Amnesty: Nigeria massacre deadliest in history of Boko Haram

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) – Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the government spokesman on the insurgency, said fighting continued Friday for Baga, a […]

Boston clears opening hurdle in bid for 2024 Olympics

BOSTON (AP) – Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games won over the national governing body with a cost-effective and athlete-friendly proposal that would help reverse the trend toward ever-more expensive Olympics. One day after the U.S. Olympic Committee selected Boston as the American nominee over San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, local bid organizers […]

SpaceX tries again to launch station supplies, land rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – SpaceX is taking another crack at delivering supplies to the International Space Station and landing the rocket on an ocean barge. The company’s unmanned Falcon rocket is set to blast off before dawn Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On Tuesday, steering-system trouble halted the countdown at the last minute. A […]

House GOP takes broad aim at Obama immigration policies

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans plan to take broad aim at President Barack Obama’s immigration policies next week, including votes to overturn protections for immigrants brought illegally to this country as kids. The plan emerging Friday satisfies demands from the most conservative lawmakers and goes beyond the approach initially discussed within the House GOP leadership […]

5 new measles cases reported with ties to Disneyland

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – Local health officials say five more people who visited Disney theme parks in Southern California last month have fallen ill with measles, bringing the number of cases in the state to a dozen. Orange County Health Care Agency spokeswoman Nicole Stanfield says the county’s six patients – including one reported […]

New details in early morning Fort Myers shooting

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- New details in a shooting early Friday morning. We now know more about a car riddled with bullets at Gulf Coast Medical Center after a shooting in south Fort Myers. Police say 25-year-old Bennie Vines Jr. was shot. According to authorities, Vines and two friends were driving in the area of Treeline […]

French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages

PARIS (AP) – With explosions and gunfire, security forces on Friday ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape. The worst terrorist attacks France has seen in decades […]

School bus driver charged with sexual assault of student

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say a school bus driver in the Florida Panhandle is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old student. The Northwest Florida Daily News (http://bit.ly/1IywuF3 ) reports 45-year-old David Gordon O’Brien was arrested Thursday following an investigation into allegations that he made inappropriate comments to students on his bus. Walton County […]

Nebraska high court tosses suit over Keystone pipeline route

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s highest court threw out a challenge Friday to a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, even though a majority of judges agreed the landowners who sued should have won their case. The decision removes a major roadblock for the $7 billion cross-continental project Republicans have vowed to make […]