'Rizzoli & Isles' copes with actor's death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Rizzoli & Isles" is saying goodbye to Lee Thompson Young, who played police Detective Barry Frost on the TNT crime drama.
Jihadists execute three Syria rebel officers: monitor
Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have executed three officers of the Western and Arab-backed rebel Free Syrian Army, a monitor said Saturday. The bullet-riddled bodies of the three were found on Friday, two days after suspected Islamist militants kidnapped them in the…
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By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and wife Michelle both worked minimum-wage jobs before they got law degrees: a character-building experience they said they also want their teenage daughters to share. The president scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, waited tables…
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Wrongly jailed U.S. man to get $1.2 million, 21 years after his release
By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - A man who was released in 1989 after he was wrongly convicted of fatally poisoning his seven children will be paid $1.2 million for the 21 years he spent in prison under legislation signed into law on Friday by Governor Rick Scott. A bill unanimously…
Younger brother of Yaya and Kolo Toure dies
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The younger brother of Ivory Coast players Yaya and Kolo Toure died on Thursday, the same day his famous siblings were representing their country at the World Cup, the Ivory Coast Football Federation said.
Presbyterian assembly: Gay marriage is Christian
DETROIT (AP) — The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has voted by large margins to recognize same-sex marriage as Christian in the church constitution, adding language that marriage can be the union of "two people," not just "a man and a woman."
Pakistani woman raped, killed and hanged from tree: police
A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case with a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month. Pakistani police said Muzammil Bibi, 20, was attacked by three men in a field in the…
UNC student dies in Chapel Hill
Friends, family, and classmates of a rising UNC senior are mourning his death.
Arrestee's 'handsome' mug shot goes viral
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A handsome mug shot of a Northern California man arrested on felony weapons charges has gone viral on social media, attracting more than 33,000 "likes" and drawing comments praising his high cheek bones, chiseled face and striking blue eyes.
Hitman for Mexican cartel pleads guilty to Alabama murder
An admitted Mexican drug cartel hitman who has acknowledged killing dozens of people over more than three decades pleaded guilty in state court in Alabama on Thursday to murdering a man last year for making disparaging comments about his daughter, prosecutors said. Jose Manuel Martinez, 52, has…
Southwest Flight Attendant Offers Funny Spin on Preflight Announcements
"Ladies and gentlemen, do us a favor today," Robert Baker, a Southwest flight attendant since 2005, suggested. "Sit back. Relax. Enjoy our hospitality. Or you can sit up and be tense, that choice is yours." Baker then broke in to a quick number that he sang to the tune of Barney's "I Love You." "We…
Big Bang breakthrough team allows they may be wrong
The team said it had identified gravitational waves that apparently rippled through space right after the Big Bang. If proven to be correctly identified, these waves -- predicted in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity -- would confirm the rapid and violent growth spurt of the universe in the…
Photos of the day - June 20, 2014 (51 photos)
Afghan refugees wait to get medical treatment by a doctor in Islamabad, a man looks over piled up cars swept away by severe flooding in the town of Varna, Bulgaria and Israeli policemen stand guard as a Palestinian prays in East Jerusalem are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Reuters) Find…
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AdChoicesLendingTreeSponsoredStephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty, he owes his life to a woman in Delaware by the name of Stephanie Kwolek.
Religious right looks beyond gay marriage to next battles
Hundreds of conservative Republicans who gathered for the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference this week in Washington see a conflict raging across the United States pitting their faith and family values against liberal encroachment fueled by President Barack Obama. Marriage…
Father charged with murder after toddler left in car for hours
By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A suburban Atlanta man has been charged with felony murder and child cruelty after his 22-month-old son died after being left unattended in a car for seven hours in the heat, police said on Thursday. Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta, was supposed to drop his…
7 Ukrainian troops killed, rebels operate tanks
YANAKIYEVE, Ukraine (AP) — Seven Ukrainian troops were killed in overnight fighting in the restive east, Ukrainian officials said Friday, as clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels flared two days after the president said he would soon call a unilateral cease-fire.
Damage Done: Prisons Sterilized Female Inmates Without Their Consent
We typically think of reproductive rights as a means to prevent unwanted pregnancy through access to birth control and safe, legal abortion. The finding comes a year after a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting alleging that staff in California state prisons pressured women to have…
Gay-Hating Holy Rollers Descend on D.C.
Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and a lady who said she sees angels swooping down into the Supreme Court joined the pro-tradition throngs at the annual March for Marriage.
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