CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Even in this crime-plagued country it stood out as tragic: A honeymooning couple from abroad is carjacked and the wife’s body is found in their abandoned taxi the next morning. But now the taxi driver says the husband hired him to kill her. By accepting the confession in a plea […]
Virginia– Police issued an Amber Alert for a 12-year-old girl who they suspect has been kidnapped after finding her mother dead inside a Salem, Virginia, home.
ORLANDO– A new study shows the disparity between graduation rates for white and black players at schools headed to bowl games grew again this year even as overall academic progress increased for both.
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced a tentative deal with Congressional Republicans on Monday to extend the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels for two years as part of a package that would also keep benefits flowing to the long-term unemployed, cut payroll taxes for all workers for a year and take other steps to […]
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to London police Tuesday as part of a Swedish sex-crimes investigation, the latest blow to an organization that faces legal, financial and technological challenges after releasing hundreds of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
