KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – A man carrying what appeared to be a large pistol was shot by a police officer Monday while going from an armed robbery scene toward children playing in a park, authorities said.,”Kenosha police shoot gun-wielding man heading toward children

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – A man carrying what appeared to be a large pistol was shot by a police officer Monday while going from an armed robbery scene toward children playing in a park, authorities said.

Officers had ordered the man to drop the weapon, which turned out to be a black pellet gun, but he kept heading toward a group of children and others at Liberty Park when an officer fired a rifle shot that hit him in the side, police Lt. Ronald Bartholomew said in a news release.

The man was taken into custody and transported to a Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa with non-life-threatening injuries, Bartholomew said.

"We took the shot to keep the suspect from going to the park," Bartholomew said. "Obviously, the concern was that he would take a hostage or harm somebody, and we couldn't let that happen."

Car accident kills three teens in Fond du Lac County

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) – Three Fond du Lac High School students died Monday when their car flew out of control after driving over railroad tracks and smashed sideways into a tree, authorities said.

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department said the dead included the 18-year-old man driving the car and two 16-year-old boys riding with him.

"It's sad when you have young people who haven't even started living yet," Chief Deputy Mark Strand said. "The family is affected and the school is affected. Three people are not going to be at the high school tomorrow."

Names of the victims were expected to be released Tuesday, Strand said.

Terrorist attacks and deaths rose sharply in 2006, State Department reports

WASHINGTON (AP) – Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up more than 25 percent last year, killing 40 percent more people than in 2005, particularly in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, the State Department said Monday.

In its annual global survey of terrorism, the department said 14,338 attacks took place in 2006, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, 3,185 more than in 2005 representing a 28.5 percent increase.

These strikes claimed a total of 20,498 lives, 13,340 of them in Iraq, 5,800 more, or a 40.2 percent increase, than last year, it said.

Despite the grim figures, State Department officials pointed to some successes in the war on terror, including improved counterterrorism cooperation with various nations and the thwarting of numerous plots, notably plans to down trans-Atlantic airliners.

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