HOUSTON (AP) 鈥� Texas' top criminal appeals court has stopped Thursday evening's scheduled execution of a Texas inmate who had been condemned for killing another prisoner more than 26 years ago.William Speer, 49, had been set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥� The board that runs the University of Louisiana System has unanimously appointed Grambling State University President Rick Gallot as its next leader.During a special meeting Thursday, the system's Board of Supervisors said Gallot will succeed Dr. Jim Henderson, whom ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) 鈥� A lawyer for Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko said Thursday that the detained politician had regained consciousness but remains 鈥渋n a very precarious condition鈥� on hunger strike.Sonko, a popular figure with young Senegalese who placed third in the last ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 鈥� An Ohio woman has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths of at least four men in the capital city of Columbus, the Ohio Attorney General said Wednesday, though investigators believe there are more victims.Rebecca Auborn, a 33-year-old from Columbus, is accused of ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) 鈥� A 2-year-old boy in Michigan has died from a gunshot wound after police believe he was left alone in a car with an unsecured firearm.Lansing police said the incident took place outside a gas station Tuesday afternoon, where they found the boy with a gunshot wound. The ...
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A top Google executive testified Thursday that the company's success is precarious and said its leadership fears their product could slide into irrelevance with younger internet users.Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's senior vice president for knowledge and information products, ...
