Grad students’ device detects marijuana use
Grad students’ device detects marijuana use
AKRON
Two graduate students have invented a device that would allow law-enforcement officers to determine how much THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — is in a motorist’s system during traffic stops.
The Plain Dealer reports that two biomedical-engineering graduate students at the University of Akron hope to market their roadside testing device to states where marijuana use has been legalized.
Mariam Crow and Kathleen Stitzlein’s device tests saliva to determine the concentration of pot’s active chemical in the bloodstream.
Israel launches strike on border with Syria
JERUSALEM
Israel’s military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
The military said it carried out the strike after troops saw “a group of armed terrorists” approach the border with an explosive intended to target Israeli troops. It said that Israeli aircraft “targeted the squad, preventing the attack.” It did not offer any casualty figure for the strike.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four Syrian soldiers were killed by a missile fired from Israeli-occupied territory in the Golan.
2nd body found in Ala. waters, 5 missing
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala.
Coast Guard crews searched for five people missing Sunday after recovering two bodies after a powerful weekend storm that capsized several sailboats competing in a regatta near Mobile Bay.
One body was discovered after Saturday’s storm and another Sunday morning, said Major Steve Thompson, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s Marine Patrol Division. Names of the missing and deceased were not immediately released Sunday.
Clinton Foundation admits missteps
WASHINGTON
The acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation is acknowledging the global philanthropy made mistakes in how it disclosed its donors amid growing scrutiny as Hillary Rodham Clinton opens her presidential campaign.
In a blog posting Sunday, Maura Pally defended the foundation’s work and reaffirmed its commitment to transparency, describing its policies on donor disclosure and contributions from foreign governments as “stronger than ever.”
Still, Pally said the foundation expected to refile some of its tax forms, after a voluntary external review, because it had “mistakenly combined” government grants and donations. She said the foundation would “remedy” any errors.
3 women jailed in Russia for twerking
MOSCOW
A court in southern Russia has sentenced three young women to brief jail terms for making a video showing them twerking next to a World War II memorial.
Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Allies’ victory in the World War II next month, an emotionally charged holiday the Kremlin has been using for propaganda purposes.
The sentencing in the Novorossiysk district court of a 19-year-old woman to 15 days in jail and two women in their 20s to 10 days comes after prosecutors launched a probe into a video showing a group of women twerking next to the memorial on the Black Sea. Twerking is a sexually provocative dance involving thrusting of the hips.
Prosecutors said in a statement Saturday that five women were found guilty of “hooliganism” and two of them were spared jail because of poor health.
Associated Press