WASHINGTON – Providencia Paredes, the special assistant to former first lady Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, has died. Paredes’ son, Gustavo Paredes, announced her death on his Facebook page. Paredes died in Washington on March 18 at the age of 90. In his post, Gustavo Paredes wrote that his mother was born …
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WASHINGTON – Several dozen protesters hindered the morning commute for some Thursday as they marched in the streets of Washington. Television news footage showed about 40 demonstrators waving signs that read, “Stop racist police terror” and “Stand with the people of Ferguson.” The group snarled some traffic during the morning …
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MILWAUKEE – Authorities say a baby and a man were stabbed to death in an attack at a Milwaukee duplex that left three other people wounded. Milwaukee fire officials told WTMJ-TV (http://bit.ly/1zDgPF0 ) that the 7-month-old baby and middle-aged man were found dead in the west side home about 8:30 …
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NEW YORK – Police say a suspicious package left behind a concrete barrier of a New York City bus station didn’t contain any explosives but did have some unexpected contents — 1,000 individually packaged condoms for both men and women. A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and …
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IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. – The U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego says three women and a 15-year-old boy were taken into custody after illegally entering the United States from Mexico on personal watercraft. Agency spokesperson Payam Tanaomi says the four were dropped off near the Imperial Beach pier by the …
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NESCOPECK, Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police are crying fowl after crates of live chickens hurtled off a tractor-trailer on a Pennsylvania highway and the birds flew the coop. The feather-ruffling incident happened at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 80 in Nescopeck Township, near Berwick. State police say about 500 …
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AKRON, Ohio – Police say a 60-year-old man has been crushed to death at a machine shop in Ohio. An Akron police spokesman said the accident occurred sometime between 10 p.m. Friday and around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, when co-workers found him. The spokesman says co-workers used a crane to lift …
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LAS VEGAS – Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota, state and U.S. officials said. The three states contract with New Hampshire-based Measured Progress to administer the tests that are linked to hotly disputed, federally backed education standards. “We …
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SAN DIEGO – A man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group is going to be sent from California to Minnesota to face charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford in San Diego signed a warrant for the removal of Mohamad Farah. The FBI …
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SEATTLE – Oyster growers in southwest Washington are preparing to spray up to 2,000 acres of commercial shellfish beds after winning state approval to use a neurotoxic pesticide to control a native burrowing shrimp. They say it’s a safe way to check a threat to the area’s multi-million shellfish industry. …
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