| Is it a crime to raise a killer? Posted: 12 Sep 2014 03:35 AM PDT  Anthony Pasquale wants the parents of his daughter's killer to share the blame.
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| Former day care worker convicted in kidnapping, assault Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:43 AM PDT  A former day care worker was convicted Friday of abducting a 5-year-old girl from her school classroom and sexually assaulting her during a 19-hour ordeal.
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| L.A. issues 'heat alert' as temperatures soar Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:55 AM PDT  Los Angeles health officials on Friday issued a special "heat alert" for this weekend, urging residents to take special precautions with temperatures expected to soar into triple digits across the region. With California already baking under a record drought that has brought acute water shortages, forecasts called for temperatures to reach more than 100 degrees in downtown Los Angeles and even higher in some surrounding communities. "Extreme heat such as this is not just an inconvenience, it can be dangerous and even deadly, but we can protect ourselves, our families and our neighbors if we take steps to remain cool and hydrated," Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the city's interim health director, said in issuing the heat alert. Gunzenhauser said some 60 "cooling centers" would be open at libraries, recreation centers and other community buildings throughout the weekend, offering shelter to residents suffering from what is predicted to be sweltering heat.
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| Rob Ford quits mayor's race; brother to run in his place Posted: 12 Sep 2014 11:27 AM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford withdrew his re-election bid Friday as he seeks treatment for a tumor in his abdomen, ending a campaign he had pursued despite a stint in rehab and persistent calls for him to quit amid drug and alcohol scandals. But he said his brother would run in his place, saying "we cannot go backwards."
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| Prison knew about school shooter's escape plans: union Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:58 AM PDT  Authorities say they have apprehended T.J. Lane after he escaped from an Ohio prison.
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| Zimmerman accused of threatening to kill driver Posted: 12 Sep 2014 11:47 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A driver says George Zimmerman threatened to kill him, asking 'Do you know who I am?' during a road confrontation in their vehicles, a police spokeswoman said Friday.
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| Obama, Clinton celebrate 20 years of AmeriCorps Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton on Friday highlighted the benefits to individuals and to the nation from volunteering as they celebrated the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program and welcomed the newest class of volunteers.
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| Reeva Steenkamp parents: Pistorius verdict 'not right' Posted: 12 Sep 2014 09:03 AM PDT  Johannesburg (AFP) - The parents of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius, reacted with disbelief at a judge's decision to acquit the star athlete of murder charges.
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| Malala's attackers arrested Posted: 12 Sep 2014 08:49 AM PDT  Pakistan nabs 10 Taliban militants accused of shooting the teenage activist.
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| 'No victors' in Pistorius guilty verdict Posted:  The family of the Olympian's dead girlfriend is not happy with the trial's outcome.
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| Olive Garden investor: Hold the breadsticks Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:04 AM PDT  Maybe there is such a thing as too many breadsticks. In a nearly 300-page treatise on what's wrong with Olive Garden and its management, investor Starboard Value suggests the Italian restaurant chain is ...
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| Woman arrested after three dead babies found in filthy Mass. home Posted: 12 Sep 2014 06:41 AM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson (Reuters) - Police have arrested a woman after the bodies of three infants were found amid the squalor and vermin of a condemned southern Massachusetts home from which state officials previously rescued four children, officials and media said on Thursday. But the cause of death and the gender of the infants found at the home in Blackstone, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Boston, was unknown, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early told reporters. "The house is in squalor," Early said. "The house is filled with vermin. ...
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| Navy pilot missing after two fighters crash in Pacific Ocean Posted: 12 Sep 2014 05:46 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is searching for a pilot missing after two combat jets crashed at sea in the western Pacific Ocean on Friday, Navy officials said. The two F/A-18 Hornets were operating from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson when the strike-fighter jets crashed, officials said in a statement. One pilot was quickly found and underwent medical attention, it said, but it was not immediately clear what, if any, injuries the pilot sustained. ...
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| Cabbies cry foul over body odor test Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:41 AM PDT  Body odor is among 52 criteria that officials at San Diego International Airport use to judge taxi drivers. Cabbies say that smacks of prejudice and discrimination. For years, inspectors with the San Diego ...
