NYC to require salt warnings on menus

NYC to require salt warnings on menus

NEW YORK

Some sub sandwiches, movie theater pretzels and even milkshakes and salads will soon come with a first-of-its-kind salt warning symbol in New York City after officials agreed Wednesday to stake out new ground in a national push for more-healthful eating habits.

The city Board of Health voted unanimously to require chain eateries to put salt-shaker emblems on menus to denote dishes with more than the recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams of sodium. That’s about a teaspoon.

Applauded by public health advocates but slammed as misguided by salt producers and restaurateurs, the plan is a first in the U.S. and furthers a series of novel nutritional efforts in the biggest city.

Ark. governor sets dates for executions

LITTLE ROCK, ARK.

Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap starting next month with the first of four double executions, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday.

Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to its lethal injection law and a nationwide shortage of drugs often used during executions. But last week, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge requested execution dates for eight inmates because their appeals had been exhausted, and prison officials said they had an adequate supply of lethal-injection drugs.

Hutchinson set four dates through January.

Window shatters as cops probe shootings

PHOENIX

A truck’s passenger window shattered on a Phoenix freeway Wednesday as Arizona authorities investigated a string of highway shootings that have rattled nerves and heightened fears of a possible serial shooter.

The state Department of Public Safety has not yet confirmed whether the glass was shot out. Nobody was hurt, agency spokesman Bart Graves said.

Authorities already were investigating nine shootings of vehicles over the past two weeks. Four cars were hit last week along the city’s main freeway. One bullet shattered a windshield and the broken glass cut a 13-year-old girl.

Group: Sudanese committed mass rape

new york

Human Rights Watch is accusing the Sudanese military of another mass rape in Darfur.

Members of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces raped at least 60 women in the country’s troubled western region, after taking over the town of Golo in January, according to a new report by the rights group released Wednesday. It says many women were attacked in a hospital where people had taken shelter.

Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch reported on the mass rape in October of at least 221 women and girls in the village of Tabit.

Loaded gun found in cavity search

waco, texas

Police in Texas say they removed a loaded handgun from a woman’s body during a cavity search.

Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told the Waco Tribune-Herald that officers stopped an SUV for a traffic violation late Monday and found methamphetamine inside. A man and woman were arrested.

Swanton says while 31-year-old Ashley Cecilia Castaneda was being taken to jail, she told an officer she had a loaded .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun inside her vagina. Swanton says officers called for a female officer, who retrieved the gun. Swanton confirmed the weapon was loaded.

Castaneda is charged with possession of methamphetamine and unlawfully carrying a weapon.

Associated Press