(AP) Boston Marathon blasts put world’s cities on alertBy PAISLEY DODDSAssociated PressLONDONWith more than 30 marathons this weekend and big events on the horizon, officials around the world are looking at security efforts in the wake of the fatal bomb
(AP) Neighbors recall Boston marathon bombing victim, 8By BRIDGET MURPHYAssociated PressBOSTONA young victim of the Boston Marathon bombings is being remembered as a vivacious boy who loved to run and climb. Congressman Stephen Lynch, a friend of the family, says
(AP) Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins PulitzerBy DEEPTI HAJELAAssociated PressNEW YORKIn a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country’s most well-known media outlets in claiming a
By FREDERIC J. FROMMERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe FBI is taking charge in the criminal investigation of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. The announcement came Monday night at a news conference in Boston whose participants included Richard DesLauriers, the agent in charge
(AP) Details on the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winnersBy The Associated PressDetails and reaction on the winners of the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes: PUBLIC SERVICE: The Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Sun Sentinel won for its investigation of off-duty police officers
By MATTHEW CRAFTAP Business WriterNEW YORKWorries about an economic slowdown in China fueled a steep drop in commodity prices Monday, spooking investors and giving the stock market its worst day of the year. The trigger for the sell-off came from
By ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps enough to derail it. But there was plenty of
By JIMMY GOLENAssociated PressBOSTONTwo bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 130 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised
FOX: DEVELOPING: The Boston Marathon headquarters has been locked down after two explosions were reported near the finish line, a spokesman told Reuters. Witnesses reportedly heard two booms near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel that sounded
FOX: DEVELOPING: The Boston Marathon headquarters has been locked down after two explosions were reported near the finish line, a spokesman told Reuters. Witnesses reportedly heard two booms near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel that sounded
(AP) Chavez’s heir to take over divided VenezuelaBy FRANK BAJAK and ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaHugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, has won Venezuela’s presidential election by a stunningly narrow margin that highlights rising discontent over problems ranging from crime to
(AP) Trout, Hamilton HR, Wilson and Angels beat AstrosBy JOE RESNICKAssociated PressANAHEIM, Calif.Mike Trout hit his first home run of the season and Josh Hamilton also connected, leading C.J. Wilson and the Los Angeles Angels over the Houston Astros 4-1
By RAF CASERTAssociated PressBRUSSELSA Polish bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed through guardrails and ended up on its side under a highway bridge near the port city of Antwerp on Sunday, killing at least five people and leaving two more critically
(AP) Medicare hike could also hit some in middle classBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONRetired as a city worker, Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. Pugach doesn’t see herself
(AP) Flaming Lips tune pulled as Oklahoma’s rock songBy SEAN MURPHYAssociated PressOKLAHOMA CITYOklahoma’s governor has taken The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” out of rotation, pulling the tune as the state’s official rock song in a move her office says
The horrors of partial birth abortion have resurfaced since testimony coming from the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell finally reached the American public. Kirsten Powers wrote an op-ed at USA Today on Wednesday asking why the media has not
JOHN ROGERSAssociated PressLOS ANGELESJonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of
By GILLIAN FLACCUSAssociated PressTUSTIN, Calif.Pastor Rick Warren said his son killed himself with an unregistered gun he purchased through the Internet. Warren sent a tweet Thursday saying he forgives whoever sold the weapon to his 27-year-old son Matthew, who committed
President Obama meets with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in the Oval Office. April 11, 2013. The Associated Press reports: Obama, in his first public comments since North Korea escalated its rhetoric, said it was time for the isolated nation
Security escorts a protester out of a speech by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) at Howard University in Washington, DC. According to the Associated Press: The Kentucky senator, an eye doctor and son of libertarian-leaning former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas,
(AP) Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraftBy BROCK VERGAKISAssociated PressNORFOLK, Va.A top general says federal budget cuts that will ground one-third of the U.S. Air Force’s active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers means “accepting the risk
MATT LEE, ASSOCIATED PRESS: Korean Peninsula.PATRICK VENTRELL, ACTING DEPUTY SPOKESMAN, STATE DEPARTMENT: Yeah.LEE: What do you make, if anything, of the North’s latest attempt at fear-mongering by telling people that they might want to leave South – or that they
By PAUL SCHEMMAssociated PressCASABLANCA, Morocco Mehdi Ouazzani isn’t the devil, but he has played one on TV–only he didn’t realize that some thought he looked like President Barack Obama while he was at it. A veteran Moroccan actor with decades
(AP) Egypt’s Christian pope blasts Islamist presidentBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROThe leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday blasted the country’s Islamist president over his handling of the recent deadly sectarian violence, including an attack on the main cathedral in
The Associated Press (AP), in its own twisted way, lauded Hugo Chavez, the former dictatorial leader of Venezuela, while slamming Margaret Thatcher, the former towering conservative leader of Great Britain, after their respective deaths. Here’s the AP on Thatcher: Combative
