1. Casas was a former student at Quartz Hill High School in the Antelope Valley, 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

2. In December, two teenagers were arrested for planning what authorities said was a Columbine–style attack on their old high school in Quartz Hill, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

3. The plot on Quartz Hill High School, north of Los Angeles, unraveled when a 16–year–old sophomore heard the boys were planning to cut off her arms and legs during the attack and alerted an assistant principal, deputies said.

4. The appeal was expected and could delay a trial for DeLay on a separate money–laundering charge. · ATLANTA –– Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrated the opening of its $1.3 billion fifth runway, which is designed to cut delays in half by bringing in three streams of planes simultaneously, even in bad weather. · KINGSTON, Pa. –– Former bank robber Hugo Selenski, 32, who was acquitted in March of killing two suspected drug dealers, was charged along with a former friend, Paul Weakley, 36, in the strangulation deaths of a pharmacist and his girlfriend, whose bodies were among five found buried in Selenski‘s back yard. · LOS ANGELES –– Two teenagers meticulously planned an attack on Quartz Hill High School in February but were arrested Dec. 15 after another student heard that the boys were planning to cut off her limbs during the attack.