U.S. sets up rapid-response Ebola team; Dallas nurse improves
DALLAS (Reuters) – The United States is establishing a rapid-response team to help hospitals “within hours” whenever there is a case of Ebola, the top doctor leading the fight against the deadly virus said on Tuesday.
Ohio inmate charged with rapes days before scheduled release
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio inmate due for release in days has been charged with raping five women in the mid 1990s based on tests performed on a backlog of thousands of rape evidence kits submitted by law enforcement, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Trial begins for Detroit-area businessman accused in wife’s murder
DETROIT (Reuters) – A suburban Detroit businessman accused of hiring his handyman to kill his wife tried to point blame away from himself after her body was discovered, telling police she may have gone to a bad neighborhood to buy drugs, prosecutors to…
U.S. national shot dead in Saudi capital Riyadh
RIYADH (Reuters) – A gunman killed a U.S. national and wounded another in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, officials said, heightening Western concerns over security in the world’s top oil exporter as regional unrest rises.
Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor gets 44 months in prison for corruption
CHARLOTTE N.C. (Reuters) – A former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly four years in U.S. prison after admitting to using public positions in the state’s largest city for personal financial gain, including taking at …
Anti-abortion display OK’d for Independence Mall in Philadelphia
HARRISBURG Pa (Reuters) – An anti-abortion group has secured a permit to erect a video screen near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a popular destination for young schoolchildren, to show images of aborted fetuses this week, the U.S. National Park Ser…
Dallas Cowboys’ Randle arrested for suspected cologne theft
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has been arrested and charged with shoplifting a bottle of Gucci Guilty Black cologne and Polo underwear from a department store, police in the Dallas suburb of Frisco said on Tuesday.
American killed by camel at Mexico beach resort
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 60-year-old American was killed by a camel which escaped from its pen and attacked him at a wildlife center he owned in the Mexican beach resort of Tulum, local emergency services said on Tuesday.
Friend of accused Boston bomber used pot early in day: witness
BOSTON (Reuters) – A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber began smoking marijuana early on the day of his visit to the suspect’s college dorm room, which prosecutors have charged him with lying about, a witness testified on Tuesday.
Supreme Court leaves California foie gras ban intact
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a victory for animal rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed California to continue to ban foie gras, a delicacy produced from the enlarged livers of ducks and geese that have been force-fed corn.
