(AP) — A Tampa mother accused of killing her two teenagers told a detective hours after the bodies were found that they had been mean and she hoped they were dead.

Prosecutors on Wednesday played a recorded interview between Julie Schenecker and Tampa Police Det. Gary Sandel, conducted in January 2011.

Prosecutors Schenecker killed her 16-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder.

Schenecker told Sandel that she shot the teens and that she had wanted to commit suicide. During the interview, her voice was slow and slurred.

Schenecker’s attorneys say she has suffered from bipolar disorder and depression for decades.

Prosecutors say the slayings were premeditated.

(AP) — Authorities say a 93-year-old Central Texas woman was fatally shot at her home by a police officer answering a call about a person with a gun.

Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert (SEE’-gert) says longtime Hearne (Hern) resident Pearlie Golden was shot Tuesday night by an officer responding to a 911 call about a disturbance involving awoman with a gun. Golden was affectionately known to her neighbors as Ms. Sully.

Siegert says Golden did have a gun.

City attorney Bryan Russ Jr. said it’s believed that the woman was told to drop the weapon, but wouldn’t. Russ says the officer has been put on paid administrative leave, which is standard protocol.

Hearne is a town of about 4,500, located 60 miles southeast of Waco.

(AP) — Federal and state prosecutors say FBI agents acted reasonably when they shot and killed kidnapping and murder suspect James DiMaggio in the Idaho wilderness last summer.

U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson and Valley County Prosecutor Jay Kiiha made the announcement Wednesday, saying the two FBI agents who shot DiMaggio acted reasonably and should not face charges.

The 40-year-old DiMaggio was killed Aug. 10 after he fired two shots when FBI agents descended on his campsite in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. His kidnapping victim, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson, was rescued by the agents.

Prosecutors say DiMaggio killed Anderson’s mother and younger brother and set fire to his own home in California before fleeing to Idaho with the teenager.

(AP) — A constitutional rights group is calling for replacing the use of drug combinations in executions with a single drug that would minimize pain and suffering.

The Constitution Project says states should use the most scientifically reliable method in death-penalty cases. That means using only drugs approved by federal regulators for use in humans. The group also is asking that the public to have an opportunity to comment before states adopt lethal injection procedures.

The group says states relying on lethal injection as a means of execution should use a deadly dose of a single anesthetic or barbiturate approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, rather than complex mixtures of drugs, the dosage and administration of which can easily be miscalculated.

(AP) — A judge has set a summer trial for a northern Michigan woman accused of trying to kill her autistic daughter with carbon monoxide.

Benzie County Judge James Batzer set the trial for July 16, although the date could change depending on his docket.

Kelli Stapleton is charged with attempted murder. She’s accused of trying to kill herself and her 14-year-old daughter Isabelle by igniting charcoal in two grills inside a van last September.

Stapleton has been found mentally fit to stand trial. There’s also another report on her state of mind at the time of the alleged crime, although her attorney is seeking another evaluation.

Stapleton regularly wrote about the difficulties of raising an autistic daughter on a blog called The Status Woe.

(AP) — Health officials say a deadly virus from the Middle East has turned up for the first time in the U.S.

No details about the case have been released. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned a Friday afternoon briefing about the case.

The CDC says it is investigating along with health officials in Indiana.

Middle East respiratory syndrome — or MERS — first surfaced two years ago. Since then, at least 400 cases of the respiratory illness have been reported, and more than 100 people have died.

Saudi Arabia was been the center of the outbreak. All the victims have had ties to the Middle East or to someone who traveled there.

The virus has been found in camels, but officials don’t know how it is spreading to humans.

(AP) — State police in New York say an Albany man was high on drugs when he called 911 to report that his vehicle had been sideswiped on a highway. Troopers say the other driver was drunk.

Police say 38-year-old Malcolm Sidbury was driving south on the Taconic Parkway in Columbia County on Wednesday when he told dispatchers his car had been hit by another vehicle that didn’t stop.

Troopers spotted the vehicles and stopped both. They determined Sidbury was driving while impaired by drugs and that the other driver, 57-year-old Thomas Robbins, of Poughkeepsie, was driving while intoxicated. Police say Robbins’ blood-alcohol content was .25 percent, more than three times the legal limit.

Both men were issued tickets. The district attorney’s office said it doesn’t have attorney information for either man.

(AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 50,000 luxury SUVs to fix a computer error that can delay acceleration for three or four seconds.

The recall affects some Cadillac SRX SUVs from the 2013 model year with 3.6-Liter V6 engines.

GM says in documents filed with U.S. safety regulators that the problem happens when the transmission shifts from first to second gear and the driver brakes the vehicle to under 5 miles per hour. The company says a lag in acceleration can increase the risk of a crash.

GM dealers will update the transmission control computer at no cost to customers. No date has been set yet for the recall to begin.

GM has recalled about 7 million vehicles since February, including 2.6 million for a deadly ignition switch problem.

(AP) — The Homeland Security Department has arrested more than 600 suspected gang members in a monthlong national crackdown on street gangs.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests in 179 cities over the last month. ICE says nearly three-quarters of the suspected gang members belong to the Surenos (soo-RAYN’-yohs), or Sur 13 (soor tray-say), street gang. The name loosely translates to southerners.

ICE says 525 suspected gang members face a variety of state or federal charges. It says 113 others are facing administrative immigration charges.

The monthlong roundup is the latest in a series of nationwide crackdowns on street gangs that started in 2005. ICE says agents have made more than 33,000 arrests since then.

(AP) — A 10-year-old girl remains in critical condition after she was struck by a school bus in her suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood.

South Jordan Police Sgt. Sam Winkler said the girl was “still extremely critical” Thursday afternoon, but he did not release further details.

He says the girl had just gotten off her bus Wednesday afternoon and was crossing the street when she was struck by a second bus.

She was taken to a nearby hospital then flown to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where she underwent surgery and remains in critical condition with head injuries.

Winkler says the second bus driver didn’t see the girl. The accident remains under investigation.

Police earlier reported the girl is 8 years old but later confirmed she is 10.