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Nation briefs: Guilty plea entered in instrusion

Nation briefs: Guilty plea entered in instrusion

WASHINGTON — The man who jumped the White House fence and ran into the executive mansion carrying a folding knife in his pocket Sept. 19 pleaded guilty Friday to two felony counts related to the incident, which triggered a far-reaching shake-up of the U.S. Secret Service.

Omar Gonzalez, 43, an Army veteran of the Iraq war who has said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, had entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors that calls for a prison sentence under federal guidelines of 12 to 18 months and a fine of $3,000 to $30,000.

School sex assaults

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LOS ANGELES — Fourteen students at a Los Angeles high school are under investigation in a series of sexual assaults against two underage schoolmates that went on for more than a year and recently intensified, police officials said Friday.

Investigators believe the assaults took place at Venice High School and off campus starting in December 2013 and continued with increasing frequency until this month, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Ebola exposure?

ATLANTA — At least 10 Americans possibly exposed to the deadly Ebola virus were being flown to the United States from Sierra Leone for observation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.

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They will be transported by non-commercial air transport and will be housed near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said.

All of the individuals who are being flown back to the United States are free of symptoms, the CDC said.

A U.S. health care worker who tested positive for Ebola while in Sierra Leone arrived at the NIH on Friday and was in serious condition, the NIH said.

It is not clear how the person became infected with Ebola, CDC said.

Islamic State plot case

NEW YORK — Three men from the borough of Brooklyn pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal indictment charging them with plotting to travel overseas to join the terrorist group Islamic State.

One by one, Abdurasul Juraboev, 24; Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30, who were heavily shackled, entered their pleas in federal District Court in Brooklyn before Judge William Kunz.

The defendants are all natives of former Soviet republics. Mr. Saidakhmetov is a Kazakh; the two others are Uzbeks.

Also in the nation …

California’s chief utility regulator on Friday urged a record $1.6 billion penalty against Pacific Gas & Electric stemming from its deadly 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline rupture and fire near San Francisco, a $200 million increase over an earlier proposal. … For the first time in nearly 70 years, the U.S. National Arboretum has a bald eagle that has laid eggs in a nest on part of its 400-plus acres in northeast Washington, D.C.

First Published: March 15, 2015, 4:00 a.m.

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