By HOLBROOK MOHR and JEFF AMY (JACKSON, Miss., AP) – Stunned police officials in Jackson, Miss., are trying to determine how a suspect was able to shoot and kill a… Read more »
Category: National News
Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies
By CARYN ROUSSEAU (CHICAGO, AP) – Roger Ebert, the most famous film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and,… Read more »
Lewinsky lawyer William H. Ginsburg dies at 70
(LOS ANGELES, AP) – William H. Ginsburg, who was Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer during the sex scandal of the Clinton presidency, has died. He was 70. His daughter-in-law, Virginia Ginsburg, tells… Read more »
NY state sen. arrested in alleged mayor race plot
(NEW YORK, AP) – New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith and New York City Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig the New York City… Read more »
4 hurt in crash, attack at California Wal-Mart
(SAN JOSE, Calif., AP) – Four people were hurt Sunday when a driver crashed his vehicle into a Wal-Mart in California and assaulted people in the store, police said. After… Read more »
Philadelphian jumps on tracks to help fallen man
(PHILADELPHIA, AP) – Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform. Christopher Knafelc,… Read more »
Charges: Pa. man bagged deer in Wal-Mart parking lot
(BLAIRSVILLE, Pa., AP) – They say you can get almost anything at Wal-Mart. But the Pennsylvania Game Commission says one deer hunter took it too far. Forty-year-old Arcangelo Bianco Jr…. Read more »
Bars test limits of legal-marijuana laws in WA, CO
By GENE JOHNSON TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — John Connelly leaned forward on his barstool, set his lips against a clear glass pipe and inhaled a white cloud of marijuana vapor…. Read more »
Police investigate death of Miss. state legislator
(MENDENHALL, Miss.. AP) – Authorities say they are investigating the apparent suicide of a state legislator in Mississippi. Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis told WLOX 13 that Rep. Jessica Upshaw… Read more »
Winning $338M Powerball jackpot ticket sold in NJ
(DES MOINES, Iowa, AP) – A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It… Read more »