Indictment of 'Jihad Jane' shows terrorism evolved - Seattle Post Intelligencer
ADDS ID OF SWEDE CARTOONIST LARS VILK AND CLARIFIES THAT LAROSE WAS ACCUSED OF MOVING TO EUROPE TO TRY TO KILL VILKS WHO IS CURRENTLY IN STOCKHOLM - This image provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Colleen LaRose, an American woman from Pennsylvania indicted Tuesday March 9, 2010 and ...
Frantic 911 call in runaway Prius - WDTN
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move. "My car can't slow down," he began when a California Highway Patrol dispatcher ...
New national math, English standards drafted - Missoulian
Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform _ and more rigorous _ standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the project led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers hope the lists ...
Ohio State shooter complained bosses were unfair - YAHOO!
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation. Nathaniel Brown was days away from losing his job ...
TV producer admits trying to extort money from David Letterman - Republic
NEW YORK - A TV producer has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic's sexual affairs. Robert "Joe" Halderman entered his guilty plea to attempted grand larceny Tuesday in a Manhattan court. He was charged last fall with demanding $2 million to keep quiet about ...
Kansas City, Mo., school board to vote on closures - Atlanta Journal Constitution
The board was scheduled to vote Wednesday night on its superintendent's proposal to shut down 29 out of 61 schools in a bid to erase a projected $50 million budget shortfall. Teachers at six other low-performing schools would be required to reapply for their jobs, and the district would sell its ...
Marie Osmond: My Mormon Faith Got Me Through Son's Death - Huffingtonpost.com
LAS VEGAS — Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death "Little did I know I would be relying on my faith, especially as much as I did this past week ...
Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list - WTVF
WASHINGTON (AP) - It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane - a decision that's in the hands of about six experts from the Transportation Security Administration. The no-fly list they ...
Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer - Seattle Times
It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977. Police told Barcomb the suspect, Rodney James Alcala, was already on death row for ...
Ex-Edwards aide narrowly avoids jail over sex tape - Columbia Missourian
PITTSBORO, N.C. A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter. Andrew Young narrowly escaped jail time at a hearing ...
