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• Second firefighter dies battling California forest fires
• Girls to stay in adult court in classmate stabbing case
• World Trade Center parachutists fined, no jail
• Firefighters report progress fighting Arizona blaze
• Chicago public schools to lay off 1,500 teachers and staff
• Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly should apologize to me
• China hacked private emails of U.S. officials since 2010, NBC reports
• U.S. charges sixth man in alleged N.Y.-N.J. Islamic State plot
• Seoul restarts propaganda broadcasts to N. Korea over mines
• Report: Assailants fire shots at US Consulate in Istanbul
• Man shot by police at Ferguson anniversary protest
• Ferguson protests mostly peaceful on anniversary of Brown shooting
• What it’s like to be a black cop in Ferguson
• Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford dies at 84

Second firefighter dies battling California forest fires Posted: 10 Aug 2015 01:00 PM PDT By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Sacramento-area man became the second California firefighter to die battling wildfire this year, as a series of lightning strikes ignited blazes in the drought-parched Sierra Nevada over the weekend. Michael Hallenbeck, of the Sierra foothill community of Shingle Springs, was killed on Saturday as he and his firefighting crew tackled a blaze near Lake Tahoe in Northern California, the U.S. Forest Service said on Sunday. Dave Ruhl, 38, died last month fighting another Northern California fire.

Girls to stay in adult court in classmate stabbing case Posted: 10 Aug 2015 12:45 PM PDT WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge ruled Monday that two girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the online horror character Slender Man will stay in adult court, where they could face decades in prison.

World Trade Center parachutists fined, no jail Posted: 10 Aug 2015 11:55 AM PDT Two men found guilty of jumping off the top of New York's One World Trade Center, the Western Hemisphere's tallest building, were each sentenced to a $2,000 fine and community service on Monday in a Manhattan state court. Andrew Rossig, 34, and James Brady, 33, are two out of the three BASE jumpers who parachuted from the top of the 104-story building in the early hours of Sept. 30, 2013. A third jumper, Marko Markovich, 28, will be sentenced on Aug. 17.

Firefighters report progress fighting Arizona blaze Posted: 10 Aug 2015 11:24 AM PDT By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Firefighters battling a major wildfire in northwestern Arizona on Monday reported progress in containing a blaze that forced people out of about 1,000 homes and charred nearly 6,800 acres. Officials said an estimated 300 firefighters took to the ground and the air early on Monday expecting to announce some degree of containment for a blaze that broke out two days ago. "We're definitely encouraged by what we're seeing right now," said Dolores Garcia, a Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman.

Chicago public schools to lay off 1,500 teachers and staff Posted: 10 Aug 2015 10:51 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Public Schools on Monday began notifying nearly 1,500 teachers and support staff who are being fired amid a previously announced, $200 million budget cut and a shift in student enrollment. The announcement came as CPS released its $5.7 billion 2016 budget, which includes a historic $1.1 billion budget deficit driven by rapidly rising pension payments. The layoff notices will affect 479 teachers and 1,012 other staff members, out of more than 41,500 employees, according to the school system.

Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly should apologize to me Posted: 10 Aug 2015 09:46 AM PDT Donald Trump is not only refusing to apologize for his controversial comments about Megyn Kelly — the Republican frontrunner now says the Fox News host should apologize to him.

China hacked private emails of U.S. officials since 2010, NBC reports Posted: 10 Aug 2015 08:22 AM PDT Chinese hackers have been accessing the private emails of top U.S. national security and trade officials since April 2010, according to an NBC News report on Monday, citing a U.S. intelligence official and top secret document. The officials' government email accounts were not vulnerable to the hacking because they were on more secure systems, NBC said. A National Security Agency briefing in 2014 showed the email intrusion was detected in April 2010 and the U.S. official, who was not identified, said it was still going on, NBC said.

U.S. charges sixth man in alleged N.Y.-N.J. Islamic State plot Posted: 10 Aug 2015 07:51 AM PDT A New Jersey man was arrested on Monday on charges of conspiring to support the militant group Islamic State, becoming the sixth man to be arrested in New York and New Jersey since June as part of what authorities have said is a broader plot. Nader Saadeh, 20, a former resident of Rutherford, New Jersey, had viewed Islamic State propaganda online and planned to travel overseas to join Islamic State, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Seoul restarts propaganda broadcasts to N. Korea over mines Posted: 10 Aug 2015 06:12 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea restarted propaganda broadcasts across the border with rival North Korea on Monday for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North allegedly planting land mines last week that maimed two South Korean soldiers.

Report: Assailants fire shots at US Consulate in Istanbul Posted: 10 Aug 2015 12:34 AM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Two assailants opened fire at the U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.

Man shot by police at Ferguson anniversary protest Posted: 09 Aug 2015 11:23 PM PDT Police say the man opened fire on them during protests one year after Michael Brown's death.

Ferguson protests mostly peaceful on anniversary of Brown shooting Posted: 09 Aug 2015 07:25 PM PDT Hundreds of people marched, prayed and observed a moment of silence in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday, a year to the day after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death, igniting months of protests and a national debate on race and justice. A racially mixed crowd of young and old, some pushing children in strollers, turned out for a day of commemorative events in this mostly black St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was gunned down on Aug. 9, 2014. Brown's shooting, and a grand jury's subsequent decision to spare police officer Darren Wilson from criminal charges in the killing, spawned a prolonged wave of demonstrations in Ferguson that boiled over into rioting and arson at times and spawned sympathy rallies across the country.

What it’s like to be a black cop in Ferguson Posted: 09 Aug 2015 02:15 PM PDT The controversial killing of Michael Brown Jr. by former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson prompted a wave of national soul-searching and civil rights activism that is still going on one year later. And it's been no less transformational for the few black members of Ferguson's embattled police department.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford dies at 84 Posted: 09 Aug 2015 01:25 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, who led the New York Giants to a league championship in 1956 and later teamed up with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith in the "Monday Night Football" booth, died Sunday. He was 84.

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