Colorado: Suspect linked to rapes, assaults in two states

An Air Force airman was arrested Tuesday in a string of six sexual assaults last summer in Fort Collins and has also come under suspicion in a slaying and a series of rapes in Philadelphia, police said.

Senior Airman Troy Graves, 29, was jailed on $1 million bail after turning himself in. He has been stationed since 2000 in Cheyenne, Wyo.

In the Fort Collins attacks, an intruder entered apartments through unlocked doors or windows, blindfolded his victims and forced them to perform a sex act.

In Philadelphia, the Center City Rapist struck a well-to-do neighborhood from 1997 to 1999. Police connected six Philadelphia crimes including the strangling of University of Pennsylvania student Shannon Schieber through DNA but never identified a suspect.

Alabama: Fiscal crisis keeps jurors from reporting

A financial crisis in Alabama’s courts deepened Tuesday as state officials asked potential jurors not to report for duty next week to save money.

The notices to jury pools may delay the murder trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. It was scheduled to begin Monday.

“For next week, it doesn’t look very hopeful,” said Circuit Judge James Garrett, the presiding judge. He said the trial may be reset for early June, when criminal trials may resume under a budget-slashing plan mapped out by state court administrators.

California: Train collision kills 2

A freight train plowed head-on into a Southern California commuter train during the morning rush hour Tuesday about 35 miles south of Los Angeles. Two people were killed and at least 260 injured.

Authorities were investigating how the trains ended up on the same track. It was the nation’s second deadly train wreck in less than a week.