Canadian union, GM reach deal

Canadian union, GM reach deal

TORONTO

The Canadian Auto Workers union said late Thursday it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, leaving Chrysler as the only Detroit automaker that hasn’t agreed to a new labor deal.

CAW President Ken Lewenza called it a difficult few days but said GM ultimately agreed to the pattern of a deal that the union reached with Ford earlier this week.

Texas executes man who killed 5

HUNSTVILLE, Texas

An ex-convict who confessed killing five people at a Dallas-area car wash a week after he was fired from his job there 12 years ago was executed Thursday evening.

Robert Wayne Harris, 40, received a lethal injection less than two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals to halt his punishment.

Harris expressed love to his brother and three friends who were watching through a window.

UK soldier gives birth in war zone

LONDON

Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child born to a member of Britain’s armed forces in combat.

Britain’s defense ministry said Thursday the soldier told authorities she had not been aware she was pregnant and only consulted doctors on the day that she went into labor.

The soldier, who arrived in Afghanistan in March, delivered the child Tuesday at Camp Bastion, the vast desert camp in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province where Prince Harry is deployed and a Taliban attack last week killed two U.S. Marines.

The U.K. does not allow female soldiers to deploy on operation if they are pregnant. Although the soldier’s child was conceived before her tour of duty began in March, she is not likely to face censure.

Obama has more campaign money

WASHINGTON

At the end of August, President Barack Obama had about $88.8 million to spend on the final months of the campaign, nearly twice as much as Republican rival Mitt Romney, according to campaign fundraising reports released Thursday.

Though Romney’s report showed he had $50.4 million to spend as of Aug. 31, he also owed $15 million on a $20 million loan taken that month.

IUDs, implants urged for teens

CHICAGO

Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants — long-lasting and more-effective birth control that you don’t have to remember to use every time, the nation’s leading gynecologists group said Thursday.

The IUD and implants are safe and nearly 100 percent effective at preventing pregnancy and should be “first-line recommendations,” the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in updating its guidance for teens.

Chrysler worker fatally stabs another

DETROIT

An employee at Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit fatally stabbed a co-worker at one of the loading-dock areas Thursday morning before fleeing to Belle Isle, where he apparently took his own life, officials said.

Police say an ongoing dispute between the two men apparently led to the violent encounter, but officials have not released further details.

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