Jet emergency delays air show

DAYTON - An airliner made an emergency landing at Dayton International Airport yesterday, temporarily halting an air show. Dayton aviation director Iftikhar Ahmad said the Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 was en route from Tampa to Detroit when a computer failure prompted the crew to shut down one engine and make the landing as a precaution. No one was injured. (AP)

JUNCTION CITY - Scattered showers forecast for California's northern mountains yesterday were not expected to have enough rain to extinguish wildfires that still threaten homes. Because of cooler temperatures, lightning strikes don't pose as much of a threat as they did a month ago, when storms sparked nearly 2,100 fires, fire officials said. (AP)

PITTSBURGH - A woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant woman's uterus and stealing the baby has been charged with homicide, unlawful restraint, and kidnapping, police said yesterday. Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, was charged in the death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport. She allegedly took the baby boy to a Pittsburgh hospital and claimed it was her own. Johnson's body was found Friday in Curry-Demus's apartment. (AP)

ST. LOUIS - A man killed his wife and her sister and beat his brother-in-law before taking his own life, police said yesterday. Boris Shotekoff, 57, shot himself Saturday morning at his home in Creve Coeur, outside St. Louis, according to investigators. His wife was found dead in the house and her sister's body was found at an office in Overland. The sister's husband was in critical condition. (AP)

LITTLE ROCK - An apparent set of conjoined birds has been discovered, authorities said. The bodies of the barn swallows, which are attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, are being sent to the Smithsonian Institution for examination, wildlife officials said. (AP)

CHERRY HILL - A bronze horse statue stolen from the former Garden State Park racetrack was destroyed and sold to a salvage yard, police said. One suspect was charged with theft and conspiracy, and police were looking for three others. The bronze from the 1-ton statue is worth about $4,000. As a piece of art, it was valued at about $500,000. (AP)