WASHINGTON – Josh Lederman of The Associated Press and Jim Avila of ABC News have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Lederman won in the print category for his breaking stories about a fence jumper who made it inside the White House before being apprehended. …
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ALBERT LEA, Minn. – The first phase of an autopsy on some skeletal remains found in southern Minnesota is complete, but authorities still don’t know the cause of what they are calling a suspicious death. The Freeborn County sheriff’s officials say a property owner found the bones Monday along Interstate …
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia family has been awarded the rights to 10 rare gold coins possibly worth $80 million or more after a U.S. appeals court overturned a jury verdict. U.S. Department of the Treasury officials insist the $20 Double Eagles were stolen from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia before …
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CRISP POINT, Mich. – Two sisters from Oklahoma and Nebraska who were missing for nearly two weeks in Michigan were found Friday near Lake Superior in a remote part of the Upper Peninsula where their car got stuck. “They’re walking. … They’re alive and well, just a little weak from …
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MIAMI – Rosa Salgado is a 79-year-old grandmother who’s English was limited when she moved to Miami from her native Colombia in 1995. Despite her age and language difficulties, Salgado graduated from college with a degree in education on Saturday, the Miami Herald reported. Salgado graduated from Miami Dade College’s …
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FLINT, Mich. – A lawyer wants to enter his pet pig into the Flint mayoral race after a mix-up threated to keep candidates’ names off the primary election ballot. Michael Ewing started the “Giggles the Pig for Flint Mayor” effort after learning that the August primary could be skipped unless …
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FERGUSON, Mo. – The city of Ferguson has a new acting city manager. The city council on Tuesday named Matt Unrein to the position. He is the public works director and will continue at his current salary of $90,000 while the city seeks a permanent city manager. Unrein replaces interim …
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LYNN, Mass. – Hundreds of people have gathered in suburban Boston for a peace rally in response to the desecration of a Holocaust memorial with chunks of pork earlier this week. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/1Bh7Jdr ) Friday’s interfaith service drew a large crowd at Pride of Lynn Cemetery in …
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A woman recently stole an ambulance in Southeast Washington, D.C., and led police on a chase before being arrested, according to authorities and video pertaining to the incident. The incident involving the stolen ambulance, which was taken from the 3600 block of 22nd Street SE around 10:35 a.m. last Wednesday, …
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New York’s highest court on Monday upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person’s diaphragm during an arrest, rejecting a challenge from police unions to a law passed after the death of George Floyd. The New York Court of Appeals, in a …
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