Fugitive T.J. Lane was apprehended Thursday night about five hours after he escaped from an Ohio prison, according to Ohio Highway Patrol. 

He was located not far from the Allen Correctional Institution, which he escaped with another inmate around 5:30 p.m., according to authorities. 

No one was injured during his apprehension, authorities said. 

Lane, now 19, was the teenage gunman who killed three in a high school shooting in 2012. He and Clifford Earl Opperud, 45, escaped from the prison in Lima, about 70 miles north of Dayton, according to Lima police.

Opperud is still on the loose. 

Lane was convicted in the shooting rampage that killed three students and injured two others at Chardon High School east of Cleveland in February 2012.

Lane fired 10 shots from a .22-caliber handgun the morning of Feb. 27 at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. He fled but surrendered to authorities about a mile from the school.

Lane did not attend the school, but rather a nearby...

The American Civil Liberties Union and four newspapers have asked a federal judge to unseal court records in an attempt to learn where Pennsylvania corrections officials purchased the drugs that will be used to execute a death row inmate later this month, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The state chapter of the ACLU, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia City Paper are asking state courts to unseal documents that would reveal how, and from whom, the state obtained the drugs it plans to use to execute Hubert Michael Jr. on Sept. 22, according to court papers.

The suit also seeks to grant the public access to documents about the suppliers of drugs used in future state executions.

“In light of the recent string of horrifically botched executions, the public is entitled to know how the state obtained the drugs they plan to use to carry out executions here in Pennsylvania,” Reggie Shuford, executive director of the Pennsylvania...

A New York City Catholic group has pulled out of next year's St. Patrick's Day parade, just a week after parade officials decided to allow a gay rights group to march in the event under its own banner.

The Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights, which has marched in the parade for 20 years, made the announcement Thursday, claiming parade officials changed the rules to allow an LGBT group from NBC Universal to march under its own banner while refusing to let an antiabortion group do the same.

"My reasons for withdrawing from the parade have nothing to do with Cardinal [Timothy] Dolan or with gays. It has to do with being betrayed by the parade committee," Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement. "They not only told me one thing, and did another, they decided to include a gay group that is neither Catholic nor Irish while stiffing pro-life Catholics."

On Sept. 3, parade officials said they would allow OUT@NBCUniversal to march next year in the hopes of ending a...

A Utah elementary school teacher accidentally shot herself in the leg on Thursday, but no students were on school grounds at the time and no one else was injured, officials said.

The teacher, who was not identified, suffered a leg wound after the weapon accidentally discharged in the restroom of Westbrook Elementary School in Taylorsville, Utah, around 8:45 a.m., according to Ben Horsley, communications director for the Granite School District.

The teacher remains in "good condition" at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, Horsley said.

The teacher had a license to carry a concealed weapon in Utah, Horsley said, adding that she was not required to tell anyone she was armed.

"Permit holders are not required to disclose their status as a permit holder, and/or whether they are carrying a weapon or not, to their employer, or in this case, the principal or school district," Horsley said in a statement.

The school remained open Thursday.

The incident occurred eight days after a...

The FBI is investigating the early Thursday discovery of two broken liquor bottles resembling Molotov cocktails at the Kansas City, Mo., offices of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.

Officials are examining evidence that includes a surveillance video of the one-story building, at 101 W. 31st St., FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton told the Los Angeles Times. “We have no arrests yet, but we are very early in the investigation,” she said.

The incident was reported at 2:52 a.m. and officers responded to an intrusion alarm, according to the Kansas City police report, which outlines what it calls an attempted arson.

“Upon arrival, they observed a window on the northwest side of the building to be broken out. On the ground below the window, they observed two broken bottles with paper towels sticking out the necks of the bottles. There was a chemical odor resembling that of lighter fluid,” according to the city police.

The only damage appeared to be the broken window.

“This is the second incident within the...

Dr. Rick Sacra, an American missionary who contracted Ebola in Africa, has received blood plasma transfusions from Dr. Kent Brantly, a fellow missionary who has recovered from the disease, doctors involved in Sacra's treatment confirmed Thursday.

