Court gives "Millennium Bomber" tougher 37-year sentence |
- Court gives "Millennium Bomber" tougher 37-year sentence
- Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles
- International vote monitors warn Texas: Don't mess with us
- Texas executes man for 1991 stabbing-strangulation murder
- ABC News wants "pink slime" lawsuit moved to federal court
- Teenager arrested in Colorado schoolgirl dismemberment
- Chicago school board approves deal that ended teacher strike
- Texas opens first 85-mph highway in U.S., but trucks may shun it
- U.S. sues Mississippi officials over student arrests
- Suspected gunman in custody after Atlanta church shooting
- Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles
- U.S. death toll rises to 24 in meningitis outbreak
- Editor of Mormon-themed website quits church to avoid discipline
- Occupy Wall Street leads church to cancel Halloween party
- Suspect in DC lobby group shooting faces terrorism charge
- Barnes & Noble says thieves tampered with PIN pads
- Teenager arrested in Colorado girl's killing
- Kennedy relative convicted of murder denied parole
- FBI veteran named to head New York division
- Georgia parents indicted for starving and banishing son
- Trump to give $5 million to charity if Obama releases records
- Death toll from West Nile virus tops 200: government
- Texas scheduled to execute man for 1991 murder
- Immigrants come out of the shadows to fulfill a dream
- Indiana candidate sorry about rape comment; Romney stands by him
- Kennedy relative convicted of murder denied parole
- GM unveils redesigned V8 engine for 2014 Corvette
- U.S. elderly, middle-aged see higher obesity rates: poll
- Supreme Court upholds stay of execution for Florida man
- Immigrants come out of the shadows to fulfill a dream
- Suspected gunman in custody after Atlanta church shooting
- Texas executes man for 1991 stabbing-strangulation murder
- Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles
- Teenager arrested in Colorado schoolgirl dismemberment
- ABC News wants "pink slime" lawsuit moved to federal court
- Chicago school board approves deal that ended teacher strike
- Texas opens first 85-mph highway in U.S., but trucks may shun it
- U.S. sues Mississippi officials over student arrests
- US doctors can consider spinal taps for more steroid patients-CDC
- Barnes & Noble says thieves tampered with PIN pads
| Court gives "Millennium Bomber" tougher 37-year sentence Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:25 PM PDT
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| Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:07 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a small business and a nearby home owned by members of the same family in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding two others before fleeing in a stolen car, authorities said. It was unclear what motivated the gunman to commit the back-to-back shootings, which erupted shortly after 11 a.m. about two blocks apart in a blue-collar neighborhood, Downey police Lieutenant Dean Milligan said. ... |
| International vote monitors warn Texas: Don't mess with us Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:26 PM PDT VIENNA/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - International election monitors took a dim view on Wednesday of Texas' threat to prosecute them if they observe voting in the state a bit too closely on November 6. The exchange pitted the Vienna-based human rights watchdog Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe against Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who warned the OSCE not to interfere with polling in state elections. ... |
| Texas executes man for 1991 stabbing-strangulation murder Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:26 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas prison officials on Wednesday executed a man for the gruesome 1991 murder a women who was stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick and strangled with stereo wire at her Dallas-area apartment, state officials said. Bobby Lee Hines, aged 19 at the time of the killing, was sharing a next door apartment with a maintenance man who had master keys to all the units in the building, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ... |
| ABC News wants "pink slime" lawsuit moved to federal court Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:09 PM PDT
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| Teenager arrested in Colorado schoolgirl dismemberment Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:14 PM PDT WESTMINSTER, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado teenager has been arrested on suspicion of abducting and killing a 10-year-old girl who disappeared on her way to school and was later found dismembered, a crime that left Denver-area parents gripped with fear, police said on Wednesday. Jessica Ridgeway vanished on October 5 in the Denver suburb of Westminster, and a man reported finding her backpack on a sidewalk in front of his house two days later, 6 milesfrom where she was last seen. ... |
| Chicago school board approves deal that ended teacher strike Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT
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| Texas opens first 85-mph highway in U.S., but trucks may shun it Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:55 PM PDT LOCKHART, Texas (Reuters) - Everything's bigger in Texas including, as of Wednesday, the speed limit. A new 41-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of toll road between San Antonio and Austin is now open with an 85-mph (137-kph) speed limit, the highest posted speed limit in the United States. State transportation officials hope that the speed limit will be an incentive for motorists to pay the roughly $12 toll to drive on the 90-mile (145-km) road. Joe Krier, who is on the board of the private company that built the new road, said there is no reason why motorists should not drive that fast. ... |
| U.S. sues Mississippi officials over student arrests Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:53 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department sued Mississippi state and local officials on Wednesday over what it called a "school-to-prison pipeline" that violates the rights of children, especially black and disabled youths. The suit alleges that police officers in Meridian, Mississippi, routinely arrested students who were suspended from school, even when they had no probable cause to believe the students had committed a crime. ... |
