Cheryl K. Chumley

Planned Parenthood, ACLU sue over Alabama abortion laws

Attorneys for Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that new laws in Alabama wrongfully infringe upon a woman's right to abortion.

June 12, 2013

Thousands flee as wildfires rip through Rockies

At least 3,600 people have been evacuated, as wildfires on Wednesday continued to rip through Colorado and parts of the Rockies, threatening to spread to at least three other states.

June 12, 2013

NYC school English teacher assigns to students: Write a suicide note

Parents who send their children to an elite New York City private school are outraged at one recent English class assignment — to write a personal suicide letter.

June 12, 2013

1 killed, 3 injured in medical helicopter crash in Oklahoma

A medical helicopter crashed during takeoff at a southeastern Oklahoma hospital, leaving one dead and three injured.

June 12, 2013

Gun-toting grandma, 72, shoots at intruder, saves wheelchair-bound husband

A Southern California grandmother took a shot at a home intruder with her .357-magnum Smith & Wesson, saving her 85-year-old, wheelchair-bound, World War II veteran husband.

June 12, 2013

Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan agrees to meet with park protesters

Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to meet with park protesters in the wake of a week of rallies that have turned violent, sending tear-gas-toting police to quell out-of-control crowds.

June 12, 2013

NSA leaker Edward Snowden goes dark, believed to be in safe house

Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the National Security Agency information leak, has disappeared from the public eye and gone dark in Hong Kong.

June 12, 2013

Superglue saves 20-day-old baby with deadly brain aneurysm

A quick-thinking and enterprising doctor was able to save the life of a 20-day-old baby girl with a deadly aneurysm with the help of a commonly known household substance: superglue.

June 11, 2013

Monument to Michelle Obama’s ancestor toppled in Georgia

Police are investigating the toppling of a monument in suburban Atlanta that was dedicated to one of first lady Michelle Obama's distant relatives.

June 11, 2013

Riot police descend on chaotic G-8 protest site in London

At least 100 riot police were summoned to the scene of a London protest against an upcoming summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations as the demonstration turned ugly Tuesday, with one man trying to hurl himself off the roof of a building and law enforcement struggling to pin him to the ground.

June 11, 2013

Booz Allen fires NSA leaker Edward Snowden

Just in case National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who fled to Hong Kong for refuge, had any doubts — he's no longer employed. The firm where he worked for the past three months, Booz Allen, fired him Monday, citing violations of company ethics codes.

June 11, 2013

Suicide bomber outside Kabul court, near U.S. Embassy, kills 17

A suicide bomber who detonated outside the Supreme Court in Kabul on Tuesday killed at least 17 and left 39 wounded, police in Afghanistan said.

June 11, 2013

Princeton evacuated: Latest in series of threats, explosions at U.S. sites

Princeton University was evacuated on Tuesday after shool officials received a bomb threat to "multiple unspecified campus buildings," law enforcement said.

June 11, 2013

U.N. investigator accused of anti-Semitism won’t resign

An embattled investigator for the United Nations whose reputation has been tainted by charges of anti-Semitism said Tuesday that he won't resign and that he's being unfairly targeted.

June 11, 2013

51st state? Colorado county to vote on secession

Residents in Weld County, Colo., will vote this November to join eight other counties and form America's 51st state — Northern Colorado.

June 11, 2013

Chris Matthews on sequester: Women are dying this week

Liberal television talk-show host Chris Matthews suggested during a Monday broadcast that sequester cuts were killing women — literally.

June 11, 2013

Poor Catholics: Pope Francis says church should seek poverty

Pope Francis said in a homily delivered at his Vatican home that the Catholic Church shouldn't go after wealth but rather pursue a "heart of poverty."

June 11, 2013

Santa Monica shooting puts gun-free-campus rules in question

Conservatives and Second Amendment activists are calling into question a California state law and Santa Monica College rules that ban guns on campus, arguing that a recent fatal mass shooting only proves the need to revisit the policy.

June 11, 2013

Garage-door glitch: Army radio technology locks out Georgia homeowners

Fort Gordon in Georgia is getting a new military radio upgrade — and area residents aren't happy. They report a side effect of the system upgrade is leaving them locked out of their garages.

June 11, 2013

Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf gets bail in one case, awaits bail in another

Former Pakistani military leader Pervez Musharraf won bail for one of his cases — a court trial to determine his fate from a 2007 decision to fire senior judges.

June 11, 2013