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• Tensions with New York City police go beyond racial issues: commissioner
• Ferguson officer placed on unpaid leave after calling Brown memorial 'trash'
• Fire at San Antonio high-rise for seniors kills five
• 1 dead, hundreds stranded in Greek ferry disaster
• Elder-care challenges prompt tech executives to create startups, apps
• Hundreds trapped as ferry burns in heavy seas off Greece
• Amid tension, more than 20,000 attend NYPD funeral
• Teen charged with arson in Missouri protest
• Michael Sam: Coming out was right thing to do
• Plane carrying 162 people goes missing between Indonesia and Singapore
• Syria 'ready to participate' in Moscow peace talks
• Former President Bush, 90, to spend weekend in Houston hospital
• Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes

Tensions with New York City police go beyond racial issues: commissioner Posted: 28 Dec 2014 12:48 PM PST By Frank McGurty NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tensions between New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police are rooted in issues that go beyond racial relations, the police commissioner said on Sunday, a day after the funeral of one of two officers slain a week ago as they sat in their patrol car. The tensions "involve labor contracts. They involve a lot of history in the city that's really different from some of what's going on in the country as a whole," Commissioner Bill Bratton said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "You need to understand this isn't just about policing," he said. ...

Ferguson officer placed on unpaid leave after calling Brown memorial 'trash' Posted: 28 Dec 2014 11:09 AM PST The spokesman for the Ferguson, Mo., police department has been placed on unpaid leave after calling the makeshift memorial to slain teenager Michael Brown a "pile of trash in the middle of the street."

Fire at San Antonio high-rise for seniors kills five Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:54 AM PST By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A fire in a high-rise apartment building for senior citizens left five people dead in suburban San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, fire officials said. Firefighters used ladders to pluck some elderly residents from the upper floors of the 12-story building. Three patients were transported by ambulance to area hospitals, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.   "After looking at the floors, it is amazing that we did not have more loss of life," he said. The fire broke out about 6:30 a.m. ...

1 dead, hundreds stranded in Greek ferry disaster Posted: 28 Dec 2014 08:59 AM PST An Italian Coast Guard official says one person died while attempting to escape from a blazing ferry stranded in the Adriatic Sea, and another was injured.

Elder-care challenges prompt tech executives to create startups, apps Posted: 28 Dec 2014 05:21 AM PST By Christina Farr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For years, Google Inc's commerce chief, Stephanie Tilenius, held a demanding job and helped oversee the medical care of her parents, an experience that led her to leave the Internet search giant in 2012 and start a company to help patients combat chronic disease.  Earlier this year, Tilenius' company launched Vida, a mobile app that lets patients consult with a team of professionals, including doctors, nurses and nutritionists, from their smartphone. The program costs $15 a week and includes reminders to take medication. ...

Hundreds trapped as ferry burns in heavy seas off Greece Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:39 AM PST By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of passengers were trapped on a burning car ferry off Greece on Sunday, pleading to be rescued by a flotilla of nearby ships that battled storm conditions in open water to try to reach them. The Greek coastguard said 150 people had been saved from the Italian-registered Norman Atlantic, which was carrying almost 500 passengers and crew when it sent a distress signal after fire broke out on its lower deck. ...

Amid tension, more than 20,000 attend NYPD funeral Posted: 28 Dec 2014 12:16 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of police officers, state troopers, sheriff's deputies and others from law enforcement agencies big and small across the country gathered at the New York City funeral of a slain officer killed with his partner in a brazen daytime ambush a week ago.

Teen charged with arson in Missouri protest Posted: 27 Dec 2014 11:58 PM PST (Reuters) - A teen was charged Saturday with arson after police say he confessed to setting a convenience store on fire during anti-police violence protests in a St. Louis suburb last week, according to officials and media reports. Joshua Williams, 19, was in the St. Louis County Jail on Saturday in lieu of $30,000 bond on a felony charge of arson, second degree burglary and misdemeanor theft of property and services, according to a jail official. Police say Williams, who has been quoted by the media at protests and rallies after the August shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. ...

Michael Sam: Coming out was right thing to do Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:36 PM PST ST. LOUIS (AP) — Michael Sam dismissed the thought that his sexuality has cost him a spot in the NFL.

Plane carrying 162 people goes missing between Indonesia and Singapore Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:27 PM PST

Syria 'ready to participate' in Moscow peace talks Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:36 PM PST DAMASCUS (AP) — Syrian state-run TV said Saturday that the government is prepared to take part in peace talks hosted by Russia next month, but the unnamed foreign ministry official it cited suggested the scope of the negotiations would be limited to "preliminary" talks meant to pave the way for a conference in Syria itself.

Former President Bush, 90, to spend weekend in Houston hospital Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:19 PM PST (Reuters) - Doctors in Houston will keep former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in the hospital through the weekend since his bout with shortness of breath, though doctors "have begun discussing dates for his discharge," his office said Saturday. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital on Tuesday night and admitted for observation after experiencing breathing difficulties earlier that evening, according to his spokesman, Jim McGrath. There has been no word on whether the nation's 41st president is suffering from any particular ailment. ...

Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes Posted: 27 Dec 2014 02:08 PM PST It was supposed to be a joke. "Are you still president?" comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month.

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