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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The mayor of Ithaca wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation’s first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police. The son of an addict who abandoned his family, Ithaca Mayor […]

HAVANA (AP) – Cuban President Raul Castro announced Monday that he is dispatching 9,000 soldiers to help keep the Zika virus out of Cuba, calling on the entire country to fight the mosquito that carries the disease. In a rare front-page message on the state-run newspaper Granma, Castro said Cuba’s fight to prevent the arrival […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The House Ethics Committee said Monday it is investigating Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat who is running for Senate and whose business activities have come under scrutiny for the past several months. The committee’s Republican chairman and senior Democrat said in a joint statement that the panel is reviewing a referral […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Starbucks is changing the terms of its rewards program so that people who spend around $5 or less per visit won’t get as many freebies. The Seattle-based coffee chain says its loyalty program will award stars based on the dollars spent starting in April. Currently, people earn a star for each […]

MIAMI (AP) – A judge has sentenced a South Florida man a second time to life in prison for fatally stabbing his middle school friend when both were 14. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Schlesinger delivered his ruling Monday in the case of 26-year-old Michael Hernandez. Hernandez had sought to reduce the prison sentence he is […]

ATLANTA (AP) – Fierce storms could bring strong tornadoes, hail and damaging winds to several states in the Deep South during the day and into the night on Tuesday, forecasters say. The National Weather Service estimates that more than 7 million people in parts of five states – Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia – […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal judge is weighing whether to release the names of witnesses who testified during the grand jury proceeding in the Ferguson police shooting death of Michael Brown. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1L5JI38 ) reports that attorneys on both sides of the family’s wrongful-death lawsuit are seeking the identities of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Health care for all. It’s a goal that tugs at the heartstrings of Democrats, but pursuing it usually invites political peril. Now Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are clashing over this core question for liberals, making it a wedge issue in the party’s presidential primary. It’s a choice between his conviction that […]

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Three people are suspected of using a credit card stolen during an overnight burglary at a Gateway-area residence. Sometime between 10 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20 and 1 a.m. Sunday, the suspect(s) burglarized a car after gaining entrance through an unlocked garage door on Meadow Pine Lane. A purse, several landscaping tools, and a laptop computer […]

CHICAGO (AP) – Actor Charlie Sheen was called a lot of things during his bad-boy days. Until now, public health promoter wasn’t one of them. Sheen’s revelation that he’s infected with the AIDS virus prompted the greatest number of HIV-related Google searches recorded in the United States since 2004, and more than 1 million of […]