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Newtown approves selection of Sandy Hook principal

Colleagues of a woman hired as the new principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School say she has the skills and the experience to help it recover from last December's tragedy. The selection of Kathleen Gombos was unanimously approved by the Board of Education. She will become the Sandy Hook principal ...

  • Updated: 11:16 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Former teacher pleads not guilty to child porn

A former agricultural education instructor at a northern Idaho high school has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of possessing child pornography. The Lewiston Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/10TFRNd) that 27-year-old Tyler D. Mink of Lewiston made the plea Wednesday in 2nd District Court. A trial has been set to begin Sept. ...

  • Updated: 11:16 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
A police man stands guard in front of a crime scene in, Brno, Czech Republic, Thursday, May 23, 2013. An American man suspected of killing four people is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified the man as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders

An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the four victims — identified by neighbors as a married couple and their two sons — were found by firefighters who ...

  • Updated: 11:17 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Religious leaders from Colorado, from left, Dr. Jim Ryan, Colorado Council of Churches, Dean Peter Eaton, St. John's Cathedral, Rabbi Steven Foster and Catholic Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila listen as Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces at a news conference at the Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, that he was granting a temporary reprieve to Nathan Dunlap from his death sentence. Dunlap was scheduled to be executed in August for the murders of four people in 1993 at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Hickenlooper only referred to Dunlap as Offender NO. 89148. He would not use Dunlap's name. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Colorado killer's reprieve sharply criticized

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' relatives and drew quick criticism from Republicans ahead of the 2014 election. Hickenlooper on Wednesday granted an indefinite reprieve to Dunlap, who is on death row for ...

  • Updated: 11:10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, ...

  • Updated: 12:40 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this April 9, 2013 file photo, Freeman Burkholder, right, takes the headpiece off of his horse in Bergholz, Ohio. Bergholder and other Amish now imprisoned in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have been granted a religious freedom exemption from a requirement to attend high-school equivalency classes behind bars. (AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin, File)

Imprisoned Ohio Amish may skip high school classes

Amish imprisoned in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have been granted a religious freedom exemption from a requirement to attend high school equivalency classes behind bars. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday that Amish bishop Samuel Mullet and his followers would be exempted from the policy requiring ...

  • Updated: 10:53 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Pa. teacher cleared in fondling, faces second case

A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher has been acquitted on charges that he fondled a then-12-year-old boy during a Christmas visit which the teacher, and several defense witnesses, testified never occurred. The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/188jLLo ) reports Wednesday's verdict came after just 25 minutes of deliberations by an Erie ...

  • Updated: 10:51 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated

Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London. The men, suspected of ...

  • Updated: 10:46 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Cops probe link between Pa. heist, school threats

Police and the FBI are investigating whether two high school bomb threats were phoned in to divert authorities from a southwestern Pennsylvania bank robbery that occurred about the same time. The FBI is reviewing phone records from the Bentworth and California Area school districts which received the threats from a ...

  • Updated: 10:25 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
This undated file photo provided by French nuclear manufacturer Areva shows workers at the uranium mine of Arlit, northern Niger. Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs at dawn on Thursday, May 23, 2013, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people. Paris-based nuclear giant Areva said in a statement that 13 employees were hurt in the attack in Arlit, in the northern part of Niger where in 2010, al-Qaida's branch in Africa kidnapped five French citizens working for the mining company.(AP Photo/AREVA/HO) NO SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT: AREVA

26 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger

Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. ...

  • Updated: 10:25 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
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