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Police shoot, catch 2nd escaped killer after 3 weeks on run

By The Associated Press / June 29, 2015

MALONE, New York (AP) — An escaped murderer who was shot and caught in a desperate dash toward the Canadian border was in critical but stable condition Monday as authorities hoped to hear how he and a partner, who was found and shot dead last week, slipped out of a maximum-security prison and stayed three weeks on the run. David Sweat, who was shot twice after a state police officer spotted him within two miles (3 kilometers) of the border, had been prepared to the end.

KRT SOUTH STORY SLUGGED: HEALTH-GA-YOUTHDIABETES KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY G. MARC BENAVIDEZ/COLUMBUS LEDGER-ENQUIRER (October 21) Bryan Wells, 12, a Type One diabetic, sticks himself on the finger to draw blood to test his blood glucose level at his Buena Vista, Georgia, home, on September 24, 2003. (nk) 2003 (Diversity)
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Community college instructor key to passage of diabetes law

By The Associated Press / June 25, 2015

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — An Ivy Tech Community College instructor in Muncie was instrumental in getting a state law passed that could cut down on heart attacks, strokes, amputations, erectile dysfunction, kidney damage and other complications of diabetes. Senate Bill 461, which takes effect next month, allows emergency medical technicians to do a finger stick to check a patient's blood sugar. Under current law, paramedics but not EMTs are allowed to conduct the test, even though people including children check their blood sugar in that fashion at home or school on a daily basis. "The whole point is so people don't walk around for 10 years not knowing they've got diabetes," said Stephanie Freeman, the instructor.

Pope Francis I stands on the central balcony of St. Peter
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Philly officials wrap Vatican meetings for pope visit

By The Associated Press / June 25, 2015

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Philadelphia church officials said Thursday they're confident about preparations forPope Francis' visit at the three-month homestretch, having raised more than two-thirds of the $45 million needed and lining up 6,000 of 10,000 volunteers. Archbishop Charles Chaput and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter wrapped up four days of talks at the Vatican ahead of the Sept.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hugs U.S. Congressman James Clyburn after she called for legislators to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House during a press conference on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (Tim Dominick/The State/TNS)
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Some examples of Confederate tributes around the South

By The Associated Press / June 24, 2015

ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond more than a century after the end of the Civil War. Here are some of the most high-profile displays, including several that are being criticized anew following the fatal shooting of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina: — ALABAMA: An 88 -foot-tall Confederate memorial sits at the Capitol entrance nearest the governor's office.

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Plucked from war-torn Iraq, heavy metal band gets first EP

By The Associated Press / June 24, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — The name of the album is "Gilgamesh," the ancient Mesopotamian king with superhuman strength and courage who undertakes a perilous quest to discover the secret of eternal life. The epic tale embodies the complexities of life and finding one's self that the four-man heavy metal band Acrassicauda believe is symbolic of their own journey from war-torn Baghdad to an American recording studio. With roots in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the band members discovered their love for heavy metal through Slayer and Metallica cassettes they dug up in the black markets of the then-heavily sanctioned country.

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