EBOLA VACCINE DOSES COMING, OFFICIALS SAY

dakar, senegal Thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines should be available in the coming months and could eventually be given to health care workers and other people at high risk of the deadly disease, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The Canadian government has donated 800 vials of one vaccine, which it developed before licensing to NewLink Genetics Corp.

The number of deaths linked to the disease has now passed 3,000, according to aWHOtoll published Friday.

Teacher gets 10 years in rape resentencing

billings, mont. » A Montana teacherwas sentenced Friday to 10 years in custody in a student rape case that led to the censure of a judgewho partially blamed the victim. Stacey Dean Rambold, 55, was resentenced by Judge Randal Spaulding exactly a year after he completed an initial one-month prison term for the crime.

Eight Mexican soldiers held in killing B

mexico city » An army officer and seven soldiers face disciplinary action for their participation in the killing of 22 people in rural southernMexico, but the army remained mum Friday on what roles they played.

TheMexican Defense Department said that the eight were involved in the June 30 incident in San Pedro Limon, an encounter that the military initially reported as a shootout but that a witness has described as a massacre.

Officer tells his side in Walmart shooting

cincinnati » The police officer who fatally shot a man in an OhioWalmart said the man didn’t respond to repeated commands to drop the weapon and turned toward officers in an aggressive manner.

Officer SeanWilliams stated in his written narrative that he saw the man holding a weapon that he could shoot any time in the crowded store in Beavercreek, a Dayton suburb, just beforeWilliams fired two shots with his rifle.

Taliban beheads 12 in Afghanistan

kabul » The Taliban beheaded 12 Afghan civilians, mostly family members of local police officers, in an assault that was part of a week-long offensive that has so far killed 60 people and wounded scores in a remote province in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday. However, a Taliban spokesman in Ghazni province denied the reports of beheadings.

No charges in toxic tea incident

salt lake city » No charges will be filed in the case of a customer who nearly died after unknowingly drinking iced tea mixed with chemicals at a suburban Salt Lake City restaurant, prosecutors said Friday.

But Dickey’s Barbecue isn’t off the hook: Jan Harding and her family will enter into mediation with the restaurant later this year to try to reach a monetary agreement, her attorney said.

ESA sets date for comet landing

berlin » The European Space Agency said it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet on Nov. 12. Scientists hope the decade-long mission to examine comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will help them learn more about the origins and evolution of objects in the universe.

Trash truck hits pedestrian bridge

detroit » A pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a freeway after a trash truck struck the overpass early Friday, leaving the truck driver dead and snarling rush hour traffic, officials said. Two other vehicles were struck by debris, but no one elsewas injured, Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shawsaid at the scene.

Somali pirates killed in fight over ransom money Abduction suspect back in Virginia B

alexandria, va. » The man charged with abducting a missing University of Virginia student is back in Charlottesville after being arrested in Texas. Authorities have charged 32-yearold Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. with abduction.

N.M. sheriff convicted

albuquerque, n. m. » Northern NewMexico Sheriff Thomas Rodella of Rio Arriba County, who has fought off accusations of misconduct throughout his career, was convicted Friday of abusing a driver during a bizarre traffic stop that prosecutors called a fit of road rage.