NBC fires Billy Bush

NBC fires Billy Bush

NEW YORK

NBC News has fired “Today” show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before an “Access Hollywood” appearance.

Bush was suspended at the morning show two days after contents of the 2005 tape were reported Oct. 7. NBC and Bush’s representatives had been negotiating terms of his exit before Monday’s announcement.

Bush, who had been at “Today” for two months, is the nephew of Republican former President George H.W. Bush.

Man sentenced; had shot at Zimmerman

sanford, fla.

A Florida man who fired at George Zimmerman’s vehicle during a road-rage confrontation has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that at the sentencing hearing Monday morning, Zimmerman said 38-year-old Matthew Apperson showed no regard for human life during the May 2015 confrontation, and even seemed joyful because he mistakenly thought he’d killed Zimmerman.

Zimmerman is the former neighborhood-watch volunteer who was acquitted of second-degree murder after fatally shooting unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in 2012.

House of Hitler’s birth to be torn down

VIENNA

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria’s government announced Monday as it moved to eliminate the property’s pull as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.

The plan still has to be formalized in legislation and voted on in Parliament. But the Interior Ministry said demolition was recommended by a government-appointed commission.

At least 18 die in Brazil prison riots

RIO DE JANEIRO

At least 18 inmates died in clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil’s Amazon region and more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot caused a large fire in the complex outside Sao Paulo, officials said Monday.

Authorities were investigating a possible connection between the first two uprisings in the jungle states of Rondonia and Roraima, police said. Ten prisoners died in the mutiny in Roraima, while eight others were killed in a similar riot about 800 miles away in the penitentiary in Rondonia.

Officers said Monday that about 50 people who were visiting the penitentiary in Roraima, on the border with Venezuela and Guyana, were held hostage. They were later released unharmed.

2 dead, 6 hurt in explosion at plant

BERLIN

An explosion at a facility belonging to chemical firm BASF in southwestern Germany killed two people and injured at least six others Monday, authorities said. Another two still were missing hours after the blast.

The explosion occurred in the late morning at a river harbor in Ludwigshafen that is used to unload flammable liquids and liquefied gas.

Plant manager Uwe Liebelt said it was preceded by a fire in a pipeline between the area where the liquids are unloaded and storage tanks.

Rocket takes supplies to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.

One of NASA’s main delivery companies has launched its first space station shipment from Virginia in two years.

Orbital ATK’s unmanned Antares rocket blasted off Monday night from Wallops Island. It was the first flight of an Antares since a launch explosion Oct. 28, 2014, that wrecked the pad and destroyed everything on the space station supply run.

Associated Press