Ex-fugitive released from prison hospital

Ex-fugitive released from prison hospital

ALBANY, N.Y.

Former fugitive David Sweat was released from a prison infirmary Wednesday and is facing new disciplinary charges stemming from his escape from an upstate New York correctional facility.

The 35-year-old murderer, who was shot and wounded during his June 28 capture, is being housed at the Special Housing Unit at Five Points Correctional Facility in central New York. Inmates in that maximum-security unit are kept in solitary cells for 23 hours a day.

The disciplinary charges relate to Sweat’s actions as an inmate and are separate from any criminal charges that could be filed against Sweat relating to the prison break, state prison officials said Wednesday.

George H.W. Bush falls, injures neck

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine

Former President George H.W. Bush has fallen at home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and broken a bone in his neck.

Spokesman Jim McGrath said the 91-year-old Bush is in stable condition and is doing “fine” after Wednesday’s fall. He said in a tweet the 41st president will be in a neck brace.

Bush was hospitalized in Houston in December for about a week for treatment of shortness of breath. He said he was “grateful to the doctors and nurses for their superb care” after his treatment there.

Bush is the oldest living former U.S. president.

Greek lawmakers pass austerity bill

ATHENS, Greece

Greek lawmakers voted overwhelmingly early today to approve a harsh austerity bill demanded by bailout creditors, despite significant dissent from members of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ own left-wing party.

The bill, which imposes sweeping tax hikes and spending cuts, fueled anger in the governing Syriza party and led to a revolt against Tsipras, who has insisted the deal forged after a marathon weekend eurozone summit was the best he could do to prevent Greece from catastrophically crashing out of the euro, Europe’s joint currency.

Judge: Put 2 moms on birth certificate

SALT LAKE CITY

A federal judge Wednesday ordered the state of Utah to list the names of a lesbian couple on a birth certificate as the mothers of their new baby in a ruling that lawyers said was the first of its kind since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

“The state has failed to demonstrate any legitimate reason, actually any reason at all, for not treating a female spouse in a same-sex marriage the same as a male spouse in an opposite-sex marriage,” U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said in his ruling from the bench.

Report: Auschwitz guard, 92, indicted

BERLIN

Prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 92-year-old former Auschwitz guard on charges of accessory to murder.

German news agency DPA reported Wednesday the man has been indicted before a juvenile court in Hanau, near Frankfurt, because he was between 19 and 20 years old at the time of the purported crimes.

The suspect, who wasn’t identified, is accused of having played a part in the deportation of prisoners from Nazi transit camps in Berlin, Drancy in occupied France, and Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands. According to DPA, prosecutors say at least 1,075 of those prisoners were gassed to death shortly after arriving in Auschwitz.

The move comes on the same day a German court convicted former SS sergeant Oskar Groening of accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz.

Associated Press