Sacra, 51, and Brantly, 33, each contracted the virus while caring for Ebola patients in Liberia. Brantly, along with missionary Nancy Writebol, was treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and discharged last month. Sacra, who was infected later, arrived Friday at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Sacra has received two blood plasma transfusions from Brantly, Dr. Phil Smith, director of the Nebraska hospital's biocontainment unit, said Thursday at a news conference.

“We’re hoping to jump start his immunity,” Smith said.

On Friday, the World Health Organization endorsed the transfusion of blood plasma from people who have survived Ebola, an old-school remedy that is already prevalent in Africa, as a treatment for the disease.

The...

A South Carolina father is suspected of killing his five small children about one week before they were reported missing.

Timothy Ray Jones, 32, was arrested Saturday in Mississippi and has been booked into a jail in Lexington County, S.C., on suspicion of murdering his children, ages 1 to 8.

Jones was extradited to South Carolina Thursday afternoon, two days after he led officers to a secluded clearing in Alabama, where the bodies of the children were discovered.

He is expected to make his first appearance in court Friday morning.

Warrants show that Jones will face five murder charges and allege that he "willfully and maliciously" killed the children in his Lexington home, wrapping each of their bodies in a plastic trash bag before dumping them off Highway 10 near Camden, Ala.

Authorities say he drove through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi for days in his black 2006 Cadillac Escalade, traveling more than 700 miles before leaving the bodies at the top of a...

In less than a month, a new law will require women in Missouri to wait 72 hours before they can have an abortion, after the state's Republican-led legislature overrode Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of the measure.

The Democratic governor had said the bill, among the strictest such laws in the nation, "serves no demonstrable purpose," and also opposed it because it did not provide an exception for rape and incest. 

But during an all-day session focused on legislation vetoed by Nixon, lawmakers in the House on Wednesday easily overrode his veto of the abortion bill. And, although Sen. Jolie Justus (D-Kansas City) tried to filibuster in the Senate late in the evening, the vote to override also succeeded there, although more narrowly. 

The law will triple the current required waiting period between the time a woman consults with a doctor about having an abortion and when the procedure can be performed, to 72 hours from 24 hours. Many states have laws requiring women to wait 24 hours, while Utah...

The speaker of South Carolina's House of Representatives found himself in the awkward position of having to suspend himself from office Thursday, a day after he was indicted by a grand jury on campaign finance and misconduct charges.

Speaker Bobby Harrell, a Republican, informed the clerk of the House of his decision in a letter.

“I have great respect for this institution and the people of South Carolina,” Harrell wrote. “I have always sought to act in their best interest and continue to do so now by taking this action and suspending myself from office.”

Harrell added that he is “proactively taking this step,” which he described as "the right decision."

South Carolina law governing public officeholders requires that any member of the legislature indicted in a state or federal court for a felony, a crime of “moral turpitude,” an election-law violation or an offense that carries a sentence of more than two years be suspended “immediately without pay by the presiding officer of the House...

Led by President Obama in Washington and solemn officials and relatives of those who died in New York, Americans on Thursday again recalled the terrorist attacks that struck the heart of the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, an anniversary that comes a day after the president called for stepped up military action in the Middle East.

As they have every year, New Yorkers paused at the Twin Towers site and read aloud the names of the nearly 3,000 killed when planes struck the World Trade Center, one of three sites for the attacks. The roll call of the dead stopped four times for memorial silence, when the first plane hit, when the second plane hit and twice more when each tower fell.

Joanne Barbara, whose husband of 30 years, Gerard Barbara, was a Fire Department of New York captain who died, urged all to remember not only the lost but “those who continue to suffer from the aftermath.”

“May God bless America, and may we never, never forget,” she said on broadcast images.

Just before 9 a.m., Obama...

Remarks as Delivered:

My fellow Americans, tonight I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL.

As Commander-in-Chief, my highest priority is the security of the American people. Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al Qaeda’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We’ve targeted al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia. We’ve done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year. Thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, America is safer.

Still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. We can’t erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity...