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5 spectators hurt during power plant implosion

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT

An explosion knocks down one of the remaining towers at the old Kern Power Plant, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 in Bakersfield, Calif. Five spectators were injured after shrapnel was sent flying at the demolition of the decommissioned steam power plant, authorities said. More than 1,000 people had gathered at 6 a.m. in a nearby parking lot to watch the planned implosion at the plant owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in Bakersfield. After structures on the property came crashing down, a police officer at the scene heard a man screaming for help and saw his leg had been severed, police said. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Autumn Parry) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUTFive spectators were injured Saturday after shrapnel was sent flying at the demolition of a decommissioned steam power plant in California's Central Valley, authorities said.

Zimbabwe's Mugabe re-elected, rival vows court challenge

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Zimbabweans arrive to cast their votes at a polling station in HarareAfrica's oldest leader Robert Mugabe was declared winner of Zimbabwe's disputed election on Saturday, while his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed the result as a fraud and said he would challenge it in court and in regional forums.

Envoys seek to avert bloodbath in Egypt

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 11:16 AM PDT

Riot police take up positions as members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Mursi flee during clashes near a television production complex in Six October City in GizaEgypt's army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs of a readiness to compromise on Saturday, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed.

Global travel warning: US cites al-Qaida threat

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:47 AM PDT

File - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington, in this March 9, 2009 file photo. The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday Aug. 2, 2013 about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend. The alert was the first of its kind since an announcement preceding the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

Zimbabwe officials: Mugabe wins with 61 percent

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:59 AM PDT

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Harare, Thursday, Aug. 1 2013. Tsvagirai said the election is HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe election officials say that President Robert Mugabe won the presidential election with 61 percent of the vote, compared to 34 percent for challenger Morgan Tsvangirai.

9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:45 AM PDT

Security officials conduct investigation at the scene of suicide bomb attacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, 3, 2013. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. (AP Photo/Babrak)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three militants wearing explosives-rigged vests killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said.

After lengthy delays, Fort Hood trial set to open

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:15 AM PDT

FILE- In this Nov. 5, 2009, file photo, Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood, Texas, army base where their young son was in daycare. Nidal Hasan 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/Jack Plunkett, File)Hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting inside a building for vaccines and routine checkups when a fellow soldier walked inside with two handguns and enough ammunition to commit one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

A-Rod homers; awaits likely drug penalty from MLB

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 07:27 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez answers questions from the media at a news conference following a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez feels singled out — by Major League Baseball in its drug investigation and by his New York Yankees.

Once rare stomach illness becoming more widespread

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 05:41 AM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, Donna Heller sits and talks about her recent illness in Burleson, Texas. Heller picked up cyclospora from a salad she ate at a restaurant in mid-June. After numerous doctor visits including an emergency room visit and a few misdiagnosis she was diagnosed by the CDC last week and began taking the antibiotic treatment just this week. Donna Heller thought she had cancer. But multiple visits to the doctor after a month with debilitating nausea and diarrhea didn't yield any answers. Convinced she was dying, she met with her lawyer to get her will in order.

Egypt ministry calls on protesters to depart

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 05:09 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian police official says that if followers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi abandon their protest sit-ins, this will allow his Muslim Brotherhood group to have a normal role in the political process.

Obama: No tax reform without spending to spur jobs

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 03:40 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speak to the media a he meets with Yemen's president Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there are no gimmicks to grow the economy — just difficult steps that require Washington's focus.

AP PHOTOS: Bahrain history slowly rises from sands

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 02:54 AM PDT

In this photo taken July 1, 2013, a modern mosque (in white) looks over a Dilmun-era graveyard in a Bronze-age settlement in Saar, Bahrain. The honeycomb-like graveyard is one of more than 70 buildings in the settlement built, they say, more than 4,000 years ago and remained in use for 150 to 200 years, according to archaeologists. The settlement built in northern Bahrain also includes a temple and dwellings. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)SAAR, Bahrain (AP) — More than 4,000 years ago, Dilmun merchants traveled from Mesopotamia to the Indus River, titans of trade and culture before rise of the empires of the Persians or the Ottomans

Stomach bug in 2 states linked to Mexican farm

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 02:08 AM PDT

In this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a photomicrograph of a fresh stool sample, which had been prepared using a 10% formalin solution, and stained with modified acid-fast stain, reveals the presence of four Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in the field of view. Iowa and Nebraska health officials said Tuesday, July 30, 2013, that a prepackaged salad mix is the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened more than 178 people in both states. Cyclospora is a rare parasite that causes a lengthy gastrointestinal illness. (AP Photo/Centerd for Disease Control and Prevention)WASHINGTON (AP) — An outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska has been linked to salad mix served at local Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and supplied by a Mexican farm.

