Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office....
Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America has started its meeting in which members of its national council are to decide whether to change the group's long-standing ban on openly gay boys....
Neb. AG wants to revoke license of abortion nurse
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A prominent Nebraska abortion clinic is facing a new legal challenge from state officials who want to revoke the license of the clinic's only nurse because of allegations of questionable care....
Judge seals affidavit of Maine man in teen's death
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, but the details remained hidden from public view after a judge sealed a crucial affidavit at the request of the suspect's lawyer....
Timeline of events in Jodi Arias murder case
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Jodi Arias murder trial has drawn international attention for its graphic tales of sex and lies. The following is a timeline of some of the key events in the case:...
Man who kidnapped 2 Iowa girls had long record
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- When Michael Klunder enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa school bus stop Monday, it was at least his third kidnapping in a long criminal history in which he was ordered to receive sex offender treatment as a teenager, according to police....
College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) -- Student activists at more than 200 colleges are trying a new tactic in hopes of slowing the pace of climate change: They are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies....
Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder Wednesday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances....
Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal appeals court will allow a capital murder case to proceed against an accused drug kingpin from northern Virginia....
Fort Hood suspect seeks to fire Army attorneys
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage says he wants to represent himself at his upcoming trial....
2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school
COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) -- Animal control officials say two Georgia elementary students were bitten by a fox while they were on a school playground....
Video of man jumping on manatee investigated
MIAMI (AP) -- Wildlife officials are investigating an online video that shows a man doing a cannonball onto two manatees in Florida....
Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberating
PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to send them back to the deliberation room to work through their differences....
