Treasury says woman will be picked for $10 bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is to officially announce Thursday that a redesign of the...
View ArticleAuthorities ID suspect in Charleston shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. (MEDIA GENERAL) – Dylann Storm Roof, a 21-year-old from Lexington County, South Carolina, is the suspect sought in the shooting death of nine people at a Charleston church. First...
View ArticleCT man gets 5 years after friend’s Russian roulette death
VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A 27-year-old Connecticut man is heading to prison after another man killed himself while the two were playing Russian roulette last July. John Dybowski was convicted Tuesday of...
View ArticlePa. agency seeks applicants for Sandusky fine projects
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania government commission is accepting grant applicants for money paid by Penn State over its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. The...
View ArticleMichigan teen who posed as FBI agent charged with taking car
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – A teenager accused of stealing a car while posing as an FBI agent has been charged in Michigan. The Ann Arbor News reports that the 17-year-old has been arraigned in...
View ArticleWorld’s top 5 teams remain alive heading into knockout stage
VANCOUVER, British Colombia (AP) – The United States’ bid for a third Women’s World Cup title remains very much alive, as do the championship hopes of all five of the top-ranked teams in the world. The...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) – A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on...
View ArticleWhite gunman caught in killing of 9 in historic black church
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – It was an act of “pure, pure concentrated evil,” Charleston’s mayor said – a black community’s leading lights extinguished by gunfire, allegedly at the hands of a young white...
View ArticleTexas man executed for slaying of auto mechanic in 2001
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – Texas death row inmate Gregory Russeau was executed Thursday evening for the slaying of a 75-year-old East Texas auto repair shop owner 14 years ago during a crack cocaine...
View ArticleJury deciding sentencing for Marine who killed Iraqi man
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) – A Marine sergeant appealed to military jurors Thursday to spare him from being sent back to the brig for killing an Iraqi civilian nearly a decade ago, saying that he had...
View Article3 Los Angeles gangs indicted for uniting in conspiracy
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Three rival Los Angeles gangs united in a rare alliance to conspire to control drug trafficking and carried out crimes that included murder and extortion, federal prosecutors said...
View ArticleSoldier who killed comrade in Jordan gets 26 years
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – A Fort Carson soldier convicted of murder in the shooting death of a fellow soldier when they were deployed in Jordan has been sentenced to 26 years of confinement and...
View ArticleFirst hearing for Charleston shooter expected this afternoon
CHARLESTON, S.C. (MEDIA GENERAL) – While Charleston, South Carolina, mourns following a church shooting that left nine dead Wednesday, June 17, 2015, the legal process moves on for suspected killer...
View ArticleDylann Roof confesses to Charleston church shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. (MEDIA GENERAL) – Law enforcement officials familiar with the Charleston shooting have said Dylann Roof has confessed to authorities to shooting and killing nine people Wednesday, June...
View ArticleDylann Roof’s friend: I didn’t THINK it was him, I KNEW it was him
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a childhood buddy he hadn’t seen in five years and started railing about the Trayvon Martin case, about black people “taking...
View ArticleFlorist spots Charleston shooter’s car, credits divine intervention
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Debbie Dills thought the black Hyundai next to her at a stoplight looked familiar — it had a South Carolina tag and a white decal on the front. Her heart raced when she saw...
View ArticlePet cat survives after being stuck in mattress for two months
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A family has been reunited with their cat Moosie after the 2-year-old gray tabby survived a two-month journey trapped inside a mattress when its owners moved to their new home...
View ArticleStudy: Wedding rates dropping as millennials get older
This story is courtesy of our sister station KIMT in Mason City, IA. (KIMT) – Millennials are set to become the country’s largest living generation this year, many of which will reach the traditional...
View ArticleSocial media, celebrities react to #CharlestonShooting
This story is courtesy of our sister station WCBD in Charleston, SC. CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Charleston, South Carolina, has made the national news quite a few times in the last few months. Through...
View Article3 easy ways to help victims in Charleston
This story is courtesy of our sister station WCBD in Charleston, South Carolina. CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Many in Charleston and around the world are asking how they can help the families of the...
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