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Napping fugitive nabbed
A fugitive who eluded police for two days was captured in the small town of Dover, Kansas, after he took two newlyweds hostage in their home, only to fall asleep when they gave him pillows and blankets. Jesse Dennis Dimmick is expected be taken back to Colorado to face charges in a motel slaying there, authorities said late on Saturday. The 23-year-old was arrested after Jared and Lindsay Rowley slipped out unharmed when he dozed off and police stormed the home. Dimmick was shot when authorities rushed in, and later underwent surgery, though his injuries weren’t considered life threatening. The Rowleys were held captive for about two-and-a-half hours.
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Poet Jim Carroll dies
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote The Basketball Diaries, died on Friday at age 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times. In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the downtown New York art scene. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about extensively. He published several poetry collections, while his 1980 album, Catholic Boy, has been hailed as a landmark punk record. But it was his autobiographical tale of life as a sports star at an elite private high school in Manhattan that brought him his widest audience. The book was first published in 1978 and was turned into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995.
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Tangled lines kill skydivers
Two members of an elite skydiving team were killed when their parachutes got entangled at 1,830m during a group jump in Northern California. Bill Dause — owner of the Parachute Center near the town of Lodi — says the men were part of the Red Line jumping team, an eight-member group who was practicing on Sunday for the US Parachute Association national skydiving championships next month. The team was jumping in close formation when three parachutes became entangled. One diver was able to separate and safely deploy his chute, another died immediately on hitting the ground, and another died at a hospital.
■COSTA RICA
US-bound migrants held
Authorities detained 54 US-bound migrants from Africa and Nepal after their boat arrived on Sunday. Some were being treated for dehydration after several days at sea. Three suspected Colombian smugglers traveling with the group were arrested, said Sergio Lopez, a security ministry spokesman. Migration Director Mario Zamora said the seven women and 47 men would be taken to a detention center in San Jose to join 41 other migrants.
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