story

WALLACE, Idaho – A jury has convicted former death row inmate Mark Lankford of killing a Texas couple in 1983 in north Idaho. Lankford was granted a new trial after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he must be retried or released because of a jury instruction error …

DENVER – Colorado prosecutors say a 72-year-old man suffered serious injuries when he was stabbed by a 20-year-old woman described as his “intimate” friend. Jennifer Stroth was arrested on a domestic violence charge in Larimer County on February 17th. Denver district attorney’s spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough says investigators found evidence the …

WASHINGTON – New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte talked for about 2 1/2 hours Monday with lawyers from a congressional committee looking into drug use in baseball. After the deposition, Pettitte did not take questions from reporters as he walked out of the offices of the House Oversight and Government …

OAKWOOD VILLAGE, Ohio – Comedian and activist Bill Cosby says problems in the black community are like dirty laundry that need to be washed, not ignored. The 70-year-old author and actor told crowds at a community college and a mostly black church in suburban Cleveland on Wednesday that it’s time …

Less than a week after Marion Cotillard picked up an Oscar for best actress, comments she made last year about the 9/11 attacks are coming back to haunt her. In an interview with a French television program, the 32-year-old French actress questioned if the World Trade Center attacks were a …

MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Three teen boys are charged with sexually assaulting a special education student in a northern New Jersey home, authorities said Tuesday. One of the attackers is 18 and the others are 16; the girl is 16, said Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. …

ALBANY, N.Y. – Less than two years after he reluctantly ran for lieutenant governor, David Paterson is suddenly being called on to become only the third black governor since Reconstruction, and the first in New York. Attention turned to Paterson immediately after word surfaced Monday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had …

A child prodigy with a talent in mathematics that won her a spot at Oxford at the age of 13 somehow found her way into prostitution. Sufiah Yusof, who calls herself Shilpa Lee, advertises her body on an Internet sex site, charging 130 pounds an hour or $258. Yusof and …

BEIJING – China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least a decade for fear that a population surge could spark social and economic instability, the nation’s top family planning official said in an interview published Monday. Zhang Weiqing of the State Population and Family Planning Commission told …

Story Not Found