Elite prep school tackles ‘hook-up’ culture amid rape case
By RIK STEVENS A New Hampshire prep school that has educated some of the nation’s elite for more than a century and a half is confronting a campus practice of…
Violent crime
3 killed, 4 wounded in drive-by shooting in western New York
Police say a gunman shot into a crowd after a basketball game in western New York, killing three people and wounding four others. The drive-by shooting happened late Wednesday outside…
Jury selection begins in Kansas Jewish site shootings
An avowed white supremacist who admitted that he killed three people outside of two Kansas Jewish sites seemed upbeat as jury selection began in his capital murder trial. Frazier Glenn…
Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian attacker in West Bank
Israeli authorities say troops have shot and killed a Palestinian after he stabbed a guard at a West Bank checkpoint. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the man approached border police…
Family says daughter raped repeatedly while held by IS
By KEN DILANIAN American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. intelligence officials told her family…
After 2 nights of tension, a peaceful protest in Ferguson
By JIM SALTER Police outnumbered protesters along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson on Tuesday night, perhaps signaling the demonstrations around the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death are starting to fade.…
Pakistan police officers, spy fired over child abuse case
A top government official in eastern Pakistan says he has fired a provincial intelligence chief and three senior police officers for failing to act against a gang that blackmailed the…
4th night of Ferguson protests brings confrontation, arrests
Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early Tuesday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, although there was…