Canada restricts visas in Ebola scare

Canada restricts visas in Ebola scare

TORONTO

Canada has joined Australia in suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep the deadly disease away.

Canada’s Conservative government said Friday it is suspending visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with “widespread and persistent-intense transmission” of Ebola virus disease.

Canada has not yet had a case of Ebola. Canadians, including health-care workers, in West Africa will be permitted to travel back to Canada, the government said.

Girl, 14, dies after school shooting

SEATTLE

One of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high-school shooting died Friday, raising to four the number of fatalities from the moment when a student opened fire in a cafeteria a week ago.

Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, died late Friday afternoon, officials at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett said.

Zoe Galasso, 14, was killed during the shooting Oct. 24 by a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Gia Soriano, also 14, died Sunday at the Everett hospital.

Two other students remain hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Andrew Fryberg, 15, was in critical condition Friday and Nate Hatch, 14, was in satisfactory condition.

The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, 15, died of a self-inflicted wound.

Kansas urges judge not to rule in gay-marriage case

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

The Kansas attorney general’s office told a federal judge Friday that he should not consider blocking the state from enforcing its gay-marriage ban until the state Supreme Court weighs in, while the American Civil Liberties Union argued same-sex couples suffer legal harm if the judge delays a decision.

The arguments came in a hearing on the ACLU’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Kansas’ gay-marriage ban while U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree considers the group’s lawsuit on behalf of two lesbian couples.

Liberia opens large Ebola center

MONROVIA, Liberia

Remembering those who have died in the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, Liberia’s president opened one of the country’s largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the disease is finally on the decline in this West African country.

American and U.N. officials as well as Cuban doctors were in the crowd as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf opened the treatment center, which is set up to hold 200 patients and eventually can treat as many as 300. With the opening of the center, an Ebola treatment unit at JFK Medical Center has been closed. Many people with other diseases had been nervous about going to the nation’s largest referral hospital, and officials hope they will now come back.

Man, 88, charged with killing wife

COLUMBIA, Mo.

Police say an 88-year-old central Missouri man accused of fatally stabbing his 86-year-old wife told investigators he didn’t want the couple to be a burden on their family.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Donald Marvin Rowland was charged Friday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. The Boone County prosecutor requested cash-only bond of $1 million, but it wasn’t clear if Rowland was jailed. Court records didn’t list a lawyer.

Associated Press