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• Oregon teen accused of bringing homemade bomb to school
• James Traficant of Ohio, former congressman and felon, is dead
• Search continues for Va. student who vanished
• U.S. flight woes linger after Chicago air traffic center fire
• Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine
• Prospect of tighter White House security touches nerve in Washington
• Hundreds of small earthquakes hit central California
• Hong Kong police arrest protesters at government complex
• Chelsea Clinton gives birth to baby girl
• Four dead, dozen injured in college bus crash in Oklahoma
• New Mexico sheriff guilty of violating motorist's civil rights
• Justice Department tells Ferguson police to stop wearing bracelets
• Next U.S. attorney general faces daunting national security challenges
• U.S. official says Khorasan Group threat to aviation
• Colorado detective accused of tipping off suspect in luring case
• Modern airpower versus tribal warriors
• U.S. OKs $2.5 billion to upgrade used military vehicles for UAE
• Man who sparked N.H. school lockdown with pellet gun wanted reference
• Mars Rover Curiosity drills 1st hole into large mountain

Oregon teen accused of bringing homemade bomb to school Posted: 27 Sep 2014 12:43 PM PDT (Reuters) - An Oregon teen has been detained on charges of bringing a homemade bomb to his high school and causing a campus evacuation on Friday, police said. The 16-year-old boy, who has not been named because of his age, is accused of placing the explosive device in his locker at St. Helens High School, the St. Helens Police Department said in a statement. Police responded to calls by school staff reporting that they received information about the student possibly harboring an explosive, police said in a statement posted online. ...

James Traficant of Ohio, former congressman and felon, is dead Posted: 27 Sep 2014 12:26 PM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative James Traficant of Ohio, a brash, eccentric figure known for his bombastic speeches who went to prison for corruption, died on Saturday at age 73, his family attorney said. Traficant had been hospitalized since Wednesday in critical condition after he lost control of his 1948 Ford tractor in the barn at his home in Greenford, Ohio, police said. The tractor rolled over and pinned him underneath. Family attorney Heidi Hanni said Traficant died at 11:30 a.m. ...

Search continues for Va. student who vanished Posted: 27 Sep 2014 11:33 AM PDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — With a suspect in the abduction of an 18-year-old woman back in the state, a search and rescue team worked with canine units Saturday trying to find the University of Virginia sophomore who vanished more than two weeks ago.

U.S. flight woes linger after Chicago air traffic center fire Posted: 27 Sep 2014 10:57 AM PDT By Laila Kearney (Reuters) - U.S. airports reported hundreds of residual flight cancellations on Saturday, a day after an employee apparently set a Chicago-area air traffic control center on fire and tried to take his own life. The incident forced the evacuation of the Federal Aviation Administration control center in Aurora, Illinois, and severely snarled air traffic on Friday, when an estimated 2,100 flights were canceled at major airports across the country. ...

Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine Posted: 27 Sep 2014 08:13 AM PDT MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.

Prospect of tighter White House security touches nerve in Washington Posted: 27 Sep 2014 06:07 AM PDT By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prospect of more of the U.S. capital being closed off after an intruder got into the White House has struck a nerve in Washington over public space being eroded by barricades and bollards. The possible tightening of security around the president's residence, a highly visible symbol of democracy and a prime draw for tourists and protesters alike, raises questions like whether safety trumps openness or whether a capital city can ever be entirely safe, analysts said. The week after a 42-year-old Iraq war veteran climbed the 7-foot (2. ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes hit central California Posted: 27 Sep 2014 03:00 AM PDT (Reuters) - More than 500 small earthquakes struck a volcanic region in central California on Thursday and Friday, posing no immediate risk, federal environmental officials said. The "earthquake swarm" shook the Long Valley Caldera area north of Fresno, an area that has seen an increased amount of quakes, volcanic gas emissions and other disturbances in recent decades, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. "These are just kind of ordinary, everyday earthquakes," said USGS spokeswoman Leslie Gordon. Eight of the quakes were recorded between 3.0 and 3. ...

Hong Kong police arrest protesters at government complex Posted: 27 Sep 2014 02:07 AM PDT HONG KONG (AP) — Riot police in Hong Kong on Saturday arrested scores of students who stormed the government headquarters compound during a night of scuffles to protest China's refusal to allow genuine democratic reforms in the semiautonomous city.

Chelsea Clinton gives birth to baby girl Posted: 27 Sep 2014 01:47 AM PDT Bill and Hillary Clinton are grandparents. The couple's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, has given birth to her first child, a daughter named Charlotte.

