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• Six bodies identified after decades in Oklahoma lake
• Pennsylvania sniper hunt takes toll on lookalike, other locals
• Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown
• NFL: London team could be less than a decade away
• White House announces new healthcare intiiative
• Prosecutors accept proposed trial delay for Colorado cinema gunman
• Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnap at least 25 girls
• Almost half involved in massive UNC cheating scandal are athletes
• Islamic State now world's richest terrorist group
• Six in quarantine in Connecticut as U.S. steps up Ebola checks
• Justice Dept. 'exasperated' by local probe of Missouri teen shooting
• Islamic State raking in millions on black market oil
• What do we know about Canada gunman?
• U.S., allies stage 15 air strikes on Islamic State positions
• Dancing priests go viral
• Man faces felony charges after jumping White House fence
• Israeli police on alert following 'terror attack' on Jerusalem train station
• Reporter quits Chicago newspaper, says governor candidate influenced paper
• Matt Bai: The silliest emails of the week
• Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot
• California prisons to end racial lockdown policy
• Nurse Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, family says
• PM: 'Canada will never be intimidated'
• Exclusive: U.S. plans to plug coal royalty loophole padding export profits
• Royals even World Series as benches clear in 7-2 victory

Six bodies identified after decades in Oklahoma lake Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma authorities have formally identified six people whose bodies were found in a western Oklahoma lake in 2013, bringing a resolution to missing persons mysteries that spanned decades, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner said Thursday. The bodies were found in September 2013 when Oklahoma Highway Patrol divers stumbled upon two mud and rust-covered vehicles feet apart at the bottom of Foss Lake during tests of new sonar equipment. Each car contained three bodies. ...

Pennsylvania sniper hunt takes toll on lookalike, other locals Posted: 23 Oct 2014 11:49 AM PDT By Joe McDonald MOUNTAINHOME Pa. (Reuters) - Pocono Mountain residents are upset now that a six-week-old manhunt for an accused cop killer has forced the cancellation of school, hunting season and even Halloween parades, but few have suffered as much disruption to their lives as James Tully. Police seem to think the local factory worker bears an uncanny resemblance to the fugitive Eric Frein, who is suspected of fatally shooting a state trooper and wounding another on Sept. 12. Troopers have stopped Tully repeatedly on his daily four-hour walks through thick woods to and from his job. ...

Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown Posted: 23 Oct 2014 11:33 AM PDT By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday evening and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said. "Dogs got him," the spokesman said, referring to the intruder. Video showed Secret Service agents surrounding the man on the north lawn of the White House, which was put on lockdown for about 90 minutes. The man punched one of the dogs that attacked him, as seen in the video. ...

NFL: London team could be less than a decade away Posted: 23 Oct 2014 11:17 AM PDT The National Football League anticipates a franchise across the pond.

White House announces new healthcare intiiative Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:44 AM PDT The Obama administration announced a program budged at $840 million.

Prosecutors accept proposed trial delay for Colorado cinema gunman Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:58 AM PDT DENVER (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case do not oppose a defense request to delay the murder trial of accused gunman James Holmes until early next year, court papers showed on Thursday. A ruling by the judge on whether to postpone the trial is pending. Earlier this week, public defenders asked Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour to postpone the trial, which is set to begin in December, because they needed more time to review results of a second sanity examination. ...

Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnap at least 25 girls Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:43 AM PDT YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses to the attack said, despite talks aimed at freeing more than 200 other female hostages the militants seized in April. John Kwaghe, who witnessed the attack and lost three daughters to the abductors, and Dorathy Tizhe, who lost two, said the attackers came late in the night, forcing all the women to go with them, then later releasing the older ones.

Almost half involved in massive UNC cheating scandal are athletes Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:27 AM PDT CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Bogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students — nearly half of them athletes.

Islamic State now world's richest terrorist group Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:11 AM PDT The Islamic State has become the world's wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms, officials said Thursday. This will be a sustained fight, and we are in the early stages," said undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence David Cohen. Cohen is among a team of Obama administration officials leading the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, also known as ISIL, which has seized a large swath of territory in Iraq and Syria. The group is now "considered the world's wealthiest and most financially sophisticated terrorist organization," said Marwan Muasher, vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Six in quarantine in Connecticut as U.S. steps up Ebola checks Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:55 AM PDT By Richard Weizel WEST HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) - Connecticut placed six West Africans who recently arrived in the United States under quarantine for possible Ebola exposure, a move that comes as the United States starts new restrictions on those coming from the countries hardest hit by the deadly virus. The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from. ...

