Obama, tech firms to announce software donations to U.S. schools
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is set to announce on Friday that private companies have donated more than $400 million worth of software and software licenses to bring more technology to classrooms.
New York jury finds Kerry Kennedy not guilty of impaired driving
WHITE PLAINS, New York - A jury on Friday found the daughter of slain U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy not guilty of driving while impaired by drugs in connection with a 2012 incident in which she accidentally mistook a sleeping pill for another medication and crashed into a truck on a New York highway.
Ex-NFL star arrested in Los Angeles on New Orleans rape warrant
LOS ANGELES - Former football star Darren Sharper, wanted by New Orleans police as a suspect in two rapes, was arrested on Thursday in Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty a week ago to charges of drugging four other women and raping two of them.
Chronically ill facing high drugs costs under U.S. health law
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's ban on discriminatory health insurance practices against the sick has not stopped insurers from increasing up-front charges for the expensive drugs needed to control chronic illnesses from leukemia to multiple sclerosis.
U.S. expands healthy food assistance to women, infants and children
WASHINGTON - Some 9 million poor women and young children who receive federal food assistance under the U.S. government's so-called WIC program will have greater access to fruits, vegetables and whole grains under an overhaul of the program unveiled on Friday.
U.S. appeals court sides with California school in T-shirt dispute
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Bay-area high school officials did not violate the civil rights of five students by demanding they remove T-shirts bearing images of the U.S. flag at an event celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Oklahoma House passes new abortion restrictions bill
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday to apply new restrictions on abortions that lawmakers said are aimed at protecting women's health but opponents say are designed to shut down clinics.
At funeral home, 'dead' Mississippi man kicks to escape body bag
- A funeral director in Mississippi got a bit of a shock this week when a man, brought to him in a body bag, kicked to get out just before he was to be embalmed, a local TV station reported.
Two Mexicans charged with running outlaw gun factory in California
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Mexican nationals were indicted on Thursday on charges of running an outlaw weapons-supply shop in northern California that assembled and sold unmarked, illegal firearms and accessories, including machine-guns and silencers.
Unauthorized video of U.S. Supreme Court protest posted online
WASHINGTON - For the first time, video footage of U.S. Supreme Court proceedings has been recorded and posted online.
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