| Suspected gunman in custody after Atlanta church shooting Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:35 PM PDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A former employee at a suburban Atlanta megachurch was taken into custody on Wednesday, only hours after he was said to have walked into the church with a gun and opened fire, killing a man leading a prayer service, police said. Multiple gunshots rang out in the chapel of the World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). The suspected gunman was identified as Floyd Palmer, a 52-year-old former church maintenance worker who resigned from his job in August, said Fulton County Police Corporal Kay Lester. ... |
| Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a small business and a nearby home owned by members of the same family in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding two others before fleeing in a stolen car, authorities said. It was unclear what motivated the gunman to commit the back-to-back shootings, which erupted shortly after 11 a.m. local time about two blocks apart in a blue-collar neighborhood near a Coca-Cola bottling plant, Downey police Lieutenant Dean Milligan said. ... |
| U.S. death toll rises to 24 in meningitis outbreak Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT
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| Editor of Mormon-themed website quits church to avoid discipline Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:19 PM PDT SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The Florida-based editor of a Mormon-themed website has left the church rather than face disciplinary action and possible excommunication over writings that he said prompted accusations of apostasy. David Twede's posts on MormonThink.com offer his account of the history of the church's political involvement, criticism of fellow Mormon and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and the author's take on Mormon beliefs about the nature of God and temple ceremonies. ... |
| Occupy Wall Street leads church to cancel Halloween party Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT
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| Suspect in DC lobby group shooting faces terrorism charge Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspect in an August shooting at a conservative Washington, D.C., lobbying group was charged with terrorism under a grand jury indictment on Wednesday. A grand jury charged suspect Floyd Corkins II, 28, with seven District of Columbia offenses in the August 15 shooting at the Family Research Council, the U.S. Attorney's office said in a statement. Corkins, of Herndon, Virginia, is the first person charged under a local 2002 anti-terrorism law, the statement said. ... |
| Barnes & Noble says thieves tampered with PIN pads Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:38 PM PDT
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| Teenager arrested in Colorado girl's killing Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT WESTMINSTER, Colo. (Reuters) - A teenager has been arrested in connection with the killing of a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was abducted on her way to school and later found dismembered. Jessica Ridgeway, 10, went missing on October 5 in the Denver suburb of Westminster. Police said that they had taken 17-year-old Austin Sigg into custody on Tuesday. ... |
| Kennedy relative convicted of murder denied parole Posted: 24 Oct 2012 11:33 AM PDT SUFFIELD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Kennedy relative Michael Skakel on Wednesday was denied parole in his first try to persuade authorities he has served enough of his 20-years-to-life prison sentence for the 1975 murder of his young neighbor. Skakel, 52, maintained his innocence in the murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley, telling the parole board at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution he hoped the real killer would be brought to justice someday. "I did not commit this crime," said Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy and the late Robert F. ... |
| FBI veteran named to head New York division Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:04 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - George Venizelos, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, has been named the new head of the agency's New York field office, the largest outside of Washington, according to an internal email obtained by Reuters. Venizelos has headed the FBI's Philadelphia division since 2010, according to the email written by Acting Assistant Director in Charge Mary Galligan. No official start date has been set, the email said. FBI spokesmen declined to comment. Venizelos could not immediately be reached. ... |
| Georgia parents indicted for starving and banishing son Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia grand jury has returned felony indictments against the mother and stepfather of a small, thin 18-year-old who turned up at a Los Angeles bus terminal last month and told police about years of abuse and starvation at the hands of his parents. The Paulding County grand jury handed down the indictment earlier this week against Mitch Comer's mother, Sheila Marie Comer, and stepfather, Paul Matthew Comer, on eight counts of child cruelty, false imprisonment and kidnapping. ... |
| Trump to give $5 million to charity if Obama releases records Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:46 AM PDT
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| Death toll from West Nile virus tops 200: government Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT DALLAS (Reuters) - The U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus has killed 219 people this year, after another 36 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease were reported last week, government figures showed Wednesday. In what is the second-worst year on record for the disease, the total number of cases of West Nile virus across the United States grew to 4,725, with 194 new cases reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... |
| Texas scheduled to execute man for 1991 murder Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:18 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday is scheduled to execute a man who murdered a woman in 1991, stabbing her repeatedly with an ice pick and strangling her with stereo wire at her Dallas-area apartment. Bobby Lee Hines, then 19, was staying next door to Michelle Wendy Haupt, 26, in the apartment of a man who did maintenance work for the complex and had master keys to all the apartments, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ... |
| Immigrants come out of the shadows to fulfill a dream Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:18 AM PDT
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| Indiana candidate sorry about rape comment; Romney stands by him Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:45 PM PDT
