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• Robotic arm plays beer pong with impressive accuracy
• Officers salute police boss, mayor at cop's wake
• Idaho earthquake damages property, causes power outages
• U.S. appeals court denies request to delay Boston Marathon bombing trial
• NYC officer's funeral for 'grieving not grievance'
• ‘Brave little girl,’ 7, survives plane crash that killed her family, walks nearly a mile through harsh terrain at night looking for help
• Kentucky plane crash killed four family members: police
• 4 large objects detected in AirAsia wreckage hunt
• Fear and joy as Alabama town readies for screenings of film 'Selma'
• U.S. embassy bombing suspect dies ahead of NY trial: NBC News
• Two fetuses found on side of southern California street
• Commissioner urges respect at NYC officer's wake
• UN mission chief: Ebola fight tough but may be won this year
• Massachusetts mother sentenced for slitting kid's throats, burning home
• Search chief: 'Two big parts' of AirAsia plane found
• Sheriff to take over probe of police shooting death of Cleveland boy
• Indonesia widens search area in hunt for AirAsia jet
• Legacy of Cuomo’s 'Tale of Two Cities' speech
• Sheriff to take over probe of police shooting death of Cleveland boy
• Slain NYC officer's funeral poses new test for mayor, police
• No charges for Reagan shooter Hinckley in Brady death

Robotic arm plays beer pong with impressive accuracy Posted: 03 Jan 2015 12:35 PM PST Boston-based startup Empire Robotics built a robot that can play beer pong with surprising accuracy – and is accepting challengers.

Officers salute police boss, mayor at cop's wake Posted: 03 Jan 2015 12:03 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton drew salutes from some officers Saturday as they were arrived at the wake of a second New York Police Department officer killed in an ambush shooting.

Idaho earthquake damages property, causes power outages Posted: 03 Jan 2015 11:12 AM PST (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake rattled a broad swath of Idaho early Saturday, damaging property and causing power outages near its epicenter in the city of Challis, which has endured a string of temblors over the past weeks, authorities said. The quake was measured at a magnitude of 4.9 and was centered about four miles from Chaliss, in the central mountains, but was felt as far away as Boise, a 190-mile drive to the southwest, the U.S. Geological Survey said. (Reporting By Laura Zuckerman and Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

U.S. appeals court denies request to delay Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:38 AM PST (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Saturday denied a last-ditch request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to delay his trial on charges of killing three people and injuring more than 260 in the attack. Attorneys for Tsarnaev, 21, had also sought to have the trial moved out of Boston, the site of the April 15, 2013, bombing, which stands as the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Jury selection in the trial at U.S. District Court in Boston is due to begin on Monday. (Reporting By Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

NYC officer's funeral for 'grieving not grievance' Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:07 AM PST By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's police commissioner asked members of the force attending services for the second officer slain in Brooklyn last month to refrain from the "act of disrespect" seen at his partner's funeral, when some of the tens of thousands in uniform turned their backs on the mayor. ...

‘Brave little girl,’ 7, survives plane crash that killed her family, walks nearly a mile through harsh terrain at night looking for help Posted: 03 Jan 2015 09:16 AM PST A seven-year-old girl survived a plane crash in western Kentucky and walked through treacherous terrain at night to find help.

Kentucky plane crash killed four family members: police Posted: 03 Jan 2015 08:10 AM PST (Reuters) - The crash of a small plane in the Kentucky woods took the lives of a mother and father and their young daughter, along with a teenage cousin, state police said on Saturday. The crash Friday night killed 49-year-old Marty Gutzler, his 45-year-old wife Kimberly Gutzler, their nine-year-old daughter Piper Gutzler and 14-year-old Sierra Wilder, a cousin, according to Kentucky State Police. The family was from Nashville, Illinois, police said. The only survivor was a seven-year-old girl who was able to walk to a nearby home to seek help. Police would not release details about the girl. ...

4 large objects detected in AirAsia wreckage hunt Posted: 03 Jan 2015 06:02 AM PST PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian officials said Saturday that they were confident wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 had been located after sonar equipment detected four massive objects on the ocean floor.

Fear and joy as Alabama town readies for screenings of film 'Selma' Posted: 03 Jan 2015 04:39 AM PST By Jonathan Kaminsky (Reuters) - Residents of Selma, Alabama, will next week be offered free screenings of "Selma," a Golden Globe-nominated film some locals welcome as the telling of an important civil rights-era story while others fear it could harm the downtrodden city's image. The film, which portrays events surrounding civil rights protests in the town in 1965 led by Martin Luther King Jr., will be shown courtesy of Paramount Pictures starting Jan. 9 and run through the month at the Selma Walton Theater. ...

