FIRE ISLAND, N.Y. – The Coast Guard says a search is underway for a missing crew member after a tugboat sank off Fire Island in New York. Coast Guard Petty Officer Morgan Gallapis said the search began Saturday afternoon after a crew member reported the tugboat was sinking. She says …
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The wife of a man who authorities say faked his own death to defraud insurance companies out of millions appeared briefly in court on counts of insurance fraud. Daphne Simpson did not enter a plea Tuesday. She was appointed a public defender because her bank accounts and …
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EMMITSBURG, Md. – A local elected official in Maryland who achieved instant Internet notoriety after he threatened to sue a newspaper for publishing his name now says he won’t sue after all. Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter (dee-LAW’-tur) said in a written statement Wednesday he was wrong when he told …
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CHICAGO – A strip club on the northwest side of Chicago has received a neighborhood award for its efforts to improve the area. Albany Park Neighbors decided this month to give one of six “Block Star Business” awards to the Admiral Theatre. The group’s website says the award is meant …
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The NAACP is asking elected officials in western New York to reject any future requests to name anything after President Millard Fillmore, who lived in Buffalo and is buried there. The Buffalo branch of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization tells The Buffalo News (http://bit.ly/1zKV70q ) that …
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – States across the country are accelerating their drive for new revenue to repair aging road systems, moves that come as the amount of federal funding has been falling. Figures compiled by The Associated Press show the total amount of money available to states from the Federal …
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HONOLULU – Hawaii Gov. David Ige says a nonprofit company planning to build one of the world’s biggest telescopes on a mountain many Native Hawaiians consider sacred will continue to postpone construction. This is the second time the Thirty Meter Telescope has extended a moratorium on building at the summit …
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Janay Jumping Eagle is on a mission to curb teen suicide in her hometown on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dahkota Brown of the Wilton Band of Miwok Indians in California wants to keep American Indian and Alaska Native students on track toward graduation. The teenagers …
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Police are hailing a man who shot and killed a would-be carjacker outside a Utah grocery store, saying he did the “right thing” by coming to the aid of the vehicle’s owner. Investigators say the 31-year-old man with a concealed weapons permit was in Macey’s parking lot in Orem, 45 …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A judicial review panel is recommending a four-month suspension for a Florida judge who was captured on video berating and threatening to assault a public defender. In findings released Wednesday, the six-member Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission found Brevard County Judge John C .Murphy guilty of violating various …
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