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• Texas man charged with raping two children, infecting them with HIV
• Washington state high school on lockdown after shooting reports
• North Korea may have nuke knowhow
• Deadly clash in West Bank
• Car smashes into Calif. restaurant, 7 injured
• As Ebola hits, New Yorkers maintain wary calm
• Why NYC Ebola case won’t be rerun of Dallas
• U.S. nurse who had Ebola is virus free: health officials
• Suspicious yellow powder sent to U.S., other consulates in Istanbul
• Man in NYC hatchet attack said to have Islamic 'extremist leanings'
• With U.S. Ebola fear running high, African immigrants face ostracism
• Canada tries to come to terms with capital shootings
• Hunt for missing MH370 flight to take many more months
• Britain's Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet
• Probe: Athletes took fake classes at University of North Carolina
• How N.C. Senate race became ground zero for what's wrong with 2014
• Small airplane and helicopter collide in Maryland, three killed
• Doctor becomes NYC's first Ebola patient
• Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report
• Utah Supreme Court clears way for adoption by partners of same-sex spouses
• Report: NYC doctor has Ebola
• New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack
• New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack
• Pennsylvania high school's football season canceled over hazing
• U.S. weighs passport, border changes in wake of Ottawa attack

Texas man charged with raping two children, infecting them with HIV Posted: 24 Oct 2014 12:01 PM PDT AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - A Houston man has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 14 and 2, and infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, police said on Friday. The man admitted to sexually assaulting the teenage victim multiple times, police said in a statement. A lawyer for the man was not immediately available for comment. The suspect, a registered sex offender, is being held without bond, police said. He "has destroyed their lives ... ...

Washington state high school on lockdown after shooting reports Posted: 24 Oct 2014 11:45 AM PDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - Police responded to a high school in Washington state on Friday following reports of a shooting on or near campus, local media reported. The shooting was reported at Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle at about 10:45 a.m. PDT, local media said. Television images showed students gathered on an athletic field on campus. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Mohammad Zargham)

North Korea may have nuke knowhow Posted: 24 Oct 2014 11:13 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The commander of American forces in South Korea says North Korea may be capable of fielding a nuclear-armed missile that could reach the United States, but he does not know whether they have done so.

Deadly clash in West Bank Posted: 24 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian hospital official says a teen was killed during clashes with the Israeli military in the West Bank.

Car smashes into Calif. restaurant, 7 injured Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:54 AM PDT DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — Police say seven people were injured when a car crashed into a restaurant in a Northern California shopping center.

As Ebola hits, New Yorkers maintain wary calm Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:38 AM PDT By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - News of New York's first case of Ebola was met with worry and even anger on Friday, but for this city of eight million residents, seasoned by everything from terror attacks to superstorms, there was no sign of panic. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, was moved with elaborate precautions from his Harlem apartment to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a fever and tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, sparking concern about the spread of the disease in the country's most populous city. ...

Why NYC Ebola case won’t be rerun of Dallas Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:34 AM PDT City designated single hospital as go-to place for Ebola patients, gave specialized training to health workers.

U.S. nurse who had Ebola is virus free: health officials Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola is now free of the virus, U.S. health officials said on Friday. Nina Pham, who contracted the disease while treating a man who later died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital, had been undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, since Oct. 16. The NIH scheduled a Friday news conference to discuss Pham's discharge. (Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Jim Loney)

Suspicious yellow powder sent to U.S., other consulates in Istanbul Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:01 AM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Packets of an unidentified yellow powder were sent to the Canadian, U.S., Belgian and German consulates in Istanbul on Friday, prompting security alerts following two militant attacks in Canada this week. One Canadian consulate employee came directly into contact with the suspicious package and six others had indirect exposure, Turkey's disaster management agency AFAD said in a statement. Nine people were hospitalized as a precaution. Teams decontaminated the Canadian and Belgium consulates and were working on cleaning the German mission, AFAD spokesman Dogan Eskinat said. ...

Man in NYC hatchet attack said to have Islamic 'extremist leanings' Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:44 AM PDT The man who attacked New York City police officers with a hatchet before being shot dead was reported to have Islamic "extremist leanings" police and a monitoring group said. The man, identified in the US media as Zale Thompson, had posted an array of statements on YouTube and Facebook that "display a hyper-racial focus in both religious and historical contexts, and ultimately hint at his extremist leanings," the SITE monitoring group said. Four rookie police officers in the city's Queens borough were posing for a photograph at the request of a freelance photographer when the man walked up and without saying a word attacked them with the hatchet, a city hall statement said. One officer was hit in the arm and another in the head before the other officers shot and killed the attacker, according to police commissioner Bill Bratton.

