Cheryl K. Chumley

Rescue operations halted in Bangladesh factory collapse

The death count on Monday stands at 380, as emergency responders to a Bangladesh factory collapse shifted operations from rescue to recovery and rubble removal.

April 29, 2013

Several injured, trapped as blast rocks building in Prague

Authorities said a huge explosion on Monday rocked a building in Prague, collapsing portions and trapping an unknown number of victims in the rubble.

April 29, 2013

Syria’s prime minister escapes assassination attempt; bomber targeted convoy

Syria's prime minister escaped a daring assassination attempt on Monday when an attacker targeted his convoy in downtown Damascus and detonated a bomb.

April 29, 2013

Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli targets women with new campaign ad

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is reaching out to women voters with his first television campaign ad for governor, starring his wife, Teiro.

April 26, 2013

N.J. senator pushes to tax electric cars by mile

A senator in New Jersey wants to recoup revenues lost from gas taxes on electric car drivers with a new fee that would charge them by the mile for their travels.

April 26, 2013

50 found alive in Bangladesh factory rubble

An estimated 50 survivors were discovered Friday with the piles of rubble that once served as a garment factory Bangladesh.

April 26, 2013

Exploding bus that killed dozens in Afghanistan blamed on Taliban

A bus exploded in flames after colliding with an abandoned oil tanker that had been attacked by Taliban militants on Friday, southern Afghanistan police said.

April 26, 2013

Indian man caught selling newborn grandson on Facebook for drug money

Investigators have charged a 47-year-old man and two hospital workers in India with trying to sell the man's newborn grandson on Facebook for drug money.

April 26, 2013

500 Marines head to Spain to start new security unit

Five hundred Marines are en route to Spain to establish a new security force tasked with rapid response protection duties for U.S. citizens, government workers and facilities in Africa.

April 26, 2013

British PM David Cameron: No troops to Syria

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that his nation would not be sending military troops to Syria, despite the surfacing of evidence that shows President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against rebel fighters.

April 26, 2013

Hyundai forced to retreat from ad making light of suicide

Hyundai executives issued a hasty apology Thursday after widespread outrage over one of its advertisements that relied on a suicide message to tout the vehicle's clean emissions.

April 26, 2013

Ron Paul endorses Mark Sanford for Congress

Ron Paul, the former representative for Texas, endorsed former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford for his congressional race.

April 26, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press conference breaks record: 4 hours, 47 minutes long

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a question-answer press conference that covered everything from pork imports and liquor consumption to gas prices and playground equipment, broke records for length: His presser spanned a historic high of 4 hours and 47 minutes.

April 26, 2013

Feds shut down clinical trials for HIV vaccine, citing safety

Federal authorities have shut down a clinical trial for an HIV vaccine after finding that test subjects were at risk for contracting the virus.

April 26, 2013

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev moved to federal Bureau of Prisons’ hospital

The 19-year-old surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has been transferred from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to a facility on Fort Devens in Massachusetts.

April 26, 2013

North Korea rejects South Korea’s demand for factory talks

North Korea has rebuffed South Korea's demand for negotiations to reopen a jointly owned factory park, escalating tensions in an already volatile situation.

April 26, 2013

Raul Castro’s daughter denied entry to U.S. from Cuba for gay activism ceremony

The United States has turned down a request from the daughter of Cuba President Raul Castro to visit Philadelphia for a gay rights ceremony.

April 26, 2013

Dozens killed as fire guts mental hospital in Russia

Nearly 40 are believed dead in a Friday fire that blazed through a psychiatric hospital in Russia, killing some patients as they slept and others as they tried desperately to push past the bars on the windows.

April 26, 2013

Israel shoots down drone threatening P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu’s chopper

A helicopter transporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a quick emergency landing Thursday after military officials spotted — then shot down — an unmanned drone that was entering Israeli airspace.

April 25, 2013

San Francisco firefighter rakes in $221K in overtime

San Francisco firefighters are raking in enough overtime pay to become millionaires in a few short years. For example, one lieutenant just collected $221,000 in overtime last year — bringing his total yearly salary to $363,000, The Associated Press reported.

April 25, 2013