GOP, Democrats cast Biden’s Ohio visit in different lights
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Democrats say Vice President Joe Biden’s Wednesday visit to Ohio was about the economy, but Republicans suggest the stop in a key battleground state was political. Biden joined...
View ArticleTerrorism suspected in EgyptAir plane crash
CAIRO (AP) — An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, and Egypt’s aviation minister said the disaster was more likely the...
View ArticleFDA delayed stronger sunscreens for a decade as melanoma diagnoses spiked
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – A little, hard lump under Cassie Beisel’s arm in 2011 was her first clue that something was wrong. Throughout the next month, she forced herself through a frightening...
View ArticleTime Warner name will vanish, Charter closes acquisition
NEW YORK (AP) – Charter Communications is closing on its $67 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The deals make Charter the second-largest home Internet provider and...
View ArticleEgyptian army: Plane debris found in Mediterranean Sea
CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian airport officials say that investigators will inspect the plane debris and personal belongings that the Egyptian army says it found in the Meditarranean Sea, 180 miles north of...
View ArticleSF police chief resigns after deadly officer-involved shooting
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Thursday resigned from his position hours after a deadly officer-involved shooting. It was the city’s second such shooting this...
View ArticlePoll shows strong support for paid family leave programs
CHICAGO (AP) – Time off from work to care for a child or relative is codified in federal law. Now, an overwhelming majority of Americans 40 and older want that time away from the job to be paid. An...
View ArticleThe Latest: EgyptAir says more wreckage found in plane crash
CAIRO (AP) – The Latest on the crash of EgyptAir flight 804 (all times local): 4:50 p.m. An EgyptAir official says more wreckage of the missing plane has been found, including body parts, luggage and...
View ArticleFrozen food recall covers hundreds of items from many stores
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to...
View ArticleWhite House placed under security alert after man shot outside
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Secret Service says one of its uniformed officers shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House this afternoon and refused to drop his weapon. The...
View ArticleIndiana court to hear woman’s appeal of feticide conviction
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Attorneys for an Indiana woman found guilty of killing the premature infant that she delivered after ingesting abortion-inducing drugs will soon ask an appeals court to throw out...
View ArticleDeposition text: Cosby’s wife refused to answer many queries
BOSTON (AP) – A newly released transcript shows that Bill Cosby’s wife refused to answer dozens of questions during a combative February deposition. According to a transcript of the deposition released...
View ArticleOklahoma senator weighing options after abortion ban veto
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – An Oklahoma state senator says he hasn’t decided whether to try and override the governor’s veto of his bill that would have effectively outlawed abortion in the state. Republican...
View ArticleInvestigators: smoke detected on Egypt jet just before crash
CAIRO (AP) — Smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear, the...
View ArticlePentagon: US airstrike targets Taliban leader Mullah Mansour
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in an airstrike Saturday near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Defense Department said, and a U.S. official said Mansour was...
View ArticleThe Latest: Solar-powered lands in Ohio
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The Latest on the most recent leg of a solar-powered airplane that has been circling the globe since March (all times local): A solar-powered airplane has landed in Dayton, Ohio, on...
View ArticleGas prices jump by 5 cents over past 2 weeks, averages $2.32
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – The average price of gasoline has jumped by a nickel over the past two weeks to $2.32 a gallon for regular grade. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the hike is...
View ArticleEgypt sends submarine to hunt for crashed jet’s black boxes
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of...
View ArticleShooting suspect in death of Mass. officer killed in exchange of gunfire
AUBURN, Mass. (AP) – The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts police officer is dead after an exchange of gunfire with authorities. The Worcester County district attorney says the man,...
View ArticleMan mauled after entering Chile zoo’s lion pen, 2 cats slain
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – Two lions were killed after they severely mauled a man who stripped naked and entered their enclosure in an apparent suicide attempt early Saturday, authorities said. The man was...
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