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1. EBOLA

Abundance of caution: A mandatory 21-day quarantine imposed by New York and New Jersey on health care workers returning from West Africa after treating Ebola patients caught local and federal officials by surprise and spurred a heated debate on handling the spread of the virus. The announcement came one day after a New York doctor who treated patients in Guinea became the first Ebola case diagnosed in the city and the fourth in the United States

2. WASHINGTON SCHOOL SHOOTING

Targeting his cousins? When a teenage gunman opened fire at students in a high school cafeteria in Washington state, killing a female student before himself, he was not shooting at random targets, a relative said. Jaylen Fryberg, who witnesses said gunned down students at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, is the cousin of two of the wounded. “All three of them are cousins, and they live right close to each other,” Don Hatch told CNN affiliate KOMO.

3. WOMAN HANGED

Self-defense vs. murder: An Iranian woman convicted of murder – in a killing that human rights groups called self-defense against a rapist – was hanged Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported. Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was sentenced to death for the killing of a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The United Nations has said Sarbandi hired Jabbari – then a 19-year-old interior designer – to work on his office. She stabbed him after he sexually assaulted her, the UN said.

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source: CNN.com

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