Police Investigation

Authorities are investigating a report that a gunman has been spotted at the University of Rhode Island, officials said Thursday in a message sent to the university community. No injuries have been reported and there are no reports of shots being fired. But as a precaution, classes at the school's Kingston campus have been canceled and students and others were urged to stay indoors until the investigation is completed. The alert was sent shortly after 12:30 p.m. EDT. “The university is still investigating reports of a man with a gun in or around Chafee Hall on the Kingston campus,” the school said . ”We have notified the campus community through our emergency alert system, the website, and email to 'secure yourself indoors (not Chafee)

The suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young Northridge girl last week is a transient with an extensive criminal history, police said. Tobias Dustin Summers is the primary focus of the police investigation, LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said at a news conference Saturday afternoon at police headquarters downtown. Police said Summers frequented North Hollywood and other areas of the San Fernando Valley. It isn't known why the 10-year-old victim was targeted.

Los Angeles police on Saturday named a suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young Northridge girl this week as a 30-year-old transient with an extensive criminal history. Tobias Dustin Summers, who was last released from jail on Jan. 19 after serving a brief stint for a probation violation, is the primary focus of the police investigation, LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said at an afternoon news conference at LAPD headquarters downtown.  Summers has a criminal history dating back to 2002 that includes arrests for kidnapping, robbery, explosives possession and petty theft, Albanese said.

Los Angeles police on Saturday identified a suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young Northridge girl last week as a 30-year-old transient with an extensive criminal history. Tobias Dustin Summers, who was released from jail in January after serving six days for a probation violation, is the primary focus of the police investigation, LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said at an afternoon news conference at police headquarters downtown. Summers has a criminal history dating back to 2002 that includes charges of kidnapping, robbery, explosives possession and petty theft, Albanese said.

Police in Spokane, Wash., are investigating a fight that witnesses said might have involved USC basketball players, a Spokane police official confirmed. USC concluded its regular season Saturday afternoon with a 76-51 loss to Washington State at Pullman, Wash. The Trojans stayed the night in Spokane and flew home Sunday. Monique Cotton, communications director for the Spokane police, said that 10 to 12 officers responded to a call about a large fight in downtown Spokane about 2 a.m. Sunday.

PRETORIA, South Africa - Prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled what seemed damning testimony against Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend. But as the day wore on, the defense savaged the state's case, portraying the investigation as bumbling and shoddy. Laying out what is likely to be the basis of their case, prosecutors said at Pistorius' bail hearing that a witness heard what sounded like a quarrel shortly before model Reeva Steenkamp was fatally shot the night of Feb. 13. Another neighbor heard a shot, a woman's scream, then more gunshots, they said.

Somalia has charged a woman who said she was raped by government troops, accusing her of making a false accusation and insulting a government body, according to Human Rights Watch . A freelance journalist who talked to the woman also faces charges, along with her husband and two other people who helped introduce her to the reporter, the rights group said. Activists say the arrests occurred despite the fact that the detained journalist, Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, had not reported on the interview.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has refused for more than two years to allow its agents to cooperate with a Los Angeles Police Department investigation into the death of a drug suspect shortly after he was arrested in a DEA operation, according to LAPD records. The LAPD's homicide investigation has effectively stalled, and officials said in documents reviewed by The Times that without assistance from the DEA they cannot determine how the man's fatal injuries were inflicted.

Will Lindsay Lohan be charged with lying to the cops regarding her Porsche-vs.- big rig crash on Pacific Coast Highway? Only time - and the Santa Monica city prosecutor - will tell. A Santa Monica police investigation has determined that Lohan was driving the car at the time of the June crash, which contradicts what she told police after the accident, The Times' L.A. Now reports. While Lohan reportedly told authorities she wasn't behind the wheel, her assistant told police he was the one riding shotgun, while the big rig driver said he saw the actress in the driver's seat, according to TMZ . PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan's life in pictures The Los Angeles County district attorney apparently decided the mismatching stories didn't merit a felony case, so passed the package off to the Santa Monica prosecutor's office to decide if any laws were broken, prosecutors told L.A. Now. That Lindsay must "obey all laws" is a condition of her now-informal probation, part of a deal she struck after pleading no contest to theft of a necklace in May 2011.

FRESNO - Fresno police searched a fraternity at Fresno State University as part of an investigation into the hazing death of an 18-year-old freshman, according to newly released court documents. A search warrant filed in Fresno County Superior Court said detectives wanted to search the Theta Chi fraternity after its members evaded questions, leading to fears that they might hide or destroy evidence about the death of Phillip Dhanens of Bakersfield. Police declined to discuss the results of the search.