Midday Roundup: Pennsylvania shooter finally caught

Hunted down. After seven weeks on the lam, accused cop-killer Eric Frein appeared in court this morning on capital murder charges. U.S. marshals in Pennsylvania found Frein Thursday night hiding in a field near an abandoned airport in Tannersville, Penn., about 35 miles from the barracks where highway patrol Cpl. Bryon Dickson was killed Sept. 10. The alleged shooter lay in wait and shot Dickson and Trooper Alex Douglass, who was critically wounded, outside the Barracks at shift change. Frein is believed to have fled into the nearby woods and lived off the land as authorities searched for him.

Quarantine debate. A judge is expected to rule today on whether Maine can strictly curb the public outings of nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in West Africa. Hickox insists she is not ill and doesn’t need to be quarantined. A court order against her would violate her constitutional rights, she claims. A judge signed a temporary order Thursday limiting Hickox’s movement. For now, police are monitoring her and her public interactions but cannot detain her.

Day in court. Lawyers for the young sons of one of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit against the company over the jetliner’s crash. MH 370 diverted off course and disappeared March 8 with 239 people onboard. Authorities believe it crashed in the Indian Ocean, but extensive search efforts have not turned up the wreckage. The suit reveals not only the family’s grief over the loss of their father, Malaysian man Jee Jing Hang, but also frustration with the recovery effort. Families say the government and the airline have withheld information from them about the investigation into the crash. “Our clients are after the truth,” lawyers said in a statement. “We have confidence in our judiciary system that this suit will be heard and dealt with fairly.”

Settlement scuttlebutt. Israel is drawing ire from the United Nations and the Obama administration for potentially jeopardizing the Palestinian peace talks with a plan to build homes in East Jerusalem. The Palestinians see the city as their future capital. But Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor said the criticism is unwarranted because Israel wants East Jerusalem open to all. “The people of Israel are not occupiers and we’re not settlers. Israel is our home and Jerusalem is the eternal capital of our sovereign state,” he said. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the new settlements are counterproductive but affirmed the United States’ ties to Israel.

African uprising. President Blaise Compaore of the West African country Burkina Faso has stepped down after ruling the country since 1987. Protesters set fire to the parliament and other key buildings in the city’s capital after Compaore announced he wanted to seek a fifth term as president. Burkina Faso is about the size of Colorado with a densely packed population of roughly 17 million. The Wall Street Journal explains why residents of the landlocked country suddenly rose up against the president after more than 25 years of tranquility there.

WORLD Radio’s Mary Reichard and The Associated Press contributed to this report.