Cheryl K. Chumley

Massachusetts school cancels football season over racist graffiti

So much for the traditional Thanksgiving football game — or the remainder of the football season, for that matter. Lunenburg Public Schools Superintendent Loxi Jo Calmes said the Massachusetts high school has stopped its football program, effective immediately, over a racial slur.

November 20, 2013

Suicide bomber in Egypt rams bus carting soldiers, kills 10

At least 10 government soldiers were killed and 35 injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-filled car into a bus that was carting the troops on a roadway in northern Sinai on Wednesday.

November 20, 2013

Rep. Trey Radel pleads guilty to cocaine possession

Rep. Trey Radel pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday after he was caught buying the drug at a restaurant in the nation's capital in late October.

November 20, 2013

Rescue dogs sniff for survivors in South African mall collapse

Rescue workers and their dogs on Wednesday were sifting through the rubble of a South African mall that collapsed, killing at least one and leaving an unknown number missing and injured.

November 20, 2013

Clergy panel suspends Pa. Methodist pastor 30 days for performing gay son’s marriage ceremony

A panel of clergy members voted Tuesday evening to suspend a Pennsylvania Methodist pastor for 30 days after he went against church doctrine and performed a same-sex marriage ceremony for his gay son.

November 20, 2013

Four dead in jet crash off Florida coast

A Learjet crashed off the coast of Florida late Tuesday night, killing all four aboard, authorities confirmed.

November 20, 2013

Colorado poised to pass nation’s first methane emission limits

Colorado politicos are mulling methane emission regulations, seeking to become the first state in the nation to limit levels tied to oil and gas drilling.

November 19, 2013

Illinois union strikes over ‘paltry’ 14.5 percent pay raise

Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1028 in Will County, Ill., have turned up their noses at a taxpayer-funded pay-increase offer they view as too small — 14.5 percent.

November 19, 2013

GOP moves afoot to rein in Obama’s executive powers

Republicans in Congress are mulling moves to rein in President Obama's ability to bypass legislative intent by issuing executive orders — though what action members want to take is still up in the air.

November 19, 2013

John Edwards to open ‘social equality’ law firm in N.C., D.C.

John Edwards — the former Democratic Party rising star and famed trial lawyer whose celebrity political status came crashing down in the wake of an adulterous affair and a campaign finance scandal — is now getting back on the career track, opening a law firm with his daughter Cate.

November 19, 2013

History in the making: Palestinians cast first ballots at United Nations

This week dawned routine on a U.N. General Assembly gathering — except for members of one delegation, who heralded in a new international political era by casting the first U.N. votes by Palestinians.

November 19, 2013

Census Bureau faked jobs report ahead of 2012 election: report

U.S. government job numbers were intentionally skewed to paint a brighter economic picture in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, a source told the New York Post.

November 19, 2013

Feds and pediatricians, decrying overuse, crack down on children’s antibiotics

Federal health authorities have issued new guidelines for the prescription and use of antibiotics in children, saying they've been misused and prescribed in error for years — leading to a scenario that could soon see the medication rendered useless.

November 19, 2013

Teens tout new ‘Knockout’ game as ‘fun’ attacks on strangers

Teenagers have a new 'fun' game they're playing on city streets nationwide — targeting and taking out randomly selected passersby, where a win means the victim is knocked out by a single punch.

November 19, 2013

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s top one-liners: ‘I smoked some crack sometime. What can I say?’

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may have made some mistakes in his life, admittedly smoking crack and, the latest, charging at a female City Council member who ultimately voted to strip his powers. But he's not guilty of being boring.

November 19, 2013

Pope Francis warns of dangers of progressivism

Pope Francis had a stark warning for those who listened to his latest homily at St. Martha's House, about the dangers of today's rising secularism: Don't fall into the pit of progressivism, which puts the emphasis on the collective instead of on the spirit of the individual.

November 19, 2013

George W. Bush on Keystone pipeline: ‘Build the damn thing’

With the economy as sluggish as it is, former President George W. Bush had some quick advice to bolster revenues and bring a boom to the job market, during a conference in Pittsburgh attended by hundreds: Build the Keystone XL pipeline.

November 19, 2013

Education chief Arne Duncan says sorry as ‘white suburban moms’ lash out at label

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, facing an onslaught of pressure from the mom community, has walked back his comments that those who oppose the federal government’s Common Core school testing standard were primarily “white suburban moms,” and issued an apology.

November 19, 2013

Dick Cheney on daughters’ public gay dispute: I’m ‘pained’

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he and his wife are naturally upset their two daughters are disputing over their conflicting views of gay marriage, but that what perhaps hurts more is they've taken a years-long, behind-the-scenes argument and brought it into the public arena.

November 19, 2013

Oxford Dictionary editors select Word of 2013: ‘Selfie’

Drumroll, please. It was a tough matchup, with twerk and showrooming coming on strong, but Oxford Dictionaries’ editors finally settled on the Word of 2013: Selfie.

November 19, 2013