Connecticut
WWF violence targeted
A state lawmaker hopes to convince the World Wrestling Federation to reduce its televised violence.
Sen. Alvin Penn, a Bridgeport Democrat, said the WWF was becoming "more tasteless, uncouth and dangerous by the day."
Penn, co-chairman of the Legislature's Public Safety Committee, proposed in a news release a meeting with company officials to discuss their programming.
"We aren't interested in meeting with people who issue invitations through press releases," WWF spokesman Gary Davis said.
The WWF encourages parents to watch its programs with their children, he said. The company urges parents to use its Web site to answer questions about wrestling programs.
"It is not everyone's cup of tea," Davis said. "But for 20 million viewers, it is their cup of tea."
"We are not looking to get rid of wrestling," Penn said. "But we have a responsibility to our children to look out for them and make sure that they are not delivered a lowest-common-denominator product just because it sells."
Texas
Son charged in two deaths
An unemployed shrimper who lived with the bodies of his dead parents for months has been charged with murder.
A Galveston grand jury returned the one-count indictment Friday against David Sidney Hisey, Assistant Dist. Atty. Mo Ibrahim said.
Hisey, 52, has been in jail since early September, when the bodies of his parents, 85-year-old Sunnye Hisey and 91-year-old Hollis Hisey, were discovered at their home. A medical examiner ruled each was strangled.
Hisey was indicted in October on a charge of theft involving a check for $3,400 drawn on his parents' account the same day their bodies were found. The single count of capital murder combines both deaths in relation to the alleged theft.
Hisey's attorney, Tucker Graves, said both parents died in their sleep.
Graves said Hisey admits his mother died nearly a year before his father did but could not discuss why he didn't contact the authorities at the time.
Virginia
Beltway accident snarls I-95
Seventeen people were injured in an accident Sunday involving a Canadian tour bus, a truck and two cars that shut down the Capital Beltway and the heavily traveled I-95 corridor linking Florida and New York for several hours.
Virginia State Police said none of the injuries required overnight hospitalization.
The outer loop of the Beltway was reopened about two-and-a-half hours after the crash, allowing north-south freeway traffic backed up for miles to start moving again. However, part of the inner loop was closed for about eight hours before being reopened Sunday night.
State police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said in Springfield that the driver of a tractor-trailer truck was charged with reckless driving after being unable to stop in time when he came upon slowed traffic.
She said the truck pushed one car into another and then hit a tourist bus carrying 25 people from Quebec, Canada, to Orlando, Fla.
The bus, truck and one of the cars were destroyed by fire, but only after all the occupants had been removed.
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