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• Suspect in Ferguson, Missouri shooting of police appears in court
• American who contracted Ebola now in critical condition
• U.S. Ebola patient now in 'critical' condition: NIH
• Robert Durst waives extradition, will face murder charge in Calif.
• New York real estate scion Durst faces hearing on murder warrant
• Director: Robert Durst audio 'chilling' to discover
• Putin laughs off 'rumours' over his 10-day absence
• Prosecution case in Boston bombing trial enters home stretch
• Cuba, U.S. renew talks on restoring diplomatic ties
• Defense lawyer rips Petraeus plea deal for 'double standard'
• At South By Southwest, Rand Paul champions Snapchat, criticizes Clinton
• New York real estate baron Durst arrested on LA murder warrant
• Two Los Angeles police suffer minor injuries in shooting
• U.S. may impose tougher curbs to contain bird flu in Arkansas
• Boston gets most winter snow in its recorded history - 108.6 inches
• Four Americans arrive in Nebraska to be monitored for Ebola virus
• Police: Ferguson gunman arrested, may not have been targeting officers
• University of Maryland investigating racist fraternity email

Suspect in Ferguson, Missouri shooting of police appears in court Posted: 16 Mar 2015 11:16 AM PDT By Richard Valdmanis FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The man accused of wounding two policemen during a protest rally outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters last week appeared in court on Monday briefly and did not enter a plea. The shooting was the latest in violent incidents that have punctuated months of demonstrations in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb, since a white police officer shot dead unarmed black teen Michael Brown during a confrontation in August. Jeffrey L. Williams, 20, has admitted to firing the shots that wounded the officers early Thursday and also told authorities he was not shooting at police, Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said on Sunday after announcing the arrest. Williams did not give any statements on Monday during his brief appearance before Judge Joseph Dueker in St. Louis County Circuit Court.

American who contracted Ebola now in critical condition Posted: 16 Mar 2015 10:52 AM PDT Doctors change the status of a healthcare worker who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone.

U.S. Ebola patient now in 'critical' condition: NIH Posted: 16 Mar 2015 10:31 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Ebola patient being treated at the U.S. National Institutes of Health is now in critical, not serious, condition, NIH said in a statement on Monday. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

Robert Durst waives extradition, will face murder charge in Calif. Posted: 16 Mar 2015 09:09 AM PDT The real estate heir was arrested hours before the finale of an HBO show on his life.

New York real estate scion Durst faces hearing on murder warrant Posted: 16 Mar 2015 08:48 AM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New York real estate scion Robert Durst was to appear in a New Orleans courtroom on Monday as a judge weighed extraditing him to Los Angeles County, where a murder warrant has been issued against him. Durst was questioned but not charged in the deaths of his first wife, Kathleen Durst, in 1982 and of a longtime friend in 2000 in California. Durst, who is the subject of a six-part HBO documentary series called "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," has maintained his innocence. The 71-year-old was arrested on Saturday in New Orleans.

Director: Robert Durst audio 'chilling' to discover Posted: 16 Mar 2015 07:48 AM PDT Filmmakers didn't realize what they had captured the eccentric heir saying.

Putin laughs off 'rumours' over his 10-day absence Posted: 16 Mar 2015 07:13 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed days of frenzied "rumours" over his health and whereabouts as he reappeared in public after an unusually long 10-day absence. The feverish speculation fuelled by social media saw all eyes turn to an otherwise unexceptional meeting planned between Putin and the leader of Kyrgyzstan to see whether the Russian strongman would appear. The typically tardy Putin was two hours late but showed up looking relaxed with no visible signs of ill-health, quelling the rumours that exposed the fragility of Russia's tightly-controlled political system dominated by one man. "We would be bored if there were no rumours," Putin said as he met Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev at the sumptuous Konstantinov's Palace just outside Saint Petersburg.

Prosecution case in Boston bombing trial enters home stretch Posted: 16 Mar 2015 06:15 AM PDT The Boston Marathon bombing trial on Monday is due to turn to defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's final day before being arrested, when he was found hiding in a drydocked boat at the end of a massive police manhunt. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three days later. His attorneys have admitted that Tsarnaev committed the crimes he is accused of, but contend the plot was driven by his older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, in a bid to spare their client the death sentence that he may face if convicted at the end of a trial in U.S. District Court in Boston. The elder Tsarnaev died hours after the two are accused of shooting the police officer, following a gunfight with police that ended when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sped off in a car, running over and killing Tamerlan.

