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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A former Army weapons expert pursued after the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: What caused a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama responded forcefully to a reporter from a conservative online publication who interrupted him during remarks on immigration in the White House Rose Garden. Obama was speaking about his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Midway through the remarks on Friday, Neil […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky won a court ruling Friday that will let him have an expert testify about a psychiatric condition that his lawyer says helps explain letters he wrote to his accusers and other actions being construed as him grooming victims. Judge John Cleland granted a motion that sought to put evidence […]
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A JetBlue Airways pilot who left the cockpit and ran through the cabin, screaming about religion and terrorists, is mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday. Clayton F. Osbon, 49, has been charged with interfering with a flight crew, which is defined as assaulting or intimidating the crew, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it "Checks and the City." Needing to boost his donor base, President Barack Obama is banking on elite entertainers for help so often they have essentially become a cast of characters in his campaign. He is using his Hollywood access and raffling it off as a prize to others, tapping into […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida teenager who was doused with alcohol and set on fire by middle school classmates is taking the witness stand in the trial of the alleged ringleader. Prosecutors say 17-year-old Michael Brewer is scheduled to testify Thursday afternoon in the trial of Matthew Bent. Bent is also 17. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Statements a former neighborhood watch leader made to detectives after he fatally shot Trayvon Martin can be released to the public, a judge ruled Wednesday. But Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester said that the identities of witnesses who observed the fatal confrontation in February between George Zimmerman and the 17-year-old Martin can […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A man testified Thursday that Jerry Sandusky called himself the "tickle monster" and embraced the then-11-year-old boy in a Penn State shower in 1998, an encounter that prompted an investigation but ultimately ended without any charges being filed. The then-district attorney's decision not to bring charges against the Penn State assistant […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans sought unemployment aid last week, suggesting hiring remains sluggish. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment benefit applications rose 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 386,000, an increase from an upwardly revised 380,000 the previous week. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the third straight week to […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The father-and-son owners of a New York City building where five people died in a 2010 fire have been indicted on charges including manslaughter and reckless endangerment. The indictment charges that the tenants could not escape the fire because the owners had set up illegal partitions that blocked their way out […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Police cordoned off a Buffalo hospital and its sprawling campus where a woman was fatally shot Wednesday morning, prompting authorities to lock down the facility with hundreds of patients and workers inside as they searched for the gunman. Police haven't released any information on the victim or if they believe the […]
