Cheryl K. Chumley

Yahoo hit by malware, putting tens of thousands at risk

Yahoo’s advertising server was hit by a malware attack, sending malicious ads out to thousands of users around the world.

January 6, 2014

Dennis Rodman scrounges up ex-NBA players for North Korea game

It’s game on. Dennis Rodman touched down in Pyongyang on Monday, with 11 fellow former American basketball greats in tow – ending weeks of speculation that he couldn’t get his U.S. teammates to travel to North Korea for an exhibition game.

January 6, 2014

Super Bowl Sunday sends N.J. into anti-prostitution mode

Police in New Jersey are stepping up their law enforcement efforts against prostitution, hoping to crack down on human trafficking in time for next month’s Super Bowl.

January 6, 2014

Canada cold: ‘Frost quakes’ driving scared homeowners to call police

It’s so cold in Canada that residents are reporting a phenomenon called “frost quakes” — when the air is so cold and temperatures drop so low that the atmosphere seems to be filled with the sound of gun fire.

January 6, 2014

Taiwan baby panda makes first public debut

Crowds lined up at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday to see the first public appearance of a giant 6-month-old panda.

January 6, 2014

Pakistan home explosion kills 9, including children

At least nine people, including children, were killed in a Monday explosion at a residence in northwestern Pakistan, in the Khyber tribal area.

January 6, 2014

Wal-Mart China condemns fox-meat scandal: We take food fraud ‘very seriously’

Hey, what's that fox meat doing in my donkey burger? Wal-Mart China has risen to the challenge of that fictional question and pulled all its tainted donkey meat — a delicacy in the Asian market — from store shelves.

January 3, 2014

Obamacare patients socked with huge cash bills flee hospitals

Staffers with at least one hospital in Northern Virginia turned away several patients this week due to confusion about Obamacare: Were the patients covered by insurance or not?

January 3, 2014

Bible-based boys’ group opens after Boy Scouts’ nod to gays

A new group that formed as a counter to the Boy Scouts of America's decision to let gays serve as scouts opened its doors this week, with a mission and motto to "walk worthy" in the path toward God.

January 3, 2014

Lawmakers tell OSHA regulators to get off farmers’ backs

Senate Republicans said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has stretched its regulatory boundaries and needs to back off farmers and quit pushing them to comply with laws that don't even apply to them.

January 3, 2014

Obama’s ‘catch-me-if-you-can’ government lands him on most corrupt list

The nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch released its most recent annual list of "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" this week, and both political parties take a hit: House Speaker John Boehner's there, as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

January 3, 2014

Cambridge students in uproar over favoritism for Prince William

Cambridge University students are in an uproar over what they perceived is the school's favored treatment of Prince William, giving him access to a course he doesn't have to grades to attend.

January 3, 2014

Pro-gun club for left-leaning liberals makes waves in California

Who says liberals hate guns? More than 1,000 gun owners in California who happen to hate National Rifle Association politics as well as the Republican ideology, but love the Second Amendment and their own rifles, have banded together and started their own group, a sort of leftist-leaning NRA called the Liberal Gun Club.

January 3, 2014

O.J. Simpson begs Obama: Free me; I’m dying from brain cancer

Former NFL great turned criminal, O.J. Simpson, has issued a plea for clemency to President Obama, claiming he may have brain cancer and should be allowed to leave his Nevada jail cell and go free.

January 3, 2014

NYC’s new mayor sings tax-the-rich song for kids’ kindergarten costs

Tax the rich; pay for kindergarten. That’s the song being sung by New York City’s newest mayor, Bill de Blasio, as a means of paying for kindergarten.

January 3, 2014

Children beheaded, as violence rages in Central African Republic

At least two children have been beheaded in the rising violence in the Central African Republic, the United Nations reported Friday.

January 3, 2014

Cheerios change on the horizon, as cereal goes GMO-free

Out with the old, in with the new. General Mills' New Year's announcement is that its iconic Cheerios cereal — the regular, original flavor only — will now be made without genetically modified ingredients.

January 3, 2014

American basketball players arrested at Benghazi University

Two Americans were arrested by Libyan military forces in Benghazi and are being held for unknown reasons at the army’s headquarters, various media reported Friday.

January 3, 2014

California lawyers say Mississippi’s state flag must go

Lawyers from California have cast accusatory eyes on Mississippi, declaring that the state’s Confederate symbol on its flag that’s flown at a Santa Ana display is racist and needs to go.

January 3, 2014

Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ heads to Creation Museum to argue evolution

Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is heading to Kentucky in the coming weeks to visit with the man who founded the Creation Museum — and debate and argue how creationist belief in the Old Testament is pure folly.

January 3, 2014