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Toyota tops Consumer Reports’ auto reliability rankings

DETROIT – Toyota Motor Co. is continuing its reign at the top of Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings, a reward for its conservative approach to new technology. The Toyota brand...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

1 student, 2 others killed in shooting near CSU campus

Police say no ongoing threat

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former Menendez staffer contradicts prosecution testimony

NEWARK, N.J. – A former staffer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez gave testimony at his bribery trial Wednesday that differed from the prosecution’s version of events. Karissa Willhite t...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Weinstein accuser feels ‘doubly crucified’ by Italy reaction

ROME – Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento says being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein “smashed all my dreams” and “changed the perception I had of myself.” Argento r...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chris Froome wins Velo d’Or award for 3rd time

PARIS – Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has capped his season by winning the Velo d’Or award as the best rider of 2017. The Team Sky leader succeeded three-time wor...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Sam Shepard novel coming out in December

NEW YORK – A novel Sam Shepard completed shortly before his death is coming out in December. In an announcement Wednesday, Alfred A. Knopf says that Spy of the First Person will b...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Lawmaker: Mascot wrong to rally for kneeling cheerleaders

KENNESAW, Ga. – The student who wears the owl mascot costume at a Georgia public university where five cheerleaders knelt during the national anthem had no business leading a cross-campus ma...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Celebrity-named seal pups rehabilitated, set free on beach

SANDWICH, Mass. – Two celebrity-named harbor seal pups rescued in Maine earlier this year have been rehabilitated and set free on a Massachusetts beach. “Giseal Bündchen” and “Sea...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Breaking Bad’ house in Albuquerque gets fence to block fans

ALBUQUERQUE – The real Albuquerque house made famous by the methamphetamine-making character Walter White in the AMC-TV hit series “Breaking Bad” is getting a fence. The owners ar...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

After 883 years, Cistercian monastery to close in Germany

BERLIN – A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, because of a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, fo...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Colorado Springs teen killed young siblings to be alone, police say

COLORADO SPRINGS – A 19-year-old accused of stabbing his two young siblings to death and wounding his father in Colorado told investigators he carried out the attack so he could be alone in ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Supreme Court backs push to remove Ten Commandments monument

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a lower court that ordered a New Mexico city to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the lawn outside City Hall. Civil ...