WASHINGTON (AP) – Ben Carson’s campaign says the Republican White House hopeful was not offered a formal scholarship to the United States Military Academy at West Point as he wrote in his autobiography. Carson’s campaign sought Friday to clarify a statement in his breakout book, “Gifted Hands.” Campaign spokesman Doug Watts says Carson was an…
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – Police personnel records show an Illinois officer who staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered had a troubled job history. Among the issues raised in Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz’s records, released late Thursday by the Village of Fox Lake, are suspensions, sexual harassment allegations and complaints…
In the video, Carson says: “My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain.”
Dozens of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and across the world examined 28 strange weather conditions last year to see if global warming partly increased their likelihood or their strength
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two watchdog groups have filed a complaint with the Justice Department about a nonprofit group funded by secret donors that has so far spent $8 million in advertisements promoting Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center allege that the Conservative Solutions Project was set up primarily for…
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) – Mike Rieker, a 69-year-old Vietnam veteran, relies on his Veterans Affairs benefits to get him through the month. That’s why the Pinellas County, Florida, resident was alarmed when his VA check didn’t show up in his bank account Monday. He called the Department of Veterans Affairs office to find out why,…
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – A close-knit Illinois community is struggling to make sense of authorities’ announcement that a popular police officer staged his suicide to make it look like he died in the line of duty. Signs hung in honor of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz after his death were taken down Wednesday around the…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois has joined 17 states supporting new domestic power plant limits being challenged in federal court by more than two dozen other states. The motion to intervene was filed Wednesday in a federal appellate court in Washington by state Attorney General Lisa Madigan. California, New York and Virginia are among the…
