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NYPD: Couple, 5-year-old-child die in suspected homicides-suicideVideo
NEW YORK — A man killed his estranged wife and their 5-year-old child with a knife then took his own life in their Harlem home, the New York Police Department said Thursday. Police responding to a 911 call from distressed relatives found the bodies of Jennifer Schlecht, 42, and her...
Ex-school principal in Ohio charged with sex contact with 6 children
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A former Ohio elementary school principal has pleaded not guilty to charges of having sexual contact with six young children. The Zanesville Times Recorder reports 32-year-old Cory Marling pleaded not guilty Wednesday in central Ohio’s Muskingum County to 11 counts of gross sexual imposition. The indictment says...
South Carolina man: McDonald’s sweet tea came with different leaf inside
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A South Carolina man who went to McDonald’s for a sweet tea says he received a little extra herbal substance on the side. The Island Packet reports Parrish Brown went to a McDonald’s on Hilton Head Island and asked for a sweet tea with light ice...
Millions at stake in dinosaur fight: Are fossils minerals?
HELENA, Mont. — The discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons intertwined in what looks like a final death match could make a Montana ranching couple rich beyond their dreams. Or they may have to share the wealth. It all comes down to how the state Supreme Court answers a seemingly...
Judge stays ‘Texas 7’ gang member execution for 2nd time
HOUSTON — The execution of a “Texas 7” gang member who killed a police officer has been stayed again because the state refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber. The U.S. Supreme Court initially blocked Patrick Murphy’s execution in March, saying his religious rights under...
Lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off Maine coast
HARRINGTON, Maine — A Maine lobsterman hauled in an unusual catch 5 miles off the coast — a live deer. Ren Dorr says he was setting traps when he saw a young deer Monday morning. He says the deer had given up swimming and was being carried farther offshore. He...
North Dakota brewery puts photos of adoptable dogs on its labels
Who couldn’t use a bit of “awww” with their ale? A North Dakota brewery has taken beer cans and made them even better. By putting dogs on them. But not just any dogs. Fargo Brewing partnered with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue to give some adoptable canines some exposure. The...
The Number Two Tavern is world’s first poo-powered pubVideo
It may look like a traditional Yorkshire pub but it’s flush with new technology. The Number Two Tavern in Leeds, England, is a pop-up demonstration of a cutting-edge energy production using power created by anaerobic digestion, according to Yorkshire Water. The process converts sewage into biogas that can generate heat...
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has been harvestedVideo
FLORIDA, N.Y. — A Norway spruce that years ago was displayed on its owner’s coffee table will soon rise in a much grander setting: the middle of Rockefeller Center. Carol Schultz bought the sapling for the 1959 Christmas season. After displaying it in her home in the village of Florida,...
Trial to determine sanity of newspaper shooter set for March
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland judge on Thursday scheduled a March trial to determine whether a man who has pleaded guilty to killing five people at a Maryland newspaper is not criminally responsible because of mental illness. Judge Laura Ripken scheduled Jarrod Ramos’ trial to start March 4 and last...
Chicago’s top cop retiring after turbulent 3-plus years
CHICAGO — Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced Thursday that he’s retiring after more than three years as the city’s top cop, a post he took over during one of the most violent chapters in the city’s history and amid public outcry over the release of a video showing an...
Orangutan granted ‘personhood’ settles into new Florida home
WAUCHULA, Fla. — A 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida. Patti Ragan, director of the center in Wauchula, Florida, says Sandra is “very sweet and inquisitive” and adjusting to her new...
Court sentences Congo warlord to 30 years for atrocitiesVideo
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court passed its highest ever sentence Thursday, sending a Congolese warlord known as “The Terminator” to prison for 30 years for crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery. Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty in July of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes...
Ivanka Trump meets with female landowners on Morocco trip
SIDI KACEM, Morocco — Visiting Morocco for the first time, Ivanka Trump received a warm welcome Thursday from women in a region of the country where they are benefiting from changes that allow them to own land. One woman expressed her gratitude by hugging Ivanka Trump and kissing her hands....
Iconic Pacific bird sanctuary ravaged by plastic and deathVideo
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there’s a different scene: plastic, pollution and...
Massacre of Americans shows drug war worse this time aroundVideo
MEXICO CITY — There was a time when the violence of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them. This time around — like everything else about the country’s renewed cartel conflict — it’s worse. The slaughter of three U.S. women and six of their children, some infants,...
Location, location: Why Ukraine leader aimed for Oval OfficeVideo
WASHINGTON — The room features a couple of couches, an extremely old desk and a pair of classic wing chairs by the fireplace. But the location conveys power and instantly elevates the stature of any guest. Through weeks of impeachment hearings and investigation, the Oval Office has emerged as such...
Reports: Woman who climbed in lion’s den at Bronx Zoo in police custodyVideo
Video captured her climbing into the lion’s den at the Bronx Zoo dancing and taunting one of the male big cats. Later she said she was a lion. But she was (obviously) lyin’. Six weeks later, Myah Autry is in police custody, according to the New York Daily News. A...
Dry no more: Upstate New York town votes to allow alcohol sales
ARGYLE, N.Y. — Break out the bubbly! A town in upstate New York has voted to overturn a local ban on the sale of alcohol that dates back to the Prohibition era. The Post-Star reports that Argyle voted Tuesday to relinquish its status as a dry town. Voters in this...
University of Alabama clarifies ‘disruptive behavior’ for students ahead of Trump’s visit for LSU game
A spokesman for the University of Alabama’s Student Government Association has clarified what he meant by “disruptive behavior” after receiving flak for a previous email warning students in reserved seating to mind their conduct at this weekend’s game against LSU, which President Donald Trump is expected to attend. “Some have...
1 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at San Diego restaurantVideo
SAN DIEGO — Police searched for a gunman who shot three employees — killing one — at a fast food restaurant in San Diego on Wednesday. The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. at a Church’s Chicken in the Otay Mesa area, officials said. The suspected gunman had been in the...
Removing Martin Luther King’s name in Kansas City opens wounds, discussionVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City leaders and residents on Wednesday began what is likely to be a challenging conversation about how to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and recover from wounds inflicted during a nearly yearlong debate over naming a street for the civil rights icon in the...
Kansas City votes to remove MLK’s name from historic street
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King’s name from one of the city’s most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon. Unofficial results showed the proposal to remove...
Sheriff: Murder suspects who fled California jail arrested
SAN FRANCISCO — Two murder suspects who escaped from a California jail over the weekend were arrested by federal officials, authorities said Wednesday. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet that Jonathan Salazar, 20, and Santos Fonseca, 21, were arrested by Customs and Border Protection officials. It says...
Judge rejects moral-objection rule for abortion providers
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a new rule, not yet in effect, that allowed health care clinicians to refuse participation in abortions and other services on moral or religious grounds. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York said he was tossing out the rule in its...
