Orlando, Florida (AP):A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early yesterday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.Ibragim...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):The World Health Organization (WHO) says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio, with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.WHO said yesterday that a four-year-old girl near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya...

SANTO DOMINGO (AP):Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a man suspected of raping at least 60 women in the past two years.Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Parra confessed to raping women ages 16 to 28 after picking them up on his...

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP):A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has cleared the state Senate.Current state law says sex education should...

CHICAGO (AP):The president of the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) says the Board of Education's decision to close 50 schools is "bad governance."CTU President Karen Lewis put out a statement yesterday after the board vote.

OKLAHOMA, Moore (AP):The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside an Oklahoma City area church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off, survivors of a deadly tornado that barrelled...

MOROCCO, Rabat, (AP):A MOROCCAN court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.Prosecutors at the Temara court near Rabat, the...