Court allows Oklahoma to delay executions due to lack of drugs
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma court accepted a motion from the state on Friday to delay three planned executions so prison authorities can obtain a fresh batch of lethal injection drugs and implement new protocols drawn up after a troubled exec…
U.S. considering quarantine for returning Ebola health workers: CDC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is considering quarantining healthcare workers returning to the United States from the Ebola hot zone of West Africa, after a New York doctor who treated Ebola patients there tested positive for the virus…
Obama gives big hug to U.S. nurse who survived Ebola
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama gave a big hug on Friday to Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who survived a bout with Ebola.
Kansas court upholds conviction in abortion doctor’s murder
KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) – The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a man’s conviction in the 2009 slaying of a late-term abortion doctor but sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing.
Trove of Flight 93 personal items destroyed in 9/11 memorial fire
(Reuters) – A fire near the western Pennsylvania memorial for a hijacked United flight that crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, destroyed photographs, ID cards and other personal mementos of the victims recovered from the site, officials said on Friday.
Texas man charged with raping two children, infecting them with HIV
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.
With U.S. Ebola fear running high, African immigrants face ostracism
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Plenary Walsh team to rebuild hundreds of Pennsylvania bridges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pennsylvania, with more bad bridges than any other U.S. state, said on Friday it selected Plenary Walsh Keystone Partners’ $899 million proposal to replace 558 structurally deficient bridges.
Man in custody in toppling of Ten Commandments at Oklahoma capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A man was taken into custody on Friday on suspicion of knocking over a Ten Commandments monument with a car on the grounds of the Oklahoma statehouse and then fleeing the scene, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Stolen vehicle plows into Ohio bar, injures 13
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Thirteen people were injured late Thursday after a high-speed police chase ended with a stolen truck crashing through the front of a bar in a western suburb of Cleveland, police said.
