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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The wife of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky says she still loves him and "he's not who they say he is." Dottie Sandusky made the comments Thursday to a Centre Daily Times reporter during a brief encounter on a street in Bellefonte, Pa., near Penn State, where her husband was an […]
DENVER (AP) — As police officers pleaded for all available medics to converge on the scene of the Colorado movie theater massacre last week, a two-man ambulance crew and their rig were idling just a few miles away. While some ambulances were quickly called to duty, it took dispatchers more than 20 minutes into the […]
The theatre shooting last week in Aurora, Colorado is not the first time a tragic event has happened around a movie. In 2001, the September 11 attacks posed a challenge for many Hollywood filmmakers. The box-office release of “Training Day” was delayed because film executives believed it would allow the public to support New York’s […]
BOSTON (AP) — The mayor of Boston is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in the city after the company's president spoke out publicly against gay marriage. Mayor Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald on Thursday that he doesn't want a business in the city "that discriminates against a population." Chick-fil-A President Dan […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America doesn't relate to Mitt Romney's religion but that may not matter in his race against President Barack Obama. Those are the findings of a new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday, about a month before Republican Romney is set to become the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major […]
A new report maps out the do’s and don’ts of office etiquette. Adecco, a temporary staffing firm released a survey this week exposing the most common office pet peeves. Researchers conducted over a thousand phone interviews to discover the most irritating office habits. Study results found that nearly half of the survey respondents found it […]
DENVER (AP) — As reports emerged of a suspicious package sent to a university the suspect in the Colorado theater shooting once attended, the first memorial service was held for a victim of the massacre. The University of Colorado Denver said Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service delivered the package Monday, and it was immediately […]
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Police maintained a heavy presence on the streets of Anaheim to guard against further violent protests in the wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by officers. The mother of Manuel Diaz condemned the unrest that has roiled the city, saying she did not want them to become her […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers have painted over a mural that listed the NYPD as "murderers" along with global corporations. The mural was on the side of a dry cleaner in Upper Manhattan for five days. Two plainclothes police officers were dispatched with paintbrushes to cover it up on Tuesday. Graffiti […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers have painted over a mural that listed the NYPD as "murderers" along with global corporations. The mural was on the side of a dry cleaner in Upper Manhattan for five days. Two plainclothes police officers were dispatched with paintbrushes to cover it up on Tuesday. Graffiti […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of a planned African Union force to hunt warlord Joseph Kony said on Wednesday that he can't start his task because he doesn't have troops, equipment or the necessary funding. Ugandan Col. Dick Olum spoke to The Associated Press from Yambio, South Sudan, as AU and United Nations officials […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed a yearlong extension of tax cuts for all but the highest-earning Americans through the Senate on Wednesday, giving Democrats a significant political victory on a measure that is fated to go no further in Congress. Senators approved the Democratic bill by a near party-line 51-48 vote, with Vice President Joe […]
