| Ariz. man wins fight for same-sex death benefits Posted: 12 Sep 2014 01:01 PM PDT  A judge has handed a victory to a gay man who lost his spouse to cancer last month and was denied death benefits because Arizona does not recognize same-sex marriage.
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| Rare snowstorm slams South Dakota, Rockies states Posted: 12 Sep 2014 12:29 PM PDT  It's still summer, but a snowstorm blanketed parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana and Colorado, setting early snowfall records in some places, covering lawns and flower gardens and providing a preview of what is to come.
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| St. Louis groups donating funds to Ferguson schools, shops Posted: 12 Sep 2014 11:58 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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| Zimmerman accused of threatening to kill driver Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:39 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police say a driver has reported that George Zimmerman threatened to kill him after a confrontation on the road.
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| Rob Ford quits mayor's race Posted: 12 Sep 2014 10:24 AM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is withdrawing his re-election bid.
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| Obama, Clinton celebrate 20 years of AmeriCorps Posted: 12 Sep 2014 09:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton joined forces Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, heralding the impact volunteering can have on both individuals and the nation.
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| Woman found in Massachusetts home with dead bodies may be mentally ill: lawyer Posted: 12 Sep 2014 09:37 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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| Olive Garden investor: Hold the breadsticks Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:50 AM PDT  Olive Garden is hurting itself by piling on too many breadsticks, according to an investor that's disputing how the restaurant chain is run. In a nearly 300-page critique, the hedge fund Starboard Value ...
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| Venezuela's Maduro vows legal action against Harvard professor Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:34 AM PDT  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called for legal action against a former government official who now teaches at Harvard University and wrote an opinion piece that contributed to a fall in the nation's bond prices earlier this week. Ricardo Hausmann, a Venezuelan planning minister in the 1990s, wrote that Venezuela was in arrears across various sectors of the economy and had "defaulted" on its people. "So, should Venezuela default on its foreign bonds?" he asked. Combined with pessimism on Wall Street over lack of market-friendly reforms, last week's article on Project Syndicate, a web portal that carries opinion pieces on global affairs, hit Venezuelan bond prices.
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| Woman arrested after three dead babies found in filthy Mass. home Posted: 12 Sep 2014 07:18 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 06:29 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 04:53 AM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — 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.
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| Bridgeport, Connecticut, industrial fire forces hundreds to evacuate Posted: 12 Sep 2014 04:38 AM PDT (Reuters) - An overnight fire at a Bridgeport, Connecticut, industrial building forced about 400 nearby residents to evacuate and caused a large power outage in the area, officials said on Friday. The blaze started on Thursday evening at a building that housed a perfume company, the city fire department said in a statement. Three firefighters were taken to a local hospital for treatment of heat and smoke-related complications after battling the blaze, but were expected to be fine. |
| Is it a crime to raise a killer? Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:35 AM PDT  In Clayton, N.J., the father of a 12-year-old victim is suing the mother of her 15-year-old killer, accusing her of being a bad parent. "if that boy's parents had acted differently my daughter would be alive today," the victim's father says. "So tell me how this is not their fault."
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| Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide Posted: 12 Sep 2014 02:03 AM PDT  The former Olympian escaped the more serious charge of murder for killing of his girlfriend.
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| Pistorius broke the law when firing gun in restaurant: judge Posted: 12 Sep 2014 01:32 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius broke the law when he discharged a gun in a crowded restaurant, South African Judge Thokozile Masipa said on Friday. Masipa on Thursday cleared Pistorius of the premeditated murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot on Valentine's Day last year. He still faces a lesser charge of culpable homicide. (Reporting by Joe Brock; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Ed Stoddard)
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| Pistorius due back in court for culpable homicide ruling Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:58 PM PDT  By Stella Mapenzauswa PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius returns to court on Friday after being cleared of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter could still be convicted of culpable homicide for the "negligent" shooting of the model. The double-amputee, once one of the biggest names in world athletics, has reason to fear a guilty verdict after Judge Thokozile Masipa adjourned on Thursday seconds after saying key elements of culpable homicide were satisfied in the Valentine's Day 2013 shooting. She also said he had not acted "reasonably" and dismissed defense arguments about Pistorius' heightened sense of fear because of his disability, saying he was not the only vulnerable person in South Africa. "Many have been victims of violent crime but they have not resorted to sleeping with firearms under their pillows." Earlier, Masipa ruled that prosecutors, led by the combative Gerrie Nel, had failed to prove the 27-year-old intended to kill Steenkamp after an argument.
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| Police: Escaped school shooter captured Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:11 PM PDT  Authorities say they have apprehended T.J. Lane after he escaped from an Ohio prison.
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| Inmate convicted of killing three teenagers escapes from Ohio prison Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:51 PM PDT A teenager convicted of killing three students in a 2012 shooting rampage at a Cleveland-area high school has escaped with another inmate from a prison in northwestern Ohio, prompting a manhunt for the pair, police said on Thursday. T.J. Lane, 19, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year for the attack at Chardon High School near Cleveland, escaped with fellow inmate Clifford Opperud from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio, the local police department said in a Facebook message. |
| Cops: Convicted school shooter escapes prison Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:35 PM PDT  Ohio police say the convicted killer of three students at a high school cafeteria has escaped from prison and a search is underway.
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| Syria's Nusra Front releases 45 U.N. peacekeepers Posted: 11 Sep 2014 06:34 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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| CIA: 20,000-31,500 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria Posted: 11 Sep 2014 05:47 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 Thursday, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. "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 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 05:31 PM PDT  Cathy Woods' release from prison comes three days after cigarette DNA won her a new trial.
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| White House locked down after man jumps fence Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:46 PM PDT  Nerves were jangling after a man jumped the White House perimeter fence.
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| St. Louis grand jury weighs charges in Ferguson shooting Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:30 PM PDT  By Carey Gillam ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The white officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August, spurring a wave of violent protests, would be the first policeman charged for killing a suspect in St. Louis County in more than two decades. For weeks, protesters in the mostly black St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have piled pressure on authorities, demanding that the officer, Darren Wilson, be charged and Prosecutor Bob McCulloch be replaced with a special prosecutor. The prosecutor opted not to press charges and presented the case to the grand jury because of conflicting testimony from witnesses, his office said. If people don't feel like they get justice, it will be very hard to hold these folks back," said St. Louis Alderman Antonio French.
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