Zimbabwe police charge into protesting doctors
Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe’s deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said this past week as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure.
The witnesses said officers in downtown Harare ran into a march of doctors and nurses – some in uniform – who fled the police charge.
Police arrest aunt in Calif. shackled teen case
Police have arrested the aunt of a 17-year-old boy who showed up at a gym shackled and terrified, claiming he had just fled his captors.
Caren Ramirez is the third suspect arrested in the alleged assault against the teen.
Ramirez, 43, was arrested Tuesday night after police received a tip she was in the San Francisco suburb of Berkeley, said Tracy police spokesman Matt Robinson.
Victim’s kin file suit in Wal-Mart stampede death
The family of a New York man who was trampled to death the day after Thanksgiving by a stampede of bargain-hunting Wal-Mart shoppers has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
The family also filed notice that Nassau County, on Long Island, and its police department will be sued.
Wilder School presents Excellence in Virginia Government Awards
VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will honor six individuals and two organizations for contributions to government and to Virginia’s communities.
The awards will be presented during the Fourth Annual Excellence in Virginia Government Awards ceremony on Thursday, Dec.
Va.-based aid group loses staffer in Afghan attack
The Virginia-based Christian Children’s Fund is reporting the death of a 52-year-old staffer in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a suicide bombing attack.
The fund said in a news release that Mohamad Shar was killed Sunday when a passing military vehicle was attacked.