TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) – An Idaho man has been charged with second-degree murder after his 11-year-old daughter died walking in the snow after their vehicle got stuck.

Fifty-five-year-old Robert Aragon of Jerome banged his head on the table Monday in court.

Sage Aragon and her 12-year-old brother, Bear, were being driven to their mother’s house in West Magic on Christmas when the truck got stuck in the snow.

Authorities say the father let the children out to walk the 10 miles to their mother’s house. They say he drove back to Jerome after freeing his vehicle.

The worried mother called police. The boy was found that day and survived, and the girl’s frozen body was found the next morning.

Temperatures ranged from 5 degrees below zero to 27 above.

Roof collapses under heavy snow

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -One person is slightly injured in eastern Washington after a supermarket roof collapsed under heavy snow.

Fire officials say no one was trapped in the debris after the collapse Monday in Spokane. Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer says the only injury was a minor one to an employee.

Customers safely evacuated the Rosauers store after the center portion of the roof fell in. The flat roof had about 30 inches of snow on it.

GPS helps cops find teen suspects

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (AP) – It may be time to call off the dogs. Police say an upstate New York county’s 911 system has led them to arrest three teens accused of vandalism.

Police say three Middletown teens were trying to steal auto parts from parked vehicles early Monday when one of them unknowingly hit the emergency button on his cell phone.

The phone dialed 911, and police say emergency call dispatchers heard the three discussing the vandalism in progress. A 911 dispatcher used the phone’s GPS signal to guide arresting officers to their locations.

Bristol Palin has baby son, Tripp

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday.

Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Saturday, People magazine reported online. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Colleen Jones, the sister of Bristol’s grandmother, told the magazine that “the baby is fine and Bristol is doing well.”

The governor’s office said it would not release information because it considers the baby’s birth a private, family matter.

Palin family members, hospital employees and spokespeople for the governor’s former running mate, John McCain, either would not confirm the birth or did not return messages from The Associated Press.

The father is Levi Johnston, a former hockey player at Alaska’s Wasilla High School.

Palin announced on Sept. 1, the first day of the Republican National Convention, that her unwed daughter was pregnant. The campaign issued a statement saying Bristol “and the young man” would get married.

Levi Johnston’s mother eventually disclosed that her 18-year-old son was the father. The following week, the young man attended the convention in St. Paul, Minn., when Palin accepted the vice presidential nomination.

The announcement that the unmarried Bristol Palin, 17 at the time, was pregnant immediately drew concerns that it could damage Palin’s credibility as a religious conservative. But many observers noted the pregnancy served to humanize the Palins and showcase the candidate’s rejection of abortion.

Sherry Johnston, Levi’s mother, said in October that Bristol and her son were considering a summer wedding.

Levi Johnston told The Associated Press that month that he and Bristol loved each other and wanted to get married. Johnston, who dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician, said he was a little shocked to learn that Bristol was pregnant but quickly warmed to the idea of being a father.

He said the two had planned to get married even before Bristol became pregnant.

Johnston, an avid hunter, hinted at the time that they were expecting a boy. He said he was already looking forward to taking the boy hunting and fishing.

Johnston’s mother was arrested on felony drug charges this month after state troopers served a search warrant at her Wasilla home. According to authorities, she sent text messages to two police informants in which she discusses making drug transactions involving OxyContin, a strong prescription painkiller.

Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, have five children ranging in age from Trig, 7 months, to Track, 19. In between are Willow, 14; Piper, 7; and Bristol.


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