California IN BRIEF : SANTA ANA : Teenager Is Charged in Mother’s Death

Prosecutors filed murder charges Monday against a 14-year-old Yorba Linda boy accused of fatally shooting his mother during an argument last week. The district attorney’s office will seek a judge’s permission to try Daniel P. Connolly, a freshman at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, as an adult, officials said. If they are successful, Connolly would be among the youngest suspects in the state to be tried under a year-old law that lowered the age to 14 for youths to be tried and punished as adults for crimes such as murder and robbery. The age limit previously was 16. Authorities said Daniel Connolly lost his temper and fatally shot his mother, 42-year-old Cindy Connolly, during a heated argument at the family home last Thursday.