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• U.S. says Turkey OKs use of bases against IS militants
• Seventh New Jersey high school student surrenders in sex abuse case
• Obama calls for action to ensure U.S. medical system can handle Ebola
• Iraq ground role likely for U.S. military advisers: Dempsey
• Tropical Storm Fay brushes Bermuda with high winds and rain
• CDC: Protocol breach in treating Ebola patient
• Texas worker tests positive for Ebola, U.S. airports start screening
• Obama hangs tough on migrant detention despite slowing influx
• Abbas pledges transparency in Gaza reconstruction
• Texas health care worker tests positive for Ebola
• Monitor: IS pouring reinforcements into Syria border town
• Reports: Putin orders Russian troops withdrawn from Ukrainian border
• Secretive U.S. robotic mini-shuttle to end 22-month mission on Tuesday
• More than 20 injured in Halloween hayride accident in rural Maine
• U.S. military faces new kind of threat with Ebola
• Louisiana infant survives days trapped beneath father's dead body
• Judge closes California casino in dispute between American Indian factions
• Toddler dies from enterovirus strain
• Family hires new lawyer in $75 million New York chokehold lawsuit

U.S. says Turkey OKs use of bases against IS militants Posted: 12 Oct 2014 12:21 PM PDT American defense officials say Turkey will let U.S. and coalition forces use its bases, including a key installation within 100 miles of the Syrian border, for operations against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq,

Seventh New Jersey high school student surrenders in sex abuse case Posted: 12 Oct 2014 11:50 AM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - A seventh New Jersey high school student has turned himself into authorities to face charges of sex abuse stemming from a hazing scandal that led to the cancellation of the remainder of the school's football season, authorities said Sunday. The teenagers from Sayreville War Memorial High School are accused of sexual assaults on four different victims on four different occasions in September, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Sayreville Police Chief John Zebrowski. Six of the students were arrested on Friday. ...

Obama calls for action to ensure U.S. medical system can handle Ebola Posted: 12 Oct 2014 11:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants federal authorities to take additional steps to ensure the American medical system is prepared to follow correct protocols in dealing with Ebola following news of an apparent breach in Dallas, the White House said in a statement Sunday. Obama was briefed about the diagnosis of a second case of Ebola in Texas, where a healthcare worker has contracted the virus after treating a Liberian who died of the disease at a Dallas hospital last week. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. ...

Iraq ground role likely for U.S. military advisers: Dempsey Posted: 12 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - US military advisors are likely to take a more direct role in the ground campaign against jihadists in Iraq once Iraqi forces are ready to go on the offensive, the top US officer said in comments aired Sunday.

Tropical Storm Fay brushes Bermuda with high winds and rain Posted: 12 Oct 2014 08:09 AM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay swept past Bermuda drenching the British territory in the Atlantic with winds gusting to hurricane force, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Sunday. The storm, just below Category 1 hurricane strength with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (110 kph), was located 85 miles (140 km) north north-east of Bermuda on Sunday morning, the Miami-based center said. A hurricane watch was still in effect for Bermuda, it warned, noting that tropical storm force winds extended 175 miles (280 km) from the center of Fay. ...

CDC: Protocol breach in treating Ebola patient Posted: 12 Oct 2014 07:20 AM PDT A top federal health official says the Ebola diagnosis in a health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Texas hospital shows there was a clear breach of safety protocol.

Texas worker tests positive for Ebola, U.S. airports start screening Posted: 12 Oct 2014 05:44 AM PDT SAN ANTONIO Texas (Reuters) - A health worker in Texas at the hospital where the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died last week has tested positive for the deadly virus in a preliminary test, the state's health department said on Sunday. U.S. authorities are stepping up efforts to stop the spread of the virus, with medical teams at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday beginning the screening of travelers from the three West African countries hardest hit by the worst Ebola outbreak on record. ...

Obama hangs tough on migrant detention despite slowing influx Posted: 12 Oct 2014 05:11 AM PDT By Richard Cowan and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The surge in child migration from Central America is receding but the United States is aggressively pushing ahead with plans to expand detentions, a little-publicized part of a broader campaign to deter illegal migrants. Under pressure from opposition Republicans to stem the unprecedented flow of children earlier this year, the Obama administration beginning in June pledged to speedily return them to their home countries and help better secure borders in Mexico and Central America. ...

