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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade in his Cleveland home — sometimes restraining them in chains — has been indicted by a grand jury on 329 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping, prosecutors said. Ariel Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina […]
PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams knew, of course, that 11 years had passed since her only French Open championship. She also knew, of course, what happened a year ago in Paris: the only first-round Grand Slam loss of her career, to a woman ranked outside the top 100, no less. Eager to repeat the elation […]
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Fourteen slaves who petitioned the New Hampshire Legislature for their freedom during the Revolutionary War were granted posthumous emancipation Friday when the governor signed a largely symbolic bill that supporters hope will encourage future generations to pursue social justice. A group of 20 slaves who had fought in the war submitted […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who formally declared his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Saturday, now finds himself competing in a primary against like-minded Democratic congressmen that will be decided in mid-summer, when exceptionally low voter turnout threatens his early advantage. Booker made his candidacy official at a news conference in New […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for a recurring lung infection, while South Africans expressed their appreciation for a man widely regarded as the father of the nation. There was no official update on 94-year-old Mandela […]
BOSTON (AP) — NBA veteran center Jason Collins, the first active athlete in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues to come out as being gay, marched Saturday for nearly three miles in Boston’s gay pride parade with U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University. Collins wore a T-shirt […]
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Investigators trying to determine why a gunman planned a shooting spree in Santa Monica that killed four people, were focusing on a deadly act of domestic violence that touched off the mayhem. The heavily armed man’s attack against his own family led to Friday’s violence in Santa Monica streets, lasting […]
NEW YORK (AP) — On a radio show they hosted called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” John Littig and Lynne Rosen urged listeners to embrace spontaneity. “So much about life is about impulse,” Littig said on a broadcast this year on an FM station in New York, WBAI. “It’s about doing it right now.” A shocking […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 has brought swift and mounting fallout in a city where demolition contractors are lightly regulated, with a plaintiff’s lawyer calling it an entirely preventable tragedy that resulted from gross recklessness on the job site. One day after the tragedy, Philadelphia officials began […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — When Gloria C. MacKenzie went to a Florida supermarket near Tampa last month to buy a Powerball ticket, another person in line did something nice for the 84-year-old widow. “While in line at Publix, another lottery player [Mindy Crandell] was kind enough to let me go ahead of them in line […]
MIAMI (AP) — Tim Duncan‘s NBA Finals game looks as good now as it did last decade. And last century. Duncan overcame a slow start to finish with 20 points and 14 rebounds, Tony Parker banked in a desperation jumper on a broken play with 5.2 seconds left and the San Antonio Spurs withstood LeBron […]
PARIS (AP) — Done with a dominating performance in the French Open semifinals, Serena Williams climbed the stairs leading from the locker room to the players’ lounge, looking to give her mother a hug. Smiling widely all the while, Williams greeted visitors, posed for photos and signed autographs on her way. It’s been more than […]
