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Judge schedules verdict in Pistorius trial for Sept. 11

The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius said Friday that she will give a verdict on Sept. 11, bringing closer to an end a globally televised five-month trial that has transfixed South Africans and others around the globe.

 
Cease fire ends, Israel, Hamas resume rocket attacks

A three-day-old truce collapsed Friday in a new round of violence after Gaza militants resumed rocket attacks on Israel, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestinians, including three children.

 
Boy accused in fatal stabbing wanted to go jail

A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing a 9-year-old boy on a western Michigan playground told authorities he wanted to go to jail and did not know the victim, according to a court document filed Friday.

 
Washington girl’s death ruled a homicide

An autopsy has confirmed a body found in the woods near where a Washington girl went missing was that of 6-year-old Jenise Wright, authorities said Friday.

Jim Brady’s death ruled homicide 33 years after shooting

This week’s death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner, District of Columbia police said Friday.

 
Ebola outbreak declared international public health emergency

The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

 
Flooding hits parts of Hawaii after Iselle passes by

As the first tropical storm to hit Hawaii in 22 years passed by the islands, some coffee farmers on the Big Island began navigating flooded roads Friday while tourists wandered the beaches of Oahu and surfers took to the waves.

 
U.S. launches more attacks against militants in Iraq

The U.S. launched two more airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northern Iraq on Friday, hitting a vehicle convoy and two mortar positions, the Pentagon said.

 
Pa. mother of children killed in carjacking dies

The mother of three children killed when a sport utility vehicle that police said was carjacked crashed into a group on a north Philadelphia corner last month has died, officials said Friday.

Rangers: Drone sank in Yellowstone hot spring

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Rangers have not been able to spot the drone that crashed and sank in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park last weekend.