Abbas pledges transparency in Gaza reconstruction Posted: 12 Oct 2014 04:38 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday promised a transparent and responsible use of funds pledged at a donor's conference to help Gaza rebuild after this summer's devastating war between Israel and Hamas.

Texas health care worker tests positive for Ebola Posted: 12 Oct 2014 03:18 AM PDT The worker helped treat Ebola victim Thomas Duncan, doctors said.

Monitor: IS pouring reinforcements into Syria border town Posted: 12 Oct 2014 03:02 AM PDT Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group poured in reinforcements Sunday for its nearly month-long siege of Kobane as the Syrian town's Kurdish defenders kept up their high-profile resistance.

Reports: Putin orders Russian troops withdrawn from Ukrainian border Posted: 12 Oct 2014 01:59 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to withdraw to their permanent bases after military exercises in Rostov region near the border with Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported late on Saturday, citing Kremlin spokesman. The troops pullout came before an expected meeting between Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Milan next week. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Russian president had met his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu. ...

Secretive U.S. robotic mini-shuttle to end 22-month mission on Tuesday Posted: 12 Oct 2014 12:57 AM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. military plans to land its secretive X-37B robotic space plane in California on Tuesday, ending a classified 22-month mission, officials said. The exact time and date will depend on weather and technical factors, the Air Force said in a statement released on Friday. The X-37B space plane, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off for its second mission aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 11, 2012. ...

More than 20 injured in Halloween hayride accident in rural Maine Posted: 11 Oct 2014 11:41 PM PDT (Reuters) - More than 20 people were injured including some seriously on Saturday when a truck towing a Halloween hayride went off the road, flipping the trailer and sending people tumbling to the ground, authorities and media reports said. State Fire Marshal Sgt. Joel Davis said 23 people were taken to area hospitals, with three of the injured believed to be in serious condition. The injuries occurred when the trailer-towed hayride overturned on the Gauntlet Haunted Night Ride at Harvest Hill Farms in Mechanic Falls, Maine, around 8.30 p.m. ...

U.S. military faces new kind of threat with Ebola Posted: 11 Oct 2014 11:08 PM PDT By Phil Stewart (Reuters) - At Fort Campbell in Kentucky, spouses of U.S. soldiers headed to Liberia seem to be lingering just a bit longer than usual after pre-deployment briefings, hungry for information about Ebola. For these families, the virus is raising a different kind of anxiety than the one they have weathered during 13 years of ground war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They want to know how the military can keep soldiers safe from the epidemic, a new addition to the Army's long list of threats. ...

Louisiana infant survives days trapped beneath father's dead body Posted: 11 Oct 2014 09:36 PM PDT (Reuters) - A 10-month-old Louisiana baby survived for three days trapped under the decomposing body of her dead father after he suffered cardiac arrest, authorities said on Saturday. The mother was in jail on misdemeanor charges at the time but was released on Saturday to care for the baby girl, Betty Jean Fields, and her five-year-old brother, who had alerted neighbors on Friday night. "The baby was dehydrated," Sabine Parish Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers said. "It was able to breath, expand its chest up and down ... We're very blessed that the baby didn't succumb. ...

Judge closes California casino in dispute between American Indian factions Posted: 11 Oct 2014 07:47 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has ordered the closure of an American Indian casino in central California following an armed standoff between one tribal faction that was running the gambling establishment and other members of the tribe who stormed the business. U.S. District Judge Lawrence O'Neill of the Eastern District of California on Friday issued the decision to close the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino in Coarsegold and set a hearing for Wednesday to hear from the two factions involved in the dispute and attorneys for the state. ...

Toddler dies from enterovirus strain Posted: 11 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT A Michigan girl is the second child to die this year in the U.S. from the virus.

Family hires new lawyer in $75 million New York chokehold lawsuit Posted: 11 Oct 2014 03:22 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The family of a black New Yorker who died after a local police officer put the 43-year old man in a chokehold announced on Saturday a replacement in the $75 million wrongful death lawsuit, local media said. Speaking at a news conference with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem, Eric Garner's family said civil rights attorney Jonathan Moore will replace Sanford Rubenstein, a CBS News affiliate reported. ...

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