Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will return to his country this week despite warnings from the provisional government that he will be arrested, he said at a news conference at the United Nations on Tuesday.

“I am going to return on Thursday because they expelled me by force, and I am going to return as always: as a citizen and as president,” Zelaya told reporters after the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution stating that Zelaya should be restored to power.

Zelaya, speaking to the general assembly, called it a historic resolution.

“Your servant has several accusations against him in Honduras,” he said. “But nobody has given me a trial. Nobody has convened a tribunal.”

The deposed president said he would travel to Washington on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States.

Seven people, at least five of them students, were shot Tuesday at a bus stop in Detroit, Michigan, officials said.

“Two perpetrators, possibly three, pulled up in a vehicle, exited their vehicle with weapons, asked for a person by name and then opened fire onto the crowd,” said Police Chief Roderick Grimes.

“They got back in their vehicle and exited the scene.”

Police Officer Leon Rahmaan described the vehicle as a green minivan and said the incident occurred about a mile from Cody High School at 2:30 p.m., as summer-school classes were ending for the day.

Two of the victims were in critical condition; the others were in serious condition at area hospitals, Grimes said. The shooters — both of them male — covered their faces with either masks or T-shirts, he said.

Robert Bobb of the Detroit Public Schools said summer school would continue Wednesday as scheduled.

“Tomorrow, we’ll have new leadership in place at the school,” he told reporters. “We want parents to bring their children, have their children continue to come to summer school here tomorrow.”

No one was immediately taken into custody, said police spokesman Dan Donakowski.

Saying he poses a “serious flight risk,” a federal court refused Tuesday to release billionaire financier Robert Allen Stanford on bond.

Stanford, 59, was indicted earlier this month on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud. Prosecutors allege his actions earned his company, Stanford Group Co., an estimated $7 billion. He is charged in connection with a long series of alleged frauds outlined in a 21-count indictment.

A magistrate judge had set his bond at $500,000, with a $100,000 cash deposit. But prosecutors contested that, saying Stanford was a flight risk. A hearing on the matter was held Monday.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — Former Sen. Norm Coleman gave up his challenge to the November election results Tuesday, clearing the way for satirist Al Franken to take the state’s remaining U.S. Senate seat.

Noah Spaulding of Greenville won Saturday’s Great American Super Kids Soap Box Derby for special needs children in Sharon.

He will move on to compete in an Akron Ohio Event at a later date.

Other finishers:

• Prestin Allen, Masury, second place.

• Nathan Bortner, Hermitage, third place.

• Bryan Cornelius II, Sharpsville, fourth place.

• Simon Moore-Watson, Erie, fifth place.

• Lauren Plummer, Oil City, sixth place.

• Megan Freeze, Hubbard, seventh place.

• Dillon Hamilton, Hermitage, eighth place.

A total of 37 children raced, and 125 volunteers helped out.

Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Regatta is only days away, and organizers are beginning to prepare – including formulating a plan to extend a high wire across the Allegheny River.

This weekend Pittsburghers and visitors can enjoy the traditional staples of the Regatta: power boat races and the Fourth of July fireworks.

But organizers have a few new tricks up their sleeves, too. Pyrotechnico, the fireworks company that will be supplying the event, has promised to give Pittsburgh a show like they’ve never seen before.

And perhaps the biggest event of the three-day Regatta is high-wire artist Nik Wallenda. He will walk across a wire only a dime-size in width and raised 200 feet above the Allegheny River on Friday.

Saturday, attendees will see who has the best make-shift boat in the “anything that floats” race on the river. Also on Saturday is Three Dog Night’s performance, the biggest name in the 21 musical acts to perform this coming weekend.

And the National Dragon Boat Championships will take place Sunday, capping off the weekend’s events.

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After a contentious debate, Pittsburgh City Council voted today to approve the Act 47 financial recovery plan — despite the heated objections of the city’s police and fire unions.

With council facing this crucial vote surrounding the city’s finances, tempers flared earlier today as representatives with the city’s police and fire unions urged members to vote against the financial recovery plan.

Union leaders argued that the plan would gut their longtime contracts and cause a mass exodus of workers.

“What good is the money that you’re giving to these people if you’re not securing their jobs?” Darren Kelly of the Pittsburgh Firefighters Union asked council before the vote.

“You’re going to have a problem here,” Dan O’Hara, the president of Pittsburgh’s Fraternal Order of Police added. “You’re going to have a lack of firemen. You’re going to have a lack of policemen on your streets… or they’ll have to dissolve the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police in my opinion because the actual bureau investigations branch won’t be able to physically exist due to a lack of manpower.”

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, however, has been urging council to pass the Act 47 plan — saying the city needs it to help stabilize the city’s underfunded pension plan and shore up its finances.

Council gave preliminary approval of the plan last week, but members asked for a number of amendments.

Members approved the city’s new financial recovery plan by a vote of 6-3.

The 300-page plan to boost Pittsburgh financially replaces the previous act that was passed five years ago.

After evacuating several downtown offices and streets, Warren police and Youngstown Bomb Squad officials have determined a suspicious suitcase left in front of Trumbull Art Gallery is full of luggage.Police were called to TAG Tuesday morning after the suitcase had been reported sitting there for hours.

The suitcase was screened and X-rayed before clothing and women’s items were found inside.

Police have identified the electrocution victim as 30 year old Robert Travis Eakin of Bristol.  Now police want to know if he was alone when he was electrocuted.

Police say Eakin was found at the Ohio Edison substation in Gustavus Township Monday morning.  Damage from the cut wires caused a power surge which touched off more than a dozen small fires in homes and shut power down to 2000 customers.

Sherry Greskovich, who lives in Gustavus, said, “I heard a pop.  The computer started to glow, unplugged everything and started to smell smoke in the house.”

Paul Mercer from Andover said, “She [mother] heard popping and then the TV went boom and we went downstairs and the other TV went boom.”

All power has been restored to those homes.  If it’s discovered anyone else was involved, they could face charges.

The latest now on an inmate who suffered serious injuries while detoxing at the Trumbull County Jail.

The mother  of Kurt Platzer says her son is now being kept alive so he can donate his organs.  Kurt Platzer was taken to the hospital Sunday after jail officials say he was injured from banging his head against the wall.

Sheriff Tom Altiere had said that he thought Platzer may have been trying to hang himself but says now he does not believe that was the case.  Platzer was in jail on a DUI charge. 

Platzer’s mother says he wanted to donate his organs so he could help people.