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DALLAS (AP) — Health officials in Texas are monitoring some 50 people who may have had close contact with a health care worker who contracted the Ebola virus from a Liberian man who died last week in a Dallas hospital. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that a breach of protocol led to the worker becoming infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan. Officials have not been able to pinpoint what went wrong.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — This morning, Alaska is issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The move comes after a federal judge yesterday struck down the state's ban on gay marriage — the nation's first such ban approved by voters. Alaska has a three-day waiting period between applications and marriage ceremonies.
HONG KONG (AP) — There are allegations that some members of the public are being paid to disrupt pro-democracy protests that have paralyzed Hong Kong for more than two weeks. A local radio station has broadcast an audio clip in which a man said to be a taxi driver, discussed being paid the equivalent of $258 dollars to take part in clashes. But the clip cannot be independently verified. Today an angry crowd of men wearing surgical masks tried to storm the protests zone, demanding that roads the protesters have been blocking be opened up.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The sentencing phase in the homicide trial of South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has begun today in a court in Pretoria. Last month the judge found Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius' defense team is expected to argue before the judge that the double-amputee has suffered emotionally and materially for what he said was an accident and that he's remorseful.
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say at least 30 people have been killed and another 15 injured when three minibuses traveling in the southern province of Aswan collided today. The accident happened on a road that runs along the West Bank of the Nile near the historic town of Edfu. A police official says the minibuses were speeding when they collided. He says all of the dead are Egyptians.
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