By M.L. JOHNSON (MILWAUKEE, AP) — A psychologist has determined the second of two 12-year-old girls charged with stabbing a classmate 19 times in an attempt to please a fictional… Read more »
Category: National News
Study: Many hospitals use too many antibiotics
By MIKE STOBBE (NEW YORK, AP) — A new study suggests that doctors in many hospitals are unnecessarily prescribing multiple antibiotics for several days when just one would do the… Read more »
Congress considers review of police military gear
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL (WASHINGTON, AP) — Lawmakers said Tuesday they were considering doing more to monitor and hold accountable police departments across the United States that obtain sophisticated military… Read more »
US to investigate Ferguson police
By ERIC TUCKER (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department following the shooting last… Read more »
Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students
By CAROLYN THOMPSON (BUFFALO, N.Y. AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try… Read more »
Bound bodies of 2 found in Philly river; 3rd hurt
By SEAN CARLIN (PHILADELPHIA, AP) — The bodies of two men who had been bound with duct tape, stabbed and weighed down with makeshift anchors were pulled from a river… Read more »
Rain delays Burning Man voyagers at Reno Wal-Mart
By SCOTT SONNER (RENO, Nev., AP) — Hundreds of travelers on the road to Burning Man in their quest for oneness with nature and celebration of self-expression on a peaceful… Read more »
5 things to know about case against Texas’ Perry
By PAUL J. WEBER (AUSTIN, Texas, AP) — In the week since he was indicted for abuse of power and public coercion, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters have… Read more »
Obama in Washington for meetings on Iraq, Missouri
By JULIE PACE (WASHINGTON, AP) — Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, President Barack Obama returned to work at the White House Monday, replacing images of him bicycling and… Read more »
US rethinks giving excess military gear to police
By TAMI ABDOLLAH and ERIC TUCKER (WASHINGTON, AP) — After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light… Read more »