4th woman accuses Cosby of forced sex

4th woman accuses Cosby of forced sex

BOCA RATON, Fla.

A Florida woman who came forward Thursday became the fourth in recent weeks to say Bill Cosby gave her pills that made her feel groggy then forced himself on her sexually.

Therese Serignese, now 57 and a nurse in Boca Raton, said the television icon raped her in 1976 when she was 19 years old after a show in Las Vegas. She said she went backstage and when the two were alone, Cosby gave her two pills and a glass of water, saying, “Take these.”

“My next memory is clearly feeling drugged, being without my clothes, standing up,” she said. “Bill Cosby was behind me, having sex with me.”

Cosby spokesman David Brokaw did not respond to a request to comment.

UK police spied on journalists for years, documents show

LONDON

Six British journalists are suing Scotland Yard over documents that show the police had them under surveillance for more than a decade.

Britain’s National Union of Journalists says a public-records request showed extensive surveillance of the six — who include three photographers, a video journalist, an investigative journalist and a reporter — by London’s Metropolitan Police stretching back more than a decade.

The lawsuit adds to a drip-drip of public disclosures about British police secretly seizing journalists’ telephone records in leak investigations. Several senior officers recently have acknowledged using anti-terrorism powers to uncover journalists’ sources by combing through the records, drawing concern in Parliament and outrage from media groups.

Attacks in Kabul raise concerns about security

KABUL

The Afghan capital has become a city under siege as the Taliban stage almost daily attacks against government and foreign targets, penetrating layers of heightened security and fueling concerns that insurgents have infiltrated the security forces.

In recent weeks, insurgents have managed to attack two foreign compounds in Kabul, carry out a suicide bombing meters away from the office of the city’s police chief, sent suicide bombers against international military bases and convoys, and bombed the car of a prominent female parliamentarian.

Man in prison for 19 years freed after claim recanted

SEATTLE

A man who had been in prison for nearly two decades was released from custody Thursday, two years after his supposed victim recanted allegations that he molested her.

Jerry Lee Brock, 55, had been in prison since his conviction for first-degree molestation in 1995. In 2012, the alleged victim, Regina Rush, came forward to say she made the whole thing up, partly as a way to get more attention from her mother.

Last week, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Erik Price ordered a new trial after finding the recantation credible, and on Thursday, he signed an order vacating Brock’s conviction. The order stated that Brock “shall no longer remain in the custody of the Washington State Department of Corrections.”

Associated Press