Lawyer: Cyanide suspect to OK extradition to Pa.

Lawyer: Cyanide suspect to OK extradition to Pa.

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A University of Pittsburgh medical researcher accused of fatally poisoning his neurologist wife with cyanide will agree to be transported back to Pennsylvania to face charges, his attorney said.

Dr. Robert Ferrante intends to waive extradition at a hearing Monday in West Virginia, where he was taken into custody Thursday, said attorney William Difenderfer.

Difenderfer said his client wasn’t trying to flee charges in the death of 41-year-old UPMC neurologist Autumn Marie Klein when he left Florida and began driving north.

He said he had called his client and told him to return to Pittsburgh to surrender, and his client was “on his way to turn himself in.”

Klein, chief of women’s neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, died April 20 after falling ill at home three days earlier.

Heinz Kerry leaves rehab hospital

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Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday, just under three weeks after she suffered a seizure at their Nantucket home, a State Department spokesman said.

Heinz Kerry, 74, is expected to make a full recovery from the July 7 seizure after additional outpatient treatment, spokesman Glen Johnson said.

Johnson said the cause of the seizure had not been determined but doctors had ruled out a brain tumor, heart attack or stroke. The family does not plan to comment further on Heinz Kerry’s health, he said.

More than 1,000 inmates escape

TRIPOLI, Libya

More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison Saturday in Libya as protesters stormed political-party offices across the country, signs of the simmering unrest gripping a nation overrun by militias.

It wasn’t clear if the jailbreak at al-Kweifiya prison came as part of the demonstrations. Protesters had massed across Libya over the killing of an activist critical of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood group.

Inmates started a riot and set fires after security forces opened fire on three detainees who tried to escape the facility outside of Ben-ghazi, a security official said.

Spain train driver still in police custody

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain

The injured driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 and injuring dozens more, was released from the hospital Saturday, but he was still kept in a police station as authorities increasingly focused on his culpability.

Francisco Jose Garzon Amo was to appear before a judge by this evening to give his explanation for Spain’s deadliest train crash in decades.

N. Korea shows its arsenal in parade

PYONGYANG, N. Korea

Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea’s adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.

The lavish assembly of weapons and troops is reminiscent of the marches by the Soviet Union and China at the height of the Cold War. It is one of the few chances the world gets to see North Korea’s military up close.

Associated Press