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Mass school shootings mostly happening in small-town America
ATLANTA - If you want to know where mass school shootings are most likely to occur, look no farther than small-town and suburban America. The massacre that killed 10 people at a high school in Texas l...
May 22, 2018
McDonald's workers file sex harassment claims
NEW YORK - Energized by the #MeToo movement, two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fas...
May 22, 2018
Workers plugging energy wells as lava flows nearby
PAHOA, Hawaii - Authorities were racing Tuesday to close off production wells at a geothermal plant threatened by a lava flow from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Workers were capping th...
May 22, 2018

Teen suspect in Maryland officer's slaying held without bail
PERRY HALL, Md. - A 16-year-old who was supposed to be on house arrest for auto theft was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of a Maryland police officer. After hearing about Dawnta...
May 22, 2018

Pastor: Depression preceded fatal crash into restaurant
BESSEMER CITY, N.C. - A North Carolina man accused of crashing a car into a restaurant table full of loved ones, killing two, had suffered for weeks with depression and previously asked his family to ...
May 22, 2018

Ohio inmate claims innocence in slaying of 3, wants retrial
COLUMBUS, Ohio - From the day of his arrest in 1994 for fatally shooting three people, Kevin Keith has proclaimed his innocence. He pointed to alibi witnesses who placed him elsewhere, an alternative ...
May 22, 2018
Speaker's long tenure embodies Lebanon's political stasis
BEIRUT - Lebanon’s longtime parliament speaker Nabih Berri often seems like a veteran schoolteacher with a class of unruly students, using threats and jokes and occasional gavel-pounding to keep...
May 22, 2018

Charges filed against South Africa hunter over ivory import
DENVER - The owner of a South African hunting company was indicted this month in Colorado by federal prosecutors, who accuse the man of bribing Zimbabwean government officials while guiding a Colorado...
May 22, 2018

Quarterback Johnny Manziel take his first team reps at Ticats training camp
HAMILTON - A small step forward for Johnny Football. Johnny Manziel took his first team reps at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ training camp Tuesday. The former Heisman Trophy winner spent much of the...
May 22, 2018

Indoor trampoline park closes citing higher insurance costs, wages
Red Deer's indoor trampoline park has closed its doors. In a Facebook post, the owners of Jump 360 say insurance rates "quadruple what we were paying" and higher employee wages have made it too costly...
May 22, 2018