CLEVELAND (AP) — In announcing charges against a Cleveland patrolman in the deaths of a driver and his passenger, a prosecutor cites a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting police from firing on suspects after a public threat has ended.

Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County prosecutor Tim McGinty says Officer Michael Brelo (BREE’-loh) stood on the hood of the suspect’s car and fired at least 15 shots after a police chase had ended.

In all, 137 shots were fired. Driver Timothy Russell and passenger Malissa Williams were killed. No gun was found on them.

Brelo was charged Friday with manslaughter; five supervisors were charged with dereliction of duty.

The killings have been decried as racially motivated — both victims were black — and a federal investigation is underway. The police union has defended the officers’ actions.

 

CHICAGO (AP) — Doctors may have a way to help young breast cancer patients avoid infertility caused by chemotherapy. Giving a drug to shut down the ovaries temporarily seems to boost the odds they will work after treatment ends, and it might even improve survival.

Chemotherapy often causes early menopause. A Cleveland Clinic researcher led a study of 250 women around the world to see whether giving a drug to make the ovaries go dormant would help.

Two years after cancer treatment ended, women whose ovaries were suppressed were less likely to suffer early menopause, and twice as many of them became pregnant compared to others in the study.

Results were discussed Friday at a cancer conference in Chicago.

DETROIT (AP) — The superintendent of a Michigan elementary school in which a student with Asperger’s syndrome was videotaped while stuck in a classroom chair says the teacher who recorded the footage ridiculed and humiliated the boy.

Goodrich Area Schools Superintendent Scott Bogner’s comment appears in a letter he sent to the Flint-area district’s board in January.

The Associated Press on Friday obtained a copy of the letter, which details the findings of Bogner’s investigation into the events of Nov. 22 in fifth-grade teacher Nicole McVey’s Oaktree Elementary School classroom.

Bogner says McVey shared the footage with the class as well as teachers and staff, actions he calls “particularly callous.”

Messages were left with McVey’s lawyer, William Young, who says in a filing that his client didn’t take the video “for malicious purposes.”

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston city councilor says a 2-year-old boy apparently wandered away from his day care facility in an apartment building and fell from its roof to his death.

Councilor Tito Jackson represents the neighborhood where the fall occurred. He says the boy died Wednesday morning.

Police say they found the boy on the pavement behind the four-story building and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Police and the district attorney’s office say they’re investigating the circumstances. State child welfare officials also are investigating.

Family members identify the boy as Daylan Walker. His grandmother Lucretia Rivera tells The Boston Globe he cried when she took him to day care Wednesday.

The newspaper says a woman listed as the licensed operator of a day care center in the building declined to comment by phone, saying she’s talking with police.

JENKS, Okla. (AP) — A woman in her 80s met her 94-year-old half-sister over the Memorial Day weekend — the first time the siblings had ever set eyes on each other.

85-year-old Zelda Gates didn’t even know she had a half-sister until she read her father’s will.

On Monday, Gates finally met Reta Knight, her older half-sister, in Jenks, about 12 miles south of Tulsa.

Knight says her father left her and her mother and she always wondered why. She says her mother was evasive when she asked, so she didn’t push the subject.

Family members used old pictures and online genealogy resources to make sure of the connection.

Gates says meeting her sister for the first time was wonderful. She noted that the two look alike too.

(AP) — Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Or land somewhere in between.

The president says his party shouldn’t apologize or go on the defensive about the Affordable Care Act.

Candidates aren’t so sure.

Two top recruits for Senate races — Michelle Nunn in Georgia and Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky — won’t say how they would have voted when the Senate passed the bill in 2010.

Their refusals are overshadowing their endorsements of individual parts of the law that are more popular than the law itself.

In Montana, Sen. John Walsh, appointed to office in February and now running for a full term, reminds voters that he was nowhere near Congress in 2010.

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Police investigating last night’s deadly drive-by shootings in Southern California are studying a video posted on YouTube of a young man describing plans to shoot women.

They’re not saying whether the person in the video is a suspect in the shootings, which left seven people dead, including the suspected gunman. But Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown says investigators are analyzing written and videotaped evidence that suggests it was “a premeditated mass murder.”

Seven others were wounded in the attack near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus in the beachside community of Isla Vista.

The sheriff says the gunman got into two gun battles with deputies before crashing his black BMW into a parked car. The suspect was found dead inside the car with a gunshot wound to the head, but it wasn’t clear whether he was killed by gunfire or if he committed suicide.

A semi-automatic handgun was recovered from the scene.

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(AP) — The Navy retains female sailors at half the rate it holds on to men. One result is it doesn’t have enough senior enlisted women on some ships stationed overseas.

The Navy’s top commander for personnel says the service has repeatedly learned problems develop if a ship has many junior enlisted females but no senior enlisted women on board to mentor them.

Vice Adm. William Moran told reporters during a visit to Pearl Harbor on Thursday he thinks the fundamental reason is that women want to start families and need more time to do so. He says this often makes women choose between staying in uniform and starting a family.

The Navy currently offers women six weeks of paid maternity leave.

Moran wants to improve the retention rate for all female sailors.

(AP) — Police say a 16-year-old shot a Pennsylvania cabbie twice in the head because he believed the driver was trying to rip him off.

Aazis (ah-ZEES’) Richardson was charged with murder Friday night in the killing of 47-year-old Vincent Darbenzio (dar-BENZ’-ee-oh). The cab driver’s body was found in his vehicle shortly before 5 a.m. Friday near the entrance to a Scranton housing complex.

Investigators say Richardson told them he killed Darbenzio because the driver was taking a long way to his destination and ignoring his suggested shortcuts. Police say Richardson also stole $500 before fleeing.

While in police custody, Richardson told reporters he had killed the driver because he wouldn’t take his preferred route.

It’s not clear if Richardson has an attorney.

Darbenzio started working for the cab company last month.

(AP) — Police say two young boys who fell from an inflatable bounce house as it was swept skyward by gusty winds remain hospitalized in stable condition, with one in a medically induced coma with a head injury.

Police say a 10-year-old girl and two boys, ages 5 and 6, were playing in the 10-by-10-foot structure at a South Glens Falls townhouse community Monday when it broke loose from plastic anchoring stakes.

The girl fell out immediately and suffered minor scrapes, but the boys didn’t tumble out until the toy was 15 feet high. Police Chief Kevin Judd tells the newspaper Wednesday that the other boy has two broken arms and several broken facial bones.

The chief called it a “tragic accident.”