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LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — A lawyer for George Zimmerman says his client wasn't seriously injured after being involved in a shooting in Florida. Attorney Don West says a bullet missed Zimmerman's head in today's shooting in the Orlando suburb of Lake Mary. He says Zimmerman was sprayed with glass from his vehicle's windshield and other debris, but that he's now been released from a hospital. Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in a case that sparked protests and national debate about race relations.
TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — Corrections officials believe other inmates likely killed two prisoners who died during a disturbance at a maximum security prison in southeast Nebraska. The deaths were discovered today as officials regained control of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. The state's corrections director says 100 to 200 of the roughly 1,000 inmates at the prison were involved in the disturbance that began yesterday afternoon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is dismissing as untrue an article alleging that President Barack Obama misled the public about how the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. A spokesman says journalist Seymour Hersh's piece in the London Review of Books is "riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods." Hersh attributes his information to a retired general of the Pakistani intelligence service and several unidentified sources in the U.S. and Pakistan. He says bin Laden was secretly kept as a prisoner by the Pakistanis and that they helped the U.S. stage the raid on his compound.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell has cleared a major hurdle in its plans to drill off Alaska's northwest coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved Shell's exploration plan. But the company still needs other permits from state and federal agencies, and government findings that Shell can comply with terms and conditions of the Endangered Species Act.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A jury in North Carolina says Starbucks is not liable for damages after a Raleigh police officer said he suffered third-degree burns from a cup of coffee spilling in his lap three years ago. Lt. Matt Kohr had sought damages of up to $750,000 from the coffee company, but the jury decided 10-2 today that Starbucks owed him nothing. Local media outlets report that both parties in the lawsuit agreed to accept the decision even though it wasn't unanimous.
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