Son of 'Barney' creator enters plea

LOS ANGELES — The son of a co-creator of the children's show “Barney and Friends” has pleaded no contest to shooting and wounding his Malibu neighbor.

City News Service said 29-year-old Patrick Leach entered the plea Thursday to assault with a semi-automatic weapon and shooting from a vehicle causing great bodily injury. He could get 15 years in prison.

Leach's mother is Sheryl Leach, co-creator of the PBS show about a purple dinosaur who plays and sings with children.

Prosecutors said that in January 2013, Patrick Leach drove onto his neighbor's property, accused the neighbor of trespassing, and shot him.

Zoo worker bitten by Komodo dragon

OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha zoo worker was bitten by a Komodo dragon on Sunday and treated at a local hospital.

The female worker was taken from the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to a hospital after the 12:30 p.m. incident. Later in the afternoon, the zoo said in a statement the worker had been released and should recover fully. The zoo said earlier media reports that the worker was critically injured were incorrect.

Assistant general curator Stephanie Huettner said the worker needed a couple stitches to close up the wound on her hand.

The animal involved was a juvenile Komodo dragon. The zoo said the animal is about 4-feet-long and weighs about 10 pounds.

Adult Komodo dragons can reach 10 feet in length.

Lighthouse moved away from cliff

AQUINNAH, Mass. — A historic Martha's Vineyard lighthouse has arrived at its new location after a painstaking 135-foot move from the edge of an eroding cliff.

Richard Pomroy, manager of the relocation project, said the 160-year-old Gay Head Light landed on its new location at 11:10 a.m. Saturday and lined up “beautifully dead center” on a concrete pad. The journey on steel rails began Thursday.

Pomroy said it's hoped the beacon on the 400-ton, 52-foot-tall brick lighthouse will be relit in July.

The lighthouse sits near brightly colored cliffs at the western edge of the resort island that was once a whaling center.

Baltimore homicides reach 4-decade high

BALTIMORE — Three fatal shootings in Baltimore on Sunday brought May's homicide count to 43, making it the most violent month in more than 40 years.

With 43 homicides, May is the deadliest month since the early 1970s, when 44 people were killed in December 1971 and 45 people in August 1972, according to the Baltimore Sun.

There have been 116 homicides in Baltimore in 2015. As homicides rose in May, the number of arrests plummeted. Some attribute the drop to increased scrutiny of police following the April death of Freddie Gray from injuries received in police custody.