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Regional Briefs: King officer is seriously hurt after collision
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Published: July 2, 2009
KING -- A King police officer was injured when his patrol car collided with a pickup truck yesterday.
Officer Bryan Brown was in serious condition at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center late yesterday afternoon, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Brown was on an emergency call heading south on Main Street at 11:15 a.m. when he lost control of his car after swerving to avoid hitting another vehicle.
The patrol car skidded and spun into the northbound lane, where it hit a curb and the pickup, said Kevin Hennelly, a spokesman for the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Robert Brodhead, the pickup's driver, was also taken to Baptist with minor injuries.
The wreck occurred about half a mile north of the intersection of Main Street and U.S. Route 52. Main Street has a northbound and a southbound lane and a turning lane. The N.C. Highway Patrol is investigating the wreck.
Nude man forces diversion of flight
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A cross-country US Airways flight from Charlotte was diverted to Albuquerque after a male passenger removed his clothing in midflight.
Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport, said that Keith Wright, 50, of New York disrobed Tuesday while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft. He says that Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant repeatedly asked him to get dressed, and he refused to be covered with a blanket.
Jiron said that law-enforcement employees who were passengers on the plane helped subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed. The FBI saaid that Wright is in federal custody on a charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.
A US Airways spokeswoman said that the plane continued on to Los Angeles after Wright's arrest
Correction officers charged in beating
RALEIGH -- North Carolina prison officials say that two current and one former correction officers have been charged with beating an inmate at a maximum-security prison.
The state Correction Department said yesterday that the State Bureau of Investigation agents arrested correction officers Terry Bell and Brian Bostick and former prison captain Gregory Beck. All three were charged with assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury. Bell and Bostick were suspended.
The charges stem from the officers' use of force in March 2008 at Maury Correctional Institution in Greene County. A department spokesman did not return a call seeking details.
WITN in Washington, N.C., reported that the officers beat an inmate with a baton.
Bill on mental-hospital data OK'd
RALEIGH -- The General Assembly has given Gov. Bev Perdue legislation she sought that's designed to release more information about deaths at state mental hospitals.
The Senate gave final approval yesterday to a bill that lays out what must be disclosed publicly when a patient dies. The House already approved the compromise now heading to Perdue's desk.
The bill requires that the name, gender and birth date of the deceased be released; when and where the death happened; and the circumstances. The requirement also applies to deaths that occur within 14 days of a patient's having left a hospital.
Facilities for substance abusers and the developmentally disabled also are included.
Attorney General Roy Cooper also pushed for the change, which he said "will help uncover problems and protect patients."
Lottery funds again exceed projection
RALEIGH -- The N.C. Education Lottery has exceeded its moneymaking projections for another year.
The lottery announced yesterday that it transferred almost $411 million to a special education fund from revenues generated during the fiscal year that ended Tuesday. That's more than the $385 million that legislators had been told to expect from the games.
Gross ticket sales reached nearly $1.3 billion for the year, or about $25 million more than predicted.
It's the second year in a row that the lottery met or exceeded expectations. The state received $350 million from the lottery for education a year ago.
Net proceeds from the four-year-old lottery go to reduce class sizes, expand preschool, help with school construction, and provide college scholarships.
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