Colorado

Several shots fired outside high school

A boy fired several shots in a Ranum High School courtyard Wednesday after confronting another student in a hallway, authorities said. No injuries were reported.

The 14-year-old boy, who is a freshman at Ranum, was taken to a juvenile detention center, Coleman said. All 24 schools in Adams County School District 50 were locked down.

Above, an investigator with the Adams County Sheriff’s Department seeks evidence near the school

The school near this northwest Denver suburb is about 22 miles from Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 13 people on April 20, 1999, then killed themselves.

Washington, D.C.

Report: Modified pigs may be in food supply

Federal drug and agriculture officials are investigating the possibility that genetically modified pigs, created by scientists at the University of Illinois, were not destroyed as they should have been but instead have been making their way onto dinner plates for more than a year.

Environmental groups fear genes inserted into plants and animals will produce proteins that prompt allergic reactions if consumed.

Miami

Cuban exile group suspends rescue flights

The Cuban exile group that flew thousands of patrols to spot and rescue migrant rafters floating between Cuba and Florida is suspending its flights.

Jose Basulto, founder of Brothers to the Rescue, said Tuesday the group could no longer afford to fly search-and-rescue missions, citing both changing times and U.S. immigration policy.

“We are simply not as necessary as we have been in the past,” Basulto said. “It is redundant work on account of the fact that the U.S. Coast Guard is providing a very effective surveillance around the shores of Cuba that we cannot compete with.”

Brothers to the Rescue began operations 12 years ago.

Florida

Student arrested in college dorm fire

A student was arrested on arson charges in connection with a fire at Bethune-Cookman College that injured two students and a firefighter, authorities said.

Langston Imani DuBois Deary, 18, was charged with arson to an occupied building and was being held on $20,000 bond. He told investigators that he lit a pile of clothes on fire in his room about 6 a.m., according to police reports. Police said Deary told them he had smoked marijuana beforehand and “I felt like I was God, I could do anything.”