| Kerry seeks Egypt aid in battle against extremists Posted: 13 Sep 2014 09:11 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday hailed Egypt as an "important partner" in the emerging coalition aimed at beating back the extremist Islamic State group, while stressing that the need for Cairo's support would not lead Washington to ignore human rights concerns.
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| Man being questioned in police barracks shooting Posted: 13 Sep 2014 08:09 AM PDT  BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — Two troopers were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change, leaving one dead and another injured, and authorities were questioning a person of interest, state police said Saturday.
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| Putin trying to destroy Ukraine, says its PM Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:57 AM PDT  Ukraine's prime minister said Putin's goal "is to take all of Ukraine."
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| Foley family: We were 'threatened' over ransom Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:17 PM PDT  The family of murdered American journalist James Foley says it was threatened by a U.S. ABC News quoted Foley's mother and brother as saying a military officer working for President Barack Obama's National Security Council had told them several times that they could face criminal charges if they paid a ransom. The White House refused to discuss conversations that the family had with officials, but said they involved people from different government branches, including the White House, the FBI, the intelligence agencies and the Defense Department. "I'm not going to get into who said what in the context of these individual conversations," spokesman Josh Earnest said, but he reaffirmed the U.S.
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| Texas governor's race heats up over new book Posted: 13 Sep 2014 09:37 AM PDT  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - The race for Texas governor entered a new chapter this week with the release of a memoir from Democratic candidate Wendy Davis that rekindled attention on abortion and led to an ethics complaint from her opponent, Republican Greg Abbott. Abbott, currently the state's attorney general, is accusing Davis of misusing campaign contributions to promote the book called "Forgetting to Be Afraid," in which Davis, a state senator, reveals she had terminated two pregnancies. "Senator Davis' book promotion has gone from ethically questionable to outright unlawful," Abbott campaign spokesman Matt Hirsch said. Davis campaign spokesman Zac Petkanas called the complaint frivolous and said it shows "how worried Greg Abbott is about the power of her story." Davis, who rose from being a single mother in a trailer park to a Harvard Law school graduate, gained national standing in 2013 when she donned pink running shoes and staged a dramatic 10-hour filibuster at the Texas statehouse against sweeping abortion restrictions.
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| NFL star Peterson charged with injuring child, dropped from Sunday's game Posted: 13 Sep 2014 03:36 AM PDT  Minnesota Vikings' star running back Adrian Peterson was briefly detained in a Texas jail early on Saturday charged with injuring a child, according to the website of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. Peterson was held on a $15,000 bond early on Saturday morning and was released within about 30 minutes, jail records showed. He was indicted by a grand jury in the county north of Houston, and police issued a warrant for his arrest on Friday. Peterson's attorney, Rusty Hardin, said in a statement that the charge resulted from the footballer "using a switch to spank his son." The charges come on the heels of the NFL indefinitely suspending Baltimore Ravens three-time Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice for domestic violence.
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| Investigations underway into Ohio prison escape Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:13 AM PDT  LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Criminal and internal investigations are underway to determine how a convicted killer of three Ohio high school students managed to escape from prison, along with two other inmates, state correction officials say.
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| 'Nothing they could do to get Steve out' Posted: 12 Sep 2014 04:43 PM PDT  Slain reporter's family told by U.S. official they could be prosecuted for paying ransom.
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| Ferguson video shows slain teen raising hands in air Posted: 13 Sep 2014 12:28 AM PDT  Cellphone video that shows a witness raising his hands in the air immediately after the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson appears to support previous accounts and could bolster arguments that Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot, legal experts said Friday.
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| Autopsy: N.Y. inmate died from heat, meds in cell Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:37 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a mentally ill, homeless former Marine in a 101-degree New York City jail cell was caused by hyperthermia due to environmental exposure to heat, according to a spokeswoman for the medical examiner, who ruled the February death an accident on Friday.
