Young woman ‘infatuated’ with Columbine is found dead
Apr 17, 2019
By KATHLEEN FOODY and COLLEEN SLEVIN LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A young Florida woman who traveled to Colorado and bought a shotgun for what authorities feared would be a Columbine-inspired attack just days ahead of…
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Columbine attack shapes schools, families 20 years later
Apr 16, 2019
By KATHLEEN FOODY, ALLEN G. BREED and P. SOLOMON BANDA DENVER (AP) — Dropping her kids off at school used to be the hardest part of Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson’s day. She would cry most mornings…
Storms leave deaths, damage and injuries in their wake
Apr 15, 2019
AP - Strong storms, including at least one tornado, swept through parts of the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic region, damaging homes and businesses and causing injuries after storms in the South killed at least eight…
Trump administration seeks to halt ruling over asylum policy
Apr 12, 2019
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration asked an appeals court Friday to let it continue returning asylum seekers to Mexico, hours before a U.S. judge’s order was set to go into effect blocking the…
WikiLeaks’ Assange is arrested at Ecuador embassy in London
Apr 11, 2019
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to…
Bernie Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ amid 2020 glare
Apr 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will unveil a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan on Wednesday, shaking up the 2020 presidential election by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private…
Huffman, 12 other parents to plead guilty in college scheme
Apr 09, 2019
BOSTON (AP) — “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and a dozen other prominent parents have agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions bribery scam that ensnared wealthy families and athletic coaches at some of…
Family of missing boy was elated, then devastated by hoax
Apr 05, 2019
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Eight years after an Illinois boy disappeared, his family began to think that their nightmare might be over at last. A young man found wandering the streets of a Kentucky town…
14-year-old says he is Illinois boy who went missing in 2011
Apr 04, 2019
AP - In 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen’s mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in…
Newly elected Chicago mayor: Victory means ‘a city reborn’
Apr 03, 2019
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city.…