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• New York City murders hit record low in 2014: NY Times
• NY Governor Cuomo vows to rebuild trust in police in second term
• Two killed in crash of sheriff's office helicopter in Arizona
• First AirAsia funeral as bad weather hampers search
• Magnitude 5.1 quake hits in waters off Northern California coast
• Five ways to know you’re speaking to white supremacists
• Shanghai NYE stampede kills 36 after fake money thrown from building
• AirAsia jet searchers fight 'time and weather;' 7 dead found
• Jeb Bush quits board posts ahead of possible White House run: Washington Post
• 2014 New Year's Eve in NYC's Times Square
• Second suspect arrested in shooting of Los Angeles police car
• New York celebrates 2015 with Taylor Swift and a big ball
• Maryland governor commutes sentences for remaining death row inmates
• Deadly winter storms batter California, chill New Year's Eve
• Four slightly hurt by Rose Bowl 'dust devil' in California
• NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square
• Times Square braces for a million people at New Year’s Eve celebration
• At least 35 dead, 42 injured in Shanghai New Year's stampede: CCTV
• NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square

New York City murders hit record low in 2014: NY Times Posted: 01 Jan 2015 01:25 PM PST (Reuters) - Murders in New York fell to 328 in 2014, the fewest since the New York Police Department started keeping reliable numbers in 1963, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The biggest U.S. city, once notorious for high crime, had 328 killings last year, the newspaper said, citing police statistics. The figure is the lowest since at least 1963, when the police department began collecting reliable statistics, and is part of a decades-long fall in U.S. crime. Reports of major crimes in New York City fell to 105,428 through Dec. 28, from 110,728 in the same period in 2013. ...

NY Governor Cuomo vows to rebuild trust in police in second term Posted: 01 Jan 2015 12:20 PM PST By T.G. Branfalt (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked off his second term on Thursday, saying he is governing in "troubled times" and that education, the economy and rebuilding public trust in law enforcement would top his agenda over the next four years. He lauded his first term as a success, saying the state now has a record 7.6 million jobs, a $5 billion budget surplus, effective and smart gun control laws, marriage equality and expanded healthcare that reaches 1.5 million people. ...

Two killed in crash of sheriff's office helicopter in Arizona Posted: 01 Jan 2015 09:22 AM PST (Reuters) - A pilot and a mechanic died in the crash of a helicopter used by Arizona's Cochise County Sheriff's Office and a federal investigation was under way on Thursday into what caused the crash, officials said. The helicopter had just undergone routine maintenance in the Phoenix area and the pilot on Wednesday was flying with the mechanic from there to the Sierra Vista airport in Cochise County when it went down, the Sheriff's Office said in a statement released late on Wednesday. The debris field was discovered near Benson in southern Arizona, according to the Sheriff's Office. ...

First AirAsia funeral as bad weather hampers search Posted: 01 Jan 2015 08:32 AM PST Relatives held the first funeral for a victim of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Thursday as bad weather hampered efforts to locate the wreckage of the plane which crashed into the Java Sea off Borneo with 162 aboard. Nine bodies have so far been retrieved in the search for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar during a storm Sunday en route from Indonesia's second city of Surabaya to Singapore. "The problem we faced today is unfriendly weather conditions," search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told a press conference. He said a National Transport Safety Committee team was in Pangkalun Bun, a town on Borneo island with the nearest airstrip to the crash site.

Magnitude 5.1 quake hits in waters off Northern California coast Posted: 01 Jan 2015 08:16 AM PST (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast on Thursday, about 70 miles (113 km) west of the town of Ferndale, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A Ferndale police dispatcher said there were no reports of injuries or damage from the quake, which according to the USGS's website occurred at 4:16 a.m. Pacific Time. No tsunami warning was issued for the area following the magnitude 5.1 quake, according to the USGS and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Ferndale is about 190 miles (306 km) northwest of Napa, California, where a magnitude 6. ...

Five ways to know you’re speaking to white supremacists Posted: 01 Jan 2015 03:02 AM PST There was a simpler time in America, a time when racists wore white hoods and carried torches, when Nazis wore swastikas and a skinhead could shave his scalp without being mistaken for a metrosexual. But those days are long behind us. Now, apparently, white supremacists hold conferences with guest speakers and video hookups to their colleagues overseas, kind of like a Davos for the intellectually vacant.

Shanghai NYE stampede kills 36 after fake money thrown from building Posted: 01 Jan 2015 01:58 AM PST By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A stampede killed at least 36 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous Bund waterfront district. The government in China's gleaming business capital said large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before midnight in the cosmopolitan city's worst disaster since 58 died in an apartment building fire in 2010. ...

AirAsia jet searchers fight 'time and weather;' 7 dead found Posted: 01 Jan 2015 01:26 AM PST PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Searchers were racing "against time and weather" Thursday to recover the dead from the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, with a window of good conditions slammed shut by another onslaught of wind and heavy rain.

