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CALIFORNIA

Girl killed, 2 wounded after football game

LONG BEACH | Police were searching Saturday for a person who fatally shot a 16-year-old girl and wounded two men after a Friday football game at a high school.

The girl, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, died at a hospital. It was unclear what led to the shooting at the school, police Sgt. Dina Zapalski said.

Gunfire erupted around 10 p.m. as several hundred people filed out of the game against Wilson’s archrival, Polytechnic High School.

A cousin, Han Yin, identified the girl as Melody Ross, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported. City Council member Gary DeLong described the slain girl as “an innocent bystander who was not involved” in the altercation.

An 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. The two men were not students, according to Mr. DeLong.

Friends and family members erected a makeshift memorial with flowers and handwritten notes on a street near the school.

COLORADO

Phone in dump found by ring

ASPEN | A determined man found his missing cell phone at a trash dump after dialing the number and listening for the ring.

Billy Boyd said he dropped the phone Tuesday while raking his yard outside Aspen and unknowingly scooped it into a bag of leaves.

He said he didn’t realize his mistake until after he left the leaves at a city recycling center.

Mr. Boyd said he could hear the phone ringing but couldn’t reach it because of a grate covering the recycling bin. By the time he reached city officials, the bin had been emptied onto a massive leaf pile at the dump.

After a half hour of dialing, listening and sifting at the dump, Mr. Boyd found his phone.

Landfill manager Chris Hoofnagle said it’s the first time he can remember anyone finding a lost item at the dump.

NEW JERSEY

Slain priest remembered

CHATHAM | A Roman Catholic priest who was stabbed to death in his rectory was remembered Saturday as a “quiet voice of peaceful love” at his burial Mass in northern New Jersey.

More than 1,000 people filled St. Patrick Church and its gymnasium to honor the Rev. Ed Hinds, who was found dead on the rectory’s kitchen floor after he failed to appear for morning Mass Oct. 23. Authorities said he had been stabbed 32 times the day before by church custodian Jose Feliciano.

“There was nothing in his life that could have provoked such a violent attack,” said Monsignor Kenneth Lasch, a retired priest who met monthly with Father Hinds.

The crowd included about 200 area priests and nuns. Clergy in flowing white robes formed a half-circle around the hearse as the priest’s coffin was carried down the church stairs and placed inside.

PENNSYLVANIA

Mom and toddler killed by train

DERRY | Police say a woman pushing a stroller across railroad tracks in western Pennsylvania was struck by a train, and she and her 2-year-old son died.

Authorities say the 37-year-old Derry mother and three of her children were returning from a shopping trip early Friday evening. They said she was struggling to push the stroller across the tracks when she and her toddler son were hit by a Norfolk Southern train at about 5 p.m. Her two young daughters managed to dart across the tracks and were not injured.

The victims’ names have not been released pending notification of relatives.

A Norfolk Southern spokesman said the company is cooperating with the investigation, but declined to comment further.

The accident happened less than 100 feet from where a 15-year-old was struck and killed by a train in July.