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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada. The order came minutes after Idaho filed an emergency request for a stay this morning. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling yesterday came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 30 other states.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina court has approved a same-sex couple's application for a marriage license despite the state's constitutional ban against the practice and the attorney general's pledge to defend that ban. Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal of a ruling allowing same-sex marriage by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over South Carolina. The Charleston County judge says as a result, his court is required to accept and issue marriage licenses.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish health officials are investigating whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola may have contracted the virus when she touched her face with protective gloves after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated. Meanwhile, animal rights activists is Spain scuffled with police today as they tried to stop health workers from entering the woman's apartment complex to remove her dog. Madrid's regional government plans to euthanize the dog.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The first American flown back to the U.S. for treatment of Ebola this summer has donated blood to the most recent one to return from West Africa with the disease. The Nebraska Medical Center says it called Dr. Kent Brantly yesterday to tell him his blood type matches that of Ashoka Mukpo (ah-SHOH'-kuh MUK'-poh), a freelance video journalist who arrived at the medical center Monday. It says Mukpo will receive the transfusion today.
HOUSTON (AP) — Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has arrived in a Texas courtroom for an initial appearance on a charge of felony child abuse. Peterson used a wooden switch to punish his 4-year-old son, causing bruising and marks on the boy earlier this year in suburban Houston. He is charged with injury to a child and faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
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