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WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says new intelligence assessments estimate that the Islamic State group can muster from 20,000 to more than 31,000 fighters across Iraq and Syria. The agency says the new total reflects stronger recruitment by the extremists since June, following battlefield successes and the group's declaration of an Islamic state, or caliphate, on territory under its control. The assessment comes after 10 Mideast allies announced their support for an international effort to "destroy" the group.
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teen convicted of shooting to death three students in a high school cafeteria two years ago has escaped from prison. A search is underway for 19-year-old T.J. Lane and one of two other inmates who escaped with him from the prison in Lima (LY'-muh). The third inmate has been captured. Lima police say the two escapees are considered dangerous, and police are searching woods and a residential area nearby.
BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor says the bodies of three infants have been found in a filthy house where four other children were removed by authorities last month. Police in Blackstone say a woman who lives at the home has been arrested on charges related to the living conditions at the house and intimidation of a witness. No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the babies' deaths.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California Highway Patrol investigator says an officer who was videotaped repeatedly punching a woman on the side of a Los Angeles freeway in July had just pulled her from oncoming traffic and she resisted by pushing him. But her lawyer says the video doesn't align with the investigator's account and shows her client isn't resisting arrest before she's pinned to the ground and beaten.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American aid worker infected with Ebola has been given blood from a fellow doctor who has recovered from disease. Doctors treating Dr. Rick Sacra at the Nebraska Medical Center say he has responded well to aggressive treatment in the past week, including two blood transfusions from Dr. Kent Brantly. Brantly is one of the two Americans treated for Ebola in Atlanta last month.
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