Four dead, dozen injured in college bus crash in Oklahoma Posted: 27 Sep 2014 12:53 AM PDT (Reuters) - Four college softball players were killed, and a dozen others were injured, when their bus was involved in a crash on an Oklahoma freeway, officials said on Friday. The crash occurred around 9 p.m. local time (0200 GMT) when a semi truck crossed over a median into oncoming traffic north of Ardmore, Oklahoma and collided with the bus, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Ronnie Hampton said. Three of the North Central Texas College softball players were pronounced dead at the scene, and a fourth player died after being taken to a local hospital, Hampton said. ...

New Mexico sheriff guilty of violating motorist's civil rights Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:19 PM PDT By Joseph Kolb ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico sheriff was found guilty by a federal jury on Friday of violating a motorist's civil rights when he dragged the man out of his vehicle and struck him with his badge after a high-speed car chase, prosecutors said. Rio Arriba County Sheriff Thomas Rodella, 52, was also found guilty of a federal firearms charge and was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals after the verdict. He could face a total of up to 17 years in prison on the two counts. According to a federal indictment filed in U.S. ...

Justice Department tells Ferguson police to stop wearing bracelets Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:49 PM PDT FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets with the name of the white officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests. In a letter to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, the Justice Department said residents had told federal investigators that officers policing protest sites on Tuesday in Ferguson were seen wearing "I am Darren Wilson" bracelets. Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, causing outrage in the mostly black St. ...

Next U.S. attorney general faces daunting national security challenges Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:12 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a time when heightened fears of government surveillance coincide with growing anxiety about global terrorism, the next top U.S. law-enforcement officer will face daunting challenges to balance protection of Americans' security and the right to privacy. President Barack Obama says he has not yet chosen a successor to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, but whoever takes on the job for the last two years of the tenure will have no easy task. ...

U.S. official says Khorasan Group threat to aviation Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — An al-Qaida cell in Syria known as the Khorasan Group, which was targeted by U.S. airstrikes this week, represents "a clear and present danger" to commercial flights to Europe and the United States, the Obama administration's top aviation security official said Friday.

Colorado detective accused of tipping off suspect in luring case Posted: 26 Sep 2014 03:26 PM PDT By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - A police detective in Colorado has been arrested on charges that he tipped off a suspect in a sex crimes investigation that the 13-year-old girl he had been emailing was actually an undercover officer, prosecutors said on Friday. The detective, Jack Gardner, 56, who investigates Internet crimes against children, is accused of having emailed the suspect from a laptop at the Boulder Police Department, warning him not to attend a meeting with the "girl" because he faced arrest. ...

Modern airpower versus tribal warriors Posted: 26 Sep 2014 02:49 PM PDT In the annals of warfare there have been few conflicts as asymmetric as the United States against the Islamic State, which pits a global superpower at the head of an international coalition against an ambitious terrorist group.

U.S. OKs $2.5 billion to upgrade used military vehicles for UAE Posted: 26 Sep 2014 02:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it has approved $2.5 billion in modifications and upgrades of used U.S. military vehicles that are to be sold separately to the United Arab Emirates as "excess" equipment. If finalized, the work would be done by Navistar International Corp, Britain's BAE Systems and Oshkosh Corp, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a notification to Congress. ...

Man who sparked N.H. school lockdown with pellet gun wanted reference Posted: 26 Sep 2014 02:11 PM PDT By Ted Siefer MANCHESTER N.H. (Reuters) - A New Hampshire man who sparked a lockdown at a Manchester high school after he walked in with a pellet gun tucked into his belt had been trying to secure a letter of recommendation from a former teacher, according to court papers filed on Friday. Heavily armed police surrounded Manchester High School West on Thursday and the roughly 1,000 students at the school went into lockdown in their classrooms after Damian Johnson, 21, was spotted by a student with what appeared to be a handgun. ...

Mars Rover Curiosity drills 1st hole into large mountain Posted: 26 Sep 2014 01:21 PM PDT NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken its first bite out of the giant mountain that it crossed interplanetary space to explore. On Wednesday (Sept. 24), the 1-ton Curiosity rover drilled 2.6 inches (6.7 centimeters) into an outcrop at the base of the towering Mount Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) into the Martian sky. "This first look at rocks we believe to underlie Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time the mountain formed, and what led to its growth." [Mars Rover Curiosity's Latest Amazing Photos]

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