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Coroner: No idea why detainee died
CINCINNATI -- A coroner said Wednesday her office could not determine what led to the fatal brain damage of a young Ohio man detained in North Korea for more than a year.
While the parents of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier and President Donald Trump have accused the North Korean government of torturing him, Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco said evidence has led to no "scientific facts" to solve Warmbier's mysterious death.
"We don't know what happened to him, and this is the bottom line," she said. The cause of the death may never be known, she added.
A coroner's report dated Sept. 11 shows the cause of death for the University of Virginia student as complications from brain-damaging oxygen deprivation through "an unknown insult more than a year prior to death." The medical term for his condition was called "chronic anoxic/ischemic encephalopathy."
The manner of death was listed as "undetermined."
While Warmbier's family declined an autopsy, Sammarco said her office used extensive medical scanning and imaging for a "virtual autopsy" and that nothing more would have been gained by doing an autopsy so long after his brain damage occurred.
Fred Warmbier said on TV that his son's mouth "looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth."
Ax-wielding man attacks, kills woman
CHALMETTE, La. -- Authorities say an ax-wielding man attacked his ex-wife in front of her home as she was leaving for work, killing her.
Deputy Chief John Doran of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office told reporters it happened Wednesday morning in Chalmette, a New Orleans suburb.
Deputies responding to a call about the attack found the 48-year-old woman critically injured. She later died at the scene.
Family members of the woman told deputies the attacker was her 56-year-old ex-husband. The names of the victim and attacker have not been released.
The suspect ran away from the scene but later turned himself in. Charges were pending.
Police find elderly bound to chairs
ROME -- Italian police have removed a priest who ran a home for the elderly after residents were found with their arms and legs bound to chairs, beds and sofas to prevent them from moving about freely.
Undercover video provided by police Wednesday showed one resident of the "San Camillo" home for the elderly in Forli, near Bologna, hoisting up an armchair he was tied to so he could move.
Forli Commander Mario Paternoster said about 30 people lived in the home, and a half-dozen were regularly bound.
Police said the measures were apparently used because the home didn't have enough staff.
Police ordered the suspension of the 60-year-old priest and his assistant on accusations of elderly abuse, and named a new director "to guarantee proper and dignified assistance for the patients."
Neutral pronoun teacher transferred
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida elementary school teacher who asked students to use gender-neutral pronouns in the classroom is being transferred to an adult education program.
According to a Tallahassee Democrat report , Leon County Schools officials announced Tuesday that Chloe Bressack would no longer teach fifth grade at Canopy Oaks Elementary School.
Superintendent Rocky Hanna said Bressack agreed that "given the complexity of the issue," a transfer would be best for the teacher's career and the fifth-graders.
District spokesman Chris Petley said a handful of students transferred from the class this month after Bressack sent parents a letter asking students to use gender-neutral pronouns and "Mx." -- pronounced "Mix" -- when addressing the teacher.