Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — Officials in Maine say Kaci Hickox has agreed to be quarantined -- but her lawyer says that's not the case. Hickox is the nurse who was confined against her will in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa. She was released yesterday and went to Maine, where he lawyer says she's at an undisclosed location. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines require daily monitoring, not a quarantine, for health care workers who show no symptoms after treating Ebola patients.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.'s top Ebola official in West Africa says authorities are having trouble figuring out how many more people are getting Ebola in Liberia and in Sierra Leone -- and pinpointing the hot spots in those countries. And he says that's standing in the way of efforts to get control of the outbreak. Experts say the key to stopping Ebola is tracing and isolating those who've had contact with patients or victims. And health care workers can't do that if they don't know where the new cases are emerging.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri is preparing to execute a man who wasn't able to appeal his conviction in federal court because his attorneys missed a filing deadline to do so. Mark Christeson is scheduled to die at a minute after midnight for the killing of a woman and her two children in 1998. He still has two appeals pending with the Supreme Court. Christeson would be the ninth person executed by Missouri this year, which would match the highest number of executions carried out in the state in one year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators say the engineer of a commuter train that derailed in New York City last year, killing four people, fell asleep, causing him to miss a 30 mile-an-hour speed limit and hit a curve at 82 miles an hour. The National Transportation Board on Tuesday says engineer William Rockefeller fell asleep due to the combination of a sleep disorder and a drastic shift in his work schedule. It says the Metro-North railroad also lacked policy to screen for sleep disorders.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A website that monitors North Korea says the isolated nation may be exploring how to launch ballistic missiles from submarines or ships. The North would still be years away from deploying such missiles, but the finding adds to concern over its weapons development. The analysis is published by the website 38 North.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
