Md. teen pleads guilty in shooting of classmate
TOWSON, Md. — A high school sophomore pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder Tuesday in the shooting of an intellectually disabled classmate last year in suburban Baltimore.
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TOWSON, Md. — A high school sophomore pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder Tuesday in the shooting of an intellectually disabled classmate last year in suburban Baltimore.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Administrators at a southern Indiana school district planned to apologize for costumes students at a predominantly white middle school wore to a basketball game, sparking allegations of racism.
TUSTIN, Calif. — A young man shot a woman to death in a home early Tuesday then went on a spree of carjackings and random shootings across Orange County that left two more people dead and three others wounded before the gunman killed himself, authorities said.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — With waistlines shrinking, studies suggest an epidemic of negative body image-related eating and exercise disorders among university students has inflated.
President Mark Emmert announced Monday that Julie Roe Lach, the vice president of enforcement, is leaving and will soon be replaced by private attorney Jonathan Duncan after her role in the botched investigation at the University of Miami. He even suggested the NCAA’s board of directors and executive committee could hold him accountable for this mess, and it’s not over yet.
WASHINGTON — The White House is downplaying its draft immigration proposal that leaked to the media over the weekend as merely a backup plan if lawmakers don’t come up with an immigration overhaul of their own. It won’t be necessary, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are telling the Obama administration.
Somebody hacked Burger King’s Twitter account Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald’s logo.
NEW YORK — The city spent roughly $20.6 million in transit cards, taxis and gas mileage to get tens of thousands of stranded students to school during the monthlong bus strike, but some still didn’t get there at all, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Monday.
Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she’s going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, a 6-year-old boy pretends his fingers are a gun during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while “simulating the sound of gunfire,” as one school official put it.
NEW YORK — With the Boy Scouts of America entangled in a furor over its ban on gays, lesser-known youth organizations across the ideological spectrum see an opportunity. They wonder if the turmoil might prompt some families to give them a closer look as options for their boys.
Two major sponsors, Oakley and Nike, distanced themselves from Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius on Monday after the South African sports star was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
MOBILE, Ala. — A Coast Guard official said Monday that the cause of the engine-room fire on the Carnival cruise ship Triumph was a leak in a fuel oil return line.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Authorities say a woman was raped and beaten on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus as she walked on one a wooded path over the weekend.
NEW YORK — The city spent roughly $20.6 million in transit cards, taxis and gas mileage to get tens of thousands of stranded students to school during the monthlong bus strike, but some still didn't get there at all, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Monday.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock says he hasn't ruled out another run for political office — something he said he considered after his loss for a U.S. Senate seat.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York said his department is getting automatic license plate readers that will help police find stolen vehicles and could help in serious crimes like homicides.
INDIANAPOLIS — Students at Butler University in Indianapolis are battling an outbreak of pink eye.
CHICAGO — An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister had sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push for gun control legislation.
WEST WARWICK, R.I. — Survivors of a 2003 night club fire that killed 100 people and relatives of those killed huddled together in bitter cold Sunday at the site of the blaze to mark the 10th anniversary of it.