Cheryl K. Chumley

Banks to 700 veterans: Oops, sorry for the foreclosures

A couple of the biggest banks in the United States have admitted that they were wrong to foreclose on 700-plus military families, at a time when the soldiers were actively serving in war zones.

March 4, 2013

Speaker John Boehner vows no government shutdown

House Speaker John Boehner says no way will he push for a government shutdown, despite sequester buzz and chatter to the contrary.

March 4, 2013

Female NFL tryout ends amid accusations it was business promotion

Lauren Silberman's try for the NFL consisted of two kicks and the aggravation of an old leg injury. Then she went home.

March 4, 2013

Syrian rebel fighters storm academy, kill 115 policemen

Reports from Syrian media indicate opposition fighters have killed 115 policemen and injured 50 in a fight at the police academy in Aleppo.

March 4, 2013

Pakistanis sift through rubble for bodies of 45 bomb victims

Pakistan's Shiite members were frantically sifting through rubble on Monday, searching for the bodies of the 45 friends and family members who were killed in a car bomb blast following evening prayer services.

March 4, 2013

CHUMLEY: NYC Mayor Bloomberg commands impressive, nationwide attack on 2nd Amendment

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is to the Second Amendment what billionaire investor George Soros is to the free market: A resounding death knell.

March 2, 2013

Cardinal Timothy Dolan: ‘Sadness in Rome’ over pope’s departure

The mood in Rome in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation and departure is melancholy, said Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

March 1, 2013

Gun shop window: Obama ‘Firearms Salesman of the Year’

For some gun shop owners, President Obama's push to tighten Second Amendment rights isn't all bad. One New Hampshire gun store has a picture of the president, along with photos of two AK-47s, next to this banner in its front window: "Firearms Salesman of the Year," CBS reports.

March 1, 2013

Florida Republicans pull the reins on Gov. Scott’s Medicaid expansion plans

Florida's Gov. Rick Scott may have jumped the gun a bit with his recent announcement that he supports Obamacare's expansions to Medicaid, after all. Just minutes after his announcement, lawmakers in the state were rallying in opposition.

March 1, 2013

Danica wanna-be: New York woman to try out for NFL

A New York woman is going to try out for the NFL, a first in league history.

March 1, 2013

SpaceX capsule hits snag on route to space station

The SpaceX Dragon capsule that launched Friday morning to bring supplies to the International Space Station has hit a snag. Three of the four rocket thrusters are having problems that flight controllers are trying to fix.

March 1, 2013

Syrian rebels beg for weapons, not Band-Aids

The chief of Syria's opposition fighters says they are in dire need for weapons, not the food and medical aid that the U.S. is set to send.

March 1, 2013

L.A. driving out sex offenders, one park at a time

Los Angeles thinks it's stumbled on a novel way to drive out sex offenders: Build more parks, then quote state laws that prohibit them from living within 2,000 feet.

March 1, 2013

Investment icon Druckenmiller: ‘I see a storm coming’

Entitlement spending is driving the nation into deeper economic despair than most realize, said hedge fund guru Stanley Druckenmiller.

March 1, 2013

Lose weight — run a vacuum? Fat rates rise as housework falls off

American women are fat because they don't vacuum enough. That's — kind of — the finding from a new study published this month on American waistlines.

March 1, 2013

First lady Michelle Obama downplays Oscar appearance, ‘kitchen-table conversation’

First lady Michelle Obama said she wasn't surprised her Academy Award appearance set national tongues talking because even "my shoes can set off a national conversation," she said.

March 1, 2013

NRA: N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sacrificing 2nd Amendment’s gun rights on ‘altar of own ambition’

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not only shredding the Constitution with new statewide gun-control laws, but he's doing so "on the altar of his own ambition," the NRA chief said at a rally outside the Capitol in Albany.

March 1, 2013

Bold Pennsylvania county votes to defy federal gun laws

In true David-versus-Goliath fashion, one small-town Pennsylvania board of commissioners has passed a resolution to stand strong against any federal law that infringes on the Second Amendment.

March 1, 2013

Shooter takes VP Joe Biden’s advice — and lands in trouble with cops

Vice President Joseph R. Biden told a Field & Stream reporter in a published report on Monday that if "you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door." That same day, a 22-year-old man in Virginia Beach, Va., did just that — and was charged with reckless handling of a firearm.

March 1, 2013

Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu suspends housing settlements ahead of Obama’s visit

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended all housing construction in contested areas of east Jerusalem and the West Bank as a diplomatic nod at President Obama's upcoming visit.

March 1, 2013