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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man says he called police to report an erratic Uber driver more than an hour before the driver allegedly began shooting people at random, killing six and wounding two others before he was arrested. Matt Mellen tells a Kalamazoo TV station (WWMT) that Jason Dalton picked him up Saturday afternoon. He says Dalton began driving erratically after he got a phone call -- speeding, sideswiping cars and driving over medians and lawns. He says when they came to a stop, he ran from the car and called police. Authorities allege that Dalton shot the first victim outside an apartment complex a little more than an hour later and that he shot seven others over the next several hours. Dalton is expected to appear in court later today.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is remembering the late Justice Antonin Scalia as a colleague of "irrepressible spirit." Roberts said today that Scalia was "our man for all seasons and we will miss him beyond measure." His comments came as the justices took the bench for the first time since the Feb. 13 death of the longtime jurist. The high court is resuming work just two days after the justices and thousands of dignitaries, friends and family mourned his loss at a funeral Mass in Washington.
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares in Lumber Liquidators is falling today, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its estimate of the cancer risk from some of the company's laminate flooring. The health agency says people who are exposed to certain types of that flooring are now three times more likely to get cancer than the agency had earlier estimated. It now estimates the risk of cancer at six to 30 cases per 100,000 people.
JOAO PESSOA, Brazil (AP) — A 16-member team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is starting work on a "case-control" study in Brazil. It's aimed at determining whether the Zika (ZEE'-kuh) virus really does cause babies to be born with a devastating birth defect, as Brazilian researchers strongly suspect. The CDC team is working with dozens of members of Brazil's Health Ministry. Starting tomorrow, the team will try to track down babies with the defect. Blood samples will help determine whether the mothers had Zika.
LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — A court-appointed forensic psychologist says a woman who was found pushing her dead son in a playground swing in Maryland last year suffers from schizophrenia and is not criminally responsible in the child's death. The Washington Post reports it's unclear how the report could affect the case of Romechia Simms, and whether a judge will declare her not criminally responsible or reject the findings and move forward with the proceedings. Simms' trial was scheduled to begin today.
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