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Woman sues luxury resort after severe allergic reaction
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A luxury Massachusetts resort has been sued by a woman with a nut allergy who landed in the hospital after being served a veggie burger containing cashews. The Berkshire Eagle reports that the suit filed in federal court in Springfield this week against Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort...
Trump meets with N. Korean official at White House amid talk of 2nd summit
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump met with a senior North Korean official at the White House on Friday amid speculation that the two sides could soon announce a second summit between him and Kim Jong Un. Trump welcomed Kim Yong Chol, a former spy chief, who was reported to be...
Opioid crisis brings unwanted attention to wealthy Sackler family
BOSTON — The Sackler name is emblazoned on the walls at some of the world’s great museums and universities, including the Smithsonian, the Guggenheim and Harvard. But now the family’s ties to OxyContin and the painkiller’s role in the deadly opioid crisis are bringing the Sacklers a new and unwanted...
Model who claimed U.S.-Russian collusion held in Moscow on prostitution charges
MOSCOW — A model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings shedding light on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was detained Thursday at a Moscow airport on prostitution allegations, the police said. The model, Anastasia Vashukevich, had been deported from Thailand earlier in the day after spending nine months...
Judge acquits 3 Chicago officers of Laquan McDonald cover-up
CHICAGO — A judge on Thursday acquitted three Chicago police officers of trying to cover up the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald to protect the white officer seen pulling the trigger on dashcam video that showed the black teen getting hit with 16 bullets. In rejecting the prosecution’s entire...
Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next. At the same time, the moon will be ever so closer to Earth and...
Watchdog: Thousands more children taken from their families than previously disclosed
WASHINGTON — It seems likely that thousands more migrant children were split from their families than the Trump administration has acknowledged, in part because officials were stepping up family separations long before the border policy that prompted international outrage last spring, a government watchdog said Thursday. It’s unclear just how...
Asteroids are smacking Earth twice as often as before
WASHINGTON — Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don’t worry. For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as often as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to a new...
California storm moving out after battering state for 3 days
SAN FRANCISCO — The storm that pummeled much of California for three days began moving east Thursday after causing at least six deaths, forcing wildfire victims threatened by floods to flee their homes and plunging nearly 300,000 utility customers into darkness. The winter storm is forecast to drop heavy rain,...
Britain’s Prince Philip, queen’s husband, in car accident
LONDON — Buckingham Palace says the 97-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, has been in a car accident but wasn’t injured. The palace said the two-vehicle accident happened Thursday afternoon near Sandringham Estate, the queen’s country retreat in eastern England. The Norfolk Constabulary says officers responded to...
LA teachers, district to resume negotiations amid strike
LOS ANGELES — Teachers walked rainy picket lines Thursday at Los Angeles schools for a fourth day ahead of a new round of contract negotiations that a union leader said is unlikely to quickly end the walkout. “After 21 months of negotiations I think it would be an unrealistic expectation...
Police: 2 killed in shooting at IHOP in Alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An employee and a customer at an IHOP restaurant in northern Alabama were killed in a Wednesday night shooting that also injured another employee. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Johnson told news outlets the shooting happened shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday after a male customer argued with a...
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes pound IS areas in eastern Syria
BEIRUT — Syrian activists are reporting intense airstrikes on the last area held by the Islamic State group in the country’s east where the extremists’ control has been shrinking over the past weeks. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday the airstrikes hit the 5.8 square miles controlled...
9 dead in car bombing at police academy in Colombia capital
BOTOGA, Colombia — At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured in a car bombing at a police academy in Colombia’s capital on Thursday, recalling the high-profile attacks associated with bloodiest chapters of the country’s drug-fueled guerrilla conlfict. The scene outside the General Santander police academy in southern...
Police: Trucker in deadly Indiana bus crash was removing jacket
Indiana State Police say the driver of a truck that rear-ended a school bus in December, killing one student, was removing a jacket and a sweatshirt just before the collision. A crash report released Wednesday says the truck driver was traveling behind the bus Dec. 5 when he “pulled the...
Sweden charges man in royal jewels heist
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A man was charged Thursday with stealing 65 million kronor — $7.2 million — worth of Swedish royal treasure including a jeweled crown from a cathedral where they were on display. The two crowns and an orb used for the funerals of King Karl IX and Queen...
Newborn baby found dead in trash can at Amazon warehouse
A newborn baby was discovered dead in a trash can Wednesday night in an Amazon warehouse in Phoenix. The Associated Press reports police and firefighters responded to a 911 call about “a deceased infant in the women’s restroom located inside the secured facility,” the Phoenix Police Department said. ABC15 in...
GOP dismisses suggestion that State of Union be postponed
WASHINGTON— A grand Washington ritual became a potential casualty of the partial government shutdown as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech. She cited concerns about whether the hobbled government can provide adequate security, but Republicans cast her move...
ACLU: Government mistakenly wanted to deport U.S. veteran
DETROIT — A Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder was held for three days for possible deportation before federal authorities learned that he was a U.S. citizen born in Michigan, lawyers said Wednesday. Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, 27, lives in the Grand Rapids area. He was released on Dec. 17 from a...
Michigan State President Engler resigns after he said sexual abuse victims enjoyed spotlight
The embattled interim president of Michigan State University sent a letter Wednesday that he is resigning, becoming the school’s second leader in a year to step down under pressure because of the scandal involving a university physician convicted of sexually abusing girls and women. John Engler, a former Republican governor...
Georgia man plotted attack on White House, authorities say
ATLANTA — Federal authorities Wednesday arrested a Georgia man they said was plotting to attack the White House but instead got entangled with the FBI. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming was taken into custody in Gwinnett County while allegedly trying to exchange his vehicle for explosives. He later appeared...
Trump administration to roll out new missile defense plan
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will roll out a new strategy Thursday for a more aggressive space-based missile defense system to protect against existing threats from North Korea and Iran and counter advanced weapon systems being developed by Russia and China. Details about the administration’s Missile Defense Review — the...
Greek PM survives confidence vote after coalition collapse
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s left-wing prime minister narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament late Wednesday days after the governing coalition he leads collapsed over an agreement to end a long-running dispute over neighboring Macedonia’s name. Lawmakers voted 151-148 on a motion called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, giving his...
Unbearable stench: Giant sewage spill befouls Peru’s capital
LIMA, Peru — Amid an unbearable stench, thousands of workers, police and soldiers struggled Wednesday to contain and clean up a flood of sewage that has caused the government to declare a health emergency in one of the most populous parts of Peru’s capital. The foul flood was caused by...
Carry Nation, the fiery feminist who helped launch Prohibition 100 years ago
It was a divorcee wielding a hatchet — an ultimate revenge scenario — who largely got America into rehab 100 years ago ago. Carry Amelia Nation, who also liked to be known as Carry A. Nation, didn’t live to see the ratification of the Constitution’s 18th Amendment — better known...
