NEWS OF THE DAY
1 Fugitive no more: Frail and tired of leading a secret life for four decades, 66- year- old Clarence David Moore called police this week to surrender. Moore escaped from police custody three times during the 1970s and eventually settled into a quiet life, living in Frankfort, Ky., since at least 2009. His health is poor from a stroke and he has difficulty speaking, and without a legitimate ID or Social Security number, he had apparently struggled to get medical care. Moore was convicted of larceny of more than $ 200 in North Carolina in 1967 and was sentenced to up to seven years in prison.
2 Crash kills five: Five women killed early Wednesday in a fiery interstate crash in southeast Georgia were all nursing students headed to a Savannah hospital for their final clinical rotation of the school year. The Georgia State Patrol says a tractor- trailer failed to slow down and smashed into stop- andgo traffic on Interstate 16 that had backed up because of an earlier wreck. Three people also were injured in the crash about 20 miles west of Savannah.
Bird flu: Federal officials say they’re taking steps to create a human vaccine for the bird flu virus that’s affected the Midwest poultry industry, though they still consider the danger to be low. Dr. Alicia Fry, an influenza expert with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says they’re optimistic there won’t be any human cases of the H5N2 strain that has cost chicken and turkey producers more than 7 million birds so far.
4 Open letter: An associate dean of students at the University of Virginia says a discredited Rolling Stone article caused her professional and personal harm by portraying her as insensitive and unresponsive to an alleged victim of a gang rape. Nicole Eramo said in an open letter Wednesday that the magazine has not done enough to make amends for the damage it caused. A report from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism released earlier this month said the Rolling Stone article was a “story of journalistic failure that was avoidable.” Eramo has hired a law firm that specializes in defamation lawsuits, but has not said whether she plans to sue the magazine.
_ Husband cleared: An jury in Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday found Henry Rayhons not guilty of charges that he sexually abused his wife, an Alzheimer’s patient, allegedly by having sex with her in a nursing home after staff members told him she had become cognitively unable to give consent. In the highly unusual case, Rayhons, 78, a farmer and former Republican state legislator who by all accounts had a mutually loving relationship with his wife, faced a felony charge that could have resulted in up to 10 years in prison. The case ignited intense national discussion of an issue that will only gain importance as more Americans get older: whether people with dementia are capable of indicating if they desire intimacy.
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