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• Kentucky firefighter dies after ice bucket challenge accident
• U.S. immigration protesters drop U.S. border blockade plan
• Why Secret Service didn’t shoot intruder
• Pope names moderate as Chicago archbishop, key role in U.S. Church
• Fence-jumper gets into White House
• Pennsylvania police shooter manhunt near home of suspect's parents
• Police hunker down in ambush suspect's woods
• California governor rejects bills to help men change diapers
• Weather helps crews make gains against California wildfire
• Turkey: 49 hostages have been freed
• Fence-jumper makes it into the White House
• Poisoned Texas doctor says lover gave him 'sweet tasting' coffee
• Texas governor orders National Guard to look for dead immigrants
• Body of Texas sheriff's deputy found in lake
• White House press, staff allowed back in after brief evacuation
• Part of White House evacuated; Obama not present: witnesses
• Russian fighters intercepted by U.S., Canada
• Russia: info 'war' in Malaysian plane disaster
• Russian fighters intercepted by U.S.
• Pathologist reviews autopsy of man killed in NY police choke hold
• 'CIA Canoe Pool,' other revelations from declassified CIA papers
• Obama signs bill to arm Syrian rebels
• Car seized, apartment searched in hunt for Univ. of Virginia student
• Army opens Ranger school to women

Kentucky firefighter dies after ice bucket challenge accident Posted: 20 Sep 2014 12:18 PM PDT By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE KY. (Reuters) - A Kentucky firefighter who was severely injured a month ago while helping college students take part in an "ice-bucket" fundraiser died on Saturday from his injuries, authorities said. Captain Tony Grider, 41, of Campbellsville was hurt along with three other firefighters when an aerial ladder got too close to a power line as their department doused a university band with water. Kyle Smith, the chief of Campbellsville Fire and Rescue, said Grider died at noon at University of Louisville hospital. ...

U.S. immigration protesters drop U.S. border blockade plan Posted: 20 Sep 2014 10:22 AM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A plan by U.S. protesters against illegal immigration to block traffic at more than a dozen border crossings in the southwest on Saturday was canceled after organizers said they received online threats from Mexican drug cartels. Billed as a "Shut Down All Ports Of Entry" protest against the Obama administration's immigration policies, demonstrators had said they would try to stop incoming and outgoing traffic at 17 locations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. ...

Why Secret Service didn’t shoot intruder Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:57 AM PDT Agents defend their decision to hold their fire after a man scales the White House fence.

Pope names moderate as Chicago archbishop, key role in U.S. Church Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:39 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in his first major appointment in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States, on Saturday named Bishop Blase Cupich as the new archbishop of Chicago. Cupich, 65, who is seen as a moderate and is currently the bishop of Spokane, Washington, succeeds the more conservative Cardinal Francis George, 77, who is retiring. Chicago, with more than 2. ...

Fence-jumper gets into White House Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:23 AM PDT An intruder makes it all the way through the front door before being apprehended.

Pennsylvania police shooter manhunt near home of suspect's parents Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:07 AM PDT By Joe McDonald CANADENSIS PA. (Reuters) - A massive police manhunt intensified on Friday for the gunman who killed an officer and wounded another in an ambush at a Pennsylvania state police barracks a week ago. Waves of police and several circling aircraft were stationed in a wooded region near the Canadensis, Pennsylvania home of the parents of the main suspect. Eric Matthew Frein, 31, has been identified as the prime suspect in the fatal shooting of Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, and the wounding of Trooper Alex Douglass, 31, outside a state police barracks in Blooming Grove late on Sept. 12. ...

Police hunker down in ambush suspect's woods Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:36 AM PDT CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities hunkered down early Saturday in the neighborhood where a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper lived with his parents, raising hopes they had him cornered a week after the ambush outside a rural police barracks.

California governor rejects bills to help men change diapers Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:19 AM PDT (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday vetoed two bills that aimed to make baby diaper changing tables in public restrooms as accessible to men as they are to women. The bills, which recently passed the state's senate and assembly chambers with broad support, would have modified existing state laws to ensure public places, such as movie theatres and shopping malls, have baby changing tables in both mens's and women's restrooms. ...

