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Man arraigned in fatal Pa. shootings

Man arraigned in fatal Pa. shootings


Man arraigned in fatal Pa. shootings

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:39 AM PDT

This photo taken May 22, 2013 shows Rockne Newell talking about his trials and tribulations with Ross Township, Pa., over junk on his property. State police identified 59-year-old Newell as the suspect in a shooting Monday, Aug, 5, 2013 in which three people were killed and at least two others injured in Ross Township. Witnesses say he barged into a municipal meeting room and began shooting before being tackled by a local official and possibly another person. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, Keith R. Stevenson) MANDATORY CREDITRockne Newell, 59, was in a dispute with authorities over his property, police say.


After heart surgery, Bush's advice: ‘Regular check-ups’

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:14 AM PDT

FILE - This May 31, 2013 file photo shows former President George W. Bush during the unveiling their of his in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bush has successfully undergone a heart procedure after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Sound advice from the recovering former president.


Wildlife crime fighter sets out to save the elephants

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:01 AM PDT

A newborn Asian elephant calf plays with its mother...It takes a global investigation -- from the gleaming ivory markets of China to a $12 million pile of tusks and trinkets in Denver to the smugglers' shops of West Africa -– to understand the grim laws of supply and demand in the world's illegal ivory trade. The billion-dollar food chain begins deep in the [...]


Evidence will show 'I am the shooter,' says Fort Hood suspect

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:42 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, who is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. Hasan doesn't deny that he carried out the rampage, but military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. If he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department, File)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood targeted fellow soldiers in a meticulously planned attack that included stockpiling bullets and researching Taliban leaders calling for jihad, a military prosecutor said Tuesday during the opening day of the long-awaited trial.


US senators urge release of Egypt's Islamists

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:06 AM PDT

This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The talks between Burns and Khairat el-Shater took place in the prison where the Muslim Brotherhood figure is being held.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Two U.S. senators urged Egypt's military-backed government to release detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood before starting negotiations with the group, warning of worsening relations "if Egypt is not moving to democracy."


Coroner: Pa. gunman tried firing more shots

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:02 AM PDT

This photo taken May 22, 2013 shows Rockne Newell talking about his trials and tribulations with Ross Township, Pa., over junk on his property. State police identified 59-year-old Newell as the suspect in a shooting Monday, Aug, 5, 2013 in which three people were killed and at least two others injured in Ross Township. Witnesses say he barged into a municipal meeting room and began shooting before being tackled by a local official and possibly another person. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, Keith R. Stevenson) MANDATORY CREDITSAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a township official and two others during a municipal meeting in northeastern Pennsylvania was about to fire more rounds when he was wrestled to the ground, possibly preventing more bloodshed, authorities said Tuesday.


Challenges face Bezos as he buys Washington Post

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:13 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 28, 2007 file photo shows pedestrians walking past the main entrance to the Washington Post in Washington. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to buy The Washington Post for $250 million. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bezos turned selling books online into a multibillion-dollar business that has changed retailing forever. Many are now anxious to see if Bezos can do the same for the media industry, after the Amazon.com founder announced he is buying The Washington Post and other newspapers for $250 million.


Python's strangling of 2 boys in Canada probed

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:35 AM PDT

A memorial sits outside the Reptile Ocean exotic pet store in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Autopsies will be performed Tuesday on two young boys who were strangled in their sleep by a large 4.3 meter African rock python that escaped from the pet store and slithered through a ventilation system and crashed down from the ceiling into the living room of an apartment upstairs from the pet store. The brothers, ages 5 and 7, were visiting the apartment of a friend above Reptile Ocean Inc. said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Const. Julie Rogers-Marsh. The store owner, Jean-Claude Savoie, said he didn't hear a sound during the incident and discovered the "horrific scene" when he went into his living room, where the two boys had been sleeping, on Monday morning. Savoie said the snake fell through the living room from the ceiling. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John LeBlanc)CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick (AP) — A 100-pound (45-kilogram) python blamed in the strangling deaths of two Canadian boys apparently escaped from its pet store enclosure, slithered through a ventilation system and fell through the ceiling into the room where the young brothers were sleeping, the shop owner said Tuesday.


Obama heads to Phoenix to pitch mortgage reform

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:46 AM PDT

President Barack Obama walks off the Marine One helicopter as he heads to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base Md., Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Obama is traveling to Arizona and California. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation's mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — a plan with bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.


President George W. Bush has stent procedure

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:34 AM PDT

President George W. Bush visits PentagonFormer President George W. Bush successfully underwent a heart procedure in Dallas on Tuesday after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery during his annual physical, Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said.


