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SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russia insurgents have freed one of the eight European military observers being held prisoner in eastern Ukraine. An Associated Press photographer saw Maj. Thomas Johansson of Sweden get into a car with representatives of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe. They then drove away. It's not clear why only Johansson was released. The insurgents had accused the group of being NATO spies.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan says he's disgusted and outraged by racist comments allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. And Magic Johnson is calling on the NBA to "come down hard" on Sterling, saying he should essentially be ousted from the league. The two former basketball greats were reacting to an audio recording obtained by TMZ of a man purported to be Sterling urging a woman to not bring black people to his team's games.
PERRY, Ga. (AP) — A former radiology technician who admitted falsifying nearly 1,300 mammogram reports at a Georgia hospital has been sentenced to serve up to six months in a state detention center. Authorities say the woman (Rachael Rapraeger) used doctors' computer logins to enter negative mammogram results for patients at Perry Hospital. Authorities say 10 of the mammograms were actually positive. Her lawyer said she filled out false reports to avoid having to do paperwork.
MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) — A teenage employee at an Italian restaurant in northern New York has severed his arm while cleaning a pasta machine. The 17-year-old boy is in serious condition at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was flown after the Thursday night accident. The restaurant manager tells The Watertown Daily Times the boy was cleaning the pasta machine when his right arm got caught and severed at the elbow.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Other Woman" is No. 1 at the box office. The raunchy revenge comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton opened with $24.7 million, knocking "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" to No. 2 after three weeks on top. "Heaven Is for Real" is No. 3 for the second week in a row.
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