San Francisco
Stolen vehicle found in family slaying case
A stolen vehicle linked to a man whose wife and three young children were slain in Oregon was found Sunday at San Francisco International Airport, the FBI said.
Christian Longo, 27, is accused of killing his wife and children and dumping their bodies into two Pacific Coast inlets near the towns of Newport and Waldport, Ore.
A warrant for his arrest was issued Dec. 28, and he is the subject of a nationwide manhunt. Police have not revealed a possible motive for the killings. But they say Longo, who owned a construction cleaning company in Michigan, had faced a multitude of legal and financial problems.
Massachusetts
Noted admiral, wife commit suicide together
Rear Adm. Chester W. Nimitz Jr., a decorated World War II submarine veteran and only son of Navy Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, died with his wife, Joan Labern Nimitz. He was 86, and she was 89.
The Needham couple faced deteriorating health and chose to take their own lives, a day after a New Year's Day celebration with their family, said their daughter Betsy Van Dorn.
"This was not unexpected," she said. "They had lived their whole life together and wanted to die together."
The two had married in 1938.
California
New microchips on sale
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today will begin selling the fastest models yet of their flagship processors, the electronic brains of personal computers.
Intel's new top Pentium 4 chips run at 2.2 gigahertz and 2 GHz, or 2.2 and 2 billion of cycles per second. AMD's latest, the Athlon XP 2000+, clocks in at 1.67 GHz.
Despite the speed difference, AMD says its Athlons are more efficient and perform better than faster Intel chips when it comes to running many of the most popular applications.
Houston
Jury selection to begin in child drownings
Jury selection was scheduled to begin today in the capital murder trial of Andrea Yates, who faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the June 20 drownings of three of her five children Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months. Charges are pending for the drownings of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2.
Yates has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
In September, a different set of jurors determined Yates, 37, was competent to stand trial, meaning she understands the charges against her and can assist with her defense.
Testimony is not expected to begin until February.
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