Cuba, U.S. renew talks on restoring diplomatic ties Posted: 16 Mar 2015 04:41 AM PDT By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States meet for talks on restoring diplomatic relations on Monday, seeking more progress toward an agreement while not allowing differences over Venezuela to impede their historic rapprochement. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson is due to meet in Havana with Josefina Vidal, the Cuban foreign ministry's chief of U.S. affairs, with talks possibly continuing into Wednesday. The United States severed diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1961, and relations remained hostile even after the end of the Cold War.

Defense lawyer rips Petraeus plea deal for 'double standard' Posted: 16 Mar 2015 03:25 AM PDT A lawyer says his client was jailed for leaking classified data while the ex-CIA chief walked.

At South By Southwest, Rand Paul champions Snapchat, criticizes Clinton Posted: 16 Mar 2015 01:27 AM PDT Though Republican Rand Paul is not officially running for president, he had plenty to say on Sunday about the woman expected to soon make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

New York real estate baron Durst arrested on LA murder warrant Posted: 15 Mar 2015 11:07 PM PDT Robert Durst, scion of one of New York's largest real estate empires, has been arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant issued by Los Angeles County, the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office said. Durst, born in 1943, is known for life twists that led him to be questioned but not charged in the mysterious deaths of his first wife Kathleen Durst in 1982 and a longtime friend in 2000. The New York Times reported last week that the district attorney in Los Angeles had recently reopened an investigation into the December 2000 killing of Durst's friend Susan Berman, and was tying it to the case of Kathleen Durst, who went missing from New York and was eventually pronounced legally dead.

Two Los Angeles police suffer minor injuries in shooting Posted: 15 Mar 2015 10:51 PM PDT (Reuters) - Two Los Angeles police officers suffered minor injuries on Sunday when they were shot at while traveling through south Los Angeles, police and local media reported. The Los Angeles Police Department on its Twitter feed urged citizens to avoid the area around Broadway and 65th Street in the Florence neighborhood in south Los Angeles, which footage posted online showed to be an active crime scene, swarming with police vehicles and heavily armed SWAT teams. A police spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times the plainclothes officers, who received minor injuries and were treated at the scene, believed they were specifically targeted.

U.S. may impose tougher curbs to contain bird flu in Arkansas Posted: 15 Mar 2015 10:34 PM PDT By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are considering imposing tougher restrictions in Arkansas to contain a virulent strain of avian flu in the heart of America's poultry region in a bid to minimize international trade disruptions and contain the virus. The H5N2 flu discovered in Arkansas last week is the state's first case of a strain that causes massive internal hemorrhaging in poultry, can kill nearly every bird in an infected flock within 48 hours, and is prone to mutate. Such strains are sometimes called "chicken Ebola." In response, Arkansas is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create new rules for commercial poultry producers and owners of backyard flocks alike, Reuters has learned. The rules will spell out how often poultry within a quarantine zone must test negative for bird flu before the quarantine can be lifted, Brandon Doss, Arkansas' assistant state veterinarian, said.

Boston gets most winter snow in its recorded history - 108.6 inches Posted: 15 Mar 2015 08:06 PM PDT By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - After hosting parades through snowy streets and weathering storms that snarled traffic and commerce over the last few months, Boston residents have seen the snowiest winter in the city's recorded history, the National Weather Service said. Boston got 108.6 inches (275.8 cm) of snow over the winter, surpassing the city's previous 1995-1996 record of 107.6 inches. "Boston, you survived the snowiest winter on record!!!," the National Weather Service in Taunton wrote in a message on Facebook. The record-setting inches, the most snowfall of any season since 1872, the first year on record, came after a day of rain began melting snow piles around the city and hinted at the onset of spring.

Four Americans arrive in Nebraska to be monitored for Ebola virus Posted: 15 Mar 2015 05:21 PM PDT By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Four Americans who may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone have arrived in the United States and are being observed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital said on Sunday. The individuals arrived on Saturday and are being housed on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus in Omaha, where medical personnel will monitor them for 21 days for any Ebola symptoms, hospital spokesman Taylor Wilson said. A U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said. The people under observation in Nebraska are among at least 10 Americans flown to the United States by non-commercial air transport who may have been exposed to the unidentified Ebola patient in Sierra Leone or had a similar exposure to the virus as the patient.

Police: Ferguson gunman arrested, may not have been targeting officers Posted: 15 Mar 2015 04:09 PM PDT Jeffrey Williams, 20, was charged in the shootings of two St. Louis-area officers.

University of Maryland investigating racist fraternity email Posted: 15 Mar 2015 01:14 PM PDT The University of Maryland is investigating a 2014 email allegedly sent by a white Kappa Sigma fraternity member containing racial epithets aimed at African American, Indian and Asian women and encouraging fellow members to have sex with women in their basement regardless of consent.

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