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Lawyer: Ohio botched execution, prolonging man’s death

A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday in Ohio with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.

 
$1.1 trillion spending bill passes Senate, goes to Obama

Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year’s automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest.

 
Vatican blasted for sex abuse scandal

The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a U.N. committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal.

 
3 arrested for starting wildfire near L.A.; 2,000 residents evacuated

Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started early Thursday when three people tossed paper into a campfire in the dangerously dry foothills of Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains, authorities said.

 
Gunman, 2 others dead after Indiana grocery store shooting

A man fatally shot two women in a northern Indiana grocery store Wednesday night and was lining up to shoot a third person when police officers tracked him down and killed him, authorities said.