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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests

By Associated Press | February 4, 2020

MIAMI (AP) — Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” Florida authorities said.Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34, were pulled over in Santa Rosa...

Maryland man held in bus shooting that killed 1, wounded 5

By STEFANIE DAZIO | February 4, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman who killed a woman and wounded five others on a Greyhound bus in Southern California was cursing and muttering incoherently before the attack, passengers and authorities said.Investigators are trying to determine a motive...

Russia convicts 2 Jehovah’s Witnesses amid crackdown

February 4, 2020

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia's eastern Siberia on Tuesday convicted two Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism because of their membership in the religious group, the latest in a wave of crackdown on the organization.Stanislav Kim and Nikolay Polevodov...

Police say Lesotho’s first lady to be charged with murder

By HERBERT MOYO | February 4, 2020

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — The first lady of Lesotho is set to be charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of the prime minister's former wife, police said Tuesday.Maesaiah Thabane, who fled the country on Jan. 10 to escape arrest, returned...

Charges withdrawn in ‘Voodoo ritual’ assault case

February 4, 2020

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors have dismissed charges against two Massachusetts women who had been accused of hurting and threatening two children during what authorities described as a Voodoo ritual.Sisters Rachel Hilaire, 42, and Peggy LaBossiere,...

UK inquiry: Rogue breast surgeon hurt over 1,000 patients

By DANICA KIRKA | February 4, 2020

LONDON (AP) — The chair of an independent inquiry into how a prominent British breast surgeon was able to perform unnecessary operations for years concluded Tuesday that more than 1,000 patients might have been affecte d by a “dysfunctional'' system...

Brother of Manchester Arena bomber goes on trial for murder

February 4, 2020

LONDON (AP) — The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester is just as guilty as the attacker, a British prosecutor said Tuesday, as the surviving sibling went on trial for murder.Hashem Abedi,...

Jailed woman in need of cancer surgery moved to state prison

February 4, 2020

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A woman sentenced to 10 months in jail for a $109.63 theft, despite needing surgery to treat what her family says is advanced uterine and cervical cancer, is being transferred to a Pennsylvania state prison, her lawyer said Monday.Ashley...

Court raises sentence for banker who smuggled a Picasso

By Associated Press | February 4, 2020

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has raised the sentence against a former bank president found guilty of trying to smuggle a painting by Pablo Picasso out of the country.The Madrid court announced the decision Tuesday to raise the sentence against fined...

South African court issues arrest warrant for ex-leader Zuma

By CARA ANNA and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | February 4, 2020

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A judge in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear in court on a corruption case that he has sought to avoid for months — now by asserting that he is ill.The National...

German nurse in morphine babies case freed after test mix-up

February 4, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — A nurse at a German hospital who was arrested on suspicion of administering morphine to five young babies has been released after new tests showed that investigators' initial findings were wrong, prosecutors said Tuesday.The five babies...

Bloodied but determined, Lebanese protesters take stock

By A.J. NADDAFF | February 4, 2020

BEIRUT (AP) — At a Beirut hospital ward, five Lebanese protesters with bandaged eyes and faces huddled in a circle, their arms wrapped around each other, and they vowed to be back on the streets soon, despite their wounds from recent clashes with police.“We...

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