With U.S. Ebola fear running high, African immigrants face ostracism Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:28 AM PDT When Zuru Pewu picked up her 4-year-old son, Micah, from kindergarten at a Staten Island, New York, public school recently, a woman pointed at her in front of about 30 parents and their children, and started shouting. "She kept screaming, 'These African bitches brought Ebola into our country and are making everybody sick!'" said Pewu, 29, who emigrated from Liberia in 2005. "Then she told her son, 'You know the country that's called Liberia that they show on the TV? While many Americans have reached out to help, African communities in the United States are reporting an increasing number of incidents of ostracism.

Canada tries to come to terms with capital shootings Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:12 AM PDT OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Authorities and ordinary Canadians sifted through confounding shards of a gunman's life seeking to understand what motivated the man to storm the nation's seat of power.

Hunt for missing MH370 flight to take many more months Posted: 24 Oct 2014 06:40 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean is progressing well but will likely take many months because of the huge area involved, an Australian official said Friday.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet Posted: 24 Oct 2014 05:51 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth made her first foray into the world of social media on Friday when she sent out her inaugural message on Twitter. "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @sciencemuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R," the 88-year-old monarch tweeted at the opening of a new gallery at London's Science Museum. The message, sent at 10.35 GMT (6.35 a.m. EDT), had already been re-tweeted more than 4,000 times less than 45 minutes later. ...

Probe: Athletes took fake classes at University of North Carolina Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:32 AM PDT By Marti Maguire RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) - More than 3,000 students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received credit for fake classes over an 18-year period as part of a program that allowed many of them to remain eligible to play sports, according to a report released on Wednesday. The investigation by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein is the latest of several attempts to unravel allegations of academic fraud involving student-athletes at a university known for both its academic rigor and athletics. ...

How N.C. Senate race became ground zero for what's wrong with 2014 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 03:29 AM PDT But with less than two weeks left until the midterm elections, it's clear the Tar Heel State has indeed emerged as a ground zero — though not in the way the GOP chairman meant. The highly competitive Senate race in North Carolina is the multimillion-dollar epicenter of the negative campaigning that has come to define this election and that parties are using to try to win tight races nationwide.

Small airplane and helicopter collide in Maryland, three killed Posted: 24 Oct 2014 02:41 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two taken to hospital after a small airplane and a helicopter crashed into each other on Thursday near an airport in Frederick, Maryland, authorities said. A Cirrus SR22 coming in to land at Frederick Municipal Airport collided with a helicopter that was involved in a training exercise, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Frederick is about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Washington. ...

Doctor becomes NYC's first Ebola patient Posted: 24 Oct 2014 12:32 AM PDT Three others are quarantined after a doctor who worked in Africa tests positive for the virus.

Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:21 PM PDT By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, committed human rights abuses as they sought to quell mostly peaceful protests that erupted after an officer killed an unarmed black teenager, an international human rights organization said in a report released on Friday. The Amnesty International report said law enforcement officers should be investigated by U.S. authorities for the abuses, which occurred during weeks of racially charged protests that erupted after white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9. ...

Utah Supreme Court clears way for adoption by partners of same-sex spouses Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:27 PM PDT (Reuters) - The Utah Supreme Court on Thursday lifted an order that had blocked spouses in same-sex marriages from adopting their partners' children, state officials said. The state's highest court had imposed a stay on the adoptions in May, while Utah appealed a federal ruling last year that permitted same-sex marriages for 17 days before the Supreme Court halted them pending appeal. Earlier this month, after the U.S. ...

Report: NYC doctor has Ebola Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:11 PM PDT A physician with Doctors Without Borders recently returned from West Africa.

New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:40 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said. The officers had been asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture and were gathered on a Queens street at 2 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said. Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said. ...

New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:23 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said. The officers had been asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture and were gathered on a Queens street at 2 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said. Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said. ...

Pennsylvania high school's football season canceled over hazing Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:20 PM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A school district in suburban Philadelphia canceled a high school football team's season and suspended its coaching staff after investigating reports of hazing. Central Bucks School District Superintendent David Weitzel said in a statement to district parents that an investigation turned up multiple "humiliating and inappropriate acts" during pre-season team building exercises at Central Bucks West High School. ...

U.S. weighs passport, border changes in wake of Ottawa attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:04 PM PDT By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are debating whether to tighten controls on the border with Canada and make it easier to revoke the passports of suspected militants, steps that could gain traction following two attacks in Canada this week. The officials cautioned on Thursday that the discussions are in preliminary stages and that no immediate action appeared likely by either U.S. President Barack Obama's administration or Congress. ...

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