Police Say Officer Mistakenly Killed Hofstra Student in Standoff
A 21-year-old Hofstra University student who was killed in a home invasion on Friday was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect holding her in a headlock, the police said on Saturday. Seven of the ...

Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Family members of Mohammed Aboud, chant slogans against the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel group and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra during his funeral in Basra, of Iraqis in Basra, Iraq, Friday. (Photo: Nabil Al-Jurani, AP ...

Chicago's first archbishop made church live up to metropolitan distinction
When the president of All Hallows College in Ireland saw the regal man on the framed canvas, he knew the portrait buried in a Dublin basement should head home to Chicago. The painting of Patrick Feehan, Chicago's first Roman Catholic archbishop ...

Astros activate 2B Altuve from bereavement list after return from grandfather’s funeral
PITTSBURGH — The Houston Astros activated second baseman Jose Altuve from the bereavement list Saturday after he missed the previous three games while attending his grandmother’s funeral in Venezuela. Altuve was in the lineup batting third ...

Maureen Dunn, Vietnam widow and advocate for POWs, MIAs and their families, dies at 72
She did not lose him the way thousands of other American military wives lost their husbands during the Vietnam War — to death, clear and confirmed, acknowledged with a funeral and proved by a flag-draped casket. Her husband, Navy pilot Joseph P.

Hofstra shooting: Cops fired bullets that killed Andrea Rebello during botched robbery
Earlier Saturday, a Nassau County police spokesman said investigators were still trying to piece together the chaotic events that led to the deaths of Rebello and Smith. But four detectives, in dark suits and ties, arrived at the Rebellos’ Westchester ...