LONDON ( AP) — Fears rose over the survival of venerable British tour operator Thomas Cook after financial problems worsened Tuesday for the company that took more than 22 million people on holiday in the latest year. Shares in Europe’s secondlargest tour operator sunk 75 percent of their already depressed value after Thomas Cook said […]

CHICAGO S even vinyl banners draped this month along one of Chicago’s most iconic bridges, advertisements some have dubbed “a visual crime” and “commercial graffiti,” are reviving a debate about how governments raise money in tough economic times. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a public school district in Colorado is selling ads on […]

Ohio worker charged with tainting coffee TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison. The Blade newspaper reports 36- year- old Edwin Ledgard told Toledo police that he had a delusion to kill customers. A police report […]

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police were clashing with anti- government protesters for a fifth day in Cairo as a rights group raised the overall death toll from the current unrest to 38. Tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square have rejected a promise by Egypt’s military ruler to speed up a presidential election to […]

SALEM, Ore. ( AP) — Haunted by regret for allowing two men to be executed more than a decade ago, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber now says it’ll never happen again on his watch. Calling Oregon’s death penalty scheme “ compromised and inequitable,” the Democratic governor said Tuesday he’ll issue a reprieve to a twice-convicted murderer […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor says Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam will be tried in a Libyan court by Libyan judges. Luis Moreno-Ocampo says the ICC will help Libya establish the judicial framework for the trial, which many expect to be a bellwether of the new Libyan government’s ability to uphold […]

SANAA, Yemen ( AP) — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to sign a deal today in the Saudi capital that could mean the end of his 33- year rule, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said. Saleh’s signature on the Gulf-brokered accord — if he goes through with it — would start a new chapter […]

Teen charged with arson in school fire VASSALBORO (AP) — Fire investigators have charged a 13-year-old Maine girl with arson for allegedly setting fire to toilet paper at her school, forcing hundreds of students to be evacuated. The state fire marshal’s office says Monday’s fire started in a toilet paper dispenser in a second-floor girl’s […]

FREEPORT Five male teens were summonsed late Saturday night after a disturbance call on Jameson Way led police to discover them allegedly consuming liquor. Lt. Susan Nourse said that four of the boys are 16, while one is 17. Freeport Sgt. Nathaniel Goodman and officer Paul Cenevert responded to the call shortly after midnight Saturday.