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2 more NFL players face domestic violence issues 09/11/2014 02:20pm • STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Carolina Panthers Pro Bowl defensive end Greg Hardy has been convicted on two counts of domestic violence and is still playing. Ray McDonald of the San Francisco 49ers also remains active while he is being investigated for abuse allegations.The Pan DC mayor's driver no longer working as lobbyist 09/11/2014 01:30pm • BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The driver for Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign who pleaded guilty to conspiracy last week is no longer working as a lobbyist for the Johns Hopkins University and health system.Mark Long was the sixth person associated with Gray's campaign to plead g Veterans Watchdog: VA managers lied about delays 09/11/2014 09:46am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Managers at more than a dozen Veterans Affairs medical facilities lied to federal investigators about scheduling practices and other issues, the department's inspector general said Tuesday.Richard Griffin, the VA's acting inspector general, said his o 8 College Jobs to Build Skills, Network 09/11/2014 12:00am • Want to boost your job prospects after graduation? Any part-time work during college can give you an advantage. "Balancing work and school shows you can manage your time," says Nicole van den Heuvel, director of Rice University's Center for Career Development. "And jobs that aren't glamorous show t Leverage MBA Mentors to Reach Career Goals 09/11/2014 12:00am • When it comes to pairing MBA students with a mentor, Beth Ursin believes a mismatch is the best kind of match. Ursin, the director of career management at Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management, is more inclined to connect a student interested in finance with a marketing mast Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 09/10/2014 05:00pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Sept. 8The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on World Health Organization hurting:Were it not for horribly misguided Islamic religious fanatics in northern Nigeria and tribal Pakistan, the Wor Lawmakers poised to review $1.3B Tesla package 09/10/2014 01:00am • SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Gov. Brian Sandoval was poised to call state lawmakers into a special session Wednesday to consider an extraordinary package of tax breaks and incentives worth up to $1.3 billion to seal a deal with Tesla Motors Inc. to build a $5 billion factory in N CDC: 90 percent of children eating too much sodium 09/09/2014 03:06pm • WASHINGTON -- Too many American children are growing up literally addicted to salt. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 90 percent of school-aged kids and teens nationwide are eating too much sodium. The CDC recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams a day for normal chi Watchdog: VA managers lied about delays 09/09/2014 01:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- According to the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, managers at more than a dozen of the agency's medical facilities lied to investigators about scheduling practices and other issues.Richard Griffin told lawmakers today that his office is looking into allegat French women bid topless sunbathing 'adieu' 09/09/2014 01:00pm • THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) -- France's summer is fast becoming a memory, and so is one of its iconic beach sights: the topless woman.As few as 2 percent of French women under 35 now say they want to bare their breasts, according to an Elle magazine poll this summer. It's a far cry f Iraqi parliament approves partial new Cabinet 09/09/2014 04:16am • QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's parliament officially named Haider al-Abadi the country's new prime minister late Monday and approved most of his proposed Cabinet amid calls by the Arab League for its members to combat the Sunni militant group violently advancing across Ir New VA chief: Veterans agency too complicated 09/09/2014 03:12am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department with its 14 different password-protected websites is too complicated for most veterans to navigate, new Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Monday as he promised to make it easier for veterans to get disabil Joan Rivers remembered at star-studded funeral 09/08/2014 01:52pm • KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Howard Stern delivered the eulogy, Broadway singer-actress Audra McDonald sang "Smile" and bagpipers played "New York, New York" at Joan Rivers' funeral Sunday, a star-studded send-off that -- like the late comedian herself -- brought together the wor Detained American in North Korea gets trial date 09/07/2014 11:30am • Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Detained American Matthew Miller will be tried next Sunday, North Korean state media said, less than a week after the detainee made a rare foreign media appearance to plead for help.Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch Nigeria: Officials reassure as extremists rampage 09/06/2014 01:30pm • HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian officials are trying to reassure citizens panicked about a spreading Islamic insurgency in the northeast even as fleeing residents report the extremists are urging people to join their fight and take their children out of school.The Ni