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| Kennedy relative convicted of murder denied parole Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:10 AM PDT
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| GM unveils redesigned V8 engine for 2014 Corvette Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT PONTIAC, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Co said the redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Corvette that goes on sale next year will get a new 450-horsepower V8 engine. The engine, designated LT1, displaces 6.2 liters and is the fifth generation of GM's "small block" V8 engine family. Versions of the LT1 are expected to be used in other GM products, GM sources said, including the automaker' s redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks. ... |
| U.S. elderly, middle-aged see higher obesity rates: poll Posted: 24 Oct 2012 08:29 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's one more reason to dread aging: older Americans are seeing a greater increase in obesity rates, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Data from nearly 600,000 U.S. adults showed that people aged 18 and older were more likely to be obese than they were in 2008, according to the Gallup survey. Researchers noted a significant jump among adults in their 40s, 70s and 80s. ... |
| Supreme Court upholds stay of execution for Florida man Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:09 AM PDT
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| Immigrants come out of the shadows to fulfill a dream Posted: 23 Oct 2012 10:06 PM PDT
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| Suspected gunman in custody after Atlanta church shooting Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:28 PM PDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A former employee at a suburban Atlanta megachurch was taken into custody on Wednesday, only hours after he allegedly walked into the church with a gun and opened fire, killing a man leading a prayer service, police said. Multiple gunshots rang out in the chapel of the World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, around 10 a.m. The suspected gunman was identified as Floyd Palmer, a 52-year-old former church maintenance worker who resigned from his job in August, said Fulton County Police Corporal Kay Lester. ... |
| Texas executes man for 1991 stabbing-strangulation murder Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:26 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas prison officials on Wednesday executed a man for the gruesome 1991 murder a women who was stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick and strangled with stereo wire at her Dallas-area apartment, state officials said. Bobby Lee Hines, aged 19 at the time of the killing, was sharing a next door apartment with a maintenance man who had master keys to all the units in the building, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ... |
| Three killed, two wounded in twin shootings near Los Angeles Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:07 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a small business and a nearby home owned by members of the same family in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding two others before fleeing in a stolen car, authorities said. It was unclear what motivated the gunman to commit the back-to-back shootings, which erupted shortly after 11 a.m. about two blocks apart in a blue-collar neighborhood, Downey police Lieutenant Dean Milligan said. ... |
| Teenager arrested in Colorado schoolgirl dismemberment Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:14 PM PDT WESTMINSTER, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado teenager has been arrested on suspicion of abducting and killing a 10-year-old girl who disappeared on her way to school and was later found dismembered, a crime that left Denver-area parents gripped with fear, police said on Wednesday. Jessica Ridgeway vanished on October 5 in the Denver suburb of Westminster, and a man reported finding her backpack on a sidewalk in front of his house two days later, 6 milesfrom where she was last seen. ... |
| ABC News wants "pink slime" lawsuit moved to federal court Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:09 PM PDT
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| Chicago school board approves deal that ended teacher strike Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT
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| Texas opens first 85-mph highway in U.S., but trucks may shun it Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:55 PM PDT LOCKHART, Texas (Reuters) - Everything's bigger in Texas including, as of Wednesday, the speed limit. A new 41-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of toll road between San Antonio and Austin is now open with an 85-mph (137-kph) speed limit, the highest posted speed limit in the United States. State transportation officials hope that the speed limit will be an incentive for motorists to pay the roughly $12 toll to drive on the 90-mile (145-km) road. Joe Krier, who is on the board of the private company that built the new road, said there is no reason why motorists should not drive that fast. ... |
| U.S. sues Mississippi officials over student arrests Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:53 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department sued Mississippi state and local officials on Wednesday over what it called a "school-to-prison pipeline" that violates the rights of children, especially black and disabled youths. The suit alleges that police officers in Meridian, Mississippi, routinely arrested students who were suspended from school, even when they had no probable cause to believe the students had committed a crime. ... |
| US doctors can consider spinal taps for more steroid patients-CDC Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. doctors monitoring patients for signs of fungal meningitis can consider performing spinal taps, possibly weekly, on some of those who received contaminated steroid injections, even if they show no symptoms, health officials said on Wednesday. The revised guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reflect concern that the last groups of patients who received the steroid may be at a higher risk of deadly infection. The recommendation took some physicians by surprise. "Are we going to do spinal taps on thousands of people once a week?" asked Dr. ... |
| Barnes & Noble says thieves tampered with PIN pads Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:38 PM PDT
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