Midday Roundup: Truck plows into bicyclists in Michigan

Deadly ride. Motorists reported a pickup truck driving erratically through a western Michigan town for at least 30 minutes before it slammed into a group of bicyclists Tuesday evening. The accident killed five people and four suffered serious injuries, according to police in Kalamazoo. The driver, a 50-year-old Michigan man, fled from the wrecked vehicle, but police caught him a short time later. He is in custody but has not been charged. Police said they started getting calls about the blue pickup truck about a half-hour before the crash.

Bomb hoax. An EgyptAir plane en route from Cairo to Beijing made an emergency landing in Uzbekistan today following a bomb threat. Officials found no bomb on the plane or among its passengers, and the flight resumed after a four-hour delay. The threat, called in anonymously to the Cairo airport, is the latest in a series of deadly or dangerous air travel incidents involving Egypt. Three weeks ago, an EgyptAir flight crashed in the Mediterranean Sea as it approached the Egyptian coast on its way to Cairo from Paris. All 66 people on board died and the search for the plane’s flight and data recorders is still underway.

Hot tickets. All 15,000-plus free tickets to Friday’s memorial service for Muhammad Ali were claimed within an hour of being made available at Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center. People began lining up outside the arena late Tuesday for this morning’s ticket distribution. Though Ali insisted the tickets to his memorial be free, recipients already are trying to hawk them online. Former President Bill Clinton will give the eulogy at the service. President Barack Obama is sending top adviser Valerie Jarrett to read a statement; he cannot attend because the service conflicts with his daughter Malia’s high school graduation.

Show of strength. NATO troops are conducting the largest war games exercise in Poland since the end of the Cold War. About 31,000 troops from the United States and two dozen other NATO countries are taking part in Operation Anaconda. U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley outlined how the exercises are intended to show NATO stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Poland. Russia, of course, was not happy with large-scale NATO forces on its doorstep. A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said the war games undermine trust and security.

WORLD Radio’s Jim Henry and The Associated Press contributed to this report.