News of the Day From Across the Nation
Here’s a story: A Los Angeles radio station says former “Brady Bunch” star Susan Olsen has been fired after she got into an online confrontation with gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting.
LA Talk Radio announced Friday that it will not tolerate hateful speech and that it has severed ties with the host.
Acord-Whiting later posted a screenshot of a Facebook message he says Olsen sent to him in which she appears to call him an offensive term for gay men.
Hate crime: A man has been arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime after police say he stabbed a worshiper near a Simi Valley (Ventura County) mosque.
Police said reports of people fighting sent them to a shopping center parking lot near the mosque around 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
Matteson remained jailed Sunday on suspicion of making criminal threats, violating civil rights and disturbing the peace by fighting.
Hundreds of people turned out to pay their last respects to a Georgia police officer shot and killed with a fellow officer last week.
Smarr and Jody Smith, an officer with Georgia Southwestern State University, were shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call Wednesday in Americus.
Authorities say the suspected shooter died Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a manhunt.
Resort fire: A fire at the main lodge at Boyne Highlands, a ski resort in Harbor Springs, Mich., injured 12 people and forced the evacuation of dozens more early Sunday.
Boyne said 40 percent of the lodge has some fire damage, and much of the rest of the building was affected by smoke and water.
The town also will lower its flags to half-staff to honor the 20 children and six educators shot to death when a gunman entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.