COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group has been formally indicted. A federal prosecutor in Columbus says Aaron Daniels wired $250 to an IS group operative in January and told an undercover informant about his interest in traveling overseas to commit jihad. […]

DETROIT (AP) — A man has been sentenced to at least 14 years in prison for his role in the killing of a 13-year-old Detroit boy who was abducted, beaten and choked after he picked up money that he found on the ground. Earnest Coleman returned to court Thursday, less than a month after pleading […]

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (AP) — Officials have ordered the evacuation of 300 homes downwind of a fire at a former steel mill site outside Buffalo, citing air quality concerns. Fire crews remain at the smoky scene in Lackawanna on Thursday, 24 hours after the fire started inside a massive building housing several businesses on the former […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man who authorities say was angry about a Facebook post pleaded not guilty Thursday to stabbing three people to death and knifing three others in New Jersey’s largest city. Jeremy Arrington, 26, appeared in court in Newark, where he faced three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, […]

GENEVA ( AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing new details as proof that the Islamic State group is using chemical weapons as Iraqi government forces try to oust its fighters from the city of Mosul. Amid concerns about IS’ use of human shields in the city, rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said […]

NEW DELHI ( AP) — A fire that broke out in the basement of a garment factory trapped and killed at least 13 workers as they slept early Friday in the building just outside New Delhi, a government official said. Nine other workers were injured, four of them seriously, Uttar Pradesh state official Naresh Mathur […]

SEOUL, South Korea ( AP) — South Korean police have booked 15 people for allegedly smuggling endangered animals from Thailand and showing them at small zoos or to children at kindergartens and daycare centers. A police official in the port city of Busan said Friday that they seized 22 animals including Siamese crocodiles and slow […]

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian officials say 35 Syrian refugees, relocated in the Baltic nation under a European Union plan to distribute 160,000 refugees across the bloc, have left in search of a better life elsewhere in Europe. Robertas Mikulenas, head of Rukla refugee reception center in Lithuania, says a group of 16 adults and […]

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A police official says Nigerian soldiers have foiled an attack by three females prepared for suicide bombings at the northeast region’s largest city. Victor Isuku, deputy superintendent of police in Borno state, said the assailants were spotted heading toward Maiduguri early Friday morning with bombs strapped to their bodies. He said […]

ISTANBUL ( AP) — Turkey’s state- run news agency says the chairman of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily has been detained as he returned from abroad, a week after several senior staff were arrested for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations. Anadolu Agency says police detained Akin Atalay Friday as his flight from Berlin docked at Istanbul’s Ataturk […]