If the London mayoral election were today, who would you vote for?

What can we learn from Charlie Sheen?

NEW YORK — Maybe we can make Char­lie Sheen’s lat­est scan­dal a teach­able moment for the rest of us.

Woman called about drug money from Ohio jail

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer COLUMBUS (AP) — Almost as soon as a woman was jailed last year on sus­pi­cion of ship­ping hun­dreds of pounds of mar­i­juana to Ohio in suit­cases, she placed calls to a Cal­i­for­nia accom­plice ask­ing about the sta­tus of pro­ceeds from the oper­a­tion, accord­ing to an updated ver­sion of […]

Taking for granted they’ll always be there

Recipe for Mother’s veal scallopini

Ohio condo assn. says Virgin Mary statue must go

HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — A con­do­minium asso­ci­a­tion in Ohio has told a woman to remove a statue of the Vir­gin Mary from out­side her condo or face a pos­si­ble $50 fine. A let­ter sent to Lilla Kozlowski last week said her 3-foot tall white statue in the Colum­bus sub­urb of Hilliard vio­lated the association’s rules. Kozlowski […]

Finalists announced in 2010 APSO newspaper contest

(AP) DIVISION I, News­pa­pers with daily cir­cu­la­tion up to 7,900 Best Online Pho­to­jour­nal­ist: Clin­ton Ran­dall, The (Greenville) Daily Advo­cate; John Crop­per, Wilm­ing­ton News Jour­nal; Lora Aber­nathy, Hills­boro Times-Gazette. Best Head­line Writer: Chad Williamson, Marysville Journal-Tribune; Joel Sensenig, The (Fos­to­ria) Review Times. Best Busi­ness Writer: Kristina Smith Horn, The (Fre­mont) News-Messenger; Ryan Horns, Marysville Journal-Tribune; Teresa Moore, […]

Jackson's mom trims suit against concert promoter

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attor­neys for Michael Jackson’s mother have told a judge they will not pur­sue a civil con­spir­acy claim in a wrong­ful death law­suit against the orga­niz­ers of the pop singer’s planned series of come­back con­certs. A judge pre­vi­ously ruled that Kather­ine Jack­son could not pur­sue con­spir­acy and inflic­tion of emo­tional dis­tress claims […]

Report: Ex-minister says Gadhafi ordered Lockerbie

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya’s ex-justice min­is­ter claims Moam­mar Gad­hafi per­son­ally ordered the Locker­bie bomb­ing that killed 270 peo­ple in 1988. Expressen on Wednes­day quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their cor­re­spon­dent in Libya that “I have proof that Gad­hafi gave the order about Locker­bie.” He didn’t describe the proof. Abdel-Jalil stepped down as justice […]