CHARLESTON, W.Va.
Journalist arrested at Capitol
Police in West Virginia’s Capitol arrested a journalist who they said was trying “aggressively” to get past Secret Service agents and yelling questions at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. It happened as Price and senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway came to the state Capitol in Charleston on Tuesday to learn about efforts to fight opioid addiction in a state that has the nation’s highest overdose death rate. Capitol police said in a criminal complaint that Daniel Ralph Heyman, 54, “was aggressively breaching the secret service agents to the point where the agents were forced to remove him a couple of times from the area” in a Capitol hallway.
JUNEAU, Alaska
State lawmaker censured
The Alaska House has censured a Republican member over comments suggesting there are women in Alaska who try to get pregnant to get a “free trip to the city” for abortions. Wednesday’s vote followed demands by lawmakers in both parties last week that Rep. David Eastman apologize for remarks they considered offensive. Many Alaska Natives live in rural communities, where health services are limited and travel often is needed to access care in larger communities.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Education secretary booed
Drawing shouts of “Liar!” and “Just go,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos powered through her commencement address Wednesday at a historically black university, even as many of the graduating students turned their backs to her in protest. “Let’s choose to hear one another out,” DeVos said, reading her prepared text in a measured tone despite continuing waves of boos, catcalls and scattered applause at Bethune-Cookman University. As the crowd kept trying to shout her down, university President Edison Jackson briefly took over the microphone to sternly lecture the class of 2017.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Airline denies accusation
United Airlines is denying that its staff told a Missouri woman to urinate in a cup rather than leave her seat to use the restroom on a flight from Houston. Nichole Harper told KCTV she had a sudden urge to urinate because of her overactive bladder on the flight last month to Kansas City, Mo. She says a flight attendant told her she wasn’t allowed to stand up because the pilot was expecting turbulence. Harper responded by saying she was going to need a cup. She said the flight crew reprimanded her after she filled two cups.
Compiled from wire reports