HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston-area judge has ordered that two violent sex offenders be placed in state custody once they complete prison sentences for sex offenses committed in other states after being banished from Texas. A judge in Montgomery County this week issued the order for 58-year-old Melvin Cody Whipple and 44-year-old Lloyd Joseph Wilson….
MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar’s transformation from pariah state to aspiring democracy has been kind to blogger Nay Phone Latt. He was freed from a 20-year prison term imposed for his coverage of anti-junta protests. He now has a weekly program on U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia and runs an internationally praised campaign…
The fossilized skeleton of a 15-million-year-old snaggletooth shark has been uncovered in Maryland. And to add to the excitement, it\’s the first if its kind ever discovered.
LYNSEY CHUTEL Associated Press CENTURION, South Africa (AP) — Journalist Edgar Tsimane says he faces danger if he returns to his home country of Botswana, where the government has criticized his reporting. The government in Botswana says it isn’t out to get him and he can return anytime from South Africa, where he has sought…
MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana started this season by talking about a bowl bid. Penn State’s hopes came back when the NCAA lifted its bowl ban in early September. Now to achieve those goals, one of these teams must break out of its midseason funk and jump start its season…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A man accused of shooting at police stations and officers in three Washington state cities has been charged with attempted murder, assault and drive-by shooting. Hans Hansen of Granite Falls pleaded not guilty Thursday and is being held without bail in the Snohomish County Jail. The Daily Herald reported (http://bit.ly/1AzfNur )…
DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It would be easy to write off Kansas vs. Iowa State as merely a pillow fight between Big 12 cellar-dwellers, a meaningless matchup of teams mired in losing seasons. Turns out that there could be plenty on line Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Cyclones coach Paul Rhoads…
JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For West Virginia, the move three years ago into the Big 12 was certain to create tests like this. A week after losing a heartbreaker at home to TCU that knocked them down in the league standings, the Mountaineers have to get on a plane for…
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Prince George’s County police are canvassing a neighborhood where they say a 16-year-old girl was nearly kidnapped. Police said Friday that detectives will fan out across an Upper Marlboro neighborhood Friday as they work to identify the man who tried to kidnap the girl. Police say the teen was walking…
RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An explosive storm surpassing the intensity of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy is expected to reach Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands over the weekend and bring unseasonably frigid temperatures to much of the U.S. next week, weather forecasters said Thursday. What remains of Typhoon Nuri is moving northeast from off…
