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• Space tourism rocket explodes in desert
• Appeals court clears way for N.Y. police stop-and-frisk reforms
• NYC to pay $2.25 million over Rikers Island inmate's death
• 1 dead, 1 hurt in Virgin Galactic space ship crash
• Wife of Arkansas murder suspect faces murder charge in realtor's death
• Bodies of 3 young U.S. citizens identified in northern Mexico
• U.S. rocket explosion investigation suspects main engine failure
• Obama invokes 'Mad Men' to get women's votes
• Crews work to recover bodies of 4 at Wichita airport
• Judge issues order enforcing Ebola isolation of defiant Maine nurse
• Samantha Power defends Ebola guidelines; praises airlines
• Pa. trooper ambush suspect jeered at court appearance
• Following violent protests, president of Burkina Faso steps down
• For nurse in Ebola quarantine, life goes on
• Apologies demanded for senator's comments on race
• U.S. Congress to revisit Islamic State war debate after election
• Mexico police questioned in killing of 3 Americans
• Penn. trooper ambush suspect captured
• Lack of mechanics threatens U.S. Air Force target date for F-35
• Nurse defies Ebola quarantine with bike ride; negotiations fail
• Elusive Pennsylvania ambush suspect captured, ending manhunt
• Alleged Pa. cop killer captured
• Pennsylvania fugitive Eric Frein is captured: ABC
• Relatives suspect poison in deaths of Utah family
• Oklahoma teen arrested for threatening shooting spree at school

Space tourism rocket explodes in desert Posted: 31 Oct 2014 01:19 PM PDT Pilot of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo ejected, suffered serious injuries; co-pilot died.

Appeals court clears way for N.Y. police stop-and-frisk reforms Posted: 31 Oct 2014 01:04 PM PDT By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City can finally begin to implement court-ordered reforms to its controversial stop-and-frisk police tactic, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a last-ditch challenge brought by several police unions. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York came exactly one year after it put the reforms on hold while the city pursued an appeal of a U.S. judge's finding that the practice amounted to a form of racial profiling. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a staunch defender of the strategy. ...

NYC to pay $2.25 million over Rikers Island inmate's death Posted: 31 Oct 2014 12:48 PM PDT By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will pay $2.25 million to resolve a wrongful death claim by the family of a mentally ill, homeless Marine Corps veteran who died at the Rikers Island jail complex eight days after his arrest, the city's comptroller announced on Friday. Jerome Murdough, 56, was found dead in his cell at Rikers Island on Feb. 15. The city medical examiner's office later said his death was accidental and due to hyperthermia caused by exposure to heat. ...

1 dead, 1 hurt in Virgin Galactic space ship crash Posted: 31 Oct 2014 12:33 PM PDT Witness says SpaceShipTwo exploded during test flight over California's Mojave Desert.

Wife of Arkansas murder suspect faces murder charge in realtor's death Posted: 31 Oct 2014 12:15 PM PDT By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK Ark. (Reuters) - The wife of a man charged a month ago with the kidnapping and murder of a suburban Little Rock, Arkansas, realtor was ordered held without bond by a district judge on Friday, less than a day after her arrest in the case. Crystal Lowery, 41, pleaded not guilty to charges of capital murder and kidnapping in the death of Beverly Carter, whose body was found in a shallow grave in an industrial area east of Little Rock on Sept. 30. Carter, 50, had disappeared five days earlier after agreeing to show a house to a person she believed was a potential buyer. ...

Bodies of 3 young U.S. citizens identified in northern Mexico Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:55 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The bodies of three people, tied-up and with gunshot wounds to the head, have been identified as siblings from Texas reported missing earlier this month, a northeastern Mexico state prosecutor said on Friday. The siblings' suspected abduction might have been orchestrated by local security officials, said the office of Ismael Quintanilla, attorney general of the border state of Tamaulipas. ...

U.S. rocket explosion investigation suspects main engine failure Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:39 AM PDT By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - As Orbital Sciences picks up the pieces, literally and figuratively, after its high-profile rocket launch explosion, accident investigators are looking closely at a potential first-stage engine problem. Technical data relayed from Orbital's Antares rocket before and after Tuesday's liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, show everything was fine until the rocket's ascent stopped 15 seconds into the flight, the company said in a status report issued late Thursday. ...

Obama invokes 'Mad Men' to get women's votes Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:24 AM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — With an election four days away, President Barack Obama urged women to raise their voices in favor of economic policies that benefit them and against politicians that he said belong in a "Mad Men" episode from a bygone era. Citing his own experiences as the son of a single mom and the father of two girls, he declared: "Some of this is personal."

Crews work to recover bodies of 4 at Wichita airport Posted: 31 Oct 2014 09:36 AM PDT WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The bodies of four people who died when a small plane crashed into a flight training facility at a Kansas airport remain at the site as authorities assess what needs to be done to make the building safe to enter.

Judge issues order enforcing Ebola isolation of defiant Maine nurse Posted: 31 Oct 2014 08:34 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The confrontation between the state of Maine and a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone heated up on Friday when a judge issued a temporary order enforcing a quarantine after she defied state officials and took a bike ride. The order from Charles LaVerdiere, chief judge of the Maine District Court, instructs nurse Kaci Hickox to submit to "direct active monitoring," and "not to be present in public places" like shopping centers, movie theaters or workplaces except to receive necessary healthcare. ...

