, America is safer," Bush said. "And when these same legal tools also protect the civil liberties of Americans, then we can have the confidence to know that we can preserve our freedoms while making America safer."
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