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| St. Louis groups donating funds to Ferguson schools, shops Posted: 12 Sep 2014 11:30 AM PDT  A group of St. Louis corporate executives and a consortium of businesses and civic groups said on Friday they were donating $85,000 to schools and small businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, to help the town recover after weeks of protests over the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer. The money is part of $150,000 raised so far by the St. Louis Regional Business Council, a consortium of top officers of mid- to large companies, and North County Inc, a group of business, civic and community organizations in St. Louis. Many Ferguson shops were damaged, and some had to close down temporarily during the weeks of protests and sometimes violent rioting that roiled the St. Louis suburb after the Aug. 9 shooting by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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| Teenage killer who escaped Ohio prison captured yards away Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:21 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A teenager serving a life sentence in the shooting deaths of three Cleveland-area high school students in 2012 was caught about 100 yards from the Ohio prison fence he had scaled to escape just hours earlier, officials said on Friday. T.J. Lane, 19, who was sentenced to life without parole, last year in the attack at Chardon High School, escaped on Thursday with two other inmates from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, northwestern Ohio, warden Kevin Jones said at a news conference outside the facility. ...
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| Woman found in Massachusetts home with dead bodies may be mentally ill: lawyer Posted: 12 Sep 2014 09:23 AM PDT  By Scott Malone UXBRIDGE Mass. (Reuters) - A 31-year-old Massachusetts woman found living in a rodent-infested house with the bodies of three dead infants may be suffering from mental illness, her court-appointed lawyer said on Friday. The woman, Erika Murray, did not speak during her brief appearance at Worcester District Course in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf to a series of criminal charges. A police search of her home this week in Blackstone, Massachusetts, about 40 miles southwest of Boston, found the bodies of three young infants and the skeletal remains of several animals amid stacks of garbage and dirty diapers that in places were 1-foot deep, according to the Blackstone Police Department. Who would be living in that house unless they were mentally ill?" her court-appointed attorney, Keith Halpern, told reporters.
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| CIA: Islamic State has doubled in strength Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:27 PM PDT  Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the Central Intelligence Agency said, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, some of whom have joined IS, a US intelligence official told AFP. The figures were revealed one day after President Barack Obama vowed to expand an offensive against IS extremists, a plan which foresees new air strikes against IS in Syria, expanded attacks in Iraq and new support for Iraqi government forces. "CIA assesses the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (IS) can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, based on a new review of all-source intelligence reports from May to August," CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani said in a statement.
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| Woman freed in 1976 Reno murder case Posted: 11 Sep 2014 03:49 PM PDT  Cathy Woods' release from prison comes three days after cigarette DNA won her a new trial.
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| U.S. threatened Yahoo with big fine over user data Posted: 11 Sep 2014 03:31 PM PDT  Officials said the company would have to pay $250K a day unless it shared user data for secret surveillance.
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| FEMA asks 850 households to return $5.8M in Sandy aid Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:27 PM PDT  Thousands of people who received government aid after Superstorm Sandy slammed the East Coast may be forced to give some or all of that money back, nearly two years after the disaster.
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| Syria's Nusra Front releases 45 U.N. peacekeepers Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:03 PM PDT  Dozens of Fijian U.N. peacekeepers, released by al Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria, arrived in Israeli-held territory on the Golan Heights on Thursday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "We opened the border and they entered," the Israeli military spokeswoman said, without giving numbers. A Reuters witness said after the peacekeepers crossed over they were driven away in a convoy of U.N. minibuses. Some 45 Fijian soldiers were taken hostage two weeks ago when Islamist militant groups including Nusra attacked them in the volatile frontier area between Syria and Israel.
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| Man's fence jump locks down White House Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:29 PM PDT  A man's jump over the White House perimeter fence set nerves jangling.
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| Portman calls for vote on Syrian airstrikes Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:04 PM PDT  Senator blamed mounting tensions in Mideast on withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
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| Okla. police: McCaskill wrong on extreme militarization example Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:48 AM PDT  Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat of Missouri, singled out a small sheriff's department in Oklahoma as an extreme example of the over-militarization of local police forces in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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| Witness: Brown was 'walking dead guy,' not rushing Ferguson officer Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:49 AM PDT An eyewitness to the shooting death of Michael Brown says the 18-year-old didn't charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Brown "staggered dead after the second shot, 20-25 feet, to the ground," the unidentified witness told CNN. "He was like a walking dead guy." |
| Ex-Microsoft exec giving $9M to fight Ebola Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:45 PM PDT  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's charity announces $9M donation to U.S. Ebola efforts.
