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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The National Guard is leaving Ferguson, Missouri. Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Guard to begin pulling out of the St. Louis suburb after a third night of relatively peaceful protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's attorney general says she'll appeal a federal court ruling that calls the state's death penalty unconstitutional. The announcement by Attorney General Kamala Harris comes after U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney in Los Angeles ruled last month that the state's death penalty takes too long to carry out, and that the unpredictable delays are arbitrary and unfair.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Fighting continues for a third day in the Gaza Strip following the collapse of cease-fire talks. The Israeli military has carried out 20 airstrikes Friday, targeting rocket launchers and weapons sites. It says Gaza militants fired two rockets at Israel. A Gaza health official says two workers at a livestock farm were hit by Israeli fire and were killed.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City police officer is being held on $5 million bond for allegedly committing a series of sexual assaults against at least six women while on duty. Twenty-seven-year-old Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was arrested Thursday on complaints of rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery and indecent exposure. The Oklahoman reports that Holtzclaw allegedly stopped the women, forced them to expose themselves, fondled them, and in one case, allegedly raped one.
FOWLER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman accused along with her boyfriend of kidnapping two young Amish sisters and sexually abusing them says she and her boyfriend planned to turn the girls into slaves, but the couple became frightened by news reports. Authorities in St. Lawrence County say Nicole Vaisey has admitted that she and boyfriend, Stephen Howells Jr., lured the 7-year-old and 12-year-old sisters to their car and shoved them in. Authorities say Vaisey told them they shackled the girls and intended to turn them into slaves, but released them 24 hours later after hearing news reports.
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