Denver: Columbine father apologizes to officer

A man who accused a police officer of mistakenly killing his son during the Columbine High School massacre apologized publicly.

“We’re sorry for the pain and frustration we have caused him,” Brian Rohrbough said.

The parents of 15-year-old Daniel Rohrbough had filed a lawsuit alleging Sgt. Dan O’Shea shot their son during the confusion after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold launched their attack on April 20, 1999. Twelve students, a teacher and the gunmen were killed.

But an independent investigation released last week blamed Harris in Rohrbough’s death and said O’Shea had not yet arrived at the school when Rohrbough was shot.

Georgia: Writing on the wall brings trucker’s arrest

A plea for help scrawled on a bathroom wall in Tennessee led to the arrest of a truck driver at a rest stop in Georgia, where police found a woman who said she had been beaten and held against her will for six months.

Katina L. Shaddix, 24, told police she hid a marker in her sock and left more than 30 messages in restrooms from New York to Tennessee.

Maintenance worker Binford Aycock found one, saying, “Won’t let me out. Beating me, this is no joke!” while cleaning the restroom at an Interstate 75 rest stop Friday night in McMinn County, Tenn. He called 911.

The message, written in ink marker, named “Cannon truck 383.” Officials used a global positioning system to trace the truck to a rest area on Interstate 16 in Georgia. Deputies converged on the truck early Saturday.

Shaddix, who said she had no family, remained hospitalized Tuesday in Dublin; her condition was not disclosed.

Arkansas : Wal-Mart testing used-car sales

The world’s largest retailer is taking a test drive in the used-car business.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning to lease property adjacent to five of its stores in the Houston area to a Connecticut-based car sales company for six months, Wal-Mart spokesman Jay Allen said Tuesday in Bentonville.

Allen said Wal-Mart and Asbury Automotive Inc. will then evaluate the program and decide where to go from there. Wal-Mart’s only involvement will be to lease the property and help Asbury Automotive develop the program, he said.

By early May, Houston shoppers could be able to bank, get their hair done, buy groceries, new clothes and a car, gas up and go all from the same location.

Georgia: More charges filed in crematory case

Authorities have filed 34 more charges of theft by deception against a crematory owner accused of taking money for cremations and then keeping the bodies on his property.

Brent Marsh, 29, now faces a total of 266 charges in the case stemming from the discovery of corpses at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble. Since Feb. 16, 339 discarded bodies have been found on the property.

Marsh remains in custody in the Walker County jail in LaFayette.