| Gov declares emergency, imposes curfew in Ferguson Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:29 PM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he's declared a state of emergency and is implementing a curfew in the St. Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer a week ago. |
| 2 UN peacekeepes killed in north Mali; 7 wounded Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The U.N. Secretary-General says two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and seven wounded in a suicide attack in Mali. |
| Perry latest 2016 GOP hopeful facing legal trouble Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As they form exploratory committees, consider the grueling prospect of a national campaign with their families and begin hiring staff in key presidential battleground states, three potential Republican White House candidates also face the distraction of legal troubles back at home.
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| Kelly: No change needed in how Notre Dame recruits Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:09 PM PDT  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly on Saturday dismissed talk that he needs to do a better job of recruiting players who are better students to avoid the academic problems that have plagued the football program for the past 15 months.
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| Woman improves after drinking chemical-laced tea Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:09 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who unknowingly drank iced tea laced with an industrial cleaning solution at a Utah restaurant has improved for the first time since being flown to a hospital nearly a week ago.
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| Texas governor vows to fight against 'farce' indictment Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:07 PM PDT  Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, vowed Saturday to fight charges that he abused his power, calling the indictment a politically-motivated "farce." A state grand jury in Austin indicted Perry on two felony charges Friday for his alleged threat to veto $7.5 million in state funding to an anti-corruption unit run by Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat. After Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, Perry threatened to withhold the funding if she did not step down. When Lehmberg refused to leave her office, Perry carried out his veto, but it is the apparent threat that has landed him in hot water.
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| Ferguson native tasked with keeping peace there Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:56 PM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — In the days since Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson took charge of a volatile situation that threatened to turn ugly, tragic or both, his calm-yet-commanding presence has captured international attention. But when it comes to keeping the peace in the St. Louis suburb where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen, Johnson knows his neighbors' opinions are what matter most.
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| Williams beats Wozniacki to reach Cincinnati final Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:55 PM PDT  Serena Williams moved within one win of a second pre-US Open hardcourt title Saturday, reaching the Cincinnati final with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Caroline Wozniacki. The world number one American, who claimed her 61st career WTA title at Stanford two weeks ago, will face off on Sunday against either fifth-seeded Maria Sharapova or ninth-seeded Ana Ivanovic. Williams, playing a third tournament in a row for the first time since late 2007, improved her 2014 match record to 37-6. Wozniacki came to the match after beating two top 10 players in a row -- Angelique Kerber and Agnieszka Radwanska -- for first time since the 2010 WTA Finals.
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| Wilder memoir to give gritty view of prairie life Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:54 PM PDT  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Laura Ingalls Wilder penned one of the most beloved children's series of the 20th century, but her forthcoming autobiography will show devoted "Little House on the Prairie" fans a more realistic, grittier view of frontier living.
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| Ukraine separatist leader says rebels getting tanks and reinforcements Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:47 PM PDT  By Thomas Grove DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian rebels are receiving new armoured vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, with which they plan to launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released on Saturday. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase, with Kiev and Western governments watching nervously to see if Russia will intervene in support of the increasingly besieged rebels - an intention Moscow denies. Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said the rebels were in the process of receiving some 150 armoured vehicles, including 30 tanks, and 1,200 fighters who he said had spent four months training in Russia. Moscow has come under heavy Western sanctions over its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and accusations it is supporting separatists in east Ukraine with fighters, arms and funds.
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| Kevin Sutherland shoots 1st 59 on Champions Tour Posted: 16 Aug 2014 01:32 PM PDT ENDICOTT, N.Y. (AP) — Kevin Sutherland shot the first 59 in Champions Tour history Saturday at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open. |
| Montana Democrats choose new Senate candidate Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:42 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Democrats on Saturday selected a little-known state lawmaker named Amanda Curtis as their candidate for U.S. Senate after Sen. John Walsh dropped out amid plagiarism allegations from his time at the U.S. Army War College.
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| Manziel says he's not ready for opener _ yet Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:40 PM PDT  BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Manziel, so full of swagger and cool, understands his limitations. He's only a rookie.
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| Texas Gov. Perry says indictment is abuse of power Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry vowed Saturday to fight the indictment against him, calling it an "outrageous" abuse of power.
