Company recalls Motrin for infants

Company recalls Motrin for infants

WASHINGTON

Johnson & Johnson is recalling 200,000 bottles of Motrin Infants formula due to the risk that they contain tiny plastic particles.

J&J’s McNeil unit said Friday that the recall affects three lots of its popular Motrin Infants’ Drops Original Berry Flavor, which is used to lower fever and treat aches and pains in children 2 years old and younger. The company warned that the medicine may be contaminated with specs of PTFE, a plastic also used in Teflon coatings. No illnesses or injuries have been reported to date, according to the company.

Sources: Taliban commander killed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan

A senior commander linked to the Taliban was among six militants reportedly killed early Friday in a suspected U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan along the Afghan border, according to local media and an intermediary with close links to militants.

The commander, Afghan national Mullah Sangeen Zadran, had been a top leader with the Haqqani network who reportedly served as the Taliban’s unofficial governor of Afghanistan’s southeastern Paktika province, said the intermediary, who requested anonymity.

Hitler bodyguard dies at age 96

BERLIN

He was Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker. To the very end, SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was proud of it all.

For years, he accompanied Hitler nearly everywhere he went, sticking by the man he affectionately called “boss” until the dictator and his wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves as defeat at the hands of the Allies drew nearer.

The 96-year-old Misch died Thursday, one of the last of a generation that bears direct responsibility for German brutality during World War II.

Girl recovering

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

An Arkansas girl who has been recovering from a rare and often-fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba went swimming at a hospital pool Friday.

That marks a milestone for 12-year-old Kali Hardig, who health officials believe got sick because of a trip to a now-shuttered water park.

The amoeba that caused Kali’s infection often is found in warm bodies of freshwater. Called Naegleria fowleri, it typically enters the body through a swimmer’s nose, where it can then travel to the brain and cause a devastating infection.

Magnitude-6.5 quake hits Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook Guatemala’s Pacific coastline on Friday evening, causing some adobe homes to collapse in a town near the epicenter. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was three miles south of the small town of Pajapita, near the border with Mexico, and 101 miles west of Guatemala City.

2 arrested in toddler’s death

WILKES-BARRE, Pa.

Two men were arrested Friday in northeastern Pennsylvania in connection with the death of a New York City toddler shot in his stroller last weekend.

Daquan Breland, 23, and Daquan Wright, 19, waived extradition at a hearing and were being taken back to New York, the Citizens’ Voice in Wilkes-Barre reported.

Authorities say 1-year-old Antiq Hennis’ father was pushing him in a stroller in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on Sunday evening when multiple shots were fired. The child was struck on the left side of his face and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Combined dispatches