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1.Delta plane makes emergency landing after passenger assaults flight attendant
and air marshal, police say
2.Evergrande can't pay its debts. China is scrambling to contain the fallout
3. Police in China send girl, 14, back to parents who allegedly tried to sell her into
marriage for $40,000
A. A woman who was hit last month by a mini school bus in Queens has died,
according to authorities. Vivianna Wolpe, 33, of Jamaica, Queens, suffered injuries
to her torso and legs after a 71-year-old man driving the bus struck her on Nov. 17,
the New York City Police Department said Thursday night in a statement. At the
time of the crash, she was crossing a street about 2 miles north of John F. Kennedy
International Airport. Wolpe was taken Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and died
Wednesday, according to police.
B. The 600ft chimney at the former Longannet power station has been demolished in a controlled
explosion. The Fife site produced Scotland's last coal-fired energy until it ceased operation in
2016.The chimney was the largest free-standing structure in Scotland and was a local
landmark for generations. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pushed the button to ignite 700kg of
explosives, bringing down the chimney stack.
C. Turkish goalball player Sevda Altunoluk believes in empowering visually impaired people by
encouraging them to compete in professional sports.Goalball is a sport in which teams of three
visually impaired or blindfolded players throw a ball embedded with bells into their opponents'
net. Speaking to BBC 100 Women, she said it was important to light the way for other people
with disabilities. Sevda has been top scorer at many international competitions, winning medals
in the European and World Championships. And she made it to the top of the podium in the
Paralympics, winning gold with her team in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The International
Paralympic Committee called her "the world's best player", after she finished as the top scorer
in Tokyo with a staggering 46 goals. She is one of the BBC's 100 Women for 2021.
The family of a student who was shot during a deadly school shooting in Oxford,
Michigan, last week filed two lawsuits Thursday against the school district and
several school employees. The lawsuits, which seek $100 million in damages, say
the defendants' actions prior to the shooting "created the danger and increased the
risk of harm that their students would be exposed to." "The individually named
Defendants are each responsible through their actions for making the student
victims less safe," the lawsuit states. "The Oxford High School students, and
Plaintiffs in particular, would have been safer had the Individual Defendants not
taken the actions they did." On November 30, student Ethan Crumbley allegedly
opened fire at Oxford High School, killing four people and wounding seven others.
The 15-year-old suspect faces 24 charges, including one count of terrorism causing
death and four counts of first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty. His parents,
James and Jennifer Crumbley, also face four involuntary manslaughter charges and
pleaded not guilty.
Riley Franz, 17, was shot in the neck, the lawsuit states. Her 14-year-old sister
Bella, who is also a student, "narrowly escaped the bullets discharged towards
her." The lawsuits, filed by attorney Geoffrey Fieger on behalf of the sisters'
parents, Jeffrey and Brandi Franz, claim both students now suffer from emotional
injuries as a result from the incident, including severe trauma, post-traumatic stress
disorder, fright, shock, terror and anxiety.
The lawsuits accuse each defendant of violating the 14th Amendment, which
grants citizens equal protection of the law. The Franz family alleges that school
officials failed to expel, discipline or supervise Crumbley or notify police about his
social media posts and threatening messages, and thus encouraged the incident.
They also accuse Oxford High School's principal and superintendent of
inadequately training and supervising school employees, which "cultivated the
conduct" that then violated the Franz sisters' rights.
"Riley Franz was shot in the neck as a direct result of each and every one of the
within enumerated actions of Defendants'," the lawsuit states.
"At the same time, we have been and will continue to be fully cooperative with the
Oakland County Sheriff's Office and Oakland County Prosecutor's Office with
their investigation. We haven't been able to say more because this is an on-going
investigation," he wrote on Wednesday. "We do not have all the facts and cannot
interfere with the prosecutorial investigation. We know this has caused frustration
and anger but we are doing our best under difficult circumstances."
II. Police in China send girl, 14, back
to parents who allegedly tried to
sell her into marriage for $40,000
The teenager called police in Zhongning county, Ningxia region during the wedding on
November 24 to say she was being forced into the illegal marriage against her will, according to
a post by the local Justice Bureau Monday.
The post on social media platform WeChat described the local police's "quick and clever"
response to the call in a positive light, but has since been deleted after drawing controversy
online.
Police and other local officials rushed to the family home of the groom, surnamed Lee, and
stopped the ceremony, the post said.
The teenager's parents -- who had allegedly already bought gold jewelry with the money --
returned the dowry to the groom's family after mediated negotiations, police said.
The girl was also sent back to her parents, who police have not named.