Justice Dept. 'exasperated' by local probe of Missouri teen shooting Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:39 AM PDT (Reuters) - U.S. Justice Department officials on Thursday criticized local authorities' investigation of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, saying the case had been handled in a "selective" and "inappropriate" manner. The department's criticism comes after the official St. Louis County autopsy of Michael Brown, 18, who was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, was leaked to media on Wednesday. The autopsy report, obtained by the St. ...

Islamic State raking in millions on black market oil Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:51 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a month from black market oil sales alone, a U.S. Treasury Department official said Thursday.

What do we know about Canada gunman? Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:34 AM PDT Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was Quebec native, and appeared on a government watch list.

U.S., allies stage 15 air strikes on Islamic State positions Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A total of 15 strikes were staged against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement from Central Command. The statement said U.S. ...

Dancing priests go viral Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keyes-esque voice won her a singing contest and a record contract.

Man faces felony charges after jumping White House fence Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:29 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man arrested after jumping the White House fence on Wednesday night has been charged with three felony counts and four misdemeanors, the U.S. Secret Service said on Thursday. Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, was unarmed when he was arrested on the White House grounds and facing Secret Service dogs that stopped and attacked him, the Secret Service said. ...

Israeli police on alert following 'terror attack' on Jerusalem train station Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:13 AM PDT Police flooded flashpoint neighbourhoods of Jerusalem on Thursday after clashes triggered when a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd, killing a baby in what authorities described as a "terror attack". It was the second deadly incident involving a Palestinian driving a vehicle in three months and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order an immediate increase in the police presence across the Holy City. The driver, 21-year-old Abdelrahman Shaludi from the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, drove his car at high speed into a group of pedestrians, killing a three-month-old girl and injuring six other people. The incident triggered clashes between stone-throwing youths and police in several east Jerusalem neighbourhoods which lasted late into the night.

Reporter quits Chicago newspaper, says governor candidate influenced paper Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:53 AM PDT By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - A veteran Illinois political reporter quit his job at the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday and accused the newspaper of bowing to pressure from Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner by removing him from the campaign beat. Dave McKinney, a 19-year veteran of the paper who covered the state capital, said in his resignation letter that the paper reassigned him after the Rauner campaign accused him of a conflict of interest, which he denies. ...

Matt Bai: The silliest emails of the week Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:37 AM PDT I've been traveling around the country plugging my book on the collision of politics and celebrity in 1987 (see, I just did it again), so I haven't had a lot of time to check in on the latest election polls and midterm controversies. I did spend a half-hour watching TV in a Denver hotel, during which I saw a total of three 30-second ads that did not feature one candidate slandering another. Colorado, I feel for you.

Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:49 AM PDT By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - The official autopsy on an unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer in August set off protests in Ferguson, Missouri, suggests he sustained a gunshot wound to the hand from close range, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The autopsy report, obtained by the newspaper and published on its website late on Tuesday, comes as a St. Louis County grand jury considers charges against Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. ...

California prisons to end racial lockdown policy Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:12 AM PDT (Reuters) - The California prison system has agreed to settle a long-running civil rights lawsuit by ending race-based lockdowns of inmates, court records show. The 21-page stipulated settlement, which has not been filed in court but was published online by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, provides for lockdowns in the prison system of the country's most populous state to now cover all inmates in a certain area or specific inmates deemed to pose a threat. For lockdowns exceeding 14 days, the settlement also requires wardens to make plans for inmates to participate in outdoor activities. ...

Nurse Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, family says Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:40 PM PDT Barely a week after being diagnosed with Ebola, Texas nurse Amber Vinson is free of the deadly virus, her family said Wednesday night.

PM: 'Canada will never be intimidated' Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:25 PM PDT Stephen Harper calls the deadly Ottawa rampage Canada's second terror attack in three days.

Exclusive: U.S. plans to plug coal royalty loophole padding export profits Posted: 22 Oct 2014 10:37 PM PDT By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is drafting rules designed to close an accounting loophole that in recent years has helped coal companies boost export profits and likely cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, people familiar with the plan said. American taxpayers by law are due a 12.5 percent royalty on the sales of millions of tons of coal pulled each year from federal land that mining companies lease. ...

Royals even World Series as benches clear in 7-2 victory Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:49 PM PDT Tempers flared. The benches cleared. A fight nearly broke out. And a World Series with little verve finally got the jolt it needed Wednesday.

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