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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A national fraternity group has closed its University of Mississippi chapter after three members were accused of tying a noose around the neck of a statue of the first black student to enroll in the Southern college that was all-white at the time. The university announced Thursday that the national office […]
MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — Fresh questions arose about whether quicker action by the captain of a doomedferry could have saved lives, even as rescuers scrambled to find hundreds of passengers still missing Friday and feared dead. Officials also offered a rare look at their investigations, saying they were looking into whether a crewman’s order to […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man who faced a $525 fine for refilling an 89-cent drink at a Veterans Affairs hospital apparently will get off with a warning. When Christopher Lewis of North Charleston, S.C., refilled his drink without paying Wednesday, a federal police officer gave him a ticket. Lewis is a construction worker and […]
Walkerville Police Department Christopher Nicholas Hiatt, 34, was charged with assault with a bodily fluid after he licked a cops eyeball while he was getting arrested. The New York Daily News reports: A Montana man licked a cop’s eyeball as he was being arrested, it’s claimed. Christopher Nicholas Hiatt allegedly rimmed the officer’s peeper with his […]
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb was released Thursday from an Arizona jail after serving a one-day sentence for a DUI arrest late last year. Records released by West Mesa Justice Court show McNabb served his time Wednesday and was released about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. McNabb, 37, was arrested Dec. 15 in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the Clintons, 2014 is the year of the baby. Chelsea Clinton, the 34-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, announced Thursday that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child this fall.There has been wide speculation about a future baby in […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An ex-con who spent most of his adult life in behind bars on Thursday got what he said he wanted for robbing a suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old gets to go back to the place he called home — prison. Telling Walter Unbehaun he frightened a teller by showing her a revolver […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight million people have signed up for health care through new insurance exchanges and the proportion of younger applicants has increased, President Barack Obama said Thursday. The enrollments exceeded expectations and offered new hope to Democrats who are defending the law ahead of the midterm elections. An impromptu appearance in the White […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending condolences to victims of a South Korean ferry disaster and says he will pay tribute during a visit to the country next week. Obama said at a White House news conference Thursday that the United States has an “unwavering commitment” to its ally South Korea in good […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An immigrant teen who had earned a scholarship to an elite U.S. college but became enamored of Jihadist causes was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Mohammad Hassan Khalid had earned a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins University after just a few years in the United States, where his family was […]
Oklahoma University football star Frank Shannon has told police he didn’t rape a sorority girl at his apartment back in January. TMZ reports: The leading tackler on the Sooners claims she was the initiator and even removed her own clothes. But Shannon claims things came to a grinding halt when he asked her if she was on her period. She allegedly […]
Things aren’t looking too well for former Saints safety Darren Sharper — and rightfully so. An Arizona police detective said that Sharper’s DNA was found on one of two young women who say he drugged and sexually assaulted them last November. NOLA.com reports: Police testified that one of the women who returned to the apartment after […]