Cheryl K. Chumley

3 Kenya mall gunmen are from America: report

Several media outlets have reported that three of the gunmen who are terrorizing a Kenya mall are American.

September 23, 2013

Banned Book Week opens with ‘Captain Underpants’ under fire

Banned Book Week has arrived — and librarians around the nation are asking readers to consult the list and make a selection.

September 23, 2013

Angry Pakistani Christians protest church bombing: ‘They don’t want peace’

Scores of angry Pakistani Christians took to the streets on Monday, protesting this weekend’s deadly church bombings and calling on the government to do more.

September 23, 2013

Ariel Castro’s son: I’m ‘shell-shocked,’ but perhaps good will prevail

Ariel Anthony Castro, the son of the now-deceased Cleveland area kidnapper who killed himself in jail after holding three Ohio women hostage for almost a decade, said in an essay he penned for a local newspaper that he still can’t believe his father’s crimes – but that perhaps good can come of all, regardless.

September 23, 2013

Bill Clinton on budget impasse: GOP waging a good war

You’ve got to give the Republicans credit, said former President Bill Clinton, making the talk show circuit on Sunday. The GOP is waging a decent battle with the Democrats on Obamacare and the budget.

September 23, 2013

3 children, 2 adults found dead in ‘horrible’ Texas home scene

Texas authorities say they've found five members from one family — three children and two adults — dead inside their home.

September 23, 2013

3 recovered in Navy helicopter crash; 2 still missing

Search and rescue teams found three of the U.S. Navy helicopter crew members who had crashed in the Red Sea late Sunday, safe and in stable condition.

September 23, 2013

Tennessee tragedy: 3 teens, 22-year-old driver found shot dead in car

Police on Friday identified a "person of interest" in the apparent shooting of three teenagers and their 22-year-old driver, their bodies abandoned in their car at a rural spot in Tennessee.

September 13, 2013

Teens charged with murdering WWII veteran Delbert Belton plead not guilty

The two teenage boys, 16, charged with beating to death Delbert “Shorty” Belton, 88, as he crossed a parking lot at a Washington club entered not guilty pleas on Friday.

September 13, 2013

Underground, illegal dinner clubs make waves among NYC elite

A new eating experience is sweeping the underbelly of New York City, sucking in the well-dressed wealthy and adventure-seeking tourists who are tired of the blasé world of Health Department dining.

September 13, 2013

California passes minimum wage hike to $10 an hour

Go West, young man — that's where the minimum wage money is, as California lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that raises the rate of pay for the most menial jobs.

September 13, 2013

Time’s top editor quits for Obama administration post

Time Magazine's top editor, Richard Stengel, quit his position and traded in his private sector pin for a civil service badge as the newest member of the Department of State.

September 13, 2013

Lance Armstrong returns 2000 Olympic bronze medal

Lance Armstrong sent out a Twitter message on Thursday that he’s given back his 2000 Olympic bronze medal, as requested by International Olympic Committee heads earlier this year.

September 13, 2013

Sen. Harry Reid moans: The ‘anarchists’ have taken over Congress

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid bemoaned what he called the takeover of Congress by a radical force with nothing but disdain for government, during blunt remarks from the Senate floor.

September 13, 2013

Texas senators seek ‘terrorist’ label for Fort Hood shootings

A bill from Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, both Texans, would change the classification of the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and dozens injured from an act of workplace violence to a terrorist attack.

September 13, 2013

Coca-Cola, USDA partner on environment to protect federal watersheds

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has partnered with Coca-Cola company executives in a landmark public-private partnership to upkeep watersheds on federal properties.

September 13, 2013

Bomb, rockets found outside Cambodia parliament

Explosive experts safely detonated a bomb that was discovered early Friday outside the building that houses Cambodia’s parliament.

September 13, 2013

Tina Brown’s high-profile foundation big on celebrities — short on charity

Scores of celebrities may have lent their names to departing Daily Beast editor Tina Brown's nonprofit, Women in the World Foundation — but a year later, these same high-profile backers may be having second thoughts.

September 13, 2013

California poised to pass law giving driver licenses to illegals

California on Friday is about to become the latest, and largest, state to give illegal immigrants the right to obtain driver licenses, via a bill that’s on the desk of Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, awaiting his signature.

September 13, 2013

Enslaved man who died 200 years ago finally gets his honors in Conn.

A man who was a slave in life and a tool for medical research in death was finally given the rest and honors he deserved — albeit 200 years late — with an elaborate funeral that included a Capitol rotunda viewing following by full Hartford police escort to the church cemetery for burial.

September 13, 2013