From The Wire
Fortune-teller Family Charged In Huge Scam
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 17 (UPI) — A family of fortune tellers in Florida and New York has been charged with swindling $40 million from customers during the last 20 years, officials said. For two decades, ABC News reported, the family allegedly has been telling customers seeking cures for illnesses that “money is the root […]
Study: U.S. Students Vary In Proficiency
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 17 (UPI) — Massachusetts students have the same level of mathematics proficiency as South Korea while California is down with Greece, a study released Wednesday said. Researchers at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard analyzed data from the National Assessment for Educational Progress for the class of 2011. They found the […]
Salvador Priests' Suspected Killer Found
EVERETT, Mass., Aug. 17 (UPI) — A human rights group says a former Salvadoran military officer accused in the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador has been found in Massachusetts. Inocente Orlando Montano has been living in an apartment in Everett, Mass., for two decades under his own name, the Center for […]
Salvador Priests’ Suspected Killer Found
EVERETT, Mass., Aug. 17 (UPI) — A human rights group says a former Salvadoran military officer accused in the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador has been found in Massachusetts. Inocente Orlando Montano has been living in an apartment in Everett, Mass., for two decades under his own name, the Center for […]
Teen Guilty In Stabbing Attack On Parents
PORT HURON, Mich., Aug. 17 (UPI) — A Michigan teenager has been found guilty of plotting and orchestrating an attack that killed her father and wounded her mother. Tia Skinner, 18, of Yale was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, the Port Huron Times Herald reported. Skinner was downstairs […]
U.N. Withdraws Some Staff From Syria
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 17 (UPI) — The United Nations announced Wednesday it is temporarily withdrawing some staff from Syria in light of the government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators. Michael Williams, the U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, said 26 non-essential international staff and their families are being relocated from Syria, the United Nations said in a […]
GOP Leaders: Obama Must Act On Debt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) — The two top U.S. House Republicans said in an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today President Obama needs to focus on real debt reduction. The op-ed by Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., says, “The American people elected the new House Republican majority with orders to […]
Harvard Animal Lab Cited In USDA Check
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 17 (UPI) — A Harvard University animal research center has been cited in the death of a primate incorrectly given anesthesia, federal officials say. The citation was one of five issued as a result of a July inspection of several Harvard animal research facilities by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Boston […]
Ankara Vows To Fight PKK During Ramadan
ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 17 (UPI) — Turkish authorities aren’t going to wait until the holy month of Ramadan ends before taking on Kurdish militants, the country’s president said Wednesday. The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, was blamed for killing eight Turkish soldiers and a village guard in an ambush Wednesday in Turkey’s southeastern province […]
U.S. Joins Miss. Hate Crime Investigation
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 17 (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department has joined the investigation of an alleged hate crime ending in homicide in Mississippi, U.S. and state officials say. A group of white teenagers allegedly killed a black man because of his color. James Craig Anderson, 49, was first beaten as he stood in a […]
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