GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Maritime authorities, passengers and mounting evidence pointed Sunday toward the captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast, amid accusations that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacuated and was showing off when he steered the vessel far too close to shore.
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea warned the world Friday there would be no softening of its position toward South Korea’s government after Kim Jong Il’s death as Pyongyang strengthened his son and heir’s authority with a new title: Great Leader.
LAGOS, Nigeria — Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.
WASHINGTON — Four House lawmakers received VIP discounted loans from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., the lender whose subprime mortgages was largely responsible for the nation’s foreclosure crisis, according to congressional investigators.
During emotional testimony Wednesday, an at times tearful Joel Sellers told jurors that, on the day he shot and killed his childhood friend, he didn’t think that friend would stop hitting him. “I thought, ‘Wow, when is this going to stop?’ I kept saying, ‘Please. Please stop. You win.’ I was telling him he could have his way,” Sellers said during testimony on the third day of his murder trial in the Delaware County Common Pleas courtroom of Judge Everett H. Krueger.
A Westerville man who spent eight years in prison after killing an Ohio State Trooper in a 2001 drunken driving accident is facing up to an additional three years in prison after being arrested last month for driving under a lifetime suspension.
A man who killed a state trooper while driving drunk 10 years ago was in Delaware Municipal Court Monday after being arrested for driving with alcohol in his car despite having a lifetime driver’s suspension.
NEW YORK — Crackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country reached the epicenter of the movement Tuesday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time.