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• Man at New York psychiatric hospital killed by fellow patient, police say
• School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament
• Two snowmobilers die, one rescued after plunging into Montana lake
• Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution
• 'Gorillafication' in sight for abandoned baby primate at Ohio zoo
• Five people stabbed in Washington restaurant
• AP-Times Square poll: Most feeling good about 2015
• Mayor, VP Biden to speak at slain NYPD officer's funeral
• N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, insults Obama
• Mourners gather for slain New York policeman
• Oregon mother calls daughter's East Timor release 'Christmas present'
• Will 'The Interview' change how Hollywood does business?
• Former 'Saved by the Bell' actor Dustin Diamond arrested in Wisconsin
• Fellow officers salute NY cop' flag-draped casket

Man at New York psychiatric hospital killed by fellow patient, police say Posted: 27 Dec 2014 12:31 PM PST (Reuters) - A patient at a psychiatric hospital in New York City has been charged with killing a fellow patient at the state-run facility, police said on Saturday. Police responded late Friday to an emergency call from the Bronx Psychiatric Center, in the Bronx borough, where they found a 51-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive with abrasions to his neck, the New York City Police Department said. Emergency medical officials pronounced the victim, identified as Leon Little, dead at the scene. ...

School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament Posted: 27 Dec 2014 11:57 AM PST A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words "I Can't Breathe" during warmups.

Two snowmobilers die, one rescued after plunging into Montana lake Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:52 AM PST (Reuters) - Two men died and a third was rescued from a Montana lake when their snowmobiles plunged into the ice-covered body of water as they attempted to cross to the other side, local officials said Saturday. A group of five male snowmobilers were traversing a frozen patch of Seeley Lake, in western Montana, on Friday evening, but only two of them made it across, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said. One man was "was saved by a friend in his group that belly-crawled on ice to recover him from the water," the sheriff's office said. ...

Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:03 AM PST Oklahoma's last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing what the warden later described as "a bloody mess."

'Gorillafication' in sight for abandoned baby primate at Ohio zoo Posted: 27 Dec 2014 09:30 AM PST By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Zookeepers wearing gorilla suits have helped rear an endangered abandoned baby gorilla in Ohio so she can join an adult group. The 16 human surrogates have spent three months feeding, nurturing and gently introducing the baby, Kamina, to adult female gorillas, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden said on Saturday. Kamina, a Western lowland gorilla, came to Cincinnati for "gorillafication" after her mother, Ndjole, stopped caring for her shortly after she was born in August in Oklahoma City Zoo. ...

Five people stabbed in Washington restaurant Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:39 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five people were stabbed early on Saturday in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., police said. The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. at McFadden's, a popular restaurant and nightclub on Pennsylvania Avenue, eight blocks from the White House in the nation's capital. All five victims were taken to hospital with knife wounds, a police spokesman said Saturday. Their identities have not been released. Police said the stabbing happened inside the bar. Photos posted on Twitter Saturday show a blood-splattered sidewalk. Calls to McFadden's requesting comment were not returned. ...

AP-Times Square poll: Most feeling good about 2015 Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:49 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are closing out 2014 on an optimistic note, according to a new Associated Press-Times Square Alliance poll. Nearly half predict that 2015 will be a better year for them than 2014 was, while only 1 in 10 think it will be worse. There's room for improvement: Americans give the year gone by a resounding 'meh.'

Mayor, VP Biden to speak at slain NYPD officer's funeral Posted: 26 Dec 2014 11:14 PM PST Thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos.

N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, insults Obama Posted: 26 Dec 2014 09:24 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview."

Mourners gather for slain New York policeman Posted: 26 Dec 2014 06:08 PM PST By Jonathan Allen and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police officers in dress uniform and other mourners joined a somber, four-block line outside a New York City church on Friday for the wake of one of two officers shot by a man who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police. Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were slain last Saturday afternoon while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn. ...

Oregon mother calls daughter's East Timor release 'Christmas present' Posted: 26 Dec 2014 05:51 PM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - The mother of an Oregon woman newly freed from two months of imprisonment in East Timor said on Friday that news of her daughter's release was a "fantastic Christmas present," but it remained uncertain how soon she could return to the United States. Bernadette Kero, 64, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, said she last spoke to her daughter, Dr. Stacey Addison, two nights earlier, just after she was let out of prison in Dili, the capital of the Southeast Asian country also known as Timor-Leste. ...

Will 'The Interview' change how Hollywood does business? Posted: 26 Dec 2014 03:56 PM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Interview" was never supposed to be a paradigm-shifting film. But unusual doesn't even begin to describe the series of events that transpired over the past few weeks, culminating in the truly unprecedented move by a major studio to release a film in theaters and on digital platforms simultaneously.

Former 'Saved by the Bell' actor Dustin Diamond arrested in Wisconsin Posted: 26 Dec 2014 03:07 PM PST (Reuters) - Former "Saved by the Bell" actor Dustin Diamond, who played the nerdy "Screech" on the high school sitcom, has been arrested for stabbing a man with a switchblade at a bar north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police said on Friday. Dustin Diamond, 37, and his girlfriend were arrested shortly after they drove away from the Grand Ave Saloon in the town of Port Washington following the altercation on Thursday night, police said in a statement. ...

Fellow officers salute NY cop' flag-draped casket Posted: 26 Dec 2014 01:44 PM PST The wife and two sons of a policeman gunned down along with his partner in a brazen daylight ambush were joined at his wake Friday by hundreds of uniformed officers, including dozens who saluted as his flag-draped casket was carried into the church.

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