Independent Australian MP Helen Haines has lost both legs after an alleged deliberate car attack outside her office. Her husband says she is stable, while police investigate the motive and a suspect faces charges.
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Florida executed William Reaves for the 1986 killing of Deputy Richard Raczkowski, its 18th execution this year. Another execution scheduled for Nov. 5 would tie the state’s annual record of 19.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life without parole, citing concerns about the direct evidence for carrying out an execution. Johnson maintains his innocence, and his lawyers say they will keep seeking a new trial.
A former Cornell student says a secondhand account of the university president’s response to her sexual assault report left her feeling disbelieved. Cornell says his question concerned bystanders, as faculty consider a no-confidence vote.
A jury convicted Canadian tourist Mitchell Fairbarn of felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty for taking a flamingo from a Las Vegas hotel enclosure. He remains under house arrest pending sentencing on Dec. 1.
Federal prosecutors charged 28 lawful permanent residents in California with election-related offenses. State officials are challenging a separate Justice Department demand to review more than 20,000 people it says may be noncitizens on the voter rolls.
Mississippi’s attorney general says an officer’s use of force was justified in the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside a Senatobia Walmart. The boy’s family disputes the police account and has called for footage of the incident to be released.
One person was killed in a shooting near a Columbus, Ohio, mosque. Police said the mosque was not targeted and, according to Al Jazeera, linked the shooting to a dispute at an apartment building.