NEW YORK – For two years, the two sons of jailed financier Bernard Madoff portrayed themselves as honest whistleblowers of their father’s historic fraud. A court-appointed trustee depicted them as bungling money managers who did nothing to protect investors. The suicide of Mark Madoff leaves unanswered questions for investors seeking payback for the billions of [...]
LOS ANGELES – It’s a Saturday morning and a half-dozen adults are sitting in a high school classroom, staring at grim photos of sickly drug addicts and hearing about the deadly consequences of gang crime. They’d rather not be here, but a judge made them come. The moms and dads were ordered to attend the [...]
CHICAGO – A powerful storm that unleashed snow and strong winds across the upper Midwest left behind dangerously cold temperatures, promising a new set of challenges for people working to dig out. The weekend storm closed major highways in several states, canceled more than 1,600 flights in Chicago and collapsed the roof of the Minnesota [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – British police were searching a house in southern England as part of an investigation into bombings in a busy shopping district of the Swedish capital on Saturday. Police said on Monday they had begun examining a terraced house in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, on Sunday night under the terrorism act. “No [...]
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo waited for official results on Monday to confirm Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s claim of victory in the first general election since independence from Serbia, amid accusations of some vote manipulation. Thaci’s rivals did not concede, citing suspicions of irregularities in two of his stronghold towns. Supporters of both Thaci’s PDK party [...]