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Ohio kidnap rescuer wont endorse free burgers
Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw, ...
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UK’s FTSE suffers biggest single drop
Britain's FTSE 100 share index suffered its biggest one-day drop in a year on Thursday, knocked off historic peaks by weak economic data and signs the United States Federal Reserve could soon taper its stimulus ...
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Judge Ariz. sheriffs office profiles Latinos
A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and ...
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Paula Broadwell regrets affair with ex-CIA director Patraeus
Paula Broadwell told WSOC-TV in Charlotte on Thursday (http://bit.ly/10RjHXE ) that she credited her husband and friends for standing by her as she rebuilds her life six months after her relationship with the married Petraeus was revealed by an FBI investigation and ignited a political firestorm. TV crews camped out front of her family home for days and Broadwell went into seclusion. The couple ...
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Search scaled back for abducted Iowa teenage girl
law enforcement will narrow their search around Dayton on Saturday for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard. Authorities say they're focusing on terrain that's difficult to navigate and requires specialized skills and equipment, so citizen volunteers are not needed. Residents are encouraged to check their rural properties for anything suspicious. Police ...
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Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio loses racial profiling suit
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain Hills, Arizona, February 9, 2013. REUTERS/Darryl ...
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Country moves against restaurants holding wild bears
Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border areas. Authorities have so far traced at least 15 caged bears held in restaurants to help lure customers, to the outrage ...
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Ky. uranium plant closes 1000 jobs lost
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more than 1,000 workers out of high-paying jobs with benefits. ...
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Lawsuit alleging ex-QB Favre sent racy texts settled
New York Jets , they lost their part-time jobs with the team after complaining that he sent sexually suggestive texts to another therapist. During the 2008 preseason, the lawsuit alleged, the ...
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Obama to visit Oklahoma tour Jersey Shore
A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed … President Barack Obama will travel to Oklahoma City on Sunday "to see first-hand the response to the devastating tornadoes and severe weather" that ravaged the area, meet with families affected by the devastation, and thank emergency responders, the White House ...
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Man held following €1.7m drugs haul
A man has been arrested in Dublin after a major drugs haul worth EUR1.7m.Garda searched a house on The Strand, Donabate yesterday and recovered almost EUR1m worth of ecstasy and EUR700,000 in cannabis herb.A 36-year-old man is being questioned at Mountjoy Garda ...
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Four girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing honored
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating the lives of the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies crack cocaine allegations
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations that he was seen on a cellphone video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. "I do not use crack cocaine," Ford told a jam-packed news conference at Toronto City Hall. "Nor am I an addict of crack cocaine." The beleaguered mayor said it was "business as usual at city hall" and gave no indication that he ...
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Eurozone more stable needs a more European UK Draghi
LONDON -- The eurozone is more stable than a year ago but economic conditions remain challenging and governments must push on with reforms and banking union plans, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on ...
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Illinois judge charged with possession of heroin guns
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns. Wearing cutoff shorts and a T-shirt with the slogan "Bad is my middle name," St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook pleaded not guilty to federal counts of possessing heroin ...
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Train engineer noted unusual condition before Connecticut wreck
the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done last month in the area of the crash. ...
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Western IQs drop 14 points over last century researchers say
the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," ...
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England to bid for Euro 2020 final
English Football Association vice-chairman David Gill on Friday admitted his organisation are set to bid for the right to host the Euro 2020 final. PHOTO BY STEVE ...
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Exclusive DBRS to rate all euro zone sovereigns by year-end
An illuminated euro sign is seen in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the late evening in Frankfurt January 8, ...
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After catastrophic misfire police issue warning on plastic gun
Techworld , the police commissioner in Australia's New South Wales, Andrew Scipione, has issued a warning after his officers tested one of the firearms--dubbed the "Liberator"--and experienced a "catastrophic misfire" (no one was seriously injured). According to the website, the NSW police used blueprints created by Defense Distributed to make two pistols that took 27 ...
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Storm chasers catch Okla. twister as it forms
raw footage of the first 10 minutes of the Moore, Okla., tornado that gives viewers a harrowing sense of what the EF5 twister looked like. As cars and trucks zoom past, Chance Coldiron and Justin Cox's camera focuses on the dark grey funnel as it touches down. The tornado then tightens and begins to pick up debris. After a few minutes, someone can be heard saying, "It hit a ...
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Sandy who Jersey shore opens for summer seven months after storm
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summer on Friday, with businesses making last-minute preparations and officials declaring the resort towns ready for visitors seven months after Superstorm ...
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Low US energy prices make Euro leaders see green
Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, left, looks at Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, center, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso while they walk away after a group photo was taken during an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Leaders from the 27 European Union countries gather in Brussels for one of their regular European ...
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€110m recommended for Aer Lingus pension scheme
The Labour Court has recommended that Aer Lingus inject a once-off lump sum of €110 million to help plug the €750 million deficit in the joint Aer Lingus/DAA pension scheme. The recommendation is aimed at resolving a long-standing row over how the pension entitlements of Aer Lingus pensioners, employees and former employees can be best protected as the pension fund is no longer ...
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What The Olive Oil Disaster Tells Us About The European Union
Last week the European Union published a law that said that olive oil could no longer be served in restaurants with refillable bottles or in bowls. Instead, only labelled, one use only, bottles could be used. This week the EU withdrew this ...
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