■ MEXICO
Man drives without arm
A man whose arm was severed on Thursday by a machete-wielding assailant drove more than an hour to the hospital, where doctors attempted to re-attach the limb. Reinaldo Morales, a 50-year-old farm worker, was heading home after work when one of eight assailants cut off his left arm in a single blow, said Raul Gonzalez, the doctor who received Morales at a hospital in the far-southern Mexican town of Pijijiapan. Gonzalez said Morales told him the assailants took off running after seeing his arm on the ground. Morales then picked up his arm and was able to drive for more than an hour, despite heavy blood loss. "He was bleeding profusely when he arrived," Gonzalez said.
■ UNITED STATES
Remains on display
Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, president Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical Assassins opens in Philadelphia. Theatergoers will also be able view a piece of the brain of the lesser-known presidential assassin Charles Guiteau, the man who killed president James Garfield in 1881. The specimens will be on loan to the Arden Theatre from Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, which boasts a large collection of medical oddities. They will be on display in the lobby for one night -- the Sept. 19 opening of Assassins, a Tony award-winning musical that explores the nine people who have taken aim at US presidents.
■ UNITED STATES
Atlanta Olympics guard dies
A man named as a suspect in the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing of 1996 and later cleared without being charged has died at his Atlanta home, a Georgia coroner said on Wednesday. Richard Jewell worked as a security guard at Centennial Olympic Park at the time of the July 27 bombing, which killed one person, injured more than 100 and marred the 1996 Olympic Games. "He did die at his residence. He died of natural causes. He had been home sick with diabetes and also had some kidney problems," Meriwether County Coroner Johnny Worley said in an interview.
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