Samantha Power defends Ebola guidelines; praises airlines Posted: 31 Oct 2014 08:18 AM PDT By Louis Charbonneau and Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Friday defended federal guidelines for monitoring health workers returning from three Ebola-stricken West African countries and praised the airlines still flying there. "Let me commend Air Brussels, Air France and Moroccan Airways for keeping their flights going. Those flights are a lifeline," Powers said at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York hours after returning from a four-day trip to Ebola-hit Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, with a quick stop to drop her son off at ...

Pa. trooper ambush suspect jeered at court appearance Posted: 31 Oct 2014 07:28 AM PDT MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — Onlookers shouted "Are you sorry?" and "Why did you do it?" as state troopers led a suspect in a fatal police barracks ambush from his first court appearance following a seven-week manhunt.

Following violent protests, president of Burkina Faso steps down Posted: 31 Oct 2014 07:12 AM PDT OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — President Blaise Compaore stepped down Friday after 27 years in power following a wave of protests against his rule. He said elections for a new leader will be held in 90 days.

For nurse in Ebola quarantine, life goes on Posted: 31 Oct 2014 06:24 AM PDT FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — In between going on a bike ride and taking delivery of a pizza, nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend did chores and watched a movie while state officials struggled to reach a compromise in a standoff that has become the nation's most closely watched clash between personal freedom and fear of Ebola.

Apologies demanded for senator's comments on race Posted: 31 Oct 2014 04:47 AM PDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Republicans are calling on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to apologize after she suggested Thursday that President Barack Obama's deep unpopularity in the South is partly tied to race.

U.S. Congress to revisit Islamic State war debate after election Posted: 31 Oct 2014 01:54 AM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When lawmakers return to Washington after Tuesday's congressional elections they will resume a debate they began with some reluctance last month on the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. With the U.S.-led coalition increasing air strikes but no signs the militants have been weakened, Congress appears ready for a broader discussion on the operations than it was prepared to hold during the run-up to the election. ...

Mexico police questioned in killing of 3 Americans Posted: 31 Oct 2014 12:33 AM PDT MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Authorities are investigating a possible police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father in Mexico who were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after going missing.

Penn. trooper ambush suspect captured Posted: 30 Oct 2014 09:24 PM PDT A survivalist is accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and wounding the other.

Lack of mechanics threatens U.S. Air Force target date for F-35 Posted: 30 Oct 2014 08:52 PM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force may miss its target of August 2016 to start using the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet in combat if Congress blocks the service's plan to retire its A-10 tank-killer aircraft, a top U.S. general said Thursday. Air Force Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, the Pentagon's F-35 program chief, told reporters the Air Force was counting on training experienced A-10 mechanics to help reach the total 1,100 mechanics needed to declare that the F-35 had reached "initial operational capability" or IOC. ...

Nurse defies Ebola quarantine with bike ride; negotiations fail Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:47 PM PDT By Steve Holland CAPE ELIZABETH Maine (Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, 33, said they had not yet been served with a court order to enforce the 21-day quarantine - matching the virus's maximum incubation period - but remained prepared to fight such an order if necessary. ...

Elusive Pennsylvania ambush suspect captured, ending manhunt Posted: 30 Oct 2014 05:28 PM PDT By Joe McDonald TANNERSVILLE Pa. (Reuters) - The survivalist suspected of killing a Pennsylvania state trooper and seriously wounding a second officer in a sniper attack in September was taken into custody after a seven-week manhunt, police said on Thursday. Eric Matthew Frein, 31, eluded capture by hundreds of law enforcement officers who had been searching for him since the Sept. 12 ambush of the troopers outside a state police barracks in Blooming Grove. The attack killed Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass, 31. ...

Alleged Pa. cop killer captured Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:25 PM PDT

Pennsylvania fugitive Eric Frein is captured: ABC Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:09 PM PDT (Reuters) - Pennsylvania fugitive Eric Frein, sought for the killing of a state trooper and severely wounding a second, has been captured, ABC News reported on Thursday. He has been the subject of a manhunt in eastern Pennsylvania since Sept. 12. (Editing By Ellen Wulfhorst)

Relatives suspect poison in deaths of Utah family Posted: 30 Oct 2014 03:36 PM PDT (Reuters) - The relatives of a Utah family who were found dead last month in a locked bedroom at their home suspect they died from poison and say details from court documents published this week begin to confirm their suspicions, local media said on Thursday. The bodies of Benjamin and Kristi Strack and three of their children aged 11 to 14 were discovered on Sept. 27 in Springville, about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News have cited police search warrants that say each victim was discovered lying with cups of red-colored liquid nearby. ...

Oklahoma teen arrested for threatening shooting spree at school Posted: 30 Oct 2014 02:48 PM PDT By Heide Barndes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma teenager has been arrested on suspicion of making online threats to go on a shooting spree at his high school, law enforcement officials said on Thursday. The 15-year-old student has not been identified. He made the threats on Wednesday against Duncan High School, in the southern part of the state, on a phone-based social media site, Duncan police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The arrest follows a shooting at a Washington state high school last week in which a teenager used a handgun to shoot five classmates. ...

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