hPolice: Abducted woman’s ATM card used in Maryland

hPolice: Abducted woman’s ATM card used in Maryland

PHILADELPHIA

A bank card belonging to a woman abducted from a Philadelphia street was used the next morning in Maryland by a man whose grainy image was caught on bank cameras, police said Tuesday as relatives tearfully pleaded for her return.

Detectives said the security images show a man using Carlesha Freeland-Gaither’s card at 6 a.m. Monday at an ATM just off a highway exit for Aberdeen, about 75 miles from Philadelphia. The transaction occurred less than nine hours after the reported abduction Sunday night.

Philadelphia police released a series of the images late Tuesday. The man in the pictures is wearing a hoodie, and the pictures that reveal his face are dark and blurry.

Judge orders Kansas to let gay couples marry

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Kansas to allow same-sex couples to marry pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban, but he delayed enforcement of his order until next week to give the state time to appeal.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree issued a preliminary injunction barring the state from enforcing its same-sex marriage ban as of 5 p.m. next Tuesday, pending the outcome of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging it.

“This is a great day for marriage equality in Kansas and for gay and lesbian couples, because now they can do what straight people have been able to do forever: They can get married,” said Doug Bonney, legal director of the ACLU’s Kansas chapter.

Prosecutors file appeal papers in Pistorius case

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa

Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius case filed appeal papers Tuesday, saying they believe a judge did not correctly apply the law when she found the Olympic athlete not guilty of murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The prosecutors also said they were appealing against the “shockingly light” five-year prison sentence Pistorius was given for manslaughter, as well as a third decision by Judge Thokozile Masipa to acquit the double-amputee runner of illegal possession of ammunition for bullets found in his home.

Gunfire strikes California mosque

COACHELLA, Calif.

No one was hurt when gunfire struck a mosque in the desert city of Coachella before dawn Tuesday, authorities in Southern California said.

A report of shots fired was received at 5:01 a.m., and responding officers determined that several shots struck the Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley building and a vehicle, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. The building was occupied, but nobody was injured.

Associated Press