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• U.S. airliners land in Atlanta after bomb threats
• Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
• Winter storm spreads snow, traffic woes in Northeast
• Nazi camp survivors recall Auschwitz
• Kia Motors recalls nearly 87,000 Forte sedans in U.S. due to fire risk
• President Lincoln memorabilia up for auction in Texas
• Teenage student fatally stabbed at California middle school
• Two marines die in California military helicopter crash
• Obama to cut short India trip to visit Saudi Arabia
• GOP's Christie brings New Jersey candor to Iowa evangelicals
• Baseball legend Ernie Banks dies at 83
• Denver woman who tried to help IS sentenced
• Eyeing 2016, Jeb Bush signals focus on middle class
• Exclusive: USDA Secretary orders update of animal welfare research strategy
• Supreme Court to review Okla. execution procedure

U.S. airliners land in Atlanta after bomb threats Posted: 24 Jan 2015 01:34 PM PST (Reuters) - Two U.S. airliners landed safely on Saturday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after bomb threats were made against them, an airport spokesman said. The threats against Delta Flight 1156, coming from Portland, Oregon, and Southwest Airlines Flight 2492, from Milwaukee, were deemed credible, but more information was not immediately available, said airport spokesman Reese McCranie. Passengers were safely removed from the planes. (Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in New Orleans; Editing by David Gregorio)

Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:29 PM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said.

Winter storm spreads snow, traffic woes in Northeast Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:14 PM PST A winter storm spread freezing rain and snow and snarled traffic from the Middle Atlantic states into New England on Saturday, and forecasters said they expected a second system to lash the region early next week. Winter storm warnings were in place for much of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. Up to 8 inches of snow were expected in the area by Saturday night as the storm system headed east, said National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Brian Hurley in College Park, Maryland.

Nazi camp survivors recall Auschwitz Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:32 AM PST By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a little leather book, the kind some men use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. It has been 70 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where Abrams was taken at age 20 by German Nazi soldiers and separated from his mother, father, brother and three sisters. Abrams, at 90, is among the oldest of a dwindling population of Holocaust survivors who gather each week at a Brooklyn synagogue to share stories, and perhaps lunch and a dance or two. With an average age of 79, they are poor and in need of special help as the result of stress and malnutrition, said the UJA-Federation of New York, which supports the Brooklyn gatherings organized by Selfhelp Community Services.

Kia Motors recalls nearly 87,000 Forte sedans in U.S. due to fire risk Posted: 24 Jan 2015 07:20 AM PST Kia Motors is recalling 86,880 Forte sedans in the United States because a cooling fan resistor may overheat and melt, increasing the risk of a fire, according to documents filed by U.S. auto safety regulators. The recall involves certain model year 2014 Forte compact sedans and is expected to begin on Feb. 24, according to documents on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. The South Korean automaker reported several incidents of engine fires that could be linked to the resistor but no accidents or injuries, the documents said. A Kia Motors representative was not immediately available for comment.

President Lincoln memorabilia up for auction in Texas Posted: 24 Jan 2015 05:24 AM PST By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, including a lock of the 16th U.S president's hair, will be up for auction in Dallas on Saturday, months before the United States marks 150 years since the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination. The collection of more than 300 items, with a combined estimated value of about $400,000, belonged to a Fort Worth history buff and is considered to be one of the best private Lincoln collections known to exist, according to Heritage Auction officials. The late Fort Worth art gallery owner Donald Dow built the collection over five decades, beginning in 1963 with the purchase of a box of books, according to his son Greg Dow, who is selling the collection. "He started collecting because of his interest in the Civil War and military history," Greg Dow said.

Teenage student fatally stabbed at California middle school Posted: 24 Jan 2015 04:18 AM PST (Reuters) - A teenage student was fatally stabbed at a Los Angeles middle school on Friday afternoon, officials said, with no-one yet taken into custody. The 14-year-old victim, who was not identified by police, was on the David Wark Griffith Middle School campus around 3 p.m. local time when he was stabbed in the chest by another youth, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. The teen was a student at the nearby Garfield High School, and authorities did not know why he was at the middle school.

Two marines die in California military helicopter crash Posted: 24 Jan 2015 03:10 AM PST (Reuters) - Two marines died on Friday when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in southern California, military officials said. The crash occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time after the aircraft took off from a marine combat center in the desert city of Twentynine Palms, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar spokeswoman Captain Melanie Salinas said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the two Marines we lost in this tragic accident," Major General Michael Rocco said in a statement. Twentynine Palms is a city of some 25,000 people roughly 140 miles (225 km) east of Los Angeles.

Obama to cut short India trip to visit Saudi Arabia Posted: 24 Jan 2015 02:37 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will cut short his three-day trip to India to travel to Saudi Arabia to pay respects following the death of King Abdullah, U.S. and Indian officials said Saturday, hours before the U.S. president was to depart for New Delhi.

GOP's Christie brings New Jersey candor to Iowa evangelicals Posted: 24 Jan 2015 01:47 AM PST Republican audiences have cheered him in the past, but this will be a tougher test.

Baseball legend Ernie Banks dies at 83 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:07 PM PST

Denver woman who tried to help IS sentenced Posted: 23 Jan 2015 07:13 PM PST Shannon Conley repeatedly told FBI agents she wanted to go to Syria to fight alongside the extremist group.

Eyeing 2016, Jeb Bush signals focus on middle class Posted: 23 Jan 2015 06:25 PM PST The former Florida governor calls for an overhaul of the country's immigration and education systems.

Exclusive: USDA Secretary orders update of animal welfare research strategy Posted: 23 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed agency staff to create and send him an updated Animal Welfare Strategy plan within 60 days, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The memo from Chavonda Jacobs-Young, head of the agency's Agricultural Research Service, was sent out to all ARS employees on Friday afternoon in response to recent media reports over controversial animal welfare conditions at its U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Nebraska. ...

Supreme Court to review Okla. execution procedure Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:49 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review Oklahoma's method of execution by taking up a case brought by three death row inmates. The high court, which just last week allowed an execution to go ahead in the state over the objection of its four liberal members, will decide whether the three-drug process used by prison officials violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

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