Cheryl K. Chumley

Two helicopters collide in Berlin, leaving 1 dead and several injured

Two helicopters crashed near an Olympic stadium in Berlin, and initial reports indicate that at least one is dead and several more are injured.

March 21, 2013

YouTube hits landmark 1 billion users per month

YouTube, launched in 2005, has hit a landmark — its monthly user rate has hit 1 billion each month.

March 21, 2013

Kurdish chief to call for cease-fire of 30-year conflict in Turkey

One of the bloodiest conflicts in the world could come to a halt Thursday, as Kurdish chief Abdullah Ocalan is expected to call his rebel fighters to cease fire in Turkey.

March 21, 2013

Gay marriage is ‘in the child’s best interests,’ American Academy of Pediatrics says

The American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 60,000-plus physicians, says it's in the best interests of children if gays are allowed to legally marry.

March 21, 2013

Greenpeace activists arrested at Jerusalem bridge

Eight Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a Jerusalem bridge to demand that President Obama stop the drilling in the Arctic were arrested Thursday.

March 21, 2013

Mississippi passes anti-Bloomberg bill banning bans on soda sales

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed into law this week an "anti-Bloomberg" measure that prohibits local governments from banning supersize sugary drinks.

March 21, 2013

Twitter turns 7 years old: Site touts more than 200M users

Twitter, touting more than 200 million active users, turns 7 years old today.

March 21, 2013

Judge denies Fort Hood shooting suspect’s attempt to plead guilty

The Fort Hood soldier charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the 2009 military post rampage cannot plead guilty, a judge ruled Wednesday.

March 21, 2013

Obama heads into talks with Palestinian President Abbas

President Obama arrived in Ramallah on Thursday morning for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting comes at a time when Palestinians are pushing Mr. Obama to ratchet up his involvement with peace talks.

March 21, 2013

$3 bowl bought at yard sale yields $2.2M at auction

A bowl bought at a New York yard sale for $3 in 2007 was sold at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday, after owners discovered the 5-inch ceramic piece actually hailed from China 1,000 years ago.

March 20, 2013

Egypt warns Hamas stealing fabric to copycat military uniforms

Egyptian military officials suspect members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas may be involved in a rash of fabric thefts that could be used for subterfuge, to copy uniforms.

March 20, 2013

Israeli rabbi says Obama is a ‘king of our time,’ worthy of special blessings

Those of Jewish faith and heritage have a religious duty to personally visit with President Obama during his trip to Israel, says one notable rabbi. He is, after all, a "kind of king in our time," Rabbi Ovadia Yosef says, in statements translated and reported by the Blaze.

March 20, 2013

Dianne Feinstein: ‘Not going to lay down and play dead’ on gun ban

Sen. Dianne Feinstein says her ban on assault-type weapons is far from dead. Just because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid denied its inclusion in the Democratic Party gun bill doesn't mean she's dropping it, she said, as Breitbart reported.

March 20, 2013

Ohio redux: Conn. high school football players charged in sexual assault of girl

Two football players at a Connecticut high school were charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl — just a few days after two Steubenville, Ohio, teenage boys were convicted in the rape of a fellow high school girl.

March 20, 2013

Sex, drugs close Wis. nude beach for weekday visits

Too much sex and drugs are causing Wisconsin authorities to scale back nude beach hours. They've closed the popular resort area Monday through Friday, only allowing access on the weekends, the Associated Press reports.

March 20, 2013

Rep. Mike Rogers, House intel chairman, says it’s ‘time to act’ in Syria

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said it's high time for America to get involved in Syria.

March 20, 2013

Mass. Dem under investigation for restaurant rampage over noisy child

A Massachusetts Democratic councilman running for state office faces an ethics investigation after he was accused of going on a verbal rampage in a Texas Roadhouse restaurant after a special-needs child disrupted his dining.

March 20, 2013

Michael Moore: Why aren’t Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in jail?

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN's Piers Morgan that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a war criminal and that several in the Bush administration ought to be in jail.

March 20, 2013

Republican sheriff forced to defend joke about Obama

A Massachusetts sheriff has been forced to go on the defensive following a weekend joke he told about President Obama and Abe Lincoln's assassination drew fire from the community.

March 20, 2013

Arizona, Vermont top list of gun-friendly states

Guns & Ammo magazine opens its rankings on best and worst states for gun rights in 2013 with a snarky quip that makes a blunt point: Apparently, the Second Amendment doesn't apply to the District of Columbia, since it's not a state.

March 20, 2013