Missouri: Settlement reached in Carnahan plane crash

The families of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, his son and a campaign aide reached a $1.6 million settlement Monday with Cessna, the maker of the plane that crashed two years ago, killing the three men, and its parent company, Textron Inc.

But attorneys for the families said they plan to proceed with their lawsuits against several other defendants, including the manufacturer of what the plaintiffs claim was a faulty pilot guidance instrument.

The governor, his pilot son, Roger, and aide Chris Sifford died when the Cessna 335 crashed Oct. 16, 2000.

Los Angeles: Police officer suspended after videotaped beating

A police officer was suspended Monday after he was shown on a videotape slamming a handcuffed teenager onto the back of a car and striking him during an arrest.

Police Lt. Eve Irvine said 16-year-old Donovan Jackson lunged at a sheriff’s deputy and a physical altercation occurred before a bystander began taping the arrest at a gas station Saturday.

Images from the gas station’s surveillance cameras will be viewed to determine what happened, Irvine said.

Inglewood Officer Jeremy Morse, a three-year veteran, was suspended with pay. Three other officers were at the gas station but were not relieved of duty.

Pakistan: Three charged in bombing

Paramilitary commandos stormed houses in Pakistan’s largest city Monday, arresting three men who were charged in last month’s deadly bombing at the U.S. Consulate in Karachi.

The three are members of Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Almi, said Maj. Gen. Salahuddin Satti of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers.

The organization is a splinter group of Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, or Movement of Holy Warriors, an al-Qaida-affiliated extremist group whose members fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir, said provincial police chief Syed Kamal Shah.

Dozens of people have been rounded up in connection with the June 14 bombing, which killed at least 12 Pakistanis and injured about 50. However, the three men arrested Monday were the first to be formally charged.