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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A retired Pennsylvania pastor insists both of his wives died accidentally. Prosecutors call him a liar — and a killer. Already facing trial in the death of his second wife, Arthur Burton "A.B." Schirmer is now charged with killing his first wife, too, after a grand jury concluded her injuries weren't […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Campbell Soup Co. is closing two U.S. plants and cutting more than 700 jobs as it looks to trim costs amid declining consumption of its canned soups. The world's largest soup maker said Thursday that it will close a plant in Sacramento, Calif., that has about 700 full-time workers. The plant, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households — nearly 1 in 5 — with the biggest burdens falling on the young and poor. The analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 22.4 million households, or 19 percent, had college debt in 2010. That […]
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — When Lori Stilley told her friends and family that she had bladder cancer, they delivered meals, held raffles and a T-shirt sale, hastily planned and paid for her wedding and raised more than $10,000 for her treatment. But prosecutors say it was all a scam. Stilley, a 40-year-old who lives […]
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An airport official said a squabble between two flight attendants forced a United Airlines flight bound for Chicago to return to Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Airport spokeswoman Mindy Hamlin said Flight 1214 left Raleigh at 6 a.m. Wednesday. She said a call from the pilot to the tower at 6:40 a.m. suggested that […]
A Hong Kong real estate and shipping tycoon is offering millions to bachelors to turn his gay daughter straight. Cecil Chao Sze-Tsung is known as a socialite spotlighted in the Chinese tabloids since the 1970s. Chao often bragged about his multiple encounters with women claiming that he’s slept with over 10,000 women. Although the 76-year-old […]
Crying babies are one of the biggest annoyances for people traveling via airplanes and one airline has the solution for this problem. AirAsia, a cost- friendly airline from Southeast Asia is offering a "quiet zone" or no baby zone on their flights starting in February. The airline will reserve the first seven rows of their […]
While the turnout in the country’s most populous areas may determine the outcome of the presidential election, organized hate finds victory in the nation’s small cities, towns, villages and hamlets. And the Republican Party is having a hard time tamping it down. Earlier this week, the chairman of the Mecklenburg County (Va.) Republican Committee called […]
KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — One Central Texas soldier has been charged with killing another in gunfire while allegedly trying to help cure the victim's hiccups. Killeen police say the Fort Hood soldiers were drinking alcohol and watching football when the incident happened Sunday night. An arrest affidavit says Spc. Patrick Edward Myers of Spartanburg, S.C., […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama pledged to create many more jobs and "make the middle class secure again" in a campaign-closing appeal on Thursday — more than five weeks before Election Day — to voters already casting ballots in large numbers. Republican Mitt Romney, focusing on threats beyond American shores, accused the […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A workplace shooting in Minneapolis on Thuesday has left at least two people dead and four others wounded, police said. The shooting at Accent Signage Systems, on the city's north side, resulted in "a couple of fatalities" and at least four people being taken to hospitals, Minneapolis police spokesman Steve McCarty said. […]
FORT BRAGG, N.C.(AP)- An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with several female subordinates, two U.S. defense officials said Wednesday. The defense officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were […]
