US to send up to 450 more troops to train Iraqis

US to send up to 450 more troops to train Iraqis
NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn't use cellphone before crash
McKinney officer who pulled his gun on teens resigns — but is it enough?
House searches resume near prison where 2 killers escaped
LeBron leads Cleveland to 2-1 NBA Finals lead
Obama considers sending more troops to help train Iraqi forces
New York inmates on the run for days face high odds of capture
Bus crash in New York's Lincoln Tunnel injures 18 people
Cheap, synthetic 'flakka' dethroning cocaine on Florida drug scene
S.F. Giants' Chris Heston no-hits Mets
Dennis Hastert makes 1st court appearance in hush-money case
Reporters tweet their evacuation from White House press briefing room
Judge in Colorado theater shooting trial dismisses 3 jurors

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 10:09 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq on Wednesday to advise and assist local forces in an effort to reverse the recent gains of the Islamic State.

NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn't use cellphone before crash

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 10:18 AM PDT

A new report deepens the mystery of what caused the accident that killed eight and injured about 200.

McKinney officer who pulled his gun on teens resigns — but is it enough?

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 06:05 AM PDT

The white police officer who threw a black bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulled his gun on two others while responding to a disturbance at a pool party in McKinney, Texas, resigned on Tuesday. But some community members say his resignation is not enough.

House searches resume near prison where 2 killers escaped

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 10:39 AM PDT

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — State police and corrections officers in helmets and body armor returned to search again Wednesday near the maximum-security prison where two killers escaped using power tools, as authorities renewed their plea for help from the public.

LeBron leads Cleveland to 2-1 NBA Finals lead

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Obama considers sending more troops to help train Iraqi forces

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 06:45 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including the possibility of setting up new training camps in Anbar Province, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

New York inmates on the run for days face high odds of capture

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 08:09 AM PDT

The two escaped inmates from a New York maximum security prison have far outlasted the typical jailbreak period, according to experts and corrections data, as state and federal authorities were hunting them for the fifth straight day on Wednesday. "They invest a lot of time and effort in planning their escape," said Martin Horn, a former prison official in New York City and Pennsylvania who now lectures at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Bus crash in New York's Lincoln Tunnel injures 18 people

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 09:42 AM PDT

Two buses crashed in the Lincoln Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey on Wednesday, injuring 18 people at the end of morning rush hour, none of them critically, officials said. A New Jersey Transit bus and a privately operated bus collided in the center tube of the 1.5-mile tunnel at 9:35 a.m., said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the tunnel.

Cheap, synthetic 'flakka' dethroning cocaine on Florida drug scene

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 08:08 AM PDT

For decades, South Florida has battled drug traffickers who ship boatloads of cocaine from South America. Now the region is dealing with a new epidemic - cheap, synthetic drugs that arrive from China through the mail. As authorities in the Sunshine State battle with the surge of Alpha-PVP, better known as "flakka" or "gravel," police departments have begun equipping officers with field detection kits, employing sniffer dogs at mail facilities and training patrol units to look for signs of delirium.

S.F. Giants' Chris Heston no-hits Mets

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Dennis Hastert makes 1st court appearance in hush-money case

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:45 PM PDT

The former House speaker pled not guilty to charges that he violated banking rules and lied to the FBI in a scheme to pay $3.5 million in hush money to conceal misconduct from his days as a high school teacher.

Reporters tweet their evacuation from White House press briefing room

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 11:29 AM PDT

Secret Service interrupted a press briefing at the White House Tuesday, evacuating reporters from the briefing room.

Judge in Colorado theater shooting trial dismisses 3 jurors

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 05:59 PM PDT

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shooting trial dismissed three jurors Tuesday after learning that one was exposed to news coverage of the case and discussed it with the others.