Police: 3 dead, 22 injured after homecoming parade crash

Police: 3 dead, 22 injured after homecoming parade crash
Paul Ryan prepares to ascend to speaker; pile of mess awaits
Kerry: Israel, Jordan working to ease holy site tensions
Patricia drenches Mexico as it weakens
Donald Trump pans Iowa polls, says Carson 'super low-energy'
Dash of drama: How the Royals returned to the World Series
Colorado movie gunman James Holmes assaulted by fellow prisoner
Heavy rains swamp Texas, flooding roads, derailing train
Missouri's Gateway Arch monument built on rigged votes, protests
The 2015 World Series schedule is set
GOP, Dems moving in opposite directions after a pivotal week
Clinton calls Republican's impeachment vow 'pathetic'
Massive storm Patricia spares cities as it slams into Mexico's Pacific coast

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 11:21 AM PDT

A vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators Saturday during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing at least three people and injuring nearly two dozen others, police said

Paul Ryan prepares to ascend to speaker; pile of mess awaits

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 05:24 AM PDT

The honeymoon might be over before it even begins for House Speaker-in-waiting Paul Ryan when he is elevated to the top job this coming week.

Kerry: Israel, Jordan working to ease holy site tensions

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 09:52 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Patricia drenches Mexico as it weakens

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 08:04 AM PDT

Now a tropical storm, it pushes rapidly inland over mountainous western Mexico.

Donald Trump pans Iowa polls, says Carson 'super low-energy'

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 06:36 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump dismissed polls that show him trailing Dr. Ben Carson in Iowa, calling the retired neurosurgeon "super low-energy" before a boisterous crowd in Miami on Friday night.

Dash of drama: How the Royals returned to the World Series

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Colorado movie gunman James Holmes assaulted by fellow prisoner

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 11:06 PM PDT

Convicted mass killer James Holmes, who is serving multiple life sentences for gunning down a dozen people at a movie theater in 2012, was assaulted by another inmate at a high-security Colorado prison, a corrections official said on Friday. Holmes was not injured when he was attacked by 27-year-old Mark C. Daniels at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Daniels lunged at Holmes and "took some swings" at him as the two prisoners were being escorted by guards down a hallway inside the lockup on Oct. 8, she said.

Heavy rains swamp Texas, flooding roads, derailing train

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 08:41 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Heavy rains swamped Texas overnight, forcing the evacuation of some residents in at least one county, stranding drivers on flooded streets in the central part of the state and causing cancellations of dozens of flights at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, officials said on Saturday. A Union Pacific freight train derailed in Navarro County, south of Dallas, as flood waters covered the tracks. The rain was expected to intensify over the weekend as moisture from tropical depression Patricia, which struck the Pacific coast of Mexico on Friday as a very powerful hurricane, meets with a storm system coming from the west and over Texas.

Missouri's Gateway Arch monument built on rigged votes, protests

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 04:17 AM PDT

When the last section of St. Louis' Gateway Arch, an American landmark as iconic as the Statue of Liberty, was hoisted into place on Oct 28, 1965, it was the concluding act of a story that began more than 30 years earlier. From rigged votes in a bond election to fund the project, to a famous father-son mix-up when the winning architect was alerted, to a civil rights protest high above ground, some of the Arch's rich, complicated history during those three decades has largely been forgotten as the 630-foot-tall, stainless steel structure nears its 50th anniversary. While today's television viewers may know the Arch better as the centerpiece of the SyFy series "Defiance," the seed for its creation was planted in 1933, when attorney Luther Ely Smith, returning by train to his home town, saw the blight of the riverfront and proposed building the structure.

The 2015 World Series schedule is set

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GOP, Dems moving in opposite directions after a pivotal week

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 12:28 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a pivotal week, the presidential race has become a tale of two parties on sharply different trajectories: Hillary Rodham Clinton has tightened her grip on the Democratic nomination while Republican concern is reaching new heights. Some officials are even considering what could turn into a GOP civil war to stop Donald Trump — with no fallback option.

Clinton calls Republican's impeachment vow 'pathetic'

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 07:02 PM PDT

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday denounced as "pathetic" and "totally ridiculous" a Republican congressman's call to impeach her on her first day in office if she is elected to the White House next year. Clinton, the front-runner for her party's November 2016 presidential nomination, was responding to comments made by Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. It's so totally ridiculous." "It, perhaps, is good politics with, you know, the most intense, extreme part of their base.