An intruder jumped the fence at the White House on Wednesday evening and was caught with assistance from a dog, a Secret Service spokesman said.

The jumper breached the north fence line and was “apprehended by one of the K-9 units” about 7:22 p.m., spokesman Ed Donovan told the Los Angeles Times. Donovan said the intruder reached the lawn and was under arrest. He would not say how deep into the White House grounds the person got or provide any other details.

A Secret Service spokesman identified the jumper as Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Md., and said he was unarmed, according to the Associated Press.

The intruder was taken to a hospital with injuries, an Obama administration official told The Times.

The incident comes a month after an Iraq war veteran carrying a pocketknife jumped the fence and ran across the North Lawn, through an unlocked White House door and into multiple rooms before being caught.

Omar Gonzalez, 42, was arrested after that security breach. He faces six counts...

Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is snuffing out smoking in its offices and buildings.

The nation's second-biggest tobacco company informed employees Wednesday that beginning next year, the use of traditional cigarettes, cigars and pipes will no longer be permitted at employee desks or in offices, conference rooms, hallways and elevators. Lighting up already is prohibited on factory floors and in cafeterias and fitness centers.

The no-smoking policy will go into effect once Reynolds builds indoor smoking areas for those still wanting to light up indoors, spokesman David Howard said.

"We believe it's the right thing to do and the right time to do it because updating our tobacco use policies will better accommodate both nonsmokers and smokers who work in and visit our facilities," Howard said. "We're just better aligning our tobacco use policies with the realities of what you're seeing in society today."

Although Reynolds will no longer allow smoking, it will allow the use of...

A Houston pharmacy employee shot and killed a female coworker he may have been trying to pursue a romantic relationship with before taking his own life near a hospital Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The suspect, identified as a 58-year-old male, walked up behind the female coworker and shot her several times before turning the gun on himself in an outpatient pharmacy near Ben Taub General Hospital, according to Houston police spokesman John Cannon.

Cannon told the Los Angeles Times that at least seven other employees heard the gunshots, and several colleagues told police that the suspect may have been trying to "enhance" a relationship with the female victim.

“Some of the employees are telling us in recent days the suspect had been trying to further a relationship with her. … That’s the only possible motive we are working on right now," Cannon said in a phone interview.

Police have not released the identities of the gunman or victim, and Cannon said it's not clear if the two had...

Ebola is now undetectable in Texas nurse Amber Vinson's body, and she has been approved to leave isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, her family announced Wednesday. 

Officials from the hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found Vinson to be clear of the deadly virus as of Tuesday evening, but she's still being treated at the hospital, the family said in a statement.

"Amber and our family are ecstatic to receive this latest report on her condition," said her mother, Debra Berry. "We all know that further treatment will be necessary as Amber continues to regain strength, but these latest developments have truly answered prayers and bring our family one step closer to reuniting with her at home."

Vinson, 29, was the second of two nurses diagnosed with Ebola this month after taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

After treating Duncan but before being diagnosed...

Texas nurse Nina Pham’s dog, Bentley, has tested negative for the Ebola virus, Dallas officials announced Wednesday.

The 1-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel was put into quarantine last week after Pham contracted the disease.

Pham, 26, was diagnosed with Ebola this month after taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

She stayed in isolation in the hospital for nearly a week and was transferred Thursday to a National Institutes of Health clinic in Bethesda, Md., for further treatment. On Tuesday, her condition was upgraded to good.

Bentley is to remain in quarantine at Hensley Field, a decommissioned naval air base west of Dallas, for 21 days, the incubation period for Ebola. He will be tested again before being released, Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said on Twitter.

Workers watching over Bentley have been wearing full-body protective suits to make sure they don’t catch the deadly virus in...

The Navajo Nation’s top court on Wednesday tossed one of the presidential candidates off of the ballot, ruling in a case that touched a raw cultural nerve.

In a three-page decision, the Navajo Supreme Court upheld earlier rulings that Christopher C. Deschene was not qualified to seek the tribe's top elected post after the candidate refused to demonstrate whether he is fluent in the Navajo language.

Tribal law requires presidential candidates on the reservation, the largest in the U.S., to be fluent in the language, part of the Navajo cultural identity as well as a practical necessity in a region where many people adhere to the traditional ways and language.

Ruling on technical grounds, the court held that Deschene did not include a copy of his disqualification order with his notice of appeal, thus his request to overturn the decision of the Office of Hearings and Appeals was dismissed by the court.

“Any litigant who is serious about his case will ensure that all of the court's...