SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump emerged Thursday from a debate in which he appeared to take a back seat to his rivals by lashing out at the media as he continues to adjust to a race in which he is no longer the undisputed front-runner. Trump told more than 3,000 supporters … Continue reading
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In a case that scandalized an institution known for educating some of America’s top political and literary leaders, a graduate of an elite prep school was sentenced to a year in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl as part of a sexual conquest competition. Twenty-year-old Owen Labrie of Tunbridge, Vermont, … Continue reading
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A jury found late Thursday that a Utah cemetery association was not negligent in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was crushed by a historic headstone, one of a handful of similar deaths around the country in recent years. Jurors delivered their decision in a family lawsuit over the … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who appeared with Bill Cosby on an educational children’s TV show as a teenager has sued saying he defamed her after she gave an interview claiming he sexually abused her in the 1980s. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by 48-year-old Renita Hill, of Baldwin, a Pittsburgh suburb, says the incidents occurred … Continue reading
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Parents charged with beating their teenage son to death inside a church are giving diverging versions of what happened, though lawyers for both said Thursday the couple hadn’t intended the brutality that unfolded. An attorney for the mother, Deborah Leonard, said she felt helpless to stop an “intervention” that spiraled … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a honeymoon that Dr. Angelica Zen likely won’t ever forget, and not just because of the romantic Bali vacation. On her way home to Los Angeles last week, the UCLA physician made her first unassisted delivery of a newborn baby when a passenger suddenly went into labor over the … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury watched intently Thursday as a prosecutor showed video from multiple angles of perhaps the most stunning scenes of carnage ever on the Las Vegas Strip: A vehicle-to-vehicle shooting, a high-speed crash that sent cars spinning, and a fireball that left three people dead — including two who burned to … Continue reading
CINCINNATI (AP) — While an Ohio man was on electronic monitoring in an abduction case, he had a 14-year-old girl dropped off at his home by taxi, held her captive for months and raped her, according to criminal charges and court records. Cody Lee Jackson, 20, fled the state without the girl after pleading guilty … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flash flooding sent water, mud and rocks rushing across Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles Thursday, stranding hundreds of vehicles and closing the major north-south thoroughfare. The flooding at Fort Tejon, about 75 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was part of a storm system that brought downpours across a wide … Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Monday narrowly denied a death row inmate’s last-minute request for a new hearing and ordered that his execution may proceed. In a 3-2 decision, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Richard Glossip’s request for an evidentiary hearing and an emergency stay of execution. The court … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh from successes on Iran and with the pope, President Barack Obama still carried heavy burdens heading into critical meetings this week at the U.N. General Assembly. They included the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Syrian civil war and the ensuing refugee crisis, and … Continue reading
Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep. Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, near the U.S.-Mexico border, and saw pieces of wood on the ground. She found a bulky … Continue reading
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Court records show a Delaware man who reportedly shot himself and refused commands to drop his weapon before being killed by police while in his wheelchair had previously expressed suicidal thoughts and had a history of being combative with police. Some people who saw Jeremy McDole, 28, in the days before … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stargazers were being treated to a rare astronomical phenomenon when a total lunar eclipse combined with a so-called supermoon. Those in the United States, Europe, Africa and western Asia can view the coupling, weather permitting, Sunday night or early Monday. It was the first time the events have made a twin … Continue reading
SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle duck boat that swerved wildly into an oncoming charter bus last week, killing five people and injuring dozens, did not have an axle repair that was recommended for at least some of the amphibious vehicles in 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. Ride the Ducks International, which refurbished … Continue reading
Spartan Echo 