| Texas governor's race heats up over new book Posted: 13 Sep 2014 10:09 AM PDT  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - The race for Texas governor entered a new chapter this week with the release of a memoir from Democratic candidate Wendy Davis that rekindled attention on abortion and led to an ethics complaint from her opponent, Republican Greg Abbott. Abbott, currently the state's attorney general, is accusing Davis of misusing campaign contributions to promote the book called "Forgetting to Be Afraid," in which Davis, a state senator, reveals she had terminated two pregnancies. "Senator Davis' book promotion has gone from ethically questionable to outright unlawful," Abbott campaign spokesman Matt Hirsch said. Davis campaign spokesman Zac Petkanas called the complaint frivolous and said it shows "how worried Greg Abbott is about the power of her story." Davis, who rose from being a single mother in a trailer park to a Harvard Law school graduate, gained national standing in 2013 when she donned pink running shoes and staged a dramatic 10-hour filibuster at the Texas statehouse against sweeping abortion restrictions.
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| U.S. Navy searches for pilot after crash over Pacific Ocean Posted: 13 Sep 2014 09:54 AM PDT Navy was searching for a missing pilot in the western Pacific Ocean on Saturday after the pilot's fighter jet crashed mid-air with another jet, the Navy said. The other pilot involved in the collision was rescued and was in fair condition and receiving medical treatment aboard the USS Carl Vinson, according to the Navy. |
| Uganda foils Somalia Shebab cell plotting 'imminent attack': US Posted: 13 Sep 2014 08:21 AM PDT  Ugandan security forces have stopped a cell of Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents apparently "planning for an imminent attack," the US embassy said Saturday. "Ugandan authorities reported the discovery of an Al-Shebab terrorist cell in Kampala," it said in a statement. Police spokesman Fred Enanga confirmed forces had "made arrests." "Joint security agencies in Uganda have foiled a terrorist attempt at one of its installations," Enanga told AFP, without giving any further details.
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| State police: Trooper shot dead outside barracks Posted: 13 Sep 2014 06:18 AM PDT  BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — Two troopers were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change, leaving one dead and another injured, and authorities were searching Saturday for the suspect or suspects, state police said.
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| Experts: Profit motive big hurdle for Ebola drugs Posted: 13 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  For nearly four decades, mention of the Ebola virus has evoked death and terror, yet a simple factor -- money -- has stood in the way of erasing the curse, experts say. Despite its evil reputation, Ebola breaks out only rarely in brief if murderous spurts in impoverished African countries. Today, after years of low-key progress with the Pentagon as main funder, the search for vaccines and drugs for Ebola has been thrown into higher gear and, for now, the profit factor has been put to one side. "Until this west African epidemic, Ebola was not a public health problem and (was) a really rare disease," says Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976.
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| Police hunt gunman after trooper shot dead at Pennsylvania barracks Posted: 13 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT (Reuters) - Police in three states were searching on Saturday for a gunman who shot and killed a state trooper in a police barracks in Pennsylvania, a police official said. The shooting, in which a second soldier was wounded, occurred at the Blooming Grove barracks around 11 p.m. EDT on Friday, said Pennsylvania police spokeswoman Connie Devens. The shooter remained on the loose on Saturday morning, Devens said, prompting a manhunt by police from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Blooming Grove is a township of roughly 5,000 people near the New York state border. |
| Putin trying to destroy Ukraine, says its PM Posted: 13 Sep 2014 02:25 AM PDT  Ukraine's prime minister said Putin's goal "is to take all of Ukraine."
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| Oregon Zoo euthanizes newborn lion cub after injury Posted: 13 Sep 2014 01:23 AM PDT (Reuters) - The Oregon Zoo said on Friday it was forced to euthanize a newborn lion cub after it had been grievously injured by its mother accidentally. Zoo workers became worried about the four-day-old cub on Thursday night when they noticed it wasn't moving like its three siblings, the zoo said in a statement. |
| Ukraine PM: Putin seeks to eliminate' country Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:51 AM PDT  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of wanting to wipe out Ukraine as an independent country despite a truce deal. "His aim is not just to take Donetsk and Lugansk," Yatsenyuk said at a conference in Kiev, referring to the separatist regions in eastern Ukraine where fighting has been raging for five months. "His goal is to take the entire Ukraine... he wants to eliminate Ukraine as an independent country," Yatsenyuk said in English. He described the truce signed on September 5 in Minsk between Kiev, pro-Russian rebels and Moscow and the European security body the OSCE after five months of conflict in eastern Ukraine as just a "first step" to "stop a massacre".
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| Investigations underway into Ohio prison escape Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:35 AM PDT  LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Criminal and internal investigations are underway to determine how a convicted killer of three Ohio high school students managed to escape from prison, along with two other inmates, state correction officials say.
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| Professor from Europe takes plea deal in 1995 California killing Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:19 AM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A psychology professor from Europe accused of murder in the 1995 stabbing death of a man who she says raped her pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Friday in Southern California, and prosecutors said she has agreed to testify against others involved in the killing. Norma Patricia Esparza, 40, who grew up in Southern California, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and is expected to be sentenced to six years in prison, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. She was originally charged with murder in the killing of 24-year-old Gonzalo Ramirez. Two men, her former boyfriend, Gianni Van, 45, and his alleged accomplice Shannon Ray Gries, 43, remain charged with murder in the case. |
| Autopsy: N.Y. inmate died from heat, meds in cell Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:04 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a mentally ill, homeless former Marine in a 101-degree New York City jail cell was caused by hyperthermia due to environmental exposure to heat, according to a spokeswoman for the medical examiner, who ruled the February death an accident on Friday.