U.S. embassy bombing suspect dies ahead of NY trial: NBC News Posted: 03 Jan 2015 02:26 AM PST (Reuters) - A suspected al Qaeda figure alleged to have planned the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has died in New York just days ahead of his scheduled trial, NBC News reported on Friday. Abu Anas Al-Liby, whose real name was Nazih al-Ragye, was seized by U.S. forces in October 2013 in the Libyan capital Tripoli and was brought to the United States to face criminal charges stemming from the bombings, which killed 224 people. ...

Two fetuses found on side of southern California street Posted: 03 Jan 2015 01:53 AM PST (Reuters) - Two fetuses were found on Friday wrapped in a blanket that had been ditched on the side of a residential southern California street, authorities said. The San Diego County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that the fetuses, both of them at least 20-weeks-old and fully formed, were discovered on Friday afternoon in the city of Fallbrook. "Each fetus had its own umbilical cord, which were both still attached to one placenta," the statement said. The Los Angeles Times newspaper said the fetuses were first discovered by a resident who initially believed they were dolls. ...

Commissioner urges respect at NYC officer's wake Posted: 03 Jan 2015 01:06 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is urging his employees who attend a slain officer's wake and funeral to refrain from making political statements.

UN mission chief: Ebola fight tough but may be won this year Posted: 03 Jan 2015 12:04 AM PST ACCRA (Reuters) - The world can stamp out the Ebola outbreak in West Africa by the end of the year but months of tough work remain, the outgoing chief of the United Nations' anti-Ebola mission said on Friday. The outbreak, first identified in Guinea's remote southeast in early 2014, has struck six West African nations, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia bearing the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 dead. Faced with criticism the world was not doing enough, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set up the U.N. ...

Massachusetts mother sentenced for slitting kid's throats, burning home Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:08 PM PST (Reuters) - A mother who turned up at a Massachusetts police station covered in blood and lighter fluid in 2012 was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison on Friday for slitting her two children's throats and setting their home ablaze, authorities said. The Essex District Attorney's Office said that on Mar. 18, 2012 Tanicia Goodwin, 27, of Salem cut the throats of her 8-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, doused them in lighter fluid, then set their apartment on fire. ...

Search chief: 'Two big parts' of AirAsia plane found Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:35 PM PST 'These are the parts of the AirAsia plane we have been looking for," says an official.

Sheriff to take over probe of police shooting death of Cleveland boy Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:19 PM PST By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland has transferred its investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 12-year-old boy to the Cuyahoga County sheriff's department, city officials said on Friday. Cleveland police shot and killed Tamir Rice at a park in November while he was carrying a replica gun that typically shoots plastic pellets. Police, who were responding to a 911 call that a man was pointing a gun at people, shot Rice within seconds of arriving at the scene. ...

Indonesia widens search area in hunt for AirAsia jet Posted: 02 Jan 2015 06:59 PM PST Aircraft combed the sea and shoreline off Borneo on Saturday for wreckage from an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, hoping to take advantage of a brief break in bad weather that has hampered efforts to find the plane and its black box flight recorders. The Airbus A320-200 plunged into the Java Sea on Sunday while en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board. No survivors have been found. ...

Legacy of Cuomo’s 'Tale of Two Cities' speech Posted: 02 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST Cuomo's address and its enlarged memory have contributed to the troubles of today's Democratic party. Rather than a clarion call, it should be seen as a siren's song — luring progressives into a course which crashes them against the rocks.

Sheriff to take over probe of police shooting death of Cleveland boy Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:26 PM PST By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland has transferred its investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 12-year-old boy to the Cuyahoga County sheriff's department, city officials said on Friday. Cleveland police shot and killed Tamir Rice at a park in November while he was carrying a replica gun that typically shoots plastic pellets. Police, who were responding to a 911 call that a man was pointing a gun at people, shot Rice within seconds of arriving at the scene. ...

Slain NYC officer's funeral poses new test for mayor, police Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:51 PM PST By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City policeman slain with his partner in an ambush will be remembered this weekend with a wake and a funeral expected to draw thousands of officers, against a backdrop of frayed relations between the force and Mayor Bill de Blasio. Saturday's wake and Sunday's funeral for Wenjian Liu, believed to be the first Chinese-American police officer killed in the line of duty in the city, follows observances for his partner, Rafael Ramos. Liu, 32, and Ramos, 40, were shot to death on Dec. 20 as they sat in their squad car in Brooklyn. ...

No charges for Reagan shooter Hinckley in Brady death Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:20 PM PST By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors will not charge John Hinckley Jr. in the death of former White House press secretary James Brady, even though a medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Brady was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The shooting left Brady partially paralyzed and his death in August at age 73 was attributed to wounds from the shooting in Washington, D.C. Washington's U.S. ...

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