| Prosecutor: Germanwings co-pilot feared going blind Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:22 AM PDT  The co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps feared that he was losing his eyesight, and some of the many doctors he consulted felt he was unfit to fly, a French prosecutor said Thursday.
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| Investigators believe prison employee was in on escape plot Posted: 11 Jun 2015 11:03 AM PDT  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators believe a prison employee had agreed to be the getaway driver in last weekend's escape by two killers, but she never showed up, a person close to the investigation told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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| Why Republican candidates should want to be shut out of debates Posted:  Now that we know the number of Republicans running for president this year is exponentially higher than the number of voters Rick Santorum can lure into a room in Iowa, the media that sponsor debates are freaking out.
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| Legendary actor Christopher Lee dead at 93 Posted: |
| New York man charged with murdering police officer Posted: 11 Jun 2015 08:49 AM PDT  A New York man accused of shooting a plainclothes police officer last month was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday, in a 12-count indictment that stiffened prior charges after the officer's death. Demetrius Blackwell, 35, was arrested hours after he allegedly shot New York Police Department officer Brian Moore, 25, in the head after Moore attempted to question him in a middle-class section of the borough of Queens on May 2. Blackwell was also charged with the attempted murder of Moore's partner, Erik Jansen.
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| Pentagon watchdog reassigns audit chief after Reuters report Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:08 AM PDT  By Scot J. Paltrow NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department Inspector General is reassigning one of his top deputies just weeks after Reuters reported that the deputy had forced staff to sign off on a disputed audit of the Marine Corps. In a Wednesday email to staff, Inspector General Jon Rymer said Daniel Blair, deputy inspector general for audits, would be reassigned to the lower-ranking position of deputy chief of staff. Blair for five years has been in charge of all audits by the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General, an independent watchdog agency that monitors Defense Department operations and programs.
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| Manhunt for two New York prison escapees focuses on nearby woods Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:53 AM PDT  Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said. Convicted murderers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York through underground pipes and a manhole. More than 500 law enforcement officers, along with canine and aviation units, were involved in the manhunt, along with the FBI and other agencies, New York State Police said.
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| Person of interest in upstate New York prison break: Who is Joyce Mitchell? Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:39 PM PDT Authorities are questioning Joyce Mitchell, a female prison employee, about the inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility last weekend. |
| McKinney police officer blames aggression at pool party on emotional stress Posted: 10 Jun 2015 12:03 PM PDT  The lawyer for a McKinney, Texas, police officer who has become the country's latest exemplification of bad cop behavior on Wednesday blamed her client's aggressive actions on emotional stress.
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