U.S. Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal |
- U.S. Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal
- Chicago police erase 1968 stain at last with NATO summit
- Thousands walk to mark year since tornado hit Joplin, Missouri
- White House said to give inside access for bin Laden film
- White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb
- Border patrol nabs fake UPS truck skirting checkpoint
- Defense begins in Philadelphia Archdiocese child sex abuse trial
- Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students
- Police arrest man in shooting outside Oklahoma NBA game
- Five Oregon family members dead in suspected murder-suicide
- Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal
- Jury to take closer look at evidence in ex-Senator Edwards' trial
- US schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit
- Death rate drops among Americans with diabetes -CDC
- Flood of fake Chinese parts in US military gear: report
- White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb
- U.S. says drug abuse needs treatment, not just jail
- Blast at Illinois electric parts plant kills one
- Exclusive: Spy agency seeks cyber-ops curriculum
- U.S. Airways flight diverted due to "suspicious" passenger
- Court upholds $3.4 billion Native American deal
- Alabama's Jefferson County votes to skip bond payment
- Las Vegas police seek suspects in foiled casino heist
- Ohio lawmakers set new limits on owning exotic animals
- Mountain lion wanders into California city center, is killed
- FBI urged to include White House in leak inquiry
- Coast Guard suspends search off Texas for fishing boat
- New York City to get first major natgas line in 40 years
- Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students
- U.S. Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal
- White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb
- Border patrol nabs fake UPS truck skirting checkpoint
- Preliminary hearing for "NATO 3" delayed until June
- Chicago police erase 1968 stain at last with NATO summit
- Five Oregon family members dead in suspected murder-suicide
- Defense begins in Philadelphia Archdiocese child sex abuse trial
- Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students
- Thousands walk to mark year since tornado hit Joplin, Missouri
- US schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit
| U.S. Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal Posted: 22 May 2012 07:00 PM PDT
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| Chicago police erase 1968 stain at last with NATO summit Posted: 22 May 2012 06:14 PM PDT
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| Thousands walk to mark year since tornado hit Joplin, Missouri Posted: 22 May 2012 05:26 PM PDT
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| White House said to give inside access for bin Laden film Posted: 22 May 2012 05:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website Tuesday. Judicial Watch posted what it said were 153 pages of Pentagon documents and 113 pages of CIA documents about the film project. ... |
| White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb Posted: 22 May 2012 06:59 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge sentenced a 61-year-old white supremacist to 40 years in jail on Tuesday for a racially motivated package bomb attack that injured a black city administrator in Arizona in 2004. Dennis Mahon was found guilty in February of three explosives- and conspiracy-related charges stemming from the attack on Don Logan, then the head of the diversity office for the city of Scottsdale. ... |
| Border patrol nabs fake UPS truck skirting checkpoint Posted: 22 May 2012 06:55 PM PDT SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Border patrol agents found 13 illegal immigrants in the back of a fake UPS van after they noticed the brown vehicle with yellow insignia trying to circumvent a highway checkpoint, the agency said on Tuesday. The agents arrested the passengers, identified as Mexican citizens without legal immigration documents, at an inland checkpoint on Friday on the dusty Highway 111, about 50 miles by car from the U.S.-Mexico border. The driver of the replica mail delivery van, a 21-year-old U.S. ... |
| Defense begins in Philadelphia Archdiocese child sex abuse trial Posted: 22 May 2012 05:54 PM PDT
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| Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students Posted: 22 May 2012 05:44 PM PDT
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| Police arrest man in shooting outside Oklahoma NBA game Posted: 22 May 2012 06:34 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of opening fire the night before outside an Oklahoma City arena in a shooting that wounded eight people after a National Basketball Association playoff game. |
| Five Oregon family members dead in suspected murder-suicide Posted: 22 May 2012 05:56 PM PDT PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A mother and her three young children were found dead in a burning house in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday and police said a man believed to be the children's father, whose body was discovered elsewhere, was the suspected killer. The bodies of the woman and children were found by firefighters after a neighbor noticed smoke billowing from a house in Salem, about 50 miles south of Portland. Their names and ages were not released. ... |
| Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal Posted: 22 May 2012 04:55 PM PDT
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| Jury to take closer look at evidence in ex-Senator Edwards' trial Posted: 22 May 2012 04:03 PM PDT
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| US schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit Posted: 22 May 2012 05:22 PM PDT LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says illegally segregate boys and girls into single-sex classes and promote stereotypes. The group also was demanding that Florida's Department of Education launch an investigation into widespread single-sex teaching in that state, where 32 schools in 16 districts offer single-gender classes. ... |
