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UPDATE: Wilson Quits WSU Football Team; WSU President Reviewing Allegations

UPDATE: Wilson Quits WSU Football Team; WSU President Reviewing Allegations
PULLMAN, Wash. - WSU President Elson Floyd released a statement Sunday morning regarding allegations made by former WSU Receiver Marquess Wilson about what he called "abuse" by the WSU coaching staff. That statement is below:  After consultation with WSU Athletic Director Bill Moos, I have

UPDATE: Wilson Quits WSU Football Team; WSU President Reviewing Allegations

UPDATE: Wilson Quits WSU Football Team; WSU President Reviewing Allegations
PULLMAN, Wash. - WSU President Elson Floyd released a statement Sunday morning regarding allegations made by former WSU Receiver Marquess Wilson about what he called "abuse" by the WSU coaching staff. That statement is below:  After consultation with WSU Athletic Director Bill Moos, I have

International prosecutor probes new cases in Libya

International prosecutor probes new cases in Libya
By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says she is collecting evidence for filing possible new war crimes charges against supporters and opponents of Moammar Gadhafi during last year's Libyan civil war. Prosecutor

USVI to probe allegations of electoral fraud

USVI to probe allegations of electoral fraud
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands says he has created a committee to investigate numerous allegations of fraud and corruption during the recent general election. Vincent Frazer appointed a special investigator and four attorneys with the

GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists

GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists
By MICHAEL R. BLOODAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem. The nation's most populous state - home to 1 in 8 Americans - has entered a period of Democratic political control so far-reaching that the dwindling number

GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists

GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists
By MICHAEL R. BLOODAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem. The nation's most populous state - home to 1 in 8 Americans - has entered a period of Democratic political control so far-reaching that the dwindling number

Vt. college's oxen-slaughter plan riles activists

Vt. college's oxen-slaughter plan riles activists
By LISA RATHKEAssociated Press POULTNEY, Vt. (AP) - Bill and Lou have plied the fields of Green Mountain College's farm in Vermont for most of their lives - about 10 years. Students have learned to drive the oxen team for haying and tilling, creating bonds with the giant animals. They'

Petraeus' biographer a military reservist, scholar

Petraeus' biographer a military reservist, scholar
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paula Broadwell first met fellow West Point graduate David Petraeus in the spring of 2006, when she was a graduate student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was a lieutenant general working on a counterinsurgency manual that would be tested during his command in

Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer

Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer
By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computer models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first

Husband arrested in Calif. killing of Iraqi woman

Husband arrested in Calif. killing of Iraqi woman
By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - Eight months after the beating death of an Iraqi-American woman that drew international attention because it appeared to be a hate crime, the woman's husband has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. Police in the San Diego suburb