Cheryl K. Chumley

Malaria, meet cure: Vaccine researchers report ray of hope

Researchers in the United States say they made a huge breakthrough on Thursday for a vaccine that prevents malaria, the disease that’s carried by mosquitoes and affects millions of people around the world.

August 9, 2013

James Lee DiMaggio, kidnap suspect, booby-trapped car with bomb, police say

It’s day six in the search for a 16-year-old girl who is believed to have been abducted by a family friend who first allegedly killed her mother and set fire to their California home. And police warned Friday: James Lee DiMaggio, 40, may have booby-trapped his get-away car with a bomb.

August 9, 2013

Alec Baldwin to host MSNBC political show: report

MSNBC reportedly has a new prime-time lineup for its fall political talk show programming — starring actor Alec Baldwin.

August 9, 2013

Islamist gunmen kill church pastor’s niece, 10, in Egypt church attack

Several unidentified gunmen unleashed a wave of bullets in front of an evangelical church in a Cairo suburb, killing the church pastor’s niece, 10, and injuring several other Christian Coptics.

August 9, 2013

Obama, GOP agree? They tell court that town councils can open with Christian prayer

In the rarest meeting of minds, both the White House and Republican members of Congress have sent messages of support for a case that’s winding through the Supreme Court over the fate of prayers at local government bodies: Yes, Christian-based prayers are constitutional.

August 9, 2013

Gunmen kidnap Turkish pilot, co-pilot near airport in Beirut

Lebanese authorities say that gunmen have kidnapped a pilot and a co-pilot who work for Turkish Airlines in Beirut as they were traveling in a van to their hotel early Friday.

August 9, 2013

72 percent of Americans to immigrants: Speak English

Fully 72 percent of Americans think immigrants who set up home in the United States should learn to speak English, a Gallup poll recently said.

August 9, 2013

Saudi police arrest 2 on ties to al Qaeda suicide plot

Saudi Arabia police arrested two foreigners on Friday who are believed to have ties to an al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen that was plotting a suicide attack in the region.

August 9, 2013

Allen West on white boy’s bus beating: Where’s Jesse Jackson?

Former Florida Rep. Allen West had harsh words of criticism for nationally known civil rights activists like Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who have remained silent on a video showing black teens beating a white boy, 13, on a school bus: “Ya’ll just make me sick.”

August 9, 2013

Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife, Jacqueline, 77, dies in Atlanta

Newt Gingrich's former wife, Jacqueline Gingrich, died in Atlanta at the age of 77, a funeral home in Georgia stated on Friday.

August 9, 2013

Two Tsarnaev friends indicted in Boston bombing case

Two college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted on Thursday in Boston on conspiracy to obstruct justice and for allegedly obstructing justice to slow the terrorist investigation.

August 9, 2013

NSA to curb Snowden-style leaks by replacing workers with machines

The director of the National Security Agency says he’s taking steps to curb the type of information leaks conducted at the hands of Edward Snowden from ever occurring again – by replacing workers with machines.

August 9, 2013

U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, evacuated under ‘specific threat’

The U.S. Consulate in Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan, was closed on Friday and all workers except emergency staffers ordered to evacuate, amid receipt of “specific threats,” a spokeswoman said.

August 9, 2013

Marine sergeant demoted for urinating on dead Taliban militant

A Marine Corps sniper who was caught on video urinating on dead Taliban militants' bodies while serving a tour in Afghanistan pleaded guilty at his court-martial hearing, and was reduced in rank late Wednesday.

August 8, 2013

Ex-Mavericks dancer arrested in shooting death of 4 Texans

Police announced on Thursday they arrested and took into custody Erbie Bowser, a former Dallas Maverick ManiAAC dancer, in connection with the previous day's deadly shootings of four in two Texas communities.

August 8, 2013

Victoria’s Secret model who gave up career for Christ launches Bible-based clothing line

A model who made her money by donning underwear and walking the catwalk, but gave up the career because she wanted to live for Jesus Christ is launching a new clothing line aimed at selling apparel with a pro-Bible, pro-Christian message.

August 8, 2013

Obama geography gaffe and media cover sparks conservative ire

At least one conservative talking head is seeing media bias at play during recent coverage of President Obama's nationally televised flub that placed several states on the Gulf that just aren't there.

August 8, 2013

Slate magazine: We won’t refer to Redskins any more

The online magazine Slate has decided to do away with the word "Redskins" in all further references to Washington, D.C.'s NFL team.

August 8, 2013

14 picnicking women, children killed by bomb at Afghan gravesite

At least 14 women and children were killed Thursday in eastern Afghanistan when a bomb detonated while they picnicked at the graveyard site of deceased relatives, authorities said.

August 8, 2013

Illinois pub owner to city: I’m not paying $31K fine for political sign

Just in case you thought the First Amendment guaranteed Americans the freedom of speech — especially when that speech was tinged political — now comes a case from small-town Belleville, Ill., where a pub owner is being fined thousands of dollars each day that she refuses to take down her window message that is critical of a tax issue.

August 8, 2013