***OHIO: NOTE DAY CARE DRUGGING BRIEF. CHECK METRO LINEUP***
***AJC: NOTE MISSISSIPPI BUTTOCKS BRIEF AND ATLANTA CONNECTION. CHECK METRO LINEUP***
NEW JERSEY
Man rants about CIA aboard flight
A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying while on a flight from Hong Kong to the U.S. on Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet. Passengers said the FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport and escorted the man away. The man’s name has not been released, but passengers described him as American. Passengers said he started screaming about nine hours into the 15-hour flight about being afraid of the FBI and fearing he was going to be killed. He asked that the flight be diverted to Canada. “He said … that people are going to poison him, that he was going to die,” passenger Peter Jones said.
MARYLAND
Sexual assault case moves forward
The U.S. Naval Academy’s superintendent will move ahead with a case in which a female midshipman accuses football players of sexually assaulting her after she had passed out from a night of drinking, the school announced Monday. Vice Adm. Michael Miller sent the case to Article 32 proceeding, which is the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing or grand jury investigation. The hearing will determine if there is evidence to proceed to a court-martial. It was unclear how many football players, who have not been identified, would be charged in the case.
UNITED NATIONS
Envoy: Threats rising for children
The U.N. envoy working to prevent the involvement of children in armed conflict says the changing nature of conflicts has created “unprecedented threats” for youngsters. Leila Zerrougaui told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that “the absence of clear front lines and identifiable opponents and the increasing use of terror tactics have made children more vulnerable.” She said these issues must be addressed as a priority along with the military use of schools, the detention of children for alleged association with armed groups and the impact of drones on children.
UNITED KINGDOM
Prince Philip leaves hospital
Britain’s Prince Philip was discharged from a London hospital on Monday, 10 days after undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen. Philip, 92, smiled and shook hands with medical staff as he walked steadily from the London Clinic, clutching a thick hardback book. The husband of Queen Elizabeth II had an operation under general anesthetic on June 7.
OHIO
Woman accused of drugging snacks
A central Ohio day care worker sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children to sleep during the day, according to police charges filed Monday. Tammy Eppley, 37, was charged in Franklin County Municipal Court with six counts of child endangering after police in suburban Westerville said they obtained text messages in which she admitted giving children the allergy drug Benadryl and Melatonin, a hormone and sleep aid. Eppley, 37, denied the charges, saying she was only joking in the messages. Eppley is also accused of mixing crushed Benadryl into pancake batter and juice for the children at her day care, Caterpillar Clubhouse, police said.
LIBYA
Gadhafi’s son’s trial set for August
The trial of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s son, his spy chief and his last prime minister will take place in August, a top Libyan official said Monday. Al-Seddik al-Sur of the state prosecutor’s office told reporters that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, Abdullah al-Senoussi and ex-premier al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, along with ex-spokesman Milad Daman, will be tried for crimes committed during under Gadhafi’s 42-year rule and during the eight-month civil war that deposed him.
MISSISSIPPI
Woman charged in buttocks death
A Mississippi woman has been charged in a second death related to giving buttocks-enhancing injections without being trained or licensed. The state attorney general’s office said Tracey Lynn Garner, 53, of Jackson, formerly known as Morris Garner, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of depraved heart murder. A conviction carries a potential life sentence. Garner is accused of injecting “a silicone substance” into a Selma, Ala., woman on Jan. 13, 2010. The woman later died. Garner had been under house arrest awaiting trial in a similar case in the 2012 death of an Atlanta woman.
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