At 4:27 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2002, air traffic controllers lost radar contact with a single-engine Cessna as it made a circling descent through thick clouds northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Search-and-rescue crews, working through the night, found its wreckage at 11 a.m. the next day, along with the body of its pilot and only occupant: […]

By JULIE CARR SMYTH (Associated Press) CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the largest corruption scandal in state history. The 64-year-old Republican appeared before U.S. District Judge Timothy Black, who meted out the punishment, about an hour after he […]

A police officer in Greeley fired at a suspect who pointed a gun at them, authorities said Thursday. The suspect ran off and is at large. The police shooting happened about 11 p.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of 6tha Street, according to a 19th Judicial Critical Incident Response Team news release. The officer was in the […]

By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and ALEX TURNBULL (Associated Press) NANTERRE, France (AP) — France braced for another feared eruption of urban rioting Thursday night after the deadly police shooting of a suburban 17-year-old, with tens of thousands of officers hitting the streets and commuters rushing home before transport services closed down early for safety […]

By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and ALEX TURNBULL (Associated Press) NANTERRE, France (AP) — A police officer in a Paris suburb was handed a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide Thursday after the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old that triggered two nights of riots, as the French government vowed to restore order and crack down on […]

By MARK SHERMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of […]

By DAVID KOENIG (AP Airlines Writer) DALLAS (AP) — Backups are easing at U.S. airports thanks to a break in the weather, yet there are still hundreds of delays and cancellations for travelers early Thursday in what is expected to be the peak day for holiday travel, and pockets of dicey weather threaten to scramble […]

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police released video footage on Wednesday of an officer killing a neo-Nazi gunman, quickly ending a mass shooting that left eight people dead and seven others wounded at a Dallas-area shopping mall. The edited five-and-a-half-minute video details the final moments of Mauricio Garcia, 33, after he unleashed a rain of bullets […]

Kyle Gibson has thrown 26,340 pitches in his major league career. It’s a difficult task for the Orioles right-hander to select his favorite among them. “That’s pretty tough,” the 35-year-old said. The Baltimore Sun posed what seemed to be a simple question to every member of the Orioles’ pitching staff: “What do consider the best […]

Charles Eliot “Chick” Silberstein, an orthopedic surgeon who had been the Baltimore Orioles’ team physician from 1978 to 2009, died of sepsis June 25 at the Gilchrist Center Towson. He celebrated his 90th birthday on June 13. “Chick was a very special human being and he helped me get to the mound,” said Jim Palmer, […]