| Death rate drops among Americans with diabetes -CDC Posted: 22 May 2012 04:24 PM PDT
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| Flood of fake Chinese parts in US military gear: report Posted: 22 May 2012 04:43 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fake electronic parts are widespread in key U.S. military systems and threaten national security, with China the top source for bogus gear, a U.S. Senate investigation has concluded. The year-long probe by the Senate Armed Services Committee found counterfeit electronic parts from China in the Air Force's C-130J cargo plane, in assemblies for Special Operations helicopters and in the Navy's Poseidon surveillance plane, the panel said in its report released on Monday. ... |
| White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb Posted: 22 May 2012 04:53 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a white supremacist to 40 years in jail on Tuesday for a 2004 package bombing that injured a black city administrator in Arizona. Dennis Mahon, 61, was found guilty in February of three explosives- and conspiracy-related charges stemming from the attack against Don Logan, then the head of the diversity office for the city of Scottsdale. His identical twin brother, Daniel Mahon, was acquitted of a single charge of conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosives, following a six-week trial in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. ... |
| U.S. says drug abuse needs treatment, not just jail Posted: 22 May 2012 01:17 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The United States sees drug abuse as a public health problem as much as a crime issue and is seeking to learn from countries in Europe and elsewhere about how to treat addiction as a disease, Barack Obama's drugs policy chief said on Tuesday. Gil Kerlikowske, the U.S. president's director of national drug control policy, said the United States is taking a more balanced approach to substance abusers rather than fighting a "war on drugs" centered mainly on law enforcement. ... |
| Blast at Illinois electric parts plant kills one Posted: 22 May 2012 04:16 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - A powerful explosion at a manufacturing plant in a Chicago suburb on Tuesday killed one worker and injured 12 people, including some who breathed in a caustic chemical released by the blast, the local fire chief said. A 55-year-old employee was repairing a testing machine at Arens Controls, a maker of electronic parts for automobiles and other vehicles, when there was an explosion in the machine, killing him, Arlington Heights Fire Chief Glenn Ericksen said. Seven workers among the 50 others working at the plant suffered concussion-like injuries, Ericksen said. ... |
| Exclusive: Spy agency seeks cyber-ops curriculum Posted: 22 May 2012 11:39 AM PDT
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| U.S. Airways flight diverted due to "suspicious" passenger Posted: 22 May 2012 01:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Airways flight from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina, was diverted to an airport in Maine where it landed safely after reports of a passenger showing "suspicious behavior," U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Two fighter jets were scrambled in response to the incident on US Airways flight 787, which landed in Bangor, Maine. House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King said a female passenger, who was a French citizen born in Cameroon, handed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device. ... |
| Court upholds $3.4 billion Native American deal Posted: 22 May 2012 10:49 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $3.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit over mismanagement of government trust funds for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, ruling that it was fair, reasonable and adequate. The settlement resolved a lawsuit filed in 1996 claiming the U.S. Department of the Interior had mismanaged funds held in trust on behalf of Native Americans. The trust money was from transactions involving land allotted to individual Native Americans under an 1887 law. ... |
| Alabama's Jefferson County votes to skip bond payment Posted: 22 May 2012 03:13 PM PDT BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - County legislators for Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County voted unanimously on Tuesday to skip a $15 million payment due October 1 on about $200 million of Jefferson County general obligation warrants. The cash-strapped county declared bankruptcy in November with slightly more than $4 billion in debt, which is the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Last month, Jefferson County skipped - for the first time - a $15 million GO bond payment as officials said they needed the money to pay for basic government services. ... |
| Las Vegas police seek suspects in foiled casino heist Posted: 22 May 2012 02:58 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Las Vegas police were seeking two men on Tuesday over a foiled weekend heist in which robbers tried to grab $115,000 in casino chips from a blackjack table, spraying the dealer with a substance akin to pepper spray. Police said two men approached a blackjack table at the Bellagio Hotel late on Saturday, and one of them sprayed a guest and a card dealer, according to the arrest report. One of the pair grabbed 23 chips valued at $5,000 each and tried to flee. Hotel employees stopped one of the men, identified as Michael Belton, 24, of California. ... |
| Ohio lawmakers set new limits on owning exotic animals Posted: 22 May 2012 03:21 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio state lawmakers on Tuesday approved restrictions on exotic animal ownership that were pressed by officials after a man released dozens of dangerous animals from his farm and then killed himself last fall, touching off a big game hunt to quell a panic. The Ohio House voted 87 to 9 to approve restrictions and the Senate quickly concurred. The bill next goes to Governor John Kasich, who has indicated that he will sign it. ... |
