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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a burglar’s decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in at an upstate New York home led to his arrest. Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH’-gah) County prosecutors tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 29-year-old Moses Wilson was stealing copper piping from a vacant rental home in Syracuse in early […]
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An aspiring half-marathon runner in Minnesota attributed her unbearable back pain to a two-hour training session. A day later, she was cradling a newborn. Trish Staine, 33, says she had no idea she was pregnant before Monday’s surprise birth. The Duluth mother of three said she hadn’t gained any weight or […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration defended the National Security Agency’s need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, but critics said it was […]
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Post Office employee from Fayetteville has pleaded guilty to workers compensation fraud after she was seen spinning the Big Wheel on the television show “The Price is Right” even though she had said she could not deliver the mail. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Cathy Wrench Cashwell pleaded guilty […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tampa, Fla., socialite and her husband claimed in a lawsuit Monday that the government willfully leaked false and defamatory information about them in the scandal that led to the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director. Jill Kelley and Scott Kelley filed the lawsuit in federal court against the FBI, […]
MIAMI (AP) — The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season got a little stronger early Thursday as it headed toward Florida’s western coast and a new tropical storm warning was issued for a swath of the U.S. East Coast. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for a large section of Florida’s west coast […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For weeks, people working nearby had watched with growing concern as a demolition crew took down a vacant four-story building next to a thrift store at the edge of downtown Philadelphia. A roofer atop another building didn’t think the operation looked safe. A pair of window washers across the street spotted an […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Inmates often complain of idleness, but Tavon White apparently had no trouble keeping busy behind bars. Investigators say the man nicknamed “Bulldog” impregnated four female corrections officers at the Baltimore jail while running a sophisticated criminal organization that smuggled in drugs and cell phones and employed guards as gang associates. A federal […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An 84-year-old Florida woman who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the $590 million jackpot, becoming the largest sole lottery winner in U.S. history. Gloria C. Mackenzie, of Zephyrhills, where the winning ticket was sold May 18, took a […]
Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the new mayor of Jackson, Miss., winning the general election with 87 percent of the vote,…
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman from a wealthy New York suburb is accused of growing and attempting to sell more than 1,000 marijuana plants from a city warehouse. A federal complaint says Andrea Sanderlin, from Scarsdale, NY, operated a warehouse in Queens that contained a “sophisticated operation to grow and process marijuana.” The complaint […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a Miami anti-aging clinic has agreed to talk to Major League Baseball about players linked to performance-enhancing drugs, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. The person declined to be identified because the investigation was still ongoing. Information that Anthony Bosch provides […]