Weather helps crews make gains against California wildfire Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:53 PM PDT By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire crews in California's rugged Sierra Nevada seized on a break in the weather on Friday to slowly gain ground against a blaze threatening to destroy 12,000 homes as it roared for a seventh day through dry timber and brush west of Lake Tahoe. More than 3,000 residents of those dwellings remained displaced, Larry Pendarvis, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said. ...

Turkey: 49 hostages have been freed Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:49 PM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday that 49 Turkish hostages who were seized by Islamic militants in Iraq have been freed and safely returned to Turkey, ending Turkey's most serious hostage crisis.

Fence-jumper makes it into the White House Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service says a man who jumped over the White House fence made it just past the front doors before being apprehended.

Poisoned Texas doctor says lover gave him 'sweet tasting' coffee Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:42 PM PDT By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas doctor, who prosecutors said was poisoned by an obsessed colleague and lover, testified on Friday in her criminal trial that the woman served him a sweet cup of coffee one morning even though he preferred his black. Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, 43, an oncologist, is charged with aggravated assault of a family member, a charge that covers domestic violence in dating relationships, for allegedly spiking Dr. George Blumenschein's coffee in January 2013. "It was very, very sweet," Blumenschein testified. ...

Texas governor orders National Guard to look for dead immigrants Posted: 19 Sep 2014 06:39 PM PDT By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday ordered the Texas National Guard to search for the bodies of undocumented immigrants who have died by the hundreds in a remote part of the state as they attempted to walk to southern cities hundreds of miles (km) away. ...

Body of Texas sheriff's deputy found in lake Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:51 PM PDT Divers found the body of a missing Central Texas sheriff's deputy Friday, a day after her patrol car was found swamped by floodwaters minutes after she radioed for help while checking flooded low-water crossings.

White House press, staff allowed back in after brief evacuation Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:34 PM PDT By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House staff and reporters returned to the building after being briefly evacuated on Friday night because of an intruder on the grounds, a Reuters witness said. President Barack Obama had just left aboard the Marine One helicopter for Camp David, the presidential retreat in nearby Maryland, when armed, uniformed Secret Service personnel ordered the press corps and members of the White House staff to evacuate. They were allowed back in after about half an hour, the witness said. ...

Part of White House evacuated; Obama not present: witnesses Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:03 PM PDT By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House staff and reporters were evacuated on Friday night by the Secret Service because an intruder was spotted running on the grounds of the complex shortly after President Barack Obama had left the building, witnesses said. Obama had just left aboard the Marine One helicopter for Camp David, the presidential retreat in nearby Maryland, when armed, uniformed Secret Service personnel ordered the press corps and members of the White House staff to evacuate. There were no further details immediately available. ...

Russian fighters intercepted by U.S., Canada Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:47 PM PDT Eight fighter jets entered a U.S. "air defense identification zone" near Alaska: officials.

Russia: info 'war' in Malaysian plane disaster Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:31 PM PDT Russia's U.N. ambassador cast doubt on the Netherlands-led investigation into the downing of a Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine's rebel territory and called Friday for a new probe assisted by the United Nations.

Russian fighters intercepted by U.S. Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:15 PM PDT Fighter jets entered a U.S. "air defense identification zone" near Alaska, officials said.

Pathologist reviews autopsy of man killed in NY police choke hold Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent pathologist hired by the family of Eric Garner, a man killed by New York City police in July during an arrest involving a banned choke hold, said on Friday his review of the autopsy confirmed earlier findings that Garner's windpipe was crushed. Dr. Michael Baden, a former chief medical examiner for the city, praised the official autopsy on Garner's body as thorough after reviewing the tissue samples, x-rays and the pathologist's report held at the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. ...

'CIA Canoe Pool,' other revelations from declassified CIA papers Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:40 PM PDT What do we know after the CIA declassified more than 200 articles this week?

Obama signs bill to arm Syrian rebels Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:24 PM PDT Military authorization to arm, train Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group has been signed into law.

Car seized, apartment searched in hunt for Univ. of Virginia student Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:09 PM PDT Virginia police seized a car and searched an apartment today in their hunt for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in what police said was a major break in the case.

Army opens Ranger school to women Posted: 19 Sep 2014 01:53 PM PDT The Army is opening the door for women to go to Ranger school, in one of the first steps toward allowing women to begin moving into more grueling combat jobs.

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