Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
NEW YORK (AP) — She poked fun at herself and others during a half-century in nightclubs and on late-night TV -- and more recently turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly-dressed celebrities. Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81 at a New York hospital. She never slowed down -- continuing to work until the night before she went into cardiac arrest last week in a doctor's office following a routine procedure.
CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Ohio law that scales back early voting. Judge Peter Economus ruled the restrictions unconstitutional and in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The restrictions were challenged by the ACLU, civil rights groups and black churches that provided bus rides for voters. Ohio's elections chief has been ordered to set additional voting times just ahead of the fall election.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, have been convicted in a public corruption case that accused them of conspiring to use his office to promote a businessman's product in exchange for gifts. A federal jury in Richmond returned the verdicts after a five-week trial and deliberating for three days. McDonnell was charged with doing favors for a wealthy vitamin executive in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Some Wyoming lawyers are raising objections about next week's annual state bar convention because they don't want to hear a speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Some attorneys say they don't think Cheney should be the keynoter. And they don't like how the bar announced his appearance. A posted biography, submitted by Cheney, charged that President Barack Obama has reversed anti-terror gains and weakened the nation.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Nervous residents of a neighborhood in Thousand Oaks, California, can stop eyeing their paths. A deadly albino cobra that ran loose for days has been captured. Television reports showed officers using a long-handled tong-like grabber to haul the snake from a pile of scrap lumber in a backyard. It was put it in a long wooden box and taken to an animal shelter.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
