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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — The National Republican Congressional Committee says it’s not spending any additional money to support Mark Sanford‘s bid for a congressional seat in South Carolina. Committee spokeswoman says Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections. She says the group won’t be engaged in the contest. The decision […]
BOSTON (AP) — Police and reporters converged on the federal courthouse in Boston on Wednesday amid conflicting reports of whether a suspect was in custody in the marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 170. Several media outlets reported earlier in the day that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video […]
BOSTON (AP) — A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation says a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is about to be arrested. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday. The official was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation. The official says the suspect is to be […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Google’s mail and application services were unavailable to some users Wednesday morning. The company said it was investigating the problems, but didn’t know their cause. It didn’t say how many people were affected. The disruptions started affecting people worldwide around 8 a.m. Eastern time but appeared to be resolved by midday. […]
BOSTON (AP) — Authorities investigating the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon have recovered a piece of circuit board that they believe was part of one of the explosive devices, and also found the lid of a pressure cooker that apparently was catapulted onto the roof of a nearby building, an official said Wednesday. A […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A career criminal who stole a truck containing President Obama‘s audio equipment was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison. Sentencing guidelines called for a term of about three years, but Eric Brown of Richmond agreed to the longer sentence to avoid prosecution for 14 similar truck thefts in three […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state’s only abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III extended an injunction he issued several months ago, which blocks the state from closing the clinic while it tries to fulfill a 2012 state law. The […]
BOSTON (AP) — Federal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said they still didn’t know who did it and why. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly pleaded for members of the […]
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner […]
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A transgender woman was banned from a western Idaho grocery store after customers complained she used the women’s restroom, police in Lewiston said. Alberto Robledo, 25, of Lewiston, identifies herself as female and goes by Ally. She was leaving a Rosauers store in Lewiston late on April 8 when police officers […]
BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 130 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking […]
BOSTON (AP) — Two explosions shattered the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry away the injured while stragglers in the 26.2-mile race were rerouted away from the smoking site. Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos. Bloody spectators were being carried to […]
