PHOENIX (AP) — Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona has fixated on the authenticity of President Barack Obama‘s birth certificate for more than five years, going so far as to send a deputy and member of his volunteer posse to Hawaii to question officials. He earned plaudits from Donald Trump and became one of the nation’s […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A police officer at Coppin State University in Baltimore shot and killed a man who had just fired at a moving car near that campus Tuesday evening, authorities said. The suspected shooter was pronounced dead on the scene and the officer wasn’t hurt, Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith said at a news […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition to the White House (all times EST): 12:40 p.m. New York City police say they’ve arrested a teenager who showed up at the Trump Tower security checkpoint with a knife, handcuffs, fireworks and a water pistol. Authorities say 19-year-old Alexander Wang of upstate Poughquag, New […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95. Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Social media postings about a school district police officer shooting a Nevada high school student waving a knife toward classmates drew an immediate plea from authorities not to rush to conclusions about the on-campus incident. The 14-year-old boy was reported in critical condition with a gunshot wound at a Reno hospital, […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s national carrier says one of its planes has gone missing after takeoff in the country’s north with about 40 on board. Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, says their ATR-42 aircraft carrying around 40 passengers and crew lost touch Wednesday with the control tower. He says all resources are […]
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A mistakenly sold lottery ticket has earned a New Jersey couple $1 million. State lottery officials say 70-year-old Dante Castillo usually picks his own numbers. But when the Manchester man bought some tickets for last Thursday’s Cash4Life jackpot at a convenience store in Lakewood, the clerk accidentally sold him a ticket […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has declared its support for requiring women to register for the military draft, a symbolic but significant shift that reflects the U.S. military’s evolution from a male-dominated force to one seeking to incorporate women at all levels. President Barack Obama has been considering whether to adopt the position since […]
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Police are applauding a mother and father who disarmed their 15-year-old son at a Utah junior high school, after they noticed him acting strangely in the morning and realized he had taken the family’s shotgun and handgun. The parents arrived shortly after the boy entered a classroom in the northern Utah […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who created a phony Facebook profile of her ex-boyfriend in order to frame the Southern California man for stalking has been sentenced to a year in jail. Stephani Lawson of Las Vegas was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to perjury and false imprisonment. Prosecutors say Lawson waged a […]
Publishable Editors Notes: EDITOR’S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the 18-year-old Ohio State student who carried out a car-and-knife attack on his college campus “should not have been in our country.” It’s unclear from Trump’s tweet whether he thinks […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — One of two inmates who sawed their way out of a California jail and vanished last week was recaptured late Tuesday, authorities said. The search continued for the other one. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said Laron Campbell was taken back into custody and was being transported back to […]
