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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man whose son died after he was left in a hot car for seven hours has been charged with murder in the toddler's death. A Cobb County grand jury today indicted Justin Harris on multiple charges including malice murder, felony murder and cruelty to children. Harris has been in jail since his arrest the day his son died. Harris has told police he was supposed to drive his son to day care the morning of June 18 but drove to work without realizing that the child was strapped into a car seat in the back. A police detective testified at a hearing that Harris was sitting in his office exchanging nude photos with several women the day his son died.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances surrounding Joan Rivers' cardiac arrest during an outpatient procedure. The 81-year-old comic and red carpet commentator was hospitalized last week after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office. Her family said yesterday that Rivers has been moved from intensive care at Mount Sinai Hospital into a private room, where she was "being kept comfortable." No further details were released on her condition.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that BP's reckless conduct resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill. And that leaves the company open to billions of dollars in penalties. The judge's ruling could nearly quadruple the amount of civil penalties for polluting the Gulf of Mexico with oil from a BP well in 2010. BP is vowing to appeal the ruling. The judge presided over a trial to apportion blame for the spill. He found that BP bears 67 percent of the blame, while Transocean takes 30 percent and cement contractor Halliburton takes 3 percent.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Even amid talk of an imminent cease-fire agreement in Ukraine, the country's U.N. ambassador says a convoy of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has moved toward a key Ukrainian port. The ambassador says the convoy was stopped by Ukrainian forces and civilians, and that the fighting continues. According to the ambassador, the convoy came from a resort town that was captured by heavily-armed separatists last week. He says it was probably a reconnaissance mission to test the military defenses in the port of Mariupol (mah-ROO'-pahl).
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A top U.S. official for Africa says the United States is preparing to launch a "major" border security program for Nigeria and its neighbors to combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists. The announcement comes amid reports that Nigerian Islamic extremists have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon. Nigerian troops have been accused of killing thousands of innocent civilians in a scorched-earth response to the Boko Haram (BOH'-koh hah-RAHM') insurgency.
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