COLORADO

Schools to open despite salmonella

Officials in Alamosa were planning to reopen the city’s schools today as crews continued to flush the city water system to purge it of salmonella.

The schools have been closed since Tuesday, when officials began pumping high concentrations of chlorine into the water system to flush out the potentially fatal bacteria.

The city’s water was deemed safe for quick showers but not to drink.

The source of the bacteria, which sickened more than 300 people, has not been determined.

Nasty storm injures two

A powerful storm, including a possible tornado, swept through a trailer park in the northwest part of the state, injuring two women, authorities said.

The storm tore the roofs off trailers, downed trees and flipped one mobile home onto its side, said Siggie Silve, the patrol chief for the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office.

MARYLAND

Father arrested in children’s deaths

A man killed his three children at a downtown Baltimore hotel, then called the front desk to report the killings, police said.

Mark Castillo, 41, of Silver Spring was being held in the deaths. Police spokesman Sterling Clifford identified the children as Anthony, 6, Austin, 4, and Athena, 2.

NEW YORK

Priest accused of stealing to gamble

Msgr. William Belford said that the Rev. Patrick Dunne of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in White Plains allegedly took a significant amount of church money for a gambling habit and had been removed from the parish.

Belford said that the Westchester County district attorney’s office was investigating.

From Times Wire Reports