GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — The man who staged a St. Patrick's Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.
Investigators in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin said information from the FBI linked David Christopher Cotton, 20, of Brentwood to the December robbery.
FBI Supervisor Special Agent Scott Augenbaum told The Associated Press that...
MOSCOW (AP) — Hoping to diffuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront face to face an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims.
The Obama administration's special envoy for Mideast peace, George Mitchell, prepared to return to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
Netanyahu called Clinton on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it is near an agreement with other nations to cancel the $447 million that Haiti owes to the Inter-American Development Bank.
Treasury Department officials said Thursday that a deal would likely be struck this weekend to cancel Haiti's debt to the bank, which serves as a major source of development loans for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Two senior Treasury officials briefed reporters in advance of...
CHICAGO (AP) — A gunman who killed himself and five students at Northern Illinois University in 2008 may have been motivated in part by fury at academic changes the school made that he believed de-emphasized his academic field, according to a new report released Thursday.
The 322-page report, the first to speculate in detail about motives behind Steven Kazmierczak's attack, said simmering anger, mental issues and his mother's death may have contributed to his decision to...
CHICAGO (AP) — A new report suggests the gunman who killed himself and five students at Northern Illinois University in 2008 may have been motivated by anger over changes the school made that he believed de-emphasized his academic field.
A 322-page report released Thursday is the first to speculate in detail about what may have pushed Steven Kazmierczak to open fire in a lecture hall Feb 14, 2008. The report says simmering anger, mental issues and his mother's death may...
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Documents released Thursday in the case of motivational speaker James Arthur Ray offer more details of the experiences of the people who participated in a deadly sweat lodge ceremony.
Ray led the ceremony as part of his "Spiritual Warrior" retreat last year near Sedona. He faces manslaughter charges in the deaths of three people who took part, and has pleaded not guilty.
The more than 50 people who were inside the pitch-black...
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Documents released Thursday in the case of motivational speaker James Arthur Ray offer more details of the experiences of the people who participated in a deadly sweat lodge ceremony.
Ray led the ceremony as part of his "Spiritual Warrior" retreat last year near Sedona. He faces manslaughter charges in the deaths of three people who took part, and has pleaded not guilty.
The more than 50 people who were inside the pitch-black...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.
There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone. The issue received more attention this week after a prominent medical marijuana activist in Seattle nearly killed a robber in a shootout — the eighth time thieves had targeted his pot-growing...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees.
A Thursday letter from the Justice Department to Republican Congressman Don Manzullo says the department would seek to purchase the facility in Thomson even if detainees weren't being considered for transfer.
But the letter also gives no indication the administration is backing away from its plan to...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees.
A Thursday letter from the Justice Department to Republican Congressman Don Manzullo says the department would seek to purchase the facility in Thomson even if detainees weren't being considered for transfer.
But the letter also gives no indication the administration is backing away from its plan to...
