Cheryl K. Chumley

Southern snow dust leaves thousands sleeping in cars, in Home Depot aisles

Motorists across several Southern states tried to rush home at the first sign of snow, creating a traffic nightmare that left thousands sleeping overnight in their cars on highways, on the floors in schools and in the aisles of 26 Home Depot stores that opened their doors for a makeshift shelter.

January 29, 2014

Rep. Michael Grimm threatens reporter: ‘I’ll break you in half’

An obviously angry Rep. Michael G. Grimm told a reporter who was interviewing him in the Capitol that if he continued to stray off topic, he’d thrown him over the railing.

January 29, 2014

Predator drone evidence helps convict N. Dakota farmer in cow theft case

For the first time in American history, a U.S. citizen – a North Dakota farmer – has been sentenced to prison with the aid and assistance of a Predator drone.

January 28, 2014

Eliot Ness name mulled as new ATF building moniker

Crime fighter Eliot Ness may have died six decades ago, but two Illinois senators want to honor his memory with the naming of a federal building in D.C. in his honor.

January 28, 2014

Queen Elizabeth’s staff fritters away palace savings

Queen Elizabeth’s staffers have been spending up a storm, frittering away money that’s supposed to be used for palace upkeep, a British committee found.

January 28, 2014

U.S. restarts aid to Syria, hoping al Qaeda won’t seize it again

The United States has picked up where it left off more than a month ago, and started shipping nonlethal aid to Syria in hopes that al Qaeda won’t seize it and keep it from reaching its intended rebel fighting recipients.

January 28, 2014

New ‘R.I.P.’ bullet hailed as ‘one-shot man-stopper’

A newly developed bullet from G2 Research is being billed as the last round a gun owner will ever need: a smashing hunk of copper with full metal jacket power to shred through solid objects and stop attackers in their tracks.

January 28, 2014

Rand Paul’s odds of running: 50-50, he says

Sen. Rand Paul told a fourth-grader who was interviewing him that his odds for running for the White House in 2016 stood right at 50-50.

January 28, 2014

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai says U.S., not Taliban, secretly conducted fatal attacks

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has placed the blame on America, not the Taliban, for a spate of recent attacks that have left more than 20 dead, accusing the United States of secretly staging insurgent strikes as a coy means of destabilizing the government.

January 28, 2014

Jury seated for former pediatrician accused of waterboarding girl, 11

The trial of a former Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding an 11-year-old girl moved forward this week as prosecutors and defense attorneys settled on a jury of eight women and four men.

January 28, 2014

Utah lawmaker pushes for relaxed liquor laws

A lawmaker in Utah is pushing to tear down a massive wall that's stood between consumers and their liquor — a strictly enforced law that requires drinkers to order food with their alcoholic beverages.

January 28, 2014

Mission stall as China’s moon rover hits critical impasse

China's much-ballyhooed moon rover made it through about half of its three-month mission — and then suffered a massive breakdown that potentially compromised its ability to continue.

January 28, 2014

U.S. poised to sell 24 Apaches to Iraq to battle rebel forces

The U.S. is poised to sell 24 Apache attack helicopters to Iraq to help the government battle its rebel faction, Pentagon officials told Congress on Monday.

January 28, 2014

Mohammed Morsi encased in glass cage for start of trial

Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday was flown by helicopter from prison to court, placed in a glass-encased metal cage and forced to stand on trial for charges of toppling the country's government and destroying its structure.

January 28, 2014

Hillary Clinton calls Benghazi her ‘biggest regret’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead the “biggest regret” of her diplomatic career.

January 28, 2014

‘Theraflu’ heroin causes 17 deaths in one week in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's medical community has issued a warning about a highly potent form of heroin blamed for 17 deaths in just one week, including three Sunday morning in Allegheny County.

January 27, 2014

Dan Aykroyd takes deputy sheriff’s oath in Mississippi county

Comedian Dan Aykroyd, known as much for as his "Blues Brothers" character as his "Ghostbusters" role, has turned in his Hollywood walk of fame for a position with the Hinds County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi.

January 27, 2014

Army develops ‘Combat Gum’ to fight soldiers’ cavities in field

Deployed? Don’t worry about the missed dentist appointment. The Army has discovered — and over the course of seven years, fine-tuned — a gum that helps the soldier in the field fight plaque, cut cavities and clean teeth.

January 27, 2014

Sochi Olympics the ‘most dangerous’ games ever: ex-CIA boss

Mike Morrell, the former deputy director for the CIA, warned on Monday that the Sochi Games are “the most dangerous” he’s ever seen, and that Americans traveling to the region should stay on high alert.

January 27, 2014

Face of food stamps under Obama changes from elderly to working age

The economy under President Obama has changed so dramatically that food stamps are no longer given mostly to the very old or the very young, but rather to working class and working age individuals.

January 27, 2014