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Delay in Dallas Ebola Cleanup as Workers Balk at Task

New York Times

In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirmed Thursday that a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola in Dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection Wednesday night.   Continue reading “Conflicting stories on the Texas ebola cleanup”

NBC News

An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the U.S. for treatment.

The freelancer, Ashoka Mukpo, 33, was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia, reporting on the Ebola outbreak.

Mukpo came down with symptoms on Wednesday, feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature check, he discovered he was running a slight fever. He immediately quarantined himself and sought medical advice. On Thursday morning, Mukpo went to a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treatment center to be tested for the virus. The positive result came back just under 12 hours later.   Continue reading “NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed With Ebola”

The New York Times – by Thomas Kaplan

Continuing the parade of Albany politicians accused of misbehavior, an assemblyman from Queens was arrested on Wednesday and charged with stealing from the state by seeking reimbursement for nonexistent travel expenses.

The assemblyman, William Scarborough, a Democrat, was also accused of using campaign money for personal expenses. He faces charges in both state and federal court.

Assemblyman Scarborough’s arrest was the latest in aseries of scandals involving New York State legislatorsand raised fresh questions about the effectiveness of efforts to combat ethical lapses by lawmakers, even on mundane matters like hotel-room allowances.   Continue reading “Queens Assemblyman Is Charged With Inflating Travel Expenses by $40,000”

Sidney Morning Herald – by Anna Fifield

Tokyo: Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader who has mysteriously been missing from the public eye for almost a month, sparking rumours ranging from a stroke to a coup d’etat, is apparently just recovering from ankle surgery.

Mr Kim had fractured both of his ankles and had surgery in Pyongyang in the middle of September to treat them, the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper, reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source.   Continue reading “North Korean leader Kim Jong-un not missing, just having ankle surgery”

AOL – by Sean Carlin

SCHWENKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) – Authorities released few details Wednesday in the deadly shooting of a Pennsylvania state trooper during a training exercise in suburban Philadelphia.

Lt. James Fisher called Trooper David Kedra an “excellent” trooper during a news conference outside the Skippack barracks, but declined to provide details on the shooting or the investigation. Fisher deferred to the state police press office, which also declined to provide any details.

Kedra, 26, was shot in the chest Tuesday during a yearly training exercise at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Complex in Plymouth Meeting. He was airlifted to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.   Continue reading “Officials release few details in trooper death”

Burlington Free Press – by Sam Hemingway

A Vermont State Police trooper pulled over and later impounded a car in March, never charging the driver with any crime but requiring him to pay the cost of having the car towed away, a newly filed lawsuit claims.

The traffic stop, conducted by Trooper Lewis Hatch, was initiated because snow obscured a small part of the license plate, although that is not a motor vehicle offense, the lawsuit alleged.   Continue reading “ACLU accuses state police of improper stop”

Morning Call – by Laurie Mason Schroeder and Peter Hall

State police confirmed Tuesday that they had found two pipe bombs Eric Frein left behind in the woods, and say they’ve had a credible sighting of him within the last 24 hours.

Lt. Col. George Bivens said that the search area for Frein remains the same, several miles along the Pike and Monroe County border, but that police are also checking up on tips related to other areas that he has been known to frequent.   Continue reading “Police find pipe bombs in Eric Frein search area”

New York Daily News – by Bill Hutchinson

Accused of going from hero to hoodlum in a single day, an NYPD cop has pleaded innocent to charges he drunkenly beat a woman after bursting into her apartment in his underwear.

Officer Eugene Donnelly’s hangover continued Monday at his arraignment in Bronx Supreme Court.

The Bronx cop was slapped with only misdemeanor charges stemming from the June 10 incident that left a 30-year-old woman terrorized and battered.   Continue reading “NYPD officer pleads innocent to battering woman after breaking into apartment”

The Washington Post – by Carol D. Leonnig

The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident.

An alarm box near the front entrance of the White House designed to alert guards to an intruder had been muted at what officers believed was a request of the usher’s office, said a Secret Service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.   Continue reading “White House fence-jumper made it far deeper into building than previously known”

New York Daily News – by Shayna Jacobs

A garment worker who had a pink tote bag full of hotly sought after new iPhones is iRate with cops she says falsely arrested her and accused her of trying to sell them.

Hui Lin, 51, says she spent days camped out in front of the Fifth Ave. Apple store so she could buy a dozen iPhone 6s for her sons, nieces and nephews.

“They’re desperate for the iPhones — the new models,” the Chinese immigrant said of her family, adding, “An iPhone costs three weeks of wages!”   Continue reading “Woman claims NYPD cops made up story she was reselling iPhones”

NY 1 News

Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn march to protest police brutality in the wake of several videos showing violent arrests.

It comes as police say an officer involved in one of the arrests has been placed on modified duty.

Protesters marched from 46th Street and 5th Avenue to the 72nd police precinct station house.   Continue reading “Brooklyn Resident Protest Alleged Police Brutality Following Video Leak”

Novi Patch – by Beth Dabley

A Windsor, Ontario, man was arrested Wednesday by border patrol agents after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than 50 turtles hidden in his underpants and strapped elsewhere to his body into the United States.

Kai Xu was detained at the Detroit-Windsor border after authorities “noticed irregularly shaped bulges under (his) sweatpants on both his legs,” The Detroit News reports. Earlier Wednesday, Xu and his suspected partner, Lihua Lin, of Toronto, were arrested after Lin allegedly tried to smuggle 200 turtles in his luggage on a flight to Shanghai, China.   Continue reading “Man Arrested at Border with 50 Turtles Tucked in His Underpants”

KARE 11

MINNEAPOLIS – According to official medical records, a former Minnesota Marine apparently contacted the Minneapolis VA from his grave to cancel an existing appointment and reschedule it.

Jordan Buisman’s family believes his medical records were falsified to hide serious delays in patient care at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center.    Continue reading “KARE 11 Investigates: VA records show vet rescheduled appointment after death”

Washington Post – by Andrea Peterson

A major flaw in a piece of open source code that affects Mac OS X and Linux users has cybersecurity professionals scrambling to identify and patch vulnerable machines — but embedded devices making up the so-called “Internet of Things” could be among the worst hit by the bug.

Dubbed “Shellshock” by some members of the IT security community, the issue affects “bash” — an open source code used in Unix-based systems used since the 1980s. Bash is a type of shell code for user commands, meaning it serves as a sort of direct route to controlling systems that is built in at the operating system level.   Continue reading “Why Shellshock is bad news for the Internet of things”

Fortune – by Chris Matthews

Cyber crime is grabbing the headlines these days, but the largest criminal gangs are still making most of their money from drugs, sex, and extortion.

It’s tough to go even a few months without seeing the effects of organized crime on the economy and everyday life. The most salient example these days is the rash of thefts of credit card data from big-name retail chains like Home Depot and Target.   Continue reading “Fortune 5: The biggest organized crime groups in the world”

AOL

The U.S. has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation more than half a billion dollars for mismanaging reservation resources and leaving the largest Native American tribe in the country at incredible disadvantages for decades.

The $554 million agreement negotiated earlier this year is also the largest payout to a tribe in U.S. history, and tribal leaders say the payout is a much-needed cash infusion. (Video via YouTube / Ben Shelly)   Continue reading “U.S. Will Pay $554M Settlement to Navajo Nation”