Cheryl K. Chumley

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

EU demands privacy assurances from U.S. amid PRISM reveal

European Union heads demanded on Tuesday that the United States give assurances it wasn't illegally spying on European citizens.

June 11, 2013

Iran launches newly armed destroyer in Persian Gulf

Iran said Tuesday it has revamped and re-armed a 50-year-old destroyer with modern missile technology and deployed it to the Persian Gulf.

June 11, 2013

Allen West on Bill Cosby’s pro-Muslim post: Are you crazy?

Former Floridian Rep. Allen West had a blunt response to comedian Bill Cosby's published weekend opinion piece, speaking of the attributes of Muslims and encouraging Americans to emulate them: Have you lost your mind?

June 11, 2013

Booming: Beauty clinics for metrosexual men in the Philippines

The metrosexual trend is blooming in the Philippines, where male cosmetics, male beauty treatments and male spas are hitting market highs.

June 11, 2013

Labor strikes lead France to cancel half of country’s flights

Labor strikes have pushed France's main airports on Tuesday to cut back half of its scheduled flights.

June 11, 2013

One-armed beauty queen takes Miss Iowa crown, heads to Miss America Pageant

Nicole Kelly was named Miss Iowa 2013 over the weekend, and the 23-year-old beauty queen now will head to the national stage for the Miss America contest. But the real news: Miss Kelly has only one arm.

June 11, 2013

NSA leaker Ed Snowden’s girlfriend: A ‘pole-dancing super hero’ now ‘lost at sea’

The girlfriend of Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the NSA whistleblowing who's now hiding in Hong Kong, says she's heartbroken, downcast, "lost at sea" without her hoped-for fiance.

June 11, 2013

Obamacare ‘rate shock’ hits Ohio with 88 percent insurance hikes

The Ohio Department of Insurance predicts premiums in 2014 will rise by 88 percent, a direct result of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

June 11, 2013

Russia poised to approve fines on those who rally to support gays

Russian lawmakers are set Tuesday to give the thumbs-up to a new law that would impose hefty fines on those who rally in support of gays.

June 11, 2013

Hundreds of police storm Turkey’s Taksim Square to oust protesters

Hundreds of police donned riot gear Tuesday and stormed through barricades in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, to oust protesters who've occupied the property for a week.

June 11, 2013

Ex-IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex-scandal charges may be dropped

The charges against ex-International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn over a hotel prostitution ring could soon be a thing of the past.

June 11, 2013

‘Battlestar Galactica’ actress Katee Sackhoff loses Twitter star power for upholding gun rights

Katee Sackhoff, the Hollywood actress known for her tomboyish, gun-toting star roles in hard-charging action flicks and TV shows — including one as mercurial but talented pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the television series "Battlestar Galactica" — has taken a Twitter hit for her pro-gun messages.

June 10, 2013

Nearly 40 percent of designated drivers aren’t sober: Study

Designated drivers may not be as sober as one might think, a new study found.

June 10, 2013

Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children

Afghanistan's parliament has rejected a measure that would have barred men from marrying girls younger than 16, saying the proposal ran counter to Islamic ideology.

June 10, 2013