Rep: Jazz keyboardist George Duke dies at 67

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 13, 2009 file photo, US jazz artist George Duke performs on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland. Duke, 67, the Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul in a 40-year-plus career, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott, File)NEW YORK (AP) — George Duke, the Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul in a 40-year-plus career, has died. He was 67.


Does A-Rod have anything left? Time will tell

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:52 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Ale Rodriguez gets a hit in his first at bat against the Chicago White Sox in the first inning in a baseball game at US Cellular Field in Chicago on Monday, Aug., 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Cherney)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez is allowed to play. Now we'll find out if he can anymore.


Pa. boy dies after serving as parents' best man

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:18 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 3, 2013 file photo, Christine Swidorsky carries her son and the couple's best man, Logan Stevenson, 2, down the aisle to her husband-to-be Sean Stevenson during the wedding ceremony in Jeannette, Pa. Christine Swidorsky Stevenson says on her Facebook page that Logan died in her arms at 8:18 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at their home in Jeannette, about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh. Logan, who was born Oct. 22, 2010, was diagnosed shortly after his first birthday with acute myeloid leukemia. The Stevensons abandoned an original wedding date of July 2014 after learning from doctors late last month that their son had two to three weeks to live. The couple wanted Logan to see them marry and to be part of family photos. (AP Photo/Tribune Review, Eric Schmadel)PITTSBURGH (AP) — A terminally ill 2-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents' best man at their wedding last weekend has died, according to his mother's Facebook page and a family friend.


W. Pa. boy dies after serving as parents' best man

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 06:47 AM PDT

Dying two-year-old is Pennsylvania couple's best manPITTSBURGH (AP) — A terminally ill 2-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents' best man at their wedding last weekend has died, according to his mother's Facebook page and a family friend.


Egypt's leadership denounces 'foreign pressure'

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT

This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The talks between Burns and Khairat el-Shater took place in the prison where the Muslim Brotherhood figure is being held.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Amid a flurry of visits by American and other foreign dignitaries, Egypt's interim presidency denounced "foreign pressure" on Tuesday in a sign of its growing impatience with international efforts to resolve a standoff with supporters of the ousted president that has left the country on the brink of another bout of violence and deadly street confrontations.


Vigil for Wis. Sikh victims marked by hope, tears

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:26 AM PDT

Raghu Vinder listens to speakers during a candlelight vigil in the parking lot the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, in Oak Creek, Wis. Monday is the one-year anniversary of the shooting rampage when a white supremacist at the temple where six people were killed. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — The children of some of the six victims killed a year ago in a shooting rampage at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple consoled each other as they remembered their loved ones during a candlelight vigil held next to the very parking lot where two of the six people died.


68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:49 AM PDT

68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombingA selection of newspaper headlines from around the country from Aug. 7 to 14, 1945, the days following the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The weapon was produced in part in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Energy)

New York man 'tries to sell girlfriend's baby online'

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 06:32 AM PDT

Charged: Paul Marquez, offered his partner's child online for $100. (Police handout)Paul Marquez has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and harassment after allegedly offered his partner's child on Craigslist for $100 (£65)


Sun's magnetic field 'is about to flip,' warns NASA

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 06:10 AM PDT

A CME pictured this year (NASA)The whole of the sun's magnetic field is about to "flip", according to NASA - with warning signs being spotted by observatories around the world this year.


State Dept. urges U.S. citizens to leave Yemen

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:43 AM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy are ordered to depart amid al-Qaida threats.


How the GOP lost in 2012

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:17 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waving to supporters at an election night rally in Boston. Republican officials have confirmed that Romney is scheduled to attend an August fundraiser for the New Hampshire GOP, the first time the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will headline a political fundraiser since his November loss. The Aug. 6 event will be held in New Hampshire's Lakes Region near Romney's summer home in Wolfeboro. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)The Fine Print It was too little, too late. Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz, whose new book Collision 2012 provides in-depth reporting and analysis of the last presidential election, says the Romney campaign's failure to humanize Mitt Romney was an important factor in sealing the candidate's loss. Balz tells "The Fine Print" that the more [...]


Gunman kills three at Pa. town meeting

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:04 PM PDT

Emergency crews respond to a reported shooting at the Ross Township building that left two people dead, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 in Saylorsburg, Pa. Monroe County emergency management director Guy Miller says the shooting happened Monday evening during Ross Township's regular monthly meeting. He says the gunman has been captured and is in state police custody. (AP Photo/Chris Post)A man with a property dispute opens fire before being tackled and shot with his own gun.


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