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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Sonoma County teenager remained jailed Sunday after he was arrested on suspicion of using stolen credit cards to rent a $240,000 sports car and a $12 million vacation home. Mohanned Halaweh, 19, was arrested Wednesday after he was pulled over while driving the 2012 McLaren coupe he had rented […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Relatives of five people on board the missing Malaysian jetliner are trying to crowd source a $5 million reward for information about what happened to the plane. The group says it “wants to provide a substantial incentive for anyone who knows the truth to come forward.” The Boeing 777 disappeared […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is signing an executive order that lets borrowers pay no more than 10 percent of their monthly income in student loan payments. The measure expands on a 2010 law that covered those who started borrowing after October 2007 and kept borrowing after October 2011. The executive order allows those […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two police officers were “simply having lunch” at a strip mall pizza buffet in Las Vegas when a man and a woman fatally shot them in point-blank ambush, then fled to a nearby Walmart where they killed a third person and then themselves in an apparent suicide pact, authorities said. The […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — The Navy says it has put a Virginia base on lockdown following a stabbing. The stabbing occurred Friday at Naval Support Activity Portsmouth Annex, which is home to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Social media posts by Navy Region Mid-Atlantic say a service member was stabbed. A suspect has not been caught. […]
DENVER (AP) — Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed legislation to try to establish the world’s first financial system for the largely cash-only marijuana industry. The bill signed Friday morning seeks to form a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services. Banks that fear violating federal law […]
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — General Motors said Thursday that it has forced out 15 employees for their role in the deadly ignition-switch scandal and will set up a compensation fund for crash victims, as an internal investigation blamed the debacle on engineering ignorance and bureaucratic dithering, not a deliberate cover-up. GM took more than a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The popular ACT college admissions exam is broadening how it reports students’ scores. The exam’s traditional 36-point scale remains unchanged. But, starting next year, students will also receive an ACT score on two new “readiness indicators” reflecting how they did in terms of career readiness and understanding complex text, the nonprofit testing […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, police said. A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman after he […]
President Barack Obama is standing firm on his decision bring home POW Bowe Berghdal. He emphatically said he will make “no apologies” for trading five Taliban militants for the captured Army Sergeant. The exchange over the weekend for Bergdahl – who was held captive for five years – has been roundly criticized on Capital Hill […]
DENVER (AP) — A couple described by one of their relatives as “young, stupid and selfish” have been accused of killing the man’s grandparents so he could get his inheritance: an inexpensive house and $20,000, according to court records. Police say Brendan Lee Johnson, 19, and his girlfriend, Cassandra Ann Rieb, 18, sneaked into his […]
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say they used a GPS device hidden inside a Teddy bear to track down the toy and apprehend a suspect in the theft. Athens-Clarke County police say Mid-Atlantic Clothing Recycling had recently been experiencing thefts of clothing from its collection bin at Georgia Square Mall. The Athens Banner-Herald […]
