Kentucky pupil shot at school; child held
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A child was arrested Tuesday in the shooting of a high school student that prompted a schoolwide lockdown and evacuation, police in Louisville said.
Sgt. Phil Russell said the shooter was picked up about three hours after a Fern Creek Traditional High School student was wounded Tuesday afternoon.
The wounded student had non-life-threatening injuries and was reunited with parents at University Hospital, Russell said. He didn't say if the injured student and shooter knew each other or if the shooter was a student at Fern Creek.
Russell said the suspect left the 1,400-student school immediately after firing the shot.
Video from television stations showed police escorting students with their hands over their heads out of the school in the southern part of the city to a nearby softball field.
Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Ben Jackey said the school went into lockdown with students put in classrooms. After police arrived, students were led out before being taken to a nearby park for dismissal.
Judge: Health care subsidies 'abuse'
An Oklahoma federal judge Tuesday dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's health care law, invalidating Internal Revenue Service rules aimed at making policies affordable for consumers around the country.
U.S. District Judge Ronald White in Muskogee ruled that subsidies, in the form of tax credits, apply only to consumers in the 14 states that have set up insurance marketplaces and not to individuals who buy insurance on the federal marketplace, as in Oklahoma. An IRS rule says needy customers in the federal and state marketplaces are eligible for subsidies.
"The court is upholding the act as written," White said, citing language in the law that limits subsidies to those in states with their own exchanges. He called the IRS regulations "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law."
In July, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington also limited subsidies to state exchanges, a ruling the full appeals court has agreed to reconsider. Another U.S. appeals court, in Richmond, Va., said on the same day that subsidies were available on federal exchanges.
The U.S. Justice Department said it would appeal. White, an appointee of President George W. Bush, delayed implementation of his ruling until after an appeal.
California allows kin-initiated disarming
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California will become the first state that allows a person's family members to ask a judge to remove firearms from the relative if he appears to pose a threat, under legislation Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that he had signed.
The bill was proposed by several Democrats and responds to a deadly rampage in May near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Supporters had said such a measure could have prevented the attacks, winning out over critics who said it would erode gun rights.
Law enforcement authorities in Connecticut, Indiana and Texas can seek a judge's order allowing them to seize guns from people they deem to be dangers.
The new California law gives law enforcement the same option and extends it to family members.
Lawmakers approved the bill by Democratic Assembly members Nancy Skinner of Berkeley and Das Williams of Santa Barbara amid pleas that they act after the May 23 attack in which six people were fatally stabbed or shot and 13 others wounded in the community of Isla Vista.
Pennsylvania manhunt turns up bombs
BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. -- State police searching for a man accused of killing a trooper said Tuesday that they found two pipe bombs in the Pennsylvania woods during their manhunt. The devices were capable of causing significant damage, officers said.
The bombs were fully functional and had tripwires and fuses, Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference.
The weapons were among several items that were "clearly hastily discarded" at a campsite used by suspect Eric Frein, said Bivens, who then called on the fugitive to surrender.
"You are clearly stressed," Bivens said. "You are making significant mistakes."
Frein, 31, has been on the run since Sept. 12, charged in the killing of one state trooper and wounding of a second outside their barracks in Blooming Grove.
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