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| Priest found guilty of raping dozens of children in Canada Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:24 PM PDT  A defrocked Catholic priest was found guilty Friday of raping dozens of children and a sled dog in the Canadian Arctic, where he worked as a missionary for decades. The Belgian-born Eric Dejaeger, 67, was convicted of 31 counts of sexual offenses against children and one count of bestiality. At the start of the his trial last November in Iqaluit, the capital of Canada's northernmost Nunavut territory, Dejaeger acknowledged and pleaded guilty to eight out of 80 original charges. Justice Robert Kilpatrick ruled the evidence had been weakened by the passage of time, and whittled down the number in the indictment.
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| Slain mountain lion confirmed as cat that attacked Calif. boy Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:04 PM PDT  A mountain lion that was shot out of a tree by California wildlife officers has been confirmed by DNA testing to be the same cat that attacked a 6-year-old boy earlier this week, state officials said on Friday. Samples of DNA taken from the 74-pound cougar during a necropsy and forensic examination matched saliva left on the boy's shirt following the encounter on Sunday, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a written statement. Lab tests also determined that the mountain lion was about two years old, healthy and did not have rabies, the department said. The boy was hiking on a trail with family and friends in a densely wooded preserve adjacent to a winery, just west of the town of Cupertino, when the mountain lion pounced on him and tried to drag him away, his parents told officials.
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| Syria's role in Islamic State’s growth Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:48 AM PDT  Yahoo's Katie Couric examines how the war-torn country became a breeding ground for ISIS.
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| Ebola: U.S. to train Liberian armed forces to help tackle crisis Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:46 PM PDT  The United States said on Friday it would train Liberia's security forces to assist in isolation operations to tackle an Ebola epidemic ravaging the West African nation, after a boy was killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest last month. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa - more than half of them in Liberia. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac told reporters in Monrovia that the United States would support Liberia both through the epidemic and beyond.
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| Peterson deactivated for Patriots game over child abuse charges Posted:  The NFL, already swamped with negative news in what has been a horrible week for the league, now has to deal with Adrian Peterson, one of its biggest stars, being indicted for injuring a child.
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| Congressman announces breakup on Facebook Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:11 PM PDT  Mark Sanford is over-sharing again. The former South Carolina governor who nearly had to resign after disappearing for a romantic getaway with his Argentinian girlfriend has deigned to update the public on his latest personal foibles with a 2,346-word Facebook post. Sanford (R), who won election to the House again in 2013 after defeating Stephen Colbert's sister, buries the lede a bit, but the gist is that his ex-wife, Jenny, is taking him to court again, and he also has decided to break off his engagement to the Argentinian woman, Maria Belén Chapur.
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| VA shooting suspect pleads guilty Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:34 PM PDT  An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon in an attack that injured an employee.
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| Med director out at clinic that treated Joan Rivers Posted: 12 Sep 2014 04:30 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the outpatient surgery facility where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure is no longer at the clinic.
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| Foley mom: Government threatened family over ransom Posted: 12 Sep 2014 11:27 AM PDT  Diane Foley, James Foley's mother, offered a rare interview to ABC News this week in which she admitted the family considered a ransom payment to ISIS to secure her son's safe return. The message came directly from a high-ranking military official on the White House National Security Council. "We were told that several times and we took it as a threat and it was appalling," Diane Foley told ABC News, "Three times he intimidated us with that message. We knew we had to save our son, we had to try." Michael Foley, James Foley's brother, said he, like his mother, was also "directly" threatened by a State Department official with the same charge.
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| White House: U.S. 'at war' with al-Qaida Posted: 12 Sep 2014 12:29 PM PDT  The U.S. is characterizing its mission against ISIS as a war with al-Qaida, its affiliates.
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| Ariz. man wins fight for same-sex death benefits Posted: 12 Sep 2014 08:17 PM PDT  A judge has handed a victory to a gay man who lost his spouse to cancer last month and was denied death benefits because Arizona does not recognize same-sex marriage.
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| Rare snowstorm slams South Dakota, Rockies states Posted: 12 Sep 2014 01:28 PM PDT  It's still summer, but a snowstorm blanketed parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana and Colorado, setting early snowfall records in some places, covering lawns and flower gardens and providing a preview of what is to come.
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