News of the day from across the nation, Nov. 5
A gunman in a rooftop apartment in San Diego surrendered to police Wednesday after a more than five-hour standoff that interrupted air traffic at the San Diego airport.
The domestic violence suspect with a high-powered rifle shot off numerous rounds inside his complex near the San Diego International Airport, prompting the FAA to halt planes from landing as a precaution.
The suspect walked out of the complex and was taken into custody around 2:30 p.m. — hours after officers swarmed the building and exchanged gunfire with him, police said.
Missouri called off the execution Wednesday of a man convicted of killing three convenience store workers in 1994, saying courts didn’t have time to resolve questions raised by the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-minute ruling.
The execution was put on hold after justices ordered an appeals court to reconsider Johnson’s claim that execution drugs would cause painful seizures because of his brain tumor.
A Senate committee launched an investigation Wednesday into exorbitant price increases by four drug companies, requesting a face-to-face meeting with Turing Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli, who has become the public face of the issue after his company raised the price of an anti-infection drug by over 5,000 percent.
The investigation of a woman accused of posing as a nurse and giving hospice care to Bobbi Kristina Brown widened Wednesday as police sought information about other patients she may have treated.
The 5 percent excise tax on marijuana growers is expected to raise about $3.5 million a year by 2020, with the money available for any high school senior in the county who attends one of two public colleges in the county.