Jeb Bush quits board posts ahead of possible White House run: Washington Post Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:44 PM PST (Reuters) - Potential U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has resigned from all of his corporate and non-profit board member positions, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, as the former Florida governor explores a run for the White House. The Post, citing a statement emailed to the paper by one of Bush's aides late on New Year's Eve, said he even stepped down from the board of his education foundation. ...

2014 New Year's Eve in NYC's Times Square Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:13 PM PST Bruce Li, left, and his girlfriend Phyllis Zhong, of Toronto, kiss just after midnight in New York's Times Square, Thursday Jan. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

Second suspect arrested in shooting of Los Angeles police car Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:22 PM PST (Reuters) - A second suspect was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a Los Angeles shooting over the weekend where two men opened fire on a police squad car. James Brooks, 19, was taken into custody in Las Vegas by a joint FBI and Los Angeles Police Department task force, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Prosecutors said two officers on Sunday were driving their patrol car through a south Los Angeles intersection where rival gang members had been engaged in a firefight when their vehicle was fired upon. One of the officers returned fire, but no one was injured in the exchange. ...

New York celebrates 2015 with Taylor Swift and a big ball Posted: 31 Dec 2014 09:15 PM PST Hundreds of thousands of revelers braved frigid temperatures and poured into New York's Times Square for America's annual New Year party that this year features Taylor Swift. About a million people were expected to pack the famous square, known across the globe for its non-stop bustle, giant illuminated billboards and New Year tradition of dropping an enormous crystal ball down a pole. Ryan Seacrest will host a televised live show ahead of the 2015 countdown, and several musical acts including Taylor Swift and singer-songwriter Idina Menzel will perform. "We made it!" he told the New York Daily News, sporting an American flag across his shoulders and a pair of 2015 glasses.

Maryland governor commutes sentences for remaining death row inmates Posted: 31 Dec 2014 07:55 PM PST By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley on Wednesday commuted the death sentences of the last four inmates remaining on death row, effectively ending capital punishment in the state. Maryland lawmakers voted two years ago to abolish the death sentence for future offenders beginning 2013. O'Malley, a Democrat and possible White House contender, on Wednesday said that leaving the last four prisoners to await the death penalty "does not serve the public good. ...

Deadly winter storms batter California, chill New Year's Eve Posted: 31 Dec 2014 06:49 PM PST By Eric M. Johnson and Mark Guarino (Reuters) - Two people died on a wind-thrashed California island, and scores of motorists were left stranded on snow-swept mountain roads farther inland as winter storms chilled much of the Western United States on New Year's Eve, officials said on Wednesday. High winds also toppled a tree onto a home overnight in the Northern California town of Redding, killing a woman and injuring a child, a fire official said. ...

Four slightly hurt by Rose Bowl 'dust devil' in California Posted: 31 Dec 2014 06:32 PM PST By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A freak funnel of wind struck a concession area outside the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena during a pregame event on Wednesday, tossing tents and canopies through the air and slightly injuring four people, a fire department official said. The burst of wind, which a National Weather Service specialist called a "cold dust devil," was caught in a video clip posted on YouTube showing vendors and bystanders, including a person dressed in a cow costume, yelling and running for cover. ...

NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square Posted: 31 Dec 2014 04:38 PM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - As tens of thousands of revelers gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, authorities were bracing for renewed protests over the use of excessive force by police, capping a year of tension over racial relations across the United States. While security is always tight in Times Square on New Year's Eve, especially since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, extra precautions were put in place on Wednesday to prevent violence at the famed midtown Manhattan crossroads. ...

Times Square braces for a million people at New Year’s Eve celebration Posted: 31 Dec 2014 02:46 PM PST One million people are expected to watch the ball drop in New York City's Times Square on Wednesday night. But elsewhere, other cities are preparing to ring in 2015 in their own unique ways.

At least 35 dead, 42 injured in Shanghai New Year's stampede: CCTV Posted: 31 Dec 2014 01:58 PM PST (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed and 42 were injured in a stampede during a New Year's celebration on the Bund, a waterfront area in central Shanghai, official Chinese government television CCTV America reported on its website. It quoted online media company Sina News as saying that masses of crowds in Chen Yi Square on the Bund led to the stampede. It said authorities were working to rescue and aid the wounded. (Editing by Howard Goller)

NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square Posted: 31 Dec 2014 01:41 PM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of New York City police officers prepared for protests in Times Square against excessive police force as an enormous crowd of revelers gathered there under unusually tight security for the nation's biggest New Year's Eve celebrations. In the hours before the giant crystal ball drops at midnight, bomb-sniffing dogs and counterterrorism units joined uniformed officers posted on the streets around the famed Manhattan crossroads. Other officers were stationed on rooftops and at area subway stations. ...

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