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Romania puts ex-communist prison chief on trial 09/24/2014 09:12am • ALISON MUTLER Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A former Romanian prison commander appeared in court Wednesday to face charges of torture and causing the deaths of 12 political prisoners in the nation's first trial of the head of a communist lockup.Alexandru Visinescu, who ran the Ramnicu Federal prison population drops by roughly 4,800 09/23/2014 11:12pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal prison population has dropped in the last year by roughly 4,800, the first time in several decades that the inmate count has gone down, according to the Justice Department.In a speech Tuesday in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder s US calls for NKorea to shut 'evil' prison camps 09/23/2014 06:16pm • MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for North Korea to shut down its "evil system" of prison camps.Kerry spoke at a gathering of foreign officials and activists to draw attention to the findings of a U.N. commission of inquiry that i Hamas suspects in slaying of Israeli teens killed 09/23/2014 03:12pm • IAN DEITCH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, a gruesome attack that had triggered a chain of events that led to the war in Gaza thi Portland immigrant takes sanctuary at church 09/23/2014 09:58am • GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A community activist who first came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago spent the weekend hidden in an Oregon church, becoming the latest immigrant to seek sanctuary as authorities try to deport him.Francisco Aguirre, who has li Portland immigrant takes sanctuary at church 09/22/2014 08:50pm • GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A community activist who first came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago spent the weekend hidden in an Oregon church, becoming the latest immigrant to seek sanctuary as authorities try to deport him.Francisco Aguirre, who has li Israel court condemns African migrant detentions 09/22/2014 05:30pm • PETER ENAV Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- A high Israeli court on Monday condemned the government's policy of detaining illegal African migrants captured in the Negev Desert, ordered that a detention facility be closed within three months and banned new detentions for a year.The ruling by the Hi Lawyer: Exonerated NYC man dies from asthma attack 09/22/2014 02:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City man freed after serving 23 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit died over the weekend, his attorney said Monday.William Lopez passed away on Saturday due to complications from an asthma attack, attorney Dennis Kelly said.The death came days before Lopez's $12 Backers seek expansion of civil rights death law 09/22/2014 07:24am • JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- There has only been one prosecution under the Emmett Till Act, even though the law was passed with the promise of $135 million for police work and an army of federal agents to investigate unsolved killings from the civil rights era. Some deaths ar Facts, questions in fatal Ohio Wal-Mart shooting 09/21/2014 11:06am • LISA CORNWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) -- A grand jury looking into the fatal shooting of a man by police in an Ohio Wal-Mart will have to sort out conflicting accounts to determine whether charges should be filed in a racially charged case that has drawn national attention.The special grand Column: Oh, Roger, you still don't get it 09/21/2014 12:56am • PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Oh, Roger, you still don't get it.After spending more than a week in seclusion while his NFL was battered by one domestic violence embarrassment after another, Commissioner Roger Goodell finally emerged Friday to hold a worthless news conference that essentially hit After NFL, baseball addresses domestic violence 09/20/2014 09:28pm • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers The recent spate of high-profile domestic violence cases involving Ray Rice and other NFL players prompted Major League Baseball and the players' union to open talks about the way that sport should deal with such episodes.Even though their collective bargaining agre Guilty verdict in peanut trial should send warning 09/20/2014 10:48am • RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- Food safety advocates say a guilty verdict in a rare federal food-poisoning trial should send a stern warning to anyone who may be tempted to place profits over people's welfare.More than five years after hundreds of Americans got sick from eating salm Daughter calls Utah doctor a monster at sentencing 09/20/2014 08:24am • LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PROVO, Utah (AP) -- A Utah doctor convicted of murdering his wife in a case that became a true-crime cable TV obsession was sentenced Friday to 17 years to life in prison at a hearing in which his daughter called him a monster.The long-awaited sentence came seven 3 guilty in Ga. salmonella-tainted peanut trial 09/20/2014 12:24am • RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- More than five years after hundreds of Americans got sick from eating salmonella-tainted peanut butter, the top executive at the Georgia plant where it was made was convicted Friday and faces prison time in a rare food-poisoning trial that advocates sa