GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday as a nearby volunteer told a group of visitors about the church’s suicide-prevention program, police and church officials said. The man handed a note and his …
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SAN FRANCISCO – A U.S. missile strike in Iraq took Mustafa Ghazwan’s hearing nearly two years ago. On Tuesday, far from home, the 3-year-old’s wall of silence finally cracked. In a University of California, San Francisco conference room, audiologist Colleen Polite switched on an electronic device that had been surgically …
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LONDON – There was something fishy about the obituary, and now its author will be going to jail. Authorities weren’t deceived when Roger Atkins sent the newspaper Fishing News his own obituary — apparently hoping that its publication would persuade the government to stop pursuing him for fishing offenses. He …
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Ciudad Juarez’s police chief stepped down Friday after criminal gangs made a chilling demand: Resign or we will kill more local officials. Public Safety Secretary Roberto Orduna announced he was leaving his post only hours after gunmen killed a police officer and a jail guard and …
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NEW YORK – Several women say they were lured to the New York City home of the Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” and were sexually assaulted while auditioning for movie roles. Police are investigating whether 70-year-old director Joseph Brooks advertised for upcoming film roles on Internet …
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NEW YORK – The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is investigating a California woman’s claim that she was forced to use her iPod as payment for a cab ride. Natalie Lenhart, 20, of Sacramento, said her credit card was declined during her New York airport ride in …
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MADISON, Wis. – Meals at one of the nation’s largest military training bases apparently weren’t very appetizing a few years ago. If the food came at all, bugs were sometimes companions, and food workers didn’t always follow basic safety rules, according to testimony recently made public. The Army blames the …
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CAIRO, Egypt – Venezuela and Bolivia broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on Wednesday to protest its military offensive in Gaza. The decisions by the leftist governments of Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales came about a week after Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador in Caracas, Shlomo Cohen, and seven embassy …
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MILWAUKEE – General Mills Inc. and grocers Kroger Co., Safeway Inc. and Meijer Inc. have joined the growing list of food companies and retailers pulling items with peanut butter amid a salmonella outbreak that has killed at least six people and sickened more than 470 others in 43 states. The …
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OCEANSIDE, Calif. – A small plane struck a power pole or electrical line and crashed on a street in this San Diego County town Saturday, injuring the pilot and passenger, authorities said. The single-engine Cessna 172 went down at about 10:50 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. “It …
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