Adoption of Nepalese children suspended; Bombing conspirator sues prison

STATE DEPARTMENT

Adoption of Nepalese children suspended

The U.S. government suspended Friday the adoption of abandoned children from Nepal because of concerns about unreliable and fabricated documents.

The State Department said it will continue to consider adoption applications already in the pipeline on a case-by-case basis. About 80 such cases are pending.

The number of Nepalese children adopted by Americans dropped from 60 in 2006 to six last year as U.S. officials intensified warnings about possible problems.

-- Associated Press

COLORADO

Bombing conspirator sues federal prison

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says in court papers that prison officials force-fed him after hunger strikes this year.

Nichols has filed a lawsuit against officials at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., over the lack of whole grains, unpeeled fruit and fewer refined foods in his diet. He said prison officials used intravenous lines to force-feed him twice after his weight dropped 25 and 35 pounds, to 135 and 125 pounds.

Nichols is serving a life sentence for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal building bombing that killed 168 people.

-- Associated Press

McInnis reaches settlement: Colorado gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis (R) reached a settlement Friday to repay the Hasan Family Foundation over allegations he gave the group a plagiarized report on water rights as part of a $300,000 fellowship. McInnis offered to repay the foundation after it said it wanted its money back. The terms were not disclosed.

Serial stabbings: Investigators say a knife-wielding serial killer has been attacking men on Flint, Mich.-area streets since May, killing five people and wounding eight others in a vicious spate of violence that may be motivated by racial hatred.

-- From news services