Outbreak of stomach illnesses is hard to detect

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 01:53 AM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, Donna Heller sits and talks about her recent illness in Burleson, Texas. Heller picked up cyclospora from a salad she ate at a restaurant in mid-June. After numerous doctor visits including an emergency room visit and a few misdiagnosis she was diagnosed by the CDC last week and began taking the antibiotic treatment just this week. WASHINGTON (AP) — Donna Heller thought she had cancer. But multiple visits to the doctor after a month with debilitating nausea and diarrhea didn't yield any answers. Convinced she was dying, she met with her lawyer to get her will in order.

Red Sox owner enters $70M deal for Boston Globe

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 12:53 AM PDT

FILE - Boston Red Sox owner John Henry stands on the field before a baseball game in Boston, in this May 11, 2013 file photo. The principal owner of the Boston Red Sox has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe. The Globe says the impending purchase marks businessman John Henry's BOSTON (AP) — The New York Times Co. says it has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox for $70 million, a massive drop from the record $1.1 billion it paid for it.

Red Sox owner Henry enters deal for Boston Globe

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 12:07 AM PDT

FILE - Boston Red Sox owner John Henry stands on the field before a baseball game in Boston, in this May 11, 2013 file photo. The principal owner of the Boston Red Sox has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe. The Globe says the impending purchase marks businessman John Henry's BOSTON (AP) — Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe.

Red Sox owner Henry enters deal to by Boston Globe

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 11:36 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — The principal owner of the Boston Red Sox has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe.

New Zealand botulism scare triggers global recall

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 11:22 PM PDT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand authorities have triggered a global recall of up to 1,000 tons of dairy products across seven countries after dairy giant Fonterra announced tests had turned up a type of bacteria that could cause botulism.

Report: Inmates control all 24 prisons in Honduras

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 09:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2012 file photo, inmates peer from inside their cell at the San Pedro Sula Central Corrections Facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Honduras' 24 prisons are controlled by inmates because the state has abandoned its role in rehabilitating people convicted of crimes, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in a report released Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras' 24 prisons are controlled by inmates because the state has abandoned its role in rehabilitating people convicted of crimes, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in a report released Friday.

'Stand Your Ground' law hearings

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 08:51 PM PDT

An opponent of Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law wears a button against handguns outside a meeting o the law in Longwood, FloridaFlorida lawmakers will hold hearings this fall on the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.

Michelle Knight returns to Cleveland house of captivity

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 06:47 PM PDT

Live on Five Michelle Kinight visits Seymour AvenueKnight Returned to Seymour Avenue Day After She Told Kidnapper: 'Your Hell Is Just Beginning'

Michael Ansara, who played original Klingon, dies

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 06:17 PM PDT

FILE - This 1960 photo shows actor Michael Ansara on location for the TV series, LOS ANGELES (AP) — The actor who played the original Klingon on TV's "Star Trek" has died.

Time Warner Cable drops CBS in NY, LA, Dallas

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 05:46 PM PDT

A television screen shows the CBS channel with an announcement by Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 2,2013. Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas are losing the CBS channel, as the cable provider says it is dropping the network in a dispute over fees. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas lost access to CBS programming in a fee dispute Friday, threatening their ability to watch popular shows like "Under the Dome" or see Tiger Woods pursue his 8th win at the Firestone Country Club.

DA: Death of potential witness unrelated to Bulger

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 05:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 6, 2013 photo, Stephen Rakes smiles outside the liquor store he once owned in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. Rakes, who said he had been extorted by James WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Cyanide-laced iced coffee led to the death of a man who'd just found out he wouldn't get to testify against reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, authorities said Friday, but linked the man's death to a business associate who owed him money, not to Bulger.

Jack White denies threatening estranged wife

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, musician Jack White, left, and Karen Elson arrive on the red carpet for the Royal World Premiere of the 22nd James Bond film, NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jack White denies making any threats against his estranged wife in a court filing Friday that responds to her request for a temporary restraining order.
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