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• Trump reports for New York jury duty, takes campaign break
• Planned Parenthood seeks injunction against Florida health agency
• White House launches plan to counter explosion in heroin use
• Magnitude 4.0 earthquake jolts San Francisco Bay Area
• Boyfriend of Morgan Freeman's granddaughter charged with her murder
• Trump leaves campaign trail to report for jury duty in N.Y.
• Live: Explosion rocks central Bangkok, killing 12, police say
• Trial opens for white supremacist charged in Kansas killings
• Crashed Indonesian plane was carrying nearly $500,000 in cash
• Where the 2016 presidential candidates stand on climate change
• US Army skydiver dies from Chicago air show injuries
• Army parachutist dies after collision at Chicago air show
• Notable Mississippians join chorus to change state flag
• Three people killed in a two-plane collision near San Diego

Trump reports for New York jury duty, takes campaign break Posted: 17 Aug 2015 11:44 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a break Monday from courting voters to go to court as a potential juror.

Planned Parenthood seeks injunction against Florida health agency Posted: 17 Aug 2015 11:28 AM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood sought an emergency legal injunction on Monday against Florida health officials to block the use of what it says are "new and unpublished" standards to define pregnancy gestation periods. The legal move filed in circuit court in Tallahassee comes after Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott ordered a probe last month of the state's 16 Planned Parenthood locations which resulted in three clinics being cited Aug. 5 for illegally performing abortions in the second trimester. Planned Parenthood said the abortions in questions were first trimester abortions and that the state had arbitrarily changed the way it measures the first trimester, shortening it to 12 weeks from 14.

White House launches plan to counter explosion in heroin use Posted: 17 Aug 2015 09:48 AM PDT The White House announced a new strategy on Monday to tackle the explosion in heroin use in a collection of eastern states, focusing on treating addicts rather than punishing them and targeting high-level suppliers for arrest. The move is a response to a sharp rise in the use of heroin and opiate-based painkillers, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has described as an epidemic. An estimated 45 percent of U.S. heroin users are also addicted to prescription painkillers.

Magnitude 4.0 earthquake jolts San Francisco Bay Area Posted: 17 Aug 2015 07:20 AM PDT (Reuters) - The San Francisco Bay Area experienced a 4.0 magnitude on Monday morning, the United States Geological Survey reported. The earthquake, near the town of Piedmont located east of San Francisco, was also felt in nearby Oakland, according to a Reuters witness. (Reporting by Jim Christie and Lisa Lambert)

Boyfriend of Morgan Freeman's granddaughter charged with her murder Posted: 17 Aug 2015 07:04 AM PDT By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The live-in boyfriend of actor Morgan Freeman's granddaughter was charged on Monday with her murder, police said. E'Dena Hines, 33, was found fatally stabbed early on Sunday in a street near her apartment in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, according to the New York Police Department. Lamar Davenport, 30, was taken into custody and transferred to a hospital for mental evaluation, police said.

Trump leaves campaign trail to report for jury duty in N.Y. Posted: 17 Aug 2015 06:48 AM PDT Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a break from the campaign trial on Monday as he reported for jury duty in New York. Trump, the front-runner in a crowded Republican field, appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court to join fellow New Yorkers to possibly be selected to cast a verdict in a trial. Arriving in a black limo, Trump, 69, was greeted by a throng of reporters and television crews numbering around 100 people.

Live: Explosion rocks central Bangkok, killing 12, police say Posted: 17 Aug 2015 06:33 AM PDT An explosion rocked central Bangkok on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than a dozen others, officials there say.

Trial opens for white supremacist charged in Kansas killings Posted: 17 Aug 2015 04:23 AM PDT Jury selection begins on Monday in the trial of a Missouri white supremacist charged with murdering three people in a shooting spree outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb in April 2014. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who has made derogatory remarks about Jews in preliminary court hearings, chose to represent himself at his state trial in Olathe, Kansas. Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, could be sentenced to death if convicted.

Crashed Indonesian plane was carrying nearly $500,000 in cash Posted: 17 Aug 2015 03:17 AM PDT By Hidayat Setiaji and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian passenger plane that crashed with 54 people on board in Papua province was carrying cash worth around $470,000 for remote villages, a post office spokesman said on Monday as rescue teams headed to the mountainous site where it went down. Earlier, a search and rescue plane spotted debris believed to be from the aircraft in the heavily forested Bintang Mountains district, local police chief Yunus Wally told the Antara news agency, adding that a search team was approaching the area. There were 44 adult passengers, five children and infants and five crew on the Trigana short-haul flight from Sentani Airport in Jayapura, capital of Papua, south to Oksibil.

Where the 2016 presidential candidates stand on climate change Posted: 17 Aug 2015 03:00 AM PDT Some laugh off man-made climate change as a hoax, while others accept the scientific consensus.

US Army skydiver dies from Chicago air show injuries Posted: 17 Aug 2015 12:15 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. Army skydiver who had served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan died Sunday from injuries suffered in a midair collision with another jumper during a stunt at the Chicago Air & Water Show, authorities said.

Army parachutist dies after collision at Chicago air show Posted: 16 Aug 2015 06:01 PM PDT Army Golden Knights parachutist Corey Hood succumbed to his injuries which he suffered on Saturday when he collided in the air with an unidentified Navy parachutist during the Chicago Air & Water Show, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Hood and a member of the Navy Leap Frogs parachute team collided during a jump involving 13 parachutists, the newspaper reported.

Notable Mississippians join chorus to change state flag Posted: 16 Aug 2015 04:58 PM PDT JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jimmy Buffet, John Grisham, Morgan Freeman and former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning are among famous current and former Mississippi residents asking the state to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its flag.

Three people killed in a two-plane collision near San Diego Posted: 16 Aug 2015 02:29 PM PDT (Reuters) - At least three people were killed after two small planes collided in mid-air on Sunday morning miles (km) from a San Diego airport, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported. The crash occurred at around 11 a.m. when a twin-engine Sabreliner collided with a single-engine Cessna 172 over an area located two miles (3 km) northeast of Brown Field in San Diego, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority said. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate what led to the crash, the FAA spokesman said. ...

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