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Mystery of missing Chinese scholar shakes up Illinois school
CHICAGO - Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U....
Jun 26, 2017
Arizona woman convicted in 2011 death of young cousin
PHOENIX - An Arizona woman was convicted of first-degree murder Monday in the death of her 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box in triple-digit heat. Sammantha Allen, 28, w...
Jun 26, 2017
Federal review debunks Georgia election hack accusation
ATLANTA - Allegations that the federal government tried to hack Georgia’s election systems were unfounded, according to a letter the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general sen...
Jun 26, 2017
Cold chicken complaint leads to attack on restaurant owner
BAXLEY, Ga. - Police say they are looking for a couple who were caught on surveillance video attacking the owner of restaurant and her 15-year-old daughter because they said their chicken was cold. Je...
Jun 26, 2017
Utah officials blame lack of logging for major wildfire
SALT LAKE CITY - Insisting that logging could have cleaned up dead, bug-infested trees that are fueling a Utah wildfire, a Republican state lawmaker blamed federal mismanagement and lawsuits by “...
Jun 26, 2017
White House does not plan Ramadan event
WASHINGTON - Breaking with recent White House tradition, President Donald Trump has opted not to host an event marking Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. Past presidents have welcomed Muslim America...
Jun 26, 2017
US mayors back plan for cities to use only renewable energy
MIAMI - A bipartisan group of mayors from across the country unanimously backed an ambitious commitment for U.S. cities to run entirely on renewable sources such as wind and solar in two decades. As t...
Jun 26, 2017
World Food Prize goes to African Development Bank president
DES MOINES, Iowa - The son of a Nigerian farm labourer who rose out of poverty to earn graduate degrees in agricultural economics and spent his career improving the availability of seed, fertilizer an...
Jun 26, 2017
Spokeswoman: Cosby town hall's about education, not assault
LOS ANGELES - A spokeswoman for Bill Cosby is clarifying the purpose of the comedian’s planned town hall meetings after she and a colleague initially appeared to draw a link between the meetings...
Jun 26, 2017
Family of slain Chicago area Uber driver sues Walmart
CHICAGO - Relatives of a suburban Chicago Uber driver who was fatally attacked while on the job has sued Walmart, where authorities say the driver’s teenage attacker stole weapons just before th...
Jun 26, 2017