Evening Edition 104: Friday, July 27, 2013

Jul 27, 2013, 11:38 PM

The death toll for the Syrian civil war reaches 100,000 and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon calls for peace talks; Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying evidence connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill; in Egypt, ousted president Mohammed Morsi is charged with conspiring with Hamas; accused rapist and abductor Ariel Castro makes a plea deal for life in prison without parole; and a squirrel in Los Angeles has been infected with the bubonic plague.