CALGARY - A Calgary judge has granted bail to a woman accused of killing two of her newborns. Meredith Borowiec (BOHR'-oh-wick) has been in custody since her arrest 18 months ago. She is charged with second-degree murder after two infants were place in garbage bags and thrown away — one in 2008 and the other in 2009. Borowiec's trial was scheduled to last six weeks but because of its length had to be adjourned until November.

Quito, May 8 (EFE).- A suspected member of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel and eight other people were arrested during an anti-drug operation in Ecuador, the National Police said. Four of the nine suspects detained in the operation are Mexican nationals. The suspects belong to a transnational criminal organization that smuggles drugs by sea from Ecuador to Mexico, the National Police said.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has levied financial sanctions against eight drug gang bosses accused of working for Mexico's powerful and violent Sinaloa Cartel. The government accused the eight regional bosses of managing drug smuggling operations for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the purported head of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday. By declaring the men specially designated narcotics traffickers under the Kingpin Act, Washington has made it illegal for U.S. citizens to do business with them and freezes any assets they may have inside the U.S.

A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said Monday, in the latest setback for a force struggling to stem a pervasive rape problem. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "expressed outrage and disgust over the troubling allegations and emphasized that this matter will be dealt with swiftly and decisively," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.