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• NATO intercepts Russian jets over Baltic Sea
• Missouri governor forms commission to look at Ferguson unrest
• Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again
• Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him
• North Korea's big move on captured American
• Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie
• U.S. restricts entrants from Ebola-hit nations to five airports
• Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home
• Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died
• Friend of accused Boston bomber lied repeatedly, prosecutor says
• Suspected serial killer charged in Indiana
• Schools closed after second sighting of Pennsylvania sniper
• Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO
• Special Report: U.S. visa program for crime victims is hit-or-miss prospect
• 'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker
• Pope's historic trip to unstable region
• Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him
• Five-year sentence for Oscar Pistorius
• New data shows just how liberal Silicon Valley donors are
• Arizona jury to consider death penalty for murderer Jodi Arias
• Oscar Pistorius arrives for sentencing
• Thirteen high school volleyball players hurt in Missouri bus crash
• GAO upholds FCi protest against security contract to USIS unit
• California mayor resigns after drunk driving arrest
• U.S. national security prosecutors shift focus from spies to cyber

NATO intercepts Russian jets over Baltic Sea Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:30 PM PDT NATO scrambled fighter jets twice in two days to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it said Tuesday amid reports that Russian military activity in the region is increasing.

Missouri governor forms commission to look at Ferguson unrest Posted: 21 Oct 2014 12:57 PM PDT By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said Tuesday he was setting up a special commission to examine the social and economic conditions in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that have fed ongoing race-related protests following the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in August. The St. Louis area has seen demonstrations almost daily since the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson. ...

Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again Posted: 21 Oct 2014 12:23 PM PDT In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria's border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq's western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad.

Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him Posted: 21 Oct 2014 11:49 AM PDT In an attempt to bring attention to the issue of unlawful traffic stops by police impersonators, Gavin Seim of Washington state flagged down a police officer on the side of the road.

North Korea's big move on captured American Posted: 21 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who have been tried and convicted of crimes in North Korea are still being held.

Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:10 AM PDT The Islamic Front, an alliance of militant groups in Syria, released a video on October 20, described as showing "special operations" unit training camp. The unit, dubbed War Lions, are filmed undergoing vigorous exercises. A fighter being interviewed in 1'00" says that main reason they come to the training camp is to defeat militias from different countries that have recently entered Syria. The video states that a number of unit leaders were killed in battle in Aleppo. Credit: YouTube/Islamic Front

U.S. restricts entrants from Ebola-hit nations to five airports Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:35 AM PDT (Reuters) - Travelers entering the United States whose trips originated in Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea must fly into one of five airports that have enhanced screening in place, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. The restrictions, to take effect on Wednesday, will subject affected travelers to temperature tests among other protocols at New York's JFK, New Jersey's Newark, Washington Dulles, Atlanta and Chicago's O'Hare international airports. These airports account for 94 percent of the flights to the United States from the Ebola-hit nations. ...

Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT MANLIUS, N.Y. (AP) — A Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to a New York soldier killed in Vietnam is being returned to his family about two decades after it was found on a school playground.

Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:46 AM PDT Montreal (AFP) - One of two Canadian soldiers run over by a driver suspected of having jihadist sympathies has died, police said Tuesday.

Friend of accused Boston bomber lied repeatedly, prosecutor says Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect lied repeatedly to investigators before eventually confessing about his activities in the days after the attack, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Defense lawyers have argued that Robel Phillipos, 21, was too intoxicated on marijuana to remember what he did the night of April 18, 2013, when prosecutors say he and two other men removed a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from the dorm room of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. ...

Suspected serial killer charged in Indiana Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:57 AM PDT Convicted sex offender thought to have murdered at least 7 women may have started killing 20 years ago.

Schools closed after second sighting of Pennsylvania sniper Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:40 AM PDT By Joe McDonald EAST STROUDSBURG Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania school district closed on Tuesday after another possible sighting of Eric Frein, the sniper accused of killing one state trooper and wounding another, near a post office close to the fugitive's former high school, officials said. The reported sighting on Monday afternoon of Frein, who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list for the Sept. 12 ambush, is the second since Friday in the same area of the Pocono Mountains, roughly 100 miles (160 km) north of Philadelphia. ...

Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:23 AM PDT Moscow (AFP) - Russian and French experts were investigating Tuesday a plane crash at a Moscow airport which killed the CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, whose private jet struck a snowplough on takeoff.

Special Report: U.S. visa program for crime victims is hit-or-miss prospect Posted: 21 Oct 2014 06:35 AM PDT It was the week of Chinese New Year, and Jian Zhen Huang was climbing her sister's doorstep in Brooklyn with cups and other supplies for the celebration inside. Oakland, California, has less than 5 percent of New York's population, yet law enforcement there verified 2,992 immigrants during the same period - more than twice as many.

'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker Posted: 21 Oct 2014 06:19 AM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man convicted of helping a debt-ridden motivational speaker commit suicide to make the death look like a robbery was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday, prosecutors said. Kenneth Minor, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month in the stabbing death of Jeffrey Locker in 2009, a spokeswoman with the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. Locker, a 52-year-old motivational speaker, hired Minor to help him kill himself and make it look like a robbery so his family could collect life insurance payouts, prosecutors said. ...

Pope's historic trip to unstable region Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:46 AM PDT Pope Francis will make his first visit to the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey.

Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:29 AM PDT In an attempt to bring attention to the issue of unlawful traffic stops by police impersonators, Gavin Seim of Washington state flagged down a police officer on the side of the road.

Five-year sentence for Oscar Pistorius Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:59 AM PDT Olympic, Paralympic sprinter given five years in prison Tuesday for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in trial that has gripped the world.

New data shows just how liberal Silicon Valley donors are Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:11 AM PDT A database of all political giving for the last 30 years, which ranks the intensity of donors' liberalism or conservatism, shows Democrats get the lion's share of donations from tech company employees.

Arizona jury to consider death penalty for murderer Jodi Arias Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:40 AM PDT By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona jury will be sworn in on Tuesday to decide whether 34-year-old convicted murderer Jodi Arias will be executed for the 2008 slaying of Travis Alexander, court officials said. After months of delays, a 12-member jury is set to be impaneled in Maricopa County Superior Court in downtown Phoenix in the penalty phase retrial of the former California waitress. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in May 2013 for killing Alexander, 30, in his Mesa, Arizona, home. ...

Oscar Pistorius arrives for sentencing Posted: 21 Oct 2014 12:46 AM PDT PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was surrounded by police officers as he walked into a South African courthouse Tuesday ahead of his sentencing for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Thirteen high school volleyball players hurt in Missouri bus crash Posted: 21 Oct 2014 12:31 AM PDT (Reuters) - Thirteen high school girls on a Missouri volleyball team were injured on Monday when their bus collided with a car on the way to a tournament, the school said. The girls from Raymore-Peculiar High School were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, the school said in messages on Twitter. No further details were immediately available. Police and fire departments could not immediately be reached for comment. The Kansas City Star newspaper reported that a flatbed truck crashed into the bus as it made a U-turn in Lee's Summit on Monday afternoon. ...

GAO upholds FCi protest against security contract to USIS unit Posted: 20 Oct 2014 11:28 PM PDT (Reuters) - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday upheld portions of a protest filed by vetting firm FCi Federal Inc against a $190 million contract awarded to a unit of U.S. Investigative Services LLC (USIS) earlier this year by the Department of Homeland Security. FCi Federal has filed the protest, arguing that federal fraud charges filed against USIS LLC by the U.S. Justice Department for "dumping" 665,000 background check cases without conducting proper reviews should have disqualified it from winning the contract. ...

California mayor resigns after drunk driving arrest Posted: 20 Oct 2014 10:40 PM PDT (Reuters) - A southern California mayor who was arrested last week on suspicion of drunken driving in an accident that injured four teenagers announced his resignation on Monday. Murrieta Mayor Alan Long, who gained national attention in the summer when he led a local backlash against a plan to process illegal Central American immigrants in the town, said he stepped down both as Mayor and as a city council member. "I do not believe under the circumstances it is appropriate for me to remain in these positions," Long said in a statement sent by his attorney Virginia Blumenthal. ...

U.S. national security prosecutors shift focus from spies to cyber Posted: 20 Oct 2014 10:25 PM PDT By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face more intrusions. The revamp, led by Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, also marks a recognition that national security threats have broadened and become more technologically savvy since the 9/11 attacks against the United States. ...

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