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HARTFORD, Conn. — A 16-year-old girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior prom died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut's chief medical examiner said Sunday.
The medical examiner's office ruled that Maren Sanchez's death was a homicide. A 16-year-old male classmate is charged with murder as a juvenile in the stabbing at Jonathan Law High School in Milford. The attack occurred Friday morning, hours before the school's prom, and authorities are investigating whether Sanchez was stabbed after turning down the boy's invitation to the dance.
Police haven't released the suspect's name, but people who saw him taken into custody identified him as a friend of the victim.
RICHMOND, Calif. — Crews were searching the northern part of San Francisco Bay for a pilot after two small planes collided while heading home from a show, sending one aircraft crashing into the water while the other one safely reached its destination.Debris was found in San Pablo Bay after Sunday afternoon's collision near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Coast Guard Petty Officer Loumania Stewart said. Crews Sunday had not found signs of the downed pilot, but officials were planning to search overnight.The collision involved a single-engine Cessna 210 and a single-engine Hawker Sea Fury TMK 20. The Cessna went into the bay and the Sea Fury's pilot was able to land 40 minutes later.
NEW YORK — Scripts for “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles' camera and a cigar ashtray were among the late director's belongings sold at a New York auction.Sixty-seven lots fetched $180,000 at Heritage Auctions on Saturday.Margaret Barrett, Heritage's director of entertainment-linked auctions, called the items “a piece of cinema royalty.”Two dozen pages of scripts for the 1941 masterpiece “Citizen Kane” went for $15,000, far surpassing the $2,000 estimate.Welles' old Bell & Howell movie camera used to record a bullfight in Spain sold for $37,500, against a $2,000 estimate.And a silver-plated cigar ashtray Ernest Hemingway gave Welles fetched $5,000.
