Seattle

Teen sniper suspect’s mom may be deported

The mother of teenage sniper suspect John Lee Malvo has been ordered deported to Jamaica, an Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman said Wednesday.

An immigration judge signed the order Tuesday after Una James, 38, dropped battered spouse claims that were part of a petition she made to seek special protection in the United States, INS spokesman Garrison Courtney said.

However, Courtney said a federal judge could block the deportation if another agency ” namely, the Justice Department ” wanted to keep her in the country. James is considered a likely witness in the sniper cases.

Virginia

Last sniper survivor released from hospital

The last of three survivors of the Washington-area sniper attacks has been discharged from a Richmond hospital after undergoing five operations.

The 37-year-old man, identified only as being from Florida, was shot once in the abdomen on Oct. 19 as he and his wife left a steakhouse in suburban Ashland.

Hospital officials have said the man lost his spleen, part of his pancreas and two-thirds of his stomach, and faced a long recovery and rehabilitation.

Another survivor, a 13-year-old boy who was critically wounded Oct. 7 when he was shot outside a school in Bowie, Md., was released from a hospital last week. The third survivor, a 43-year-old woman shot outside a craft store in Fredericksburg, Va., was hospitalized for less than a week after the Oct. 4 shooting.

Indiana

Jail escapee found; kidnap victim missing

The second jail escapee suspected of abducting a South Carolina woman during a multi-state crime spree was captured Wednesday in Goshen.

Chadrick E. Fulks was caught shortly after noon in Elkhart County, FBI agent Tom VanWormer said. He was being held at Elkhart County Jail in Goshen, about 30 miles east of South Bend.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether authorities were any closer to finding the missing woman, Alice Donovan, VanWormer said. Authorities believe she was kidnapped last week from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, S.C., by Fulks and another inmate, L. Branden Basham, who was arrested Sunday.

FBI agent Kathleen Murphy in South Carolina said Wednesday afternoon that Donovan still hadn’t been found.

Virginia

Fraternities suspended for blackface stunt

Two predominantly white fraternities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville were suspended by their national organizations after students showed up at a Halloween frat party in blackface.

According to news reports, fraternity members were dressed as tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

Photographs taken at the Oct. 31 party had circulated on the Internet.

National leaders of Zeta Psi and Kappa Alpha said Wednesday that they are investigating. The student-run Inter-Fraternity Council at the college also suspended the fraternities and is investigating.