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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has resigned, a day after testifying before Congress about the multiple security breaches involving President Barack Obama. Lawmakers pounced on Pierson when questioning her about last month's fence jumper, who, with a knife, walked through the White House front door. Following Pierson's testimony, it was revealed that days before the security breach, Obama shared an elevator in Atlanta with an armed security guard who also is an ex-convict.
DALLAS (AP) — Hospital officials in Dallas say the man diagnosed with Ebola was sent home the first time he went to the hospital because information that he had just come from Africa was not widely shared. Now health officials are trying to track down anyone who came in contact with the man, including the ambulance crew that took him to the hospital and a handful of school children. The man is being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
MEXICO CITY AP) — Military forces in Mexico have captured the alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva (LAY'-vuh) drug gang. Hector Beltran Leyva was grabbed by special forces during a lightning raid at a restaurant Wednesday. It's the latest in a string of high-profile drug arrests in Mexico. The arrest comes just months after the capture of Joaquin (wah-KEEN') "El Chapo" Guzman, the elusive boss of the Sinaloa cartel.
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys player C.J. Spillman is under investigation after a report of an alleged sexual assault at the team hotel last month. Police in Grapevine, Texas say the alleged assault happened Sept. 20 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. Spillman has not been charged.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A husband and wife on TV's "Real Housewives of New Jersey" are due in federal court in Newark Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud. Teresa and Joe Giudice (JOO'-dys) admitted hiding assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitting phony loan applications to get some $5 million in mortgages and construction loans.
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