| Mountain lion wanders into California city center, is killed Posted: 22 May 2012 03:03 PM PDT
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| FBI urged to include White House in leak inquiry Posted: 22 May 2012 12:02 PM PDT (Reuters) - Two Republican congressional leaders have asked the FBI to examine whether White House officials may have inadvertently fueled news leaks which disrupted a Western intelligence operation targeting Al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate. On Monday, Rep Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, requested that an FBI investigation of alleged leaks cover the White House, including the National Security staff, according to a letter which King sent to FBI director Robert Mueller. Later on Monday, Sen. ... |
| Coast Guard suspends search off Texas for fishing boat Posted: 22 May 2012 02:04 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday it had suspended its search off the Texas coast for a fishing boat with six people aboard after a radio transmission that had reported it was sinking. An emergency radio caller said on Sunday the boat was sinking in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston and he and the five others aboard were climbing into a life raft. After searching about 2,400 nautical square miles by air and sea, "we found no signs of debris, no signs of anything that indicates that a vessel went down," Coast Guard spokeswoman Elvie Damaso said. ... |
| New York City to get first major natgas line in 40 years Posted: 22 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT
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| Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students Posted: 22 May 2012 12:54 PM PDT (Reuters) - Two men accused of fatally shooting a pair of Chinese graduate students at the University of Southern California were charged on Tuesday with capital murder, making them eligible to face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said. Engineering graduate students Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23, were killed early on April 11 as they were sitting in a parked car outside Wu's rented home, a few blocks from the USC campus. ... |
| U.S. Secret Service chief: no security breach from scandal Posted: 22 May 2012 07:00 PM PDT
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| White supremacist gets 40 years for Arizona package bomb Posted: 22 May 2012 06:59 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge sentenced a 61-year-old white supremacist to 40 years in jail on Tuesday for a racially motivated package bomb attack that injured a black city administrator in Arizona in 2004. Dennis Mahon was found guilty in February of three explosives- and conspiracy-related charges stemming from the attack on Don Logan, then the head of the diversity office for the city of Scottsdale. ... |
| Border patrol nabs fake UPS truck skirting checkpoint Posted: 22 May 2012 06:55 PM PDT SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Border patrol agents found 13 illegal immigrants in the back of a fake UPS van after they noticed the brown vehicle with yellow insignia trying to circumvent a highway checkpoint, the agency said on Tuesday. The agents arrested the passengers, identified as Mexican citizens without legal immigration documents, at an inland checkpoint on Friday on the dusty Highway 111, about 50 miles by car from the U.S.-Mexico border. The driver of the replica mail delivery van, a 21-year-old U.S. ... |
| Preliminary hearing for "NATO 3" delayed until June Posted: 22 May 2012 06:18 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - A judge postponed a preliminary hearing in Chicago on Tuesday for three men arrested last week ahead of a NATO summit on terrorism-related charges to give prosecutors more time to assemble the case against them. The suspects, Brent Betterly, 24, Jared Chase, 27, and Brian Church, 20 - each being held on $1.5 million bond - appeared before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr., who granted a prosecution request and postponed the hearing until June 12. The men, dubbed "the NATO Three" by Chicago media, did not speak during the brief hearing. ... |
| Chicago police erase 1968 stain at last with NATO summit Posted: 22 May 2012 06:14 PM PDT
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| Five Oregon family members dead in suspected murder-suicide Posted: 22 May 2012 05:56 PM PDT PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A mother and her three young children were found dead in a burning house in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday and police said a man believed to be the children's father, whose body was discovered elsewhere, was the suspected killer. The bodies of the woman and children were found by firefighters after a neighbor noticed smoke billowing from a house in Salem, about 50 miles south of Portland. Their names and ages were not released. ... |
| Defense begins in Philadelphia Archdiocese child sex abuse trial Posted: 22 May 2012 05:54 PM PDT
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| Two charged in killing of Chinese graduate students Posted: 22 May 2012 05:44 PM PDT
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| Thousands walk to mark year since tornado hit Joplin, Missouri Posted: 22 May 2012 05:26 PM PDT
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| US schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit Posted: 22 May 2012 05:22 PM PDT LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says illegally segregate boys and girls into single-sex classes and promote stereotypes. The group also was demanding that Florida's Department of Education launch an investigation into widespread single-sex teaching in that state, where 32 schools in 16 districts offer single-gender classes. ... |
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