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W.Va. town transfixed by teen girls' murder plot

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:53:03 -0400

STAR CITY, West Virginia - For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere - beaming at them from fliers on utility poles, in gas stations, even at the local tattoo parlor.

La. inmates face life in 2011 kidnapping death

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:08:24 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - Two Louisiana inmates face life sentences next week in the kidnapping death of an Ohio businessman abducted from a hotel in Mississippi during a 2011 crime spree.

Youth suspended, cited after classmate hit by BB

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:49:40 -0400

WEST CHESTER - Police say a suburban Philadelphia high school student was cited and suspended after a classmate was shot with a BB gun in homeroom.

Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400

SARATOGA, California - One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott headed to a friend's house. Unbeknownst to their parents, the girls planned to party.

Virtual legal clinic to aid Cairo women's shelter

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:04:45 -0400

CARBONDALE, Illinois - Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says she has expanded her virtual legal clinic program to provide assistance to domestic violence victims in southern Illinois' Cairo Women's Shelter.

Police arrest Oregon teen, seize explosives

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:55:23 -0400

ALBANY, Oregon - Authorities say they arrested a 17-year-old West Albany High School student at his father's home on Thursday after receiving information he planned to detonate a bomb at a school.

Malloy defends effort to restrict Newtown records

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:52:42 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is defending efforts to restrict the release of certain public records related to the Newtown school shooting, saying he wants to protect the victims' families.

Student shot in leg at South Florida school

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:47:40 -0400

HOMESTEAD, Florida - A boy was shot in the leg at a South Florida middle school.

Molester found slain in Corcoran prison cell

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:40:04 -0400

CORCORAN, California - Investigators at California State Prison-Corcoran are investigating as a homicide the death of an inmate who was a convicted child molester.

Duncan, Malloy pledge support for school security

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:34:31 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - State and federal officials, including the U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, offered reassurances Friday that efforts are underway to improve school security in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and the gun violence experienced in Connecticut's state capital and other cities.

Newtown denied bid to postpone hearing on records

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:11:27 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission on Friday denied a bid by Newtown officials to postpone a hearing on a request by The Associated Press for records related to the gunman in December's school shooting.

Arrests made in backlog of NC college's crimes

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:50:09 -0400

ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina - Police have made eight arrests in connection with the backlog of cases found at Elizabeth City State University, a situation that led to the resignation of the school's chancellor and police chief.

Gun control group focuses on Ark. senator with ad

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:32:50 -0400

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - A gun control group invoked the 2008 shooting death of Arkansas' Democratic Party chairman Friday when launching a television ad criticizing U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor's vote against expanded background checks for firearms purchases.

Bill preventing UNC opposite-sex housing returns

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:59:56 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - A bill blocking a University of North Carolina policy allowing students to choose roommates of the opposite sex has found new life in the state Senate budget.

La. ranks high in gun violence, low in gun safety

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:52:25 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Louisiana has the highest rate of gun violence in the nation and the weakest gun safety laws, according to a recent national study, and state lawmakers are moving to expand the already permissive statutes.

C. Pa. official: Students safe after school threat

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:23:26 -0400

WILLIAMSBURG, Pennsylvania - A central Pennsylvania school official says students are safe but classes are dismissing early as a precaution following a threat to an elementary school.

7 Rapid Vienna fans to stand trial in Greece

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:09:05 -0400

THESSALONIKI, Greece - A panel of judges in Greece has ordered seven fans of Austria's Rapid Vienna to stand trial over violence that broke out last year during a Europe League qualifier.

Fan violence worries overshadow Italian Cup final

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:51:13 -0400

ROME - Worries of fan violence are high ahead of Sunday's Italian Cup final and Rome derby between Roma and Lazio.

Wash. prison: guard punched in face by inmate

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:49:06 -0400

MONROE, Washington - Authorities say a corrections officer at the state prison in Monroe, Washington, was treated at a hospital after an inmate punched him in the face during a religious service.

RI education board approves arming university cops

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:11:51 -0400

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island - Police at the University of Rhode Island could soon be carrying firearms following a vote Thursday by state education officials to end Rhode Island's distinction as the only state to prohibit police on public campuses from carrying guns.

Senate passes additional Newtown-related bills

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:19:17 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools and improvements in mental health services for children.

UA, ASU boards opt out of campus gun law

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:35:27 -0400

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Arkansas' two largest university systems voted Thursday to ban faculty and staff from carrying concealed handguns on campus, joining a growing number of schools in the state opting out of a new law allowing the firearms.

Family Glance: 'Fast & Furious 6,' 'Star Trek Into...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:55:15 -0400

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W.Va. man charged with threatening high school

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:33:21 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Boone County police have arrested a Raleigh County man who allegedly invoked the mass shooting in Connecticut in a threatening message against a high school.

Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:36:24 -0400

HUSBY, Sweden - Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.