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Next for former Va. governor: sentencing, appeal

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2014 file photo, former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell, right, arrives at Federal Court after the first day of jury deliberations in her corruption trial in Richmond, Va. Now that the guilty verdicts on public corruption are in, attention turns to the McDonnells' Jan. 6 sentencing and subsequent appeal. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys aren't through fighting over the fate of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen.

Pennsylvania mother who gave daughter abortion pill gets prison

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 09:40 AM PDT

By David DeKok HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to up to 18 months in prison for obtaining so-called abortion pills online and providing them to her teenage daughter to end her pregnancy. Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, of Washingtonville, a single mother who works as a nursing home aide, pleaded guilty in August to obtaining the miscarriage-inducing pills from an online site in Europe for her daughter, 16, who did not want to have the child. Whalen was sentenced on Friday by Montour County Court of Common Pleas Judge Gary Norton to serve 12 months to 18 months in prison for violating a state law that requires abortions to be performed by physicians. The felony offense called for up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

Syrian strikes on Islamic State stronghold kill 25

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 09:23 AM PDT

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged cars that were burned after a Syrian government airstrike in the northeastern city of Raqqa, Syria, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting Raqqa on Saturday, killing dozens of people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said. The airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars alight and crushed people under rubble. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said.

Oklahoma policeman accused of rape while on patrol released on bond

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 08:32 AM PDT

(Reuters) - An Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping or sexually assaulting at least six women while on patrol was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond on Friday, officials said. Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, a three-year veteran of the Oklahoma City police force was arrested last month and charged with 16 counts of burglary and sexual assault including two counts of first-degree rape and sexual battery, among other crimes, court records show. ...

Ukraine cease-fire holds, exchange of POWs planned

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 05:01 AM PDT

A burned Ukrainian army tank is seen near a destroyed kindergarten in the village of Kominternove, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. After four months of war, eastern Ukraine begins the first full day of an uncertain cease-fire. The truce agreement calls for an exchange of prisoners and establishment of humanitarian corridors, but how quickly those actions will begin is unclear. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)Both residents and combatants said they do not expect the ceasefire to last long.

Rebel leaders accuse Ukraine forces of breaking ceasefire

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 03:01 AM PDT

Ukrainian army soldiers ride a tank on a road near where pro-Russian separatists fired heavy artillery, on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol, on September 5, 2014Pro-Russian rebels ivowed to pursue their independence drive in the east.

Guns silent as Ukraine truce holds

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 01:16 AM PDT

A Ukrainian soldier takes a break during a patrol on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions near Debaltseve on September 5, 2014The guns remained silent over eastern Ukraine on Saturday as a truce between Ukraine and pro-Kremlin insurgents appeared to be holding despite concerns it will fail to halt the separatist drive in the east. The 12-point pact signed on Friday in the Belarussian capital Minsk is the first backed by both the Kremlin and Kiev since bands of Russian-speaking militias seized a string of government buildings across Ukraine's industrial heartland in early April. Highly sceptical Western leaders nonetheless decided to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin over what they see as Moscow's "aggression" in the former Soviet state. Western governments agreed to beef up sanctions on Russian state firms while NATO member states approved a rapid reaction force aimed at reassuring jittery eastern European states.

California wildfire near Yosemite prompts evacuation of 700 homes

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 12:23 AM PDT

(Reuters) - A 300-acre wildfire on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park in central California prompted authorities to order the evacuation of hundreds of homes, officials said on Friday. The blaze, dubbed the "Bridge Fire", began in the afternoon in Mariposa County, some 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southwest of the national park, forcing evacuations and closures of the surrounding roads, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CalFire). The Mariposa County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that about 700 homes were in the evacuated area. Last month, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency as firefighters battled wildfires across California, including the massive El Portal blaze that charred nearly 4,700 acres on the western edge of Yosemite National Park.

Mystery shrouds U.S. couple's crash off Jamaica

Posted: 06 Sep 2014 12:06 AM PDT

In this June 24, 2010 photo, developer Larry Glazer gestures toward a building to be demolished on Alexander Street in Rochester, N.Y. Glazer and wife, Jane, were aboard their small plane, which took off from the Greater Rochester International Airport, as it flew 1,700 miles down the East Coast on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, before finally crashing off the coast of Jamaica. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Carlos Ortiz) MAGS OUT; NO SALESThey were taken on a ghostly 1,700-mile journey after apparently becoming incapacitated at the controls.

Cops: 'Slender Man'-crazed teen set fire to home as family slept

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 06:44 PM PDT

A 14-year-old girl was arrested after allegedly setting her family's house on fire in what authorities suspect is the latest case of "Slender Man"-inspired violence.

Plane carrying Americans leaves for Dubai after being diverted to Iran

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 05:29 PM PDT

The plane had left Bagram for Dubai several hours late but failed to update its flight plan, the official said. Iranian officials first asked it to turn around and then to land at Bandar Abbas, Iran, when told it did not have enough fuel to return to Afghanistan, the official said. Fly Dubai confirmed in a statement its charter "is now en route to Dubai." Washington and Tehran have had an antagonistic relationship for decades. The United States cut diplomatic ties with Iran in April 1980, five months after Iranian students occupied the U.S.

White House asks for $58M for Ebola drugs

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, a mock patient is wheeled in an isolation pod during a drill at the Nebraska biocontainment unit in the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is being flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha where he is expected to arrive sometime Friday. Sacra will begin treatment in the hospital's special isolation unit, believed to be the largest in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)Request for CDC would help agency ramp up production, testing of experimental drug ZMapp.

Veteran CBS, CNN news anchor Bruce Morton dies at 83

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 03:09 PM PDT

In this June 28, 1988 photo released by CBS, CBS News correspondent Bruce Morton poses on the set of the CBS news room in New York. Morton, an award-winning political correspondent for CBS News who also covered the Vietnam War and the space program, died Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, at his home in Washington, D.C., after a battle with cancer. He was 83. (AP Photo/CBS)NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran TV political correspondent Bruce Morton, who covered the Vietnam War and the United States' space program, died Friday in Washington, D.C., at age 83.

Obama says key allies ready to join U.S. action in Iraq

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 02:49 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question at a press conference at the conclusion of the NATO Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, WalesPresident Barack Obama said key NATO allies stood ready to join the United States in military action to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq as he vowed to 'take out' the leaders of a movement he said was a major threat to the West. Obama said the Washington would hunt down and dismantle the organization, which has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, in the same way it had tackled al Qaeda since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and was doing to al-Shabaab in Somalia.

U.S.: Plane landed in Iran over 'bureaucratic issue'

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 02:16 PM PDT

A helicopter lands at Bagram airbase in 2011Fly Dubai charter plane flying from Bagram Air Field to Dubai was re-routed to Bandar Abbas.

Lawyers for accused Colorado theater gunman oppose televising trial

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 01:43 PM PDT

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialBy Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes oppose requests by news media to televise his trial, arguing the presence of cameras would jeopardize his due process rights, a court filing made public on Friday showed. A group of television news outlets requested last month that Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour allow expanded media coverage of the trial, which is set to begin with jury selection in December. Colorado law lets trials be televised at the discretion of the presiding judge.
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