Photos: Inside the San Bernardino shooters’ home
REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) – Members of the media crowded into the apartment in Redlands, Calif. shared by San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik Friday, Dec. 4. 2015. If you are...
View ArticleCandidates react to California tragedy, polls show Trump leads
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – After the shooting massacre at a Southern California social services center, the candidates running for both the Democratic and Republican presidential nomination are...
View ArticleHoverboard fires and falls pose danger to users
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – One of the hottest holiday toys is literally catching fire. Hoverboards are at the top of a lot of people’s must-have lists this year. But recent incidents are calling their...
View ArticleAnother month of solid US hiring clears way for Fed hike
WASHINGTON (AP) – If the Federal Reserve needed any final evidence that the economy is ready for higher interest rates, it got it on Friday. A solid November job gain of 211,000 showed that despite...
View ArticleSocial media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators
PALO ALTO, California (AP) – Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in this week’s Southern California mass shooting, has another claim to notoriety: She’s the latest in a growing line of extremists and...
View Article1 victim taken to hospital after Wisconsin shooting
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) – One person has been taken to the hospital after a shooting in a Wisconsin town that prompted police to evacuate nearby homes and businesses. Spokeswoman Megan Mulholland confirms...
View ArticleChicago cops’ versions of teen’s killing at odds with video
CHICAGO (AP) – Police officers who watched a colleague shoot a black Chicago teenager 16 times filed reports depicting a very different version of events than what dashcam footage showed, portraying...
View ArticleGovt: Triple suicide bombings in Chad kill at least 15
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – A triple suicide bombing Saturday at a market on an island in Lake Chad killed at least 15 people and injured 130, Chad’s government said. A top police official blamed the carnage...
View ArticleUK police say stabbing treated as ‘terrorist incident’
LONDON (AP) – A stabbing at a London Underground station is being treated as a “terrorist incident,” the London police said Saturday. The London police counterterror command said in a statement that it...
View ArticleHundreds in NY jump into Lake Erie for good cause
HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – A great reason to be freezing, more than 1,300 people braved a cold Lake Erie Saturday morning to raise money for Special Olympics New York. This is the organization’s third...
View ArticleObama to give prime-time address Sunday after shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office Sunday in prime time about steps the government is taking to keep people safe after the attack last week in San...
View ArticleWoman in deadly California rampage became fervently devout
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – In the final few years of Tashfeen Malik’s life, the people around the young woman saw her dress ever more conservatively and urge people ever more ardently to live a...
View ArticleJimmy Carter says latest brain scan shows no cancer
ATLANTA (AP) – Jimmy Carter said Sunday that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors. “My most recent MRI brain...
View ArticleAP source: Justice Department to investigate Chicago police
CHICAGO (AP) – The U.S. Justice Department is expected to launch a wide-ranging investigation this week into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department after recent protests over a...
View ArticleObama: ‘I have no doubt America will prevail’
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – In a rare prime-time televised address from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama promised Americans the federal government is prepared to stop the spread of terrorism...
View ArticleAP: Nation making little progress eliminating food deserts
EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – As part of Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative, a group of major food retailers promised in 2011 to open or expand 1,500 grocery or convenience stores in and around...
View ArticleWife in California shooting attended Islamic school in Pakistan
If you are viewing this on the WKBN app, click on the “Live Stream” button at the bottom of the screen to view the live video. MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – The woman who carried out last week’s mass...
View ArticleFeds spend $104 million yearly to house families who earn too much
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – More than 25,000 American families squat in heavily subsidized and often scarce low-income housing, despite earning too much money to live there. And taxpayers foot the...
View ArticleVisas not guns: The talk following Obama’s ISIL address
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – On Sunday night, President Barack Obama addressed the nation in prime time following two mass shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris, which are now recognized...
View ArticleAP NewsBreak: Shooting suspect asked direction to clinic
DENVER (AP) – The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado asked at least one person in a nearby shopping center for directions to the facility before opening...
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