Posts in category National & World

WASHINGTON  — The United States is sending technical experts to aid the Nigerian government’s search for nearly 300 teenage girls who were kidnapped from their …

FACTS How Mother’s Day began Anna Jarvis organized Mother’s Day observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. The annual celebration became popular …

NEW YORK (AP) — A mentally ill homeless former Marine who died in an overheated jail cell more than two months ago was a giving …

WASHINGTON (AP) – With the White House asserting that Russia is stoking instability in eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama is once again faced with the …

KIGALI, Rwanda — Displaying both pride and pain, Rwandans on Monday marked the 20th anniversary of a devastating 100-day genocide that saw packed churches set …

The following news items were compiled from Associated Press reports. House approves individual religious exemption to health care law WASHINGTON — Individuals who practice faith …

NEW YORK — As workers cleared some of the last of the rubble Sunday from the site of a massive explosion last week in New …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said in an interview …

TALLAHASSEE — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and  his National Action Network joined hundreds in a march to the state Capitol Monday to …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A troubled Haitian orphanage run by a small and apparently well-funded U.S. church has made cosmetic changes in the two months since an …