In brief: Man hospitalized after tiger shark bites his arm

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – A visitor from Kansas is in the hospital after a 10- to 12-foot tiger shark bit his left forearm while he was snorkeling off the Big Island of Hawaii.

West Hawaii Today reported the man was flown to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu in stable condition Wednesday.

Police said the 58-year-old had been snorkeling at Hapuna Beach when the shark attacked. Several bystanders helped drag him to shore. Police said he suffered severe cuts to his forearm and lacerations to his left thigh.

His identity has not been released.

Police: Woman removed expectant mother’s baby

LONGMONT, Colo. – A 34-year-old woman was accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach and removing her baby, while the expectant mother visited her home to buy baby clothes advertised on Craigslist, Colorado authorities said. The suspect was arrested at a hospital after taking the baby there, saying she had suffered a miscarriage.

Officers called to the residence Wednesday afternoon found the 26-year-old victim, who was seven months pregnant, stabbed and beaten, Longmont police Cmdr. Jeff Satur told the Daily Times-Call newspaper.

She underwent surgery and is expected to recover, but the baby did not survive.

Former Penn president files defamation suit

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Former Penn State president Graham Spanier filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday that accuses ex-FBI director Louis Freeh of scapegoating him in Freeh’s scathing report on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

The long-promised lawsuit called the Freeh report “a public relations product” that faulted Spanier, then-football coach Joe Paterno and other school leaders in order to vindicate the board, which had hired Freeh to conduct the internal probe amid allegations concerning Sandusky, a former assistant coach.

The suit also accused the university of breach of contract.