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| Guinea reopens Ebola clinic as sick spill over border Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:36 PM PDT  By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea said on Saturday it will reopen an Ebola clinic in its remote southeast as sick nationals living in Liberia and Sierra Leone spill over the borders in search of better treatment. West Africa's Guinea, the first country in the region to be affected by the deadly virus which has killed more than 1,100 people, says it has brought the outbreak under control. "We are concerned about the length of the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia, specifically in Macenta and Pamelap," said Sakoba Keita from Guinea's Health Ministry, referring to border towns. "The Guineans who are over there and are infected are inclined to come back to Guinea for better treatment," he added, describing Liberia's health system as in a state of decay.
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| IS kills hundreds in Syria, threatens rebel bastion: NGO Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT  Jihadists have killed over 700 tribal members in eastern Syria, monitors said Saturday, and are battling to seize a northern rebel bastion, sparking an appeal for an Iraq-style Western intervention. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State (IS) jihadists have carried out the killings over the past two weeks in oil-rich Deir Ezzor province which the group mostly controls. They were killed in Ghranij, Abu Hamam and Kashkiyeh villages, said the Observatory, which relies on a vast network of activists and medics on the ground for its information. The IS has captured most of Deir Ezzor and declared it to be part of its "caliphate," along with large swathes of territory it has captured across the border in Iraq.
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| Russian aid convoy waiting for security guarantees Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:30 PM PDT KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy waited Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures dragged on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. |
| Merkel, Poroshenko say arms deliveries to Ukraine separatists must stop Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:22 PM PDT Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed in a phone call on Saturday that deliveries of weapons to separatists in Ukraine must stop and a ceasefire must be agreed, a spokesman for the German government said. "The subject of the discussion was, above all, the reports confirmed by the separatists about the delivery of tanks from Russia and the reinforcement by fighters trained on Russian soil," Steffen Seibert said, adding that Merkel expected Moscow to take a position on these reports and the separatists' comments. |
| Swansea ruin Van Gaal bow, Ramsey saves Arsenal Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:17 PM PDT  Swansea City condemned Louis van Gaal to defeat in his first Premier League game as Manchester United manager on Saturday, while Aaron Ramsey scored a stoppage-time winner for Arsenal. Van Gaal was taking charge of his first competitive match at United, but his new side exhibited many of the same failings from last season -- when they finished seventh -- as they slumped to a 2-1 loss. It was Swansea's second consecutive win at Old Trafford, after an FA Cup third-round success in January, and dealt United their first home defeat on the season's opening day since 1972.
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| Hamas says Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:14 PM PDT  By Asma Alsharif and Dan Williams CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, and raised the possibility of renewed fighting when the current truce expires. Israel said it had also not yet accepted any proposals made in the Egyptian-mediated talks but, like the Palestinians, its envoys would continue attending them on Sunday. Hamas, Gaza's dominant Islamist group, wants an Israeli-Egyptian blockade on the coastal enclave lifted, as well as the establishment of a seaport and airport, as part of any enduring cessation of hostilities with the Jewish state. "Israel must accept the demands of the Palestinian people or face a long war," Osama Hamdan, the head of Hamas's foreign affairs, said on Facebook.
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| APNewsBreak: Teen gunman deemed not a high threat Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:12 PM PDT  LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A teen who fatally shot another student at his suburban Denver high school last year had been deemed "not a high-level of threat" after shouting a death threat against his debate coach three months earlier, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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| Serena Williams edges Wozniacki to reach final Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:11 PM PDT  MASON, Ohio (AP) — Serena Williams earned a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday to reach the final of the Western & Southern Open.
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| Jihadists closing in on Syrian rebel stronghold Posted: 16 Aug 2014 12:03 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Western-backed opposition called on Saturday for U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group as the jihadists captured three northern villages, putting them within striking distance of a mainstream rebel stronghold. |
| Biden, Poroshenko say Russia's actions not humanitarian in Ukraine Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:47 AM PDT U.S. Vice President Joe Biden agreed in a call with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday that Russia's military activities in eastern Ukraine were inconsistent with its stated desire to improve the humanitarian situation there, the White House said. "The two leaders agreed that Russia's sending military columns across the border into Ukraine and its continued provision of advanced weapons to the separatists was inconsistent with any desire to improve the humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine," the White House said in a statement about the call between Biden and Poroshenko. |
| Missouri protests reignite over police shooting of black teen Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:23 AM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - After another night of racially charged protests and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, Governor Jay Nixon was meeting with local and state law enforcement on Saturday to craft a plan aimed at quelling further violence. There was a lot of looting and there were a lot of people arming themselves in their storefront to guard their businesses," said Al Nothum, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol. The governor put Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson in charge of security on Thursday after several nights of violent clashes between protesters and local police forces in the aftermath of the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Tensions temporarily cooled on Thursday night but on Friday evening protesters again swarmed through a residential and retail district in the small town outside St. Louis that has become a virtual war zone, pitting mostly black protesters against mostly white police forces.
