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Cantor, Huntsman address Washington and Lee students
Speakers discussed country's issues as well as candidates.
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Hbo Defends Racetrack Series After 2 Horse Deaths
LOS ANGELES (AP) HBO is defending its treatment of horses used in filming the racetrack drama "Luck" after two of the animals died during production. The horses were injured and euthanized during production of the series that stars Dustin Hoffman
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Virginia Attorney General investigating Gingrich campaign ballot signatures fraud claim
At the end of December, Gingrich told CNN that the reason he did not qualify for the Virginia primary, is because one of the people his campaign hired falsified a lot of signatures.
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Mom Who Threw Tot in NY River Can go Home to India
NEW YORK (AP) A mother who tossed her toddler into the Hudson River after suddenly spiraling into psychosis can return to her native India and her children, a judge said Friday after she reached a rare form of agreement with
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Hackers Claim Attack on Ala. Government Websites
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Computer hackers claiming to be from the loose-knit group known as Anonymous say they have broken into several Alabama law enforcement and government websites and have stolen the personal information for more than 46,000 people. In an
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Explosion at Fla. Horse Center Kills Worker, Horse
OCALA, Fla. (AP) Authorities say an apparent spark within the high-oxygen chamber of a Florida equine sports medicine center triggered a massive explosion, collapsing a corner of the building and killing a worker and a horse. The Marion County Sheriff's
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McDonnell stumps for Romney at Washington and Lee Mock Convention
Governor Bob McDonnell basically campaigned for Mitt Romney at Washington and Lee's Mock Convention.
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US to Raise Human Rights When China'S Xi Visits
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House said Friday it won't recoil from raising grave human rights concerns during a get-acquainted visit next week by China's likely future leader. China's Vice President Xi Jinping's trip would be for him to understand issues
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Reaction to Obama'S Birth Control Compromise
Reaction to President Barack Obama's birth control compromise: ___ "It's absolutely unacceptable. It's just an economic shell game because it, for religious employers, requires indirect funding of contraception and abortifacients. For Liberty University and other self-insured, it does not change
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Haiti 'Baby Doc' Case Spurs Claim of Gov'T Sway
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Before President Michel Martelly took office in May 2011, Haiti's top prosecutor had recommended that former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial for the abuses associated with his 15-year rule. But when the judge released an order last
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Schoolgirls Excluded From Dallas Movie Screening
DALLAS (AP) When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead. One of the pilots is
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Nhtsa: Bmw Fined $3M For Untimely 2010 Recalls
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal safety regulators say automaker BMW has agreed to pay $3 million for delays in reporting safety defects and recalls to the government. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that an examination of 16 recalls issued
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Ginsburg Questions 1973 Abortion Ruling'S Timing
NEW YORK (AP) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. "It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved
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Argentine Rights Workers to Spain: Lay Off Garzon
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo said Friday that Spain's prosecution of crusading judge Baltasar Garzon is an "assault on the entire human race." Hebe de Bonafini said
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Q&A: Obama And The Birth Control Controversy
WASHINGTON (AP) What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal. But that didn't keep the Obama administration from landing in a political mess over a side
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Italy: Wrecked Cruise Ship Moves in Rough Seas
ROME (AP) Italian officials say rough seas have increased movements of the crippled Costa Concordia and are thwarting the start of fuel removal a month after the cruise ship capsized off a Tuscan island. The national office overseeing search and
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Feds Slap CA Utility For San Onofre Ammonia Leak
LOS ANGELES (AP) An ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear plant in November was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it, federal regulators said Friday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Ny'S AG Isn'T Backing Down From Wall Street Probe
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a lead investigator into the mortgage collapse that wobbled the U.S. economy, hasn't taken the title "Sheriff of Wall Street" that one of his predecessors rode all the way to the
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Calif. Officer Gets Prison in Assaults on Women
SAN DIEGO (AP) A judge has sentenced a veteran San Diego police officer to nearly nine years in state prison for sexual battery and other crimes involving female motorists he pulled over. The case of 41-year-old Anthony Arevalos was among
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Officer Sentenced For On-Duty Sex Crimes
SAN DIEGO (AP) A veteran San Diego police officer was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for on-duty sexual battery and other crimes that were part of an embarrassing string of officer misconduct incidents that prompted major reforms
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US Bishops Voice Objections to Birth Control Rule
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are expressing grave doubts about President Barack Obama's revamped health care rule on birth control. They say it raises serious moral concerns and lacks clear protections for certain employers, insurers and individuals. In
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Swiss Detain Man Over Gun Linked to German Murders
GENEVA (AP) Swiss police have detained a man in connection with a gun used by a German neo-Nazi group suspected of killing 10 people. Bern cantonal (state) police say the unidentified Swiss man was arrested Tuesday upon arrival at Zurich
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Court Ruling Could Prompt More Deportation Reviews
WASHINGTON (AP) Immigration experts say a federal appeals court decision to delay deportation of illegal immigrants raises uncomfortable questions about the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. This week an appeals court in San Francisco ordered the Obama
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UN Rights Chief to Brief World Body on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. human rights chief has accepted an invitation to brief the General Assembly on Syria on Monday as countries seeking condemnation of the Assad regime's crackdown on civilians move their efforts from the Security Council to
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Audit: ND University Awarded Unearned Degrees
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment. China, which sends
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