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| Ferguson video shows witness raising hands in air Posted: 12 Sep 2014 06:01 PM PDT  Cellphone video that shows a witness raising his hands in the air immediately after the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson appears to support previous accounts and could bolster arguments that Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot, legal experts said Friday.
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| 'There was nothing we could do to get Steve out' Posted: 12 Sep 2014 05:45 PM PDT  Beheaded reporter's family told by White House official they could be prosecuted for paying IS ransom.
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| NFL's Adrian Peterson charged with child abuse, will miss Sunday's game Posted: 12 Sep 2014 05:28 PM PDT  Police were seeking on Friday to arrest Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson on a charge of injury to a child, a Texas sheriff's office said, while Peterson's attorney said the incident resulted from him "using a switch to spank his son." The National Football League's Vikings also said in a statement they will drop Peterson from the team's roster for Sunday's game against the New England Patriots as the team looks into the matter. Peterson, a Texas native, was indicted by a grand jury in Montgomery County, north of Houston, on a charge of injury to a child, and an arrest warrant was issued on Friday afternoon, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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| Priest found guilty of raping dozens of children in Canada Posted: 12 Sep 2014 04:58 PM PDT  A defrocked Catholic priest was found guilty Friday of raping dozens of children and a sled dog in the Canadian Arctic, where he worked as a missionary for decades. The Belgian-born Eric Dejaeger, 67, was convicted of 31 counts of sexual offenses against children and one count of bestiality. At the start of the his trial last November in Iqaluit, the capital of Canada's northernmost Nunavut territory, Dejaeger acknowledged and pleaded guilty to eight out of 80 original charges. Justice Robert Kilpatrick ruled the evidence had been weakened by the passage of time, and whittled down the number in the indictment.
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| Ebola: U.S. to train Liberian armed forces to help tackle crisis Posted: 12 Sep 2014 04:26 PM PDT  The United States said on Friday it would train Liberia's security forces to assist in isolation operations to tackle an Ebola epidemic ravaging the West African nation, after a boy was killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest last month. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa - more than half of them in Liberia. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac told reporters in Monrovia that the United States would support Liberia both through the epidemic and beyond.
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| Obama says need to 'snuff out' militant groups like Islamic State Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:55 PM PDT  By Steve Holland BALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the goal of an international coalition he is helping to form is to "ultimately snuff out" the type of extremism demonstrated by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It is a "sobering time," said Obama at a Democratic fund-raising event in Baltimore following his decision to authorize U.S. The threat from Islamic State has had an important silver lining, he said. It has focused the world's attention on the need to "ultimately snuff out this particular brand of Islamic extremism that really has no place in the 21st century." Obama is leading an effort to form a coalition of Western allies and Gulf Arab states to take on the extremist group, whose savage methods have included beheading two American journalists.
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| Foley family says was 'threatened' by U.S. official over ransom: ABC Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:40 PM PDT  The family of murdered American journalist James Foley says it was threatened by a U.S. ABC News quoted Foley's mother and brother as saying a military officer working for President Barack Obama's National Security Council had told them several times that they could face criminal charges if they paid a ransom. The White House refused to discuss conversations that the family had with officials, but said they involved people from different government branches, including the White House, the FBI, the intelligence agencies and the Defense Department. "I'm not going to get into who said what in the context of these individual conversations," spokesman Josh Earnest said, but he reaffirmed the U.S.
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| Congressman announces breakup on Facebook Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:25 PM PDT  Mark Sanford is over-sharing again. The former South Carolina governor who resigned after disappearing for a romantic getaway with his Argentinian girlfriend has deigned to update the public on his latest personal foibles with a 2,346-word Facebook post. Sanford (R), who won election to the House again in 2013 after defeating Stephen Colbert's sister, buries the lede a bit, but the gist is that his ex-wife, Jenny, is taking him to court again, and he also has decided to break off his engagement to the Argentinian woman, Maria Belén Chapur.
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| NFL Vikings looking into reports Adrian Peterson indicted for child abuse Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:08 PM PDT The Minnesota Vikings said on Friday they were looking at the legal situation of star running back Adrian Peterson after media reports in Texas said he has been indicted in a child injury case. My Fox Houston reported on Friday that Peterson has been indicted in Montgomery County for reckless or negligent injury to a child. The report comes on the heels of the NFL suspending Baltimore Ravens star running back Ray Rice for domestic violence. "The Vikings are in the process of gathering information regarding the legal situation involving Adrian Peterson," the team said in a statement. |
| VA hospital shooting suspect pleads guilty Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:53 PM PDT  An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon in a VA hospital shooting that wounded an employee.
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| Hawks general manager takes leave of absence after making racial comments Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:37 PM PDT  Atlanta Hawks General Manager Danny Ferry, under fire for making racially charged remarks, has taken an indefinite leave of absence, the NBA team said on Friday. Ferry's move follows an announcement on Sunday by majority owner Bruce Levenson that he would sell his controlling interest because he had sent a racially insensitive email. Ferry's leave takes effect immediately, Hawks Chief Executive Steve Koonin said. "It is my hope that this time away from the Hawks organization allows him the privacy he needs to listen to the community, to learn about his mistakes, and to begin the long process of personal healing," Koonin said in a statement.
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| Med director out at clinic that treated Joan Rivers Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:20 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The medical director of the facility where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure is no longer at the clinic.
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| Migrant families in U.S. detention centers 'political pawns': activists Posted: 12 Sep 2014 01:49 PM PDT Advocates for the immigrants said those detained are often rushed through immigration proceedings without being given a chance for reasonable legal representation, and that they are held in facilities that can be harmful for mothers and their children. "This practice is not only inhumane. |
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