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| Brazil party plans to launch Marina Silva presidential bid Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:21 AM PDT  By Jeferson Ribeiro BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian Socialist Party plans to launch environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane clash, a senior party official said on Saturday. The PSB, as the party is known, has agreed to rally around a Silva candidacy after she pledged to honor the party's program and its regional alliances, said Beto Albuquerque, a party congressman from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. "She will be the PSB candidate and she will honor those agreements," Albuquerque told Reuters. Albuquerque, himself a favorite to become Silva's running mate, said the vice presidential candidate should be a person from the PSB who defends Campos' legacy, while being close to Silva.
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| 49ers gear up for first game at Levi's Stadium Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:11 AM PDT  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Colin Kaepernick understands the legacy left by Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Steve Young and so many others during a historic four-decade run at Candlestick Park.
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| Ukraine foreign minister calls on NATO, EU to give military support Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:09 AM PDT Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on NATO and the European Union to provide military support for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists and said the Western military alliance needed to come up with a new strategy toward Kiev. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase and a separatist leader said on Saturday that Ukrainian rebels were receiving new military equipment and troops trained in Russia, and would launch a major counter-offensive against government forces. Klimkin told German radio station Deutschlandfunk the EU and NATO needed to consider what they could and would do if rules get broken, adding that this was the case when Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March and was also true of Russia's actions in Donetsk and Luhansk now. |
| Thousands of protesters demand re-vote in Pakistan Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:06 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters thronged the streets of Pakistan's capital Saturday, defying pouring rain to answer the call of a fiery cleric and a cricket star-turned-politician who are both demanding the government step down immediately.
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| Woman steals San Diego police car, chase ensues Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:06 AM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A woman stole a San Diego Police patrol car then led authorities on a freeway chase for about 40 miles before she was arrested. |
| Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me Posted: 16 Aug 2014 11:03 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Police were called to Alec Baldwin's New York City apartment building, but this time he wasn't the one in trouble.
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| Pakistan anti-government protests draw determined crowd Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:45 AM PDT  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the center of Pakistan's capital on Saturday, vowing to stay in the streets until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. The numbers were far below what protest organizers expected, but the protesters' paralysis of the central business district is presenting the 15-month-old civilian government with its biggest challenge yet. The unrest raises questions about Pakistan's stability at a time when the nuclear-armed nation of 180 million is waging an offensive against Pakistani Taliban militants and the influence of anti-Western and sectarian groups is growing. "The prime minister and chief minister of Punjab should immediately resign and they should be sent to jail," thundered populist cleric Tahir ul-Qadri after arriving in a convoy of black Toyotas, their tinted windows speckled with rose petals.
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| Boehner's fundraising skills evident during summer Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:44 AM PDT  LINCOLN, N.D. (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner's fundraising skills put him in a class with few others. He has scooped up more than $43 million for accounts under his direct control and helped amass tens of millions more for Republican allies.
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| 'Atlanta Exes' members create own lane to fame Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:38 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Torrei Hart's career took a backseat for years to raise two children, allowing her then-husband Kevin Hart to pursue his comedy career.
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| Panthers QB Newton ready for return to field Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton will see his first game action since undergoing ankle surgery in March when the Carolina Panthers host the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night.
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| Fan takes free kick in West Ham-Spurs game Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:18 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A fan ran onto the field during Saturday's Premier League game between West Ham and Tottenham and took a free kick before being chased away by a steward.
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| Liberia expands Ebola treatment in capital Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:15 AM PDT MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centers in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting flights to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the deepening crisis. |
| Symphony sets stage at southern Utah's red rocks Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:14 AM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Symphony is using classical music to complement the beauty of Utah's soaring red rocks and canyons with free desert performances.
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