5 teens charged in ice-bucket prank

5 teens charged in ice-bucket prank

CLEVELAND

Five suburban teenage boys were charged with dumping a bucket of urine, water and tobacco spit on an autistic 15-year-old boy who thought he was participating in the ice-bucket challenge for charity in August.

The Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office filed the charges Tuesday in juvenile court against the teens, who are between age 14 and 16.

Three teens face juvenile charges of delinquency, assault and disorderly conduct. They will be asked to go with their parents to the Bay Village police station to be booked. The other two teens were charged with disorderly conduct and will be sent summons to appear in court.

1 dead as Hurricane Gonzalo strengthens

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten

Hurricane Gonzalo grew into a major Category 3 storm Tuesday and is expected to strengthen further as it heads toward Bermuda after killing a man in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten, authorities said.

The storm had top sustained winds of nearly 115 mph and was centered about 770 miles south of Bermuda on Tuesday afternoon, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Forecasters said Gonzalo could become a powerful Category 4 hurricane today as it spins over open waters through Friday on a track toward Bermuda.

Justices stop parts of Texas abortion law

washington

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America’s second-most-populous state.

In an unsigned order, the justices sided with abortion-rights advocates and health-care providers in suspending an Oct. 2 ruling by a panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that Texas could immediately apply a rule making abortion clinics statewide spend millions of dollars on hospital-level upgrades.

Greenglass dies, was tied to spying case

NEW YORK

David Greenglass, who served 10 years in prison for his role in the most-explosive atomic spying case of the Cold War and gave testimony that sent his brother-in-law and sister, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair in 1953, has died at 92.

Greenglass — who admitted decades after the trial that he lied on the stand about his own sister — died in New York City on July 1, according to the Rosenbergs’ sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol.

The Rosenbergs were convicted in 1951 of conspiring to steal secrets about the atomic bomb for the Soviet Union and were executed at New York’s Sing Sing prison, insisting to the end that they were innocent.

Alaska sees its first same-sex marriage

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

A remote outpost on Alaska’s Arctic Coast where people are used to doing their own thing has applied that independent streak to gay marriage.

A magistrate in Barrow, Alaska — the nation’s northernmost community, and one that cannot be reached by road — has performed what is believed to be the state’s first gay marriage ceremony days ahead of schedule after a federal judge struck down the state’s ban. Couples lined up statewide Monday to apply for marriage licenses, beginning the clock on a mandatory three-day wait until ceremonies could be held.

For Kristine Hilderbrand, 30, and Sarah Ellis, 34, it wasn’t about being first when they sought and received a waiver to the three-day wait from Magistrate Mary Treiber. Monday just fit their schedules better.

Associated Press