Jindal drops out of race for presidency

Jindal drops out of race for presidency

BATON ROUGE, LA.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped out of the 2016 race for president Tuesday, ending a campaign that failed to gain much support among Republicans sifting through a long list of contenders for the GOP nomination.

“I’ve come to the realization that this is not my time,” Jindal said on Fox News Channel as he announced the decision to suspend his campaign.

The 44-year-old governor said he wasn’t ready to endorse another candidate, but intended to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee.

Judge grants request to drop Craigslist ad murder appeal

SUNBURY, PA.

A judge has granted a newlywed husband’s request to drop his bid to have his guilty plea withdrawn after admitting he helped kill a Pennsylvania man who was lured through a Craigs-list ad. A judge approved 24-year-old Elytte Barbour’s request Monday.

Barbour and his 20-year-old wife, Miranda, are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.

His attorney had argued his client should have pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the November 2013 stabbing death of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara. Miranda Barbour admitted she arranged a meeting with LaFerrara in a parking lot. She drove him into Sunbury and repeatedly stabbed him as her husband restrained him with a cable around his neck.

Explosion in Nigeria kills 32, injures 80

YOLA, NIGERIA

A night-time suicide bombing blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency official said.

Tuesday night’s blast breaks a three-week hiatus in bombings after a string of suicide attacks culminated in twin explosions in mosques in two northeastern cities that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on Oct. 23.

Nigeria’s military has reported foiling several suicide bombers recently, and killing and capturing insurgents as it destroys Boko Haram camps in air raids and ground attacks.

Cops: Drunk woman tried to open jet door

BOSTON

Police say a drunken passenger who tried to open an exit door on a London-to-Boston flight is being charged with interfering with a flight crew.

State police say the incident isn’t believed to have a link to terrorism. They identified the passenger as 32-year-old Kamila Dolniak, a citizen of Poland.

Police said Dolniak was restrained Tuesday on British Airways Flight 213. The flight landed about a half-hour ahead of schedule at Boston’s Logan International Airport at 1:30 p.m.

A clerk set bail at $1,040 for Dolniak. She had not posted bail by Tuesday evening and, as a result, was being held overnight at the state police barracks at the airport.

Dolniak is expected to be arraigned in a Boston courtroom today.

DC panda cub will make debut Jan. 16

WASHINGTON

Nearly three months after the birth of its panda cub, The National Zoo says Bei Bei will make his public debut Jan. 16. The zoo made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter. The zoo says members will be able to get an early glimpse of the cub, starting Jan. 8.

Bei Bei was born Aug. 22, and the zoo announced earlier this month that he had taken his first steps.

The cub is the third surviving offspring for parents Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, who also live at the zoo along with their second cub, Bao Bao, born in 2013.

Associated Press