DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire says that two students who were arrested in connection with the off-campus stabbing of another student have been suspended. UNH officials said Tuesday that 20- year-old Matthew Gibbons and 21- year-old Eric Denning will remain suspended pending the outcome of their cases. Police said a screen […]

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts attorney general’s office has sued a for-profit nursing school alleging that it charged high fees for an inadequate education and held classes in the state even though it was not licensed. Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday sued Hosanna College of Health and its founding executives. The complaint says the […]

LAS VEGAS With Donald Trump’s grasp on the Republican presidential nomination tightening, the billionaire businessman’s rivals get one more chance to challenge the GOP frontrunner on the debate stage before next week’s slate of Super Tuesday contests. The situation is likely more dire for the other GOP candidates than they’d like voters to believe. Yet […]

BAILEY, Colo. Martin Wirth spent recent years fuming over police brutality and corrupt mortgage companies, fueled by his own run-ins with the law and a years long battle to salvage his two-story home in the forested Colorado mountains from foreclosure. That fight came to a violent end Wednesday when Wirth, 58, shot three law enforcement […]

WAVERLY, VA. Storm systems brought tornadoes to the East Coast, killing four in Virginia, and heavy snow that canceled hundreds of flights in the Midwest. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency Wednesday night after tornadoes damaged homes and left thousands without power across the state. The tiny town of Waverly took the […]

CALAIS, France Demolition crews are set to move into a sprawling slum camp in Calais, where thousands of migrants dream of getting to Britain, as French authorities try to close an embarrassing and often shocking chapter in Europe’s migrant crisis. Closing the camp known as “the jungle” would be the most dramatic step by the […]

BEIRUT Syrian government troops backed by Russian airstrikes recaptured a town in Aleppo province from Islamic State militants today in a key advance just two days ahead of a U.S. and Russia-engineered cease-fire that is to take effect in Syria. The town of Khanaser was seized earlier this week by the extremist Islamic State group, […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korea is urging its people to hunker down and work harder with a “70-day campaign of loyalty” before a major meeting of its ruling Workers’ Party in May. Red placards went up around the capital Tuesday starting the campaign. Thousands of Pyongyang residents were massed on Kim Il Sung Square this […]

GENEVA A U.N. human rights report has documented thousands of cases of beheadings, arbitrary detention and torture involving electrocution and beatings with pipes and cables in an increasingly lawless Libya, where impunity has grown since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi nearly five years ago. Issuing its 95-page report today, the Office of the High Commissioner […]