Cheryl K. Chumley

Ohio redux: Conn. high school football players charged in sexual assault of girl

Two football players at a Connecticut high school were charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl — just a few days after two Steubenville, Ohio, teenage boys were convicted in the rape of a fellow high school girl.

March 20, 2013

Sex, drugs close Wis. nude beach for weekday visits

Too much sex and drugs are causing Wisconsin authorities to scale back nude beach hours. They've closed the popular resort area Monday through Friday, only allowing access on the weekends, the Associated Press reports.

March 20, 2013

Rep. Mike Rogers, House intel chairman, says it’s ‘time to act’ in Syria

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said it's high time for America to get involved in Syria.

March 20, 2013

Mass. Dem under investigation for restaurant rampage over noisy child

A Massachusetts Democratic councilman running for state office faces an ethics investigation after he was accused of going on a verbal rampage in a Texas Roadhouse restaurant after a special-needs child disrupted his dining.

March 20, 2013

Michael Moore: Why aren’t Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in jail?

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN's Piers Morgan that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a war criminal and that several in the Bush administration ought to be in jail.

March 20, 2013

Republican sheriff forced to defend joke about Obama

A Massachusetts sheriff has been forced to go on the defensive following a weekend joke he told about President Obama and Abe Lincoln's assassination drew fire from the community.

March 20, 2013

Arizona, Vermont top list of gun-friendly states

Guns & Ammo magazine opens its rankings on best and worst states for gun rights in 2013 with a snarky quip that makes a blunt point: Apparently, the Second Amendment doesn't apply to the District of Columbia, since it's not a state.

March 20, 2013

Soda kills: Sugary drinks blamed for 180K deaths a year, researchers say

Step away from the soda. Researchers say sugary drinks are to blame for the deaths of 180,000 around the world — each year.

March 20, 2013

Pope Francis pushed civil unions for gays in 2010 as cardinal

Gay rights supporters may have found a friend in Pope Francis.

March 20, 2013

Palestinians push for Obama to get into the peacemaking game

Palestinians say President Obama ought to get off the sidelines and push hard for a peace deal while visiting Israel this week.

March 20, 2013

Malala Yousafzai returns to school as she recovers from Taliban shooting

The teenage Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by a Taliban member for advocating education for females is now back in school.

March 20, 2013

North Dakota legislators mull ban on all abortions

Lawmakers in North Dakota — where abortion laws are already among the most restrictive in the nation — are now considering a personhood bill that would outright ban the procedure.

March 20, 2013

Arizona advances bill to arm teachers with guns in schools

Arizona has moved forward with legislation giving teachers the ability to carry guns in school.

March 20, 2013

Obama touts common security bond with Israel

President Obama in Israel is touting America's shared alliances, telling that nation's key political leaders he is visiting to show his friendship and doubled-down commitment to security.

March 20, 2013

Democrats look past Ashley Judd, want Ky. secretary of state to topple Mitch McConnell

Hollywood actress Ashley Judd may be taking step forward for a Senate run against Kentucky's five-term Mitch McConnell, but key Democrats may have found a new and less controversial candidate: Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

March 20, 2013

Hundreds turn out to mourn 7 killed Marines

Hundreds of Hawthorne-area rural residents turned out for the Tuesday evening memorial for seven Marines killed during training, laying wreaths and calling for prayers.

March 20, 2013

Talk show host Mark Levin blasts Sen. Harry Reid: ‘Vicious stupid man’

Conservative talk show host Mark Levin blasted Sen. Harry Reid, after the senator suggested the death of seven Marines on a training exercise was due in part to the sequester.

March 20, 2013

South Korea military on alert after ‘massive’ computer hack

South Korea's military is on high alert, as authorities investigate a possible cybersecurity breach that disabled computer systems at two main banks and at three television broadcast stations on Wednesday.

March 20, 2013

Gitmo hunger strike expands to 21 inmates

The number of Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have launched hunger strikes has hit 21, military officials say.

March 19, 2013

Israelis see Obama as pro-Palestine, not pro-Israel: poll

President Obama may capture the ears of Israelis when he makes his first trip to the nation, beginning Wednesday. But he sure has a long way to go to capture their hearts.

March 19, 2013