Charges added against woman in fatal Las Vegas Strip crash

LAS VEGAS - Criminal charges were added Wednesday against a 24-year-old woman already facing murder and child endangerment charges after authorities say she intentionally plowed a car into a crowd of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk.Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson filed 71 felony charges against Lakeisha Nicole Holloway, including 34 new attempted murder and 34 new battery with a deadly weapon charges.Wolfson said the additional charges reflect injuries to people struck by Holloway's car Dec. 20 outside the Planet Hollywood and Paris Las Vegas resorts. Holloway's defense attorney, Scott Coffee, said the new charges had been expected.The murder and child endangerment charges were lodged against Holloway shortly after her arrest. Wolfson said at that time that he planned to add charges once police identified and interviewed more than 30 people who were injured.UK judge: Putin probably approved plan to poison ex-spyLONDON - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia's FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died three weeks after drinking tea laced with poison at a London hotel, a British judge said Thursday. In a lengthy report, Judge Robert Owen said that he is certain Litvinenko was given tea with a fatal dose of polonium-210, a radioactive isotope that is deadly if ingested even in tiny quantities, in November 2006.He said there is a "strong probability" that the FSB, successor to the Soviet spy agency the KGB, directed the killing, and the operation was "probably approved" by Putin. Before he died, Litvinenko accused Putin of ordering his killing, but this appears to be the first time anyone has officially linked Putin to it. Moscow has always strongly denied involvement in Litvinenko's death.Senate Democrats want vote on religious test for immigrantsWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats maneuvered Wednesday to put Republicans on the spot with an election-year vote on legislation barring a religious test for immigrants.Democrats hope the vote would force Republicans to take sides for or against presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for barring Muslims from coming to the U.S. The vote would come less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses.Democrats pressed for the vote as their price for allowing Republicans to move ahead with legislation cracking down on Syrian refugees coming to this country. The GOP-backed American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act cleared the House in November with 289 votes - a veto-proof margin that included 47 Democrats, despite President Barack Obama's opposition.Sierra Leone has 2nd Ebola case after epidemic thought overFREETOWN, Sierra Leone - A second case of Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, authorities said Thursday.About 150 of the first victim's contacts have been under monitoring, and the new patient had been under quarantine.Health Ministry spokesman Sidi Yaya Tunis said the new patient was one of the people who prepared the initial victim's body for burial. The 22-year-old died in mid-January, and relatives were allowed to hold a traditional funeral as authorities at the time did not suspect she had died from Ebola.Ebola is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of victims, and corpses are especially contagious.- The Associated Press