Episcopal assembly responds to fatal drunken driving case
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The Episcopal Church’s top legislative body is reviewing its policies on alcohol and addiction as part of a churchwide soul-searching over a Maryland assistant bishop charged with...
View ArticleBaltimore Co. police kill unarmed man after suicide threat
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) – An unarmed black man killed by Baltimore County police told his daughters’ grandmother that he was going to commit suicide as officers were on their way to his home after...
View ArticleLooking ahead to Breeders’ Cup Classic with American Pharoah
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Then again, let’s. The Breeders’ Cup is just about four months away, and if Triple Crown winner American Pharoah shows up for the $5 million Classic as planned, the...
View ArticleArrested protesters post bail, return to Hawaii mountain
HONOLULU (AP) – Protesters arrested while preventing construction of a giant telescope posted bail, were released from police custody and were returning to the Hawaii mountain they say they’re...
View ArticleMissing plane carrying 9 found on cliff-side in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard says a plane carrying nine people has been discovered on a cliff-side in southeast Alaska after it was reported missing Thursday afternoon. The Alaska...
View ArticleBristol Palin says she’s pregnant for second time
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Bristol Palin, who launched an abstinence campaign after giving birth as an unwed teenage mother, announced Thursday she is pregnant with her second child out-of-wedlock. The...
View ArticleMother, baby rescued 4 days after Colombia plane crash
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – A Colombian woman who survived a plane crash with her months-old baby, drinking coconut water to stay alive, was rescued after four days lost in the jungle. Maria Nelly Murillo...
View ArticleFuneral for slain South Carolina state senator to be held Friday
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBS NEWS) – A third funeral will take place in Charleston today as the city continues to heal from last week’s church massacre. President Obama, first lady Michelle, and Vice President...
View ArticleMultiple fatalities in Tennessee pile-up on I-75
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Police in southeastern Tennessee say Interstate 75 has reopened about 12 hours after six people were killed in a nine-vehicle wreck. Chattanooga Police Department spokesman...
View ArticleFreakishly large goldfish invading water system in Canada
ALBERTA CANADA (CNN) – Officials in Canada say dumping of live goldfish into the ecosystem has resulted in freakishly large fish. The invasive species has no natural predator and is thriving in poor...
View ArticleFrench: Decapitated man was a local employer
PARIS (AP) – The latest on the attack in southeastern France (all times local): ___ 2:45 p.m. A French security official says the man whose severed head was found hanging at the gate of an American...
View ArticleBoard fires teacher accused of lowering boy into trash
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) – Education officials have voted to fire a Georgia special education teacher accused of putting a student with autism in a trash can. Local media report the Cobb County School Board...
View ArticleBeekeepers set out to remove a million bees from NY home
WALLKILL, N.Y. (AP) – Beekeepers have quite the task ahead of them as they remove an estimated 1 million honey bees that have taken up residence at a New York home. The Times Herald-Record of...
View ArticleLocal authorities: 27 dead in Tunisia resort attack
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) – The latest news from an attack on a beach resort in Tunisia (all times local): ___ 4.50 p.m The head of the European Commission, Donald Tusk says that political stability in...
View ArticleSupreme Court extends same-sex marriage nationwide
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination of decades of litigation over gay marriage and gay...
View ArticleObama in Charleston for shooting victim funeral
The latest in the Charleston church shooting. (All times local.) ___ 1:40 p.m. President Barack Obama has arrived in Charleston for the funeral of a victim of last week’s shooting at a black church....
View ArticleRepublican presidential candidates sound off on gay marriage ruling
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL/AP) – For the second time in two days, the Supreme Court has struck at the heart of the Republican Party platform. Yet the conservative outrage that followed the high court’s...
View ArticleShark attack reported in the Outer Banks
AVON, N.C. (WAVY) — The National Parks Service (NPS) says a man was airlifted to Norfolk Friday afternoon after a reported shark attack near the Avon Fishing Pier. In a press release, the NPS said it...
View ArticleJustice Scalia delivers scathing dissent of gay marriage decision
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Not everyone was happy with the Supreme Court’s decision Friday, June 26, 2015 that overturned the sixth circuit’s decision and put an end to bans on same-sex marriage. In...
View Article1 escaped murderer fatally shot in NY woods, other is on run
MALONE, N.Y. (AP) – The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to a weeks-long hunt for a second escaped murderer as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers...
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