Wave of migrants pours into Serbia

Wave of migrants pours into Serbia

MIRATOVAC, Serbia

Exhausted migrants by the thousands, some pushed in wheelchairs or on wheelbarrows, others hobbling on crutches or carrying young children, crossed on foot from Macedonia into Serbia on Monday as they sought to reach Western Europe.

The rush over the border by the migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa followed Macedonia’s decision to lift the blockade of its border with Greece, after thousands stormed past Macedonian police who tried to stop their entry by force.

Nearly 10,000 people, including many women with babies and small children mostly from Syria, crossed into Serbia over the weekend.

Koreas reach deal

SEOUL, South Korea

After 40-plus-hours of talks, North and South Korea today pulled back from the brink with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the moment, avert the bloodshed they’ve been threatening each other with for weeks.

In a carefully crafted, though vague, piece of diplomacy, Pyongyang expressed “regret” that two South Korean soldiers were maimed in a recent land- mine blast Seoul blamed on the North.

South Korea, for its part, agreed to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts on the border, which will let the authoritarian North trumpet to its people a propaganda win over its bitter rival – and put an end to hated loudspeaker messages that outside analysts say could demoralize front-line troops and inspire them to defect.

Pa. AG ordered to stand trial

NORRISTOWN, Pa.

The state’s attorney general on Monday was ordered to stand trial on charges she leaked secret grand jury information to embarrass a rival prosecutor.

Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania attorney general, didn’t speak as she left a suburban Philadelphia courthouse flanked by bodyguards.

Kane, 49, also is charged with lying under oath about the leak, ordering aides to illegally snoop through computer files to keep tabs on the investigation into it and harming the reputation of a former civil-rights leader named in the leaked documents. She could face up to seven years in prison if convicted of the most-serious charge, perjury.

Police: Okla. official killed by his son

OKLAHOMA CITY

A rising politician’s meeting with his mentally ill son at a restaurant turned deadly when the young man pulled out a large kitchen knife and stabbed his father to death while his mother and other horrified witnesses looked on, police said Monday.

Christian Costello, 26, was being held on a preliminary first-degree murder charge Monday after the Sunday night killing of his father, Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello, a two-term politician who was expected to run for higher office in 2018.

Man sues NYC hotel over Legionnaire’s

NEW YORK

A man who came down with Legionnaires’ disease and spent several days in a hospital has filed a civil lawsuit against the hotel identified by authorities as the source of the deadly outbreak.

Leslie Noble’s lawsuit against the Opera House Hotel says its “negligence, carelessness and recklessness” caused him physical pain and mental anguish. The lawsuit by Noble, a 54-year-old security guard, was filed last week and seeks unspecified damages.

Associated Press