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Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all
President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed. The president also announced a renewed push to ...
Trial delayed in alleged Pittsburgh police beating
A young black man who claims he was wrongly beaten by three Pittsburgh police officers in January 2010 is to have a new trial on two of his three civil rights claims starting Nov. 4. The retrial of Jordan Miles' lawsuit was to have begun July 8, but it was ...
Woman hit by pickup had stopped sexual assault
Police in Boise say a woman who was struck by a pickup truck in a mall parking lot last week was likely targeted because she had stopped the driver from sexually assaulting another woman. Police say the man pulled his pickup behind a woman's car on May 14, got in ...
Guilty plea in shooting of US agents in Mexico
A Mexican drug cartel member pleaded guilty Thursday to the killing and wounding of two U.S. agents in Mexico, and the guilty pleas of three other men were unsealed in connection to the shooting. Julian Zapata Espinoza pleaded guilty in a courtroom here to murder and attempted murder of an ...
Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations
Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after they reported they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death and the judge instructed them to keep trying. The panel reported its impasse Wednesday after only about ...
Inmate caught who failed to return from furlough
A state prison inmate who failed to return from a work furlough program has been apprehended. KITV-TV (http://is.gd/8tsLZH) reports that 42-year-old Moronai Ufiufi was reported missing from the Oahu Community Correctional Center on May 3. Police arrested him in Chinatown on Tuesday. Ufiufi had been in prison since January 2010 ...
Police: Columbia baby-sitter's abuse killed boy
A Columbia woman has been arrested after a toddler in her care died last weekend. Police said Thursday that 34-year-old Margie Hamm had been charged with homicide by child abuse. Authorities say Hamm slammed 15-month-old Jayon Wilson Turnipseed's head into a bathtub faucet while she was babysitting him May 18. ...
Defense opens for SC man accused of killing 2
Prosecutors have rested their case after 10 days of testimony against a man accused of killing his wife and colleague in a sports gambling ring at his Columbia home. Attorneys for Brett Parker began presenting their witnesses Thursday in a Richland County courtroom. Lawyers called an insurance agent and financial ...
Text of President Obama speech on terrorism
President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the early days of the ...
Review clears Davenport priest accused of touching
A suspended Catholic priest in Davenport has been reinstated after a diocese investigation did not substantiate an allegation that he inappropriately touched a minor in 1990, a bishop announced Thursday. A monthlong review by private detective James Sweeney found no wrongdoing by Father Robert Harness, the pastor of Holy Family ...
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