Connecticut: Long Island Sound oil spill dissipates

Most of the oil that seeped into Long Island Sound from a punctured barge had dissipated by Saturday, leaving cleanup crews only the task of moving thousands of gallons of oil to another boat.

“There really is no cleanup,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mike Edgerton said after military officials who flew over the site reported that the spill was broken up.

The leak, about 2,500 gallons, occurred about 2 a.m. Friday when the barge struck bottom about two miles south of Norwalk.

Pennsylvania: Heiress scam brings prison sentence

A woman accused of posing as a wealthy heiress to scam people out of thousands of dollars has been sentenced to prison for fraud.

Tereza Demoody, a middle-class widow who police said talked her way into a $3,500-a-night suite at Philadelphia’s Ritz-Carlton hotel and ran up a $32,000 limousine bill, was sentenced Friday to 11 1/2 to 23 months in prison for defrauding a real estate broker of $30,000.

Demoody, 49, who once filed for bankruptcy, used her nursing background to pose as a doctor, authorities said.

She allegedly told people she was a beneficiary of a $47 million family fortune amassed by Polish immigrant Haym Solomon, who helped bankroll the American Revolution. Solomon actually died childless and broke.

Houston: Police discover bodies of six people

Six people, including three children, were found shot to death early Saturday in a house northwest of Houston after an eight-hour standoff in which a police officer was wounded.

Authorities believe the man involved shot his wife, girlfriend and three young daughters days earlier, then turned a gun on himself during the standoff.

Two of the children were found stuffed into a barrel.