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| Dozens of children at N.J. day care accidentally drink bleach Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:34 PM PDT  Twenty-eight preschoolers and two adults mistakenly drank bleach at snack time at a New Jersey day care center on Thursday and were taken to a hospital after some complained their stomachs were burning. The children, aged 3 and 4, and adult staff members of the Growing Tree Learning Center in downtown Jersey City were transported in five ambulances to the Jersey City Medical Center after a late-morning call to 911, said Mark Rabson, a hospital spokesman. "There was a poisoning and many children were injured," he said, adding the children were walking on their own or were being carried out by their parents and "have smiles on their faces." Keith Kearney, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County, which runs the day care center that is open to all community members and serves 65 children from infants to age 4, said he had heard no reports of injuries and that the hospital visits were a precaution.
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| Witness: Brown was 'walking dead guy,' not rushing officer Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:48 AM PDT An eyewitness to the shooting death of Michael Brown says the 18-year-old didn't charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Brown "staggered dead after the second shot, 20-25 feet, to the ground," the unidentified witness told CNN. "He was like a walking dead guy." |
| Obama's 'all in' moment Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:41 AM PDT  In a prime-time speech, Pres. Obama rallied the nation to a war against the Islamic State.
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| Arabs back anti-IS move as Syria warns on 'attacks' Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:49 PM PDT  Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Arab nations rallied Thursday behind US President Barack Obama's call to expand operations against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, as Damascus warned it would consider any action on its territory as an attack.
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| 4th doctor infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone Posted: 11 Sep 2014 03:16 PM PDT  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Another doctor from Sierra Leone who has tested positive for Ebola will be evacuated for medical treatment, an official said Thursday, making her the first citizen of a hard-hit country to be treated abroad.
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| Mississippi election winner to be chosen at random after tied race Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:55 PM PDT The election for alderman of a southern Mississippi city ended in a tie, with the winner to be chosen at random, likely by a coin toss or drawing straws, the city's mayor said Thursday. The special election for one of five alderman seats in Poplarville, with a population of about 2,800, ended in a 177-177 tie after one voter who showed up on Tuesday without photo ID, which is required under state law, later produced identification, said Glenn Bolin, one of the candidates. Bolin and his opponent, Stephanie Bounds, a nurse, were not told which candidate the key voter supported, he said. "Now we've got to do what the law says as far as settling this." The tie-breaker, to be overseen by the local election commission, is set to take place Thursday evening, Poplarville Mayor Brad Necaise said. |
| Indicted S.C. House speaker suspends himself from office Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:44 PM PDT  South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell suspended himself from the state legislature on Thursday, a day after he was indicted on nine criminal charges related to misuse of campaign money and misconduct in office. Harrell, a Republican, said in a letter that he was taking the step proactively and, according to House rules, had asked the speaker pro tempore to take charge of the legislative body. ...
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| U.S. sharply cutting deportations Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:02 PM PDT  The Obama administration is on pace to deport the fewest number of immigrants since 2007.
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| N.J. ban on 'gay conversion therapy' upheld Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:27 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld New Jersey's ban on counseling intended to change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian children. Circuit Court of Appeals said the ban, which Republican Governor Chris Christie signed into law in August 2013, did not violate the free speech or religious rights of counselors offering "gay conversion therapy" to convert homosexual minors into heterosexuals. The panel also said the plaintiffs, who included licensed therapists and a Christian counseling group, lacked standing to pursue claims on behalf of their minor clients. Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith said the ban, the second in the country after California's, appropriately advanced New Jersey's legitimate interest in protecting people under the age of 18 from harmful or ineffective professional treatment.
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| Warmer air caused ice shelf collapse off Antarctica Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:09 AM PDT  Warmer air triggered the collapse of a huge ice shelf off Antarctica in 2002, according to a report on Thursday that may help scientists predict future break-ups around the frozen continent. Antarctica is a key to sea level rise, which threatens coastal areas around the world.. It has enough ice to raise seas by 57 meters (190 feet) if it ever all melted, meaning that even a tiny thaw at the fringes is a concern. Until now, the exact cause of the collapse of the Larsen-B ice shelf, a floating mass of ice bigger than Luxembourg at the end of glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula, had been unknown.
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