IN BRIEF
MOTORIST PULLS PAIR FROM VEHICLE
Couple, teen die in fiery crash, but two children survive
Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said a sport utility vehicle carrying two adults and three children rear-ended a semitrailer early Sunday on the 210 Freeway in Sunland, about 20 miles north of Los Angeles.
The SUV burst into flames and two children -- a 9-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy -- were pulled out of the vehicle by a passing motorist.
The bodies of a man, woman and a teenage boy were found in the burned SUV, which was towing a trailer.
FEE INCREASES IN CALIFORNIA
Protesters stop occupation of building at university
Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.
Campus spokesman Jim Burns said the nearly 70 or so protesters who had occupied the university's Kerr Hall since Thursday in a demonstration over fee increases walked out of the building about 8 a.m. Sunday.
No arrests were made, but Burns said the students who took part in the protest are facing criminal charges or student judicial sanctions.
COLLECTION FOUND IN 2007
Scientists moving dinosaur bones at southern Utah site
Paleontologists have begun moving parts of a rich collection of dinosaur bones uncovered recently in southern Utah.
About 2,600 dinosaur sites have been discovered at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument over the past decade or so, but the collection found in 2007 is among the best, Bureau of Land Management paleontologist Alan Titus said.
"It's easily in the top three sites we've found," he said. "We're finding five or six different (dinosaurs) in one hole."
Among the fossils found at the site are remnants of a duckbilled dinosaur, a type of small flying dinosaur and an armored creature that had a clubbed tail.
They were among the creatures roaming the area during the late Cretaceous period 75 million years ago.
OFFICIAL BLAMES ECONOMY
Larimer County in Colorado sees big spike in suicides
Larimer County in Colorado has experienced the most suicides its had in a single year, placing it on track to finish the year at double the national average.
As of Thursday, 53 deaths have been ruled a suicide by the Larimer County Coroner's Office, or about 20.4 per 100,000 residents. The U.S. average is about 11 deaths per 100,000 residents.
Dana Lindsay, executive director of the Loveland-based Suicide Resource Center of Larimer County, said the underlying theme is the economy.
The previous county record of 52 suicides was set in 2005.
