HAWAII

Crash of B-52 off Guam kills at least 3

HONOLULU — Military officials say at least three crew members are dead after the crash of an Air Force B-52 bomber off Guam.

Rescue teams continue to search for three airmen still missing after the Monday morning crash. They have covered roughly 3,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Aircraft from as far away as Japan were brought in to assist in the operation.

The military says the B-52 was en route to a flyover when it crashed 30 miles northwest of Apra Harbor.

MICHIGAN

California woman charged with escape

LANSING — A California mother arrested 32 years after she fled a Michigan prison on a drug conviction was charged Monday with escape.

Susan LeFevre, 53, is back in Michigan serving at least 5 1/2 years of her remaining sentence for selling heroin. If convicted of escape, she could face probation or another five years in prison. She was arrested in April outside her home in an affluent area of San Diego. She had served about one year of a 10- to 20-year sentence before climbing a prison fence in 1976 and starting a new life.

Arrangements were being made to arraign LeFevre on the new charge.

LeFevre was 19 in 1975 when she agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and violation of drug laws in hopes of winning leniency. Instead, she was given the maximum sentence for selling about 3 grams of heroin.

After her escape, she traveled to California, where she assumed the name Marie Walsh and got married.

MISSOURI

Firefighter, 22, is slain by sniper fire

MAPLEWOOD — Firefighters became victims of what appeared to be an ambush Monday when they were fired upon from a house as they put out a vehicle fire across the street, police said. One young firefighter was killed, two police officers were wounded, and the house where the shots were fired later burned to the ground.

It was unclear Monday afternoon whether the shooter died in the fire.

Someone began firing from the house when firefighters arrived in response to a 5:40 a.m. report of a truck fire.

The city identified the slain firefighter as Ryan Hummert, 22. Officials said he was shot as he got off the firetruck.

A police officer was treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder and released. The other officer was taken to another hospital; he was expected to survive.

TEXAS

Residents get ready for tropical storm

McALLEN — Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday as forecasters predicted that the storm would strengthen into a hurricane.

The storm was expected to bring high winds and dump 10 to 20 inches of rain in coastal areas near the border. Emergency officials feared major flooding problems and urged coastal residents to prepare.

Shell Oil said it was evacuating workers from oil rigs in the western Gulf of Mexico.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane watch from Brownsville north to Port O'Connor.

Dolly was expected to make landfall Wednesday as a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 74 to 95 mph. At 8 p.m. EDT Monday, the center was about 405 miles east-southeast of Brownsville.

OREGON

First wolf pack in a century confirmed

GRANTS PASS — Oregon has its first wolf pack since the predator was wiped out by bounty hunting a century ago.

Department of Fish and Wildlife wolf coordinator Russ Morgan heard at least two adults and two pups answer his howls in the pre-dawn hours Friday in Umatilla National Forest.

He added that biologists would be keeping close watch over the wolves as part of Oregon's plan for allowing them to roam free without causing undue harm to livestock.

Biologists have long expected that wolves would spread to Oregon after they were reintroduced to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995.

PENNSYLVANIA

Suspect's sister may face charges

PITTSBURGH — The sister of a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting a baby from her womb led police to the wrong unit when they went to search the suspect's apartment, authorities said Monday.

Officials were deciding whether to file charges against Andrea Curry-Demus' sister, whose name could not be verified.

Curry-Demus, 38, is charged with homicide, kidnapping and related charges in the death of Kia Johnson. She was being held at the Allegheny County jail.

Authorities found Johnson's remains Friday after police were called about a foul odor. Johnson may have been alive when the baby was taken from her womb, officials said.

TEXAS

Husband charged with attacking soldier

EL PASO — A Fort Bliss soldier's husband kicked her in the face, stabbed her and raped her before abducting her from her off-post apartment and taking her to Las Vegas, police said Monday.

The soldier, who turned up injured but alive in El Paso on Sunday night, was attacked as she entered her apartment about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, police said in an affidavit charging Clinton W. Lewis, 34, with aggravated kidnapping.

The soldier, the mother of three, was reported missing Friday after failing to show up for work at Fort Bliss. When soldiers from her unit found her apartment locked and no one apparently inside, they called police.

Officers found evidence of a struggle.

Lewis turned himself in to El Paso police Sunday night. He is being held in the El Paso County jail on $75,000 bail.

— From wire reports