NEW YORK – The winners of the 2014 George Polk Awards in Journalism include reporters for The New York Times and the Miami Herald. The Times’ Rukmini Callimachi won for international reporting for her account of how European nations secretly paid ransoms to free hostages held by the Islamic State …
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BOSTON – Eight more prospective jurors have been questioned in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv), and the judge says the case is getting closer to the start of testimony. It was not immediately clear Wednesday if additional prospective jurors needed to be questioned or …
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is taking criticism for moving to end the selective enrollment process at certain schools in the Windy City in the name of “equity.” The Chicago School Board passed a resolution Thursday that seeks to move away from school choice and bolster the city’s neighborhood schools to …
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An American fugitive accused of faking his own death and fleeing the country to escape rape charges has been extradited from Scotland to Utah, where he was booked into jail, according to jail records. Nicholas Rossi, 36, was booked Friday afternoon into the Davis County Jail on two felony rape …
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A young activist was stabbed to death early Monday while waiting for the bus with his girlfriend, marking one of the latest incidents in New York City’s crime crisis. On “FOX & Friends” Wednesday, FOX News contributor Douglas Murray expressed his shock over the attack and others in cities like …
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Vermont State Police have released a sketch of an unidentified man they say witnesses saw on the Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail in Castleton last week at the same time 77-year-old retiree Honoree Fleming was found shot dead there. The sketch shows a man with short, disheveled hair, a round …
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SELMA, Ala. – The daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr. is in Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march. Bernice King says it’s important for her to be at the anniversary commemoration. She says the struggle for civil rights is unending. Saturday …
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NEW YORK – New York City’s Board of Health has introduced new rules limiting the amount of juice children can drink at licensed city day cares. The rules, aimed at cutting childhood obesity, were announced Monday. According to the Daily News (http://nydn.us/1bpXpJE ), children must be at least 2 years …
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GLENVILLE, N.Y. – Authorities say firefighters in New York were unsuccessful in their attempts to rescue a dog that got stranded on the ice of the Mohawk River near Schenectady. Fire officials in the town of Glenville tell The Daily Gazette of Schenectady that the 7-year-old husky was about 200 …
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A CIA manager testified under cross-examination in a trial near Washington that more than 90 people knew about a covert Iranian mission that was leaked to the media. Prosecutors have charged ex-CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling with being the source of leak. They say he told journalist …
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