NEW YORK (AP) — The number of potential successors for the top spot at PepsiCo is thinning as yet another highly regarded executive announced his departure. Zein Abdalla, named president of the company just over two years ago, will retire this year. The departure of Abdalla, 56, follows that of Brian Cornell, who oversaw PepsiCo’s…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Defense Department will investigate the crash of an Idaho Army National Guard helicopter during a training mission that killed both people aboard, a military spokesman says. National Guard spokesman Col. Tim Marsano confirmed the deaths of the two male pilots but did not release any details on them pending notification…
KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that one of their own has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden. Others say they have gotten used to the idea that their brethren might break the code of silence and seek to profit from their…
FARES AKRAM Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian troops are pressing ahead with the demolition of hundreds of homes along the border with the Gaza Strip, cutting off electricity and firing warning shots in the air in a heavy-handed campaign to evict thousands of residents from the volatile area. The forced evacuations in…
ALISON MUTLER Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The son of a dissident killed in jail during Romania’s communist era has ended a hunger strike after 17 days, but said Friday his protest shows that even 25 years after communism ended, it’s a struggle to bring former apparatchiks to justice. Andrei Ursu said he called…
WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser says Marion Barry and three other former mayors are among the group of Washingtonians on her transition team. Bowser announced some of the team members Friday, saying all the co-chairs should be in place next week. She says eight committees will focus on different issues, such…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin has stepped down as an honorary co-chair of the bipartisan No Labels group. The West Virginia Democrat has been upset that the group supported the Republican challenger, Congressman Cory Gardner, in the Colorado Senate race. Manchin had backed Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in the contest. Manchin says the…
SLOVAN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she forced her daughter to eat cat litter and started to sew the girl’s mouth shut. Forty-six-year-old Rana Cooper told reporters she is “a very good mother” after Thursday’s preliminary hearing. Immediately after the hearing, her 51-year-old husband, Richard Cooper,…
CHRIS LINES AP Sports Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Declaring “the time for change is now,” IOC President Thomas Bach urged the world’s national Olympic committees on Friday to support his reform program for shaping the future of the games. In an address to the Association of National Olympic Committees, Bach laid out the importance of…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Valley Authority’s president and CEO could earn more than $1 million extra this year. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/1smQm6m) reported the agency’s board voted unanimously on Thursday to raise Bill Johnson’s salary and performance pay after the 60-year-old attorney met all of TVA’s targets for 2014. TVA nearly…
