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• DynCorp names three U.S. employees killed in Afghanistan blast
• Judge fines Final Exit group convicted of assisting Minnesota suicide
• Drone with drugs, porn seized near Maryland prisons, two arrested
• New England prep school rape defendant in competition: friend
• Criminal justice reformers await holy ally: Pope Francis
• Colorado movie gunman Holmes to be formally sentenced to life
• Louisiana trooper dies after being shot in head
• White House announces plans to boost renewable energy use
• New Orleans' finances still vulnerable 10 years after Katrina: Moody's
• How President Bernie Sanders would handle foreign policy
• Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal
• How a New Orleans church found salvation from Katrina in Texas
• Americans, Briton who thwarted attack get France's top honor
• China stocks suffer biggest one-day fall since global financial crisis
• Oklahoma labor commissioner killed in restaurant stabbing: local media
• IndyCar driver Justin Wilson in coma after wreck at Pocono
• Softer winds, new trucks buoy fire crews fighting deadly U.S. Northwest blazes
• Boston police thwart possible shooting at Pokemon game competition
• How does Trump intend to pull off his immigration plan? ‘It’s called management’
• Reid says he's going to support Obama's Iran nuclear deal
• Beirut protests turn violent for second day as PM threatens to quit

DynCorp names three U.S. employees killed in Afghanistan blast Posted: 24 Aug 2015 01:00 PM PDT U.S. company DynCorp International on Monday named three employees who were killed by a car bomb that hit their armored car in Kabul at the weekend, saying the men all worked on a program to train the Afghan army and police. Two of the men, Richard McEvoy, 57, and Barry Sutton, 46, were from the state of Georgia, while the third, Corey Dodge, 40, was from Maine, the company said in a statement. McEvoy, 57, was a retired U.S. Army colonel who joined the company in 2008.

Judge fines Final Exit group convicted of assisting Minnesota suicide Posted: 24 Aug 2015 11:53 AM PDT A Minnesota judge on Monday fined the national right-to-die group Final Exit Network $30,000 on its criminal conviction for assisting a woman's suicide in 2007 and interfering with the death scene. Dakota County prosecutors had said during the group's jury trial that Doreen Dunn, 57, died by helium asphyxiation with two Final Exit group members present in her home, who then cleaned up after the suicide. Judge Christian Wilton also ordered Final Exit to pay nearly $3,000 in restitution, plus court fees and until full payment is made, refrain from providing services in Minnesota or submit to court review any planned activity in the state, court records show.

Drone with drugs, porn seized near Maryland prisons, two arrested Posted: 24 Aug 2015 11:34 AM PDT The men were arrested late on Saturday near the Western Correctional Institution and the North Branch Correctional Institution at Cumberland in western Maryland, the state prison department said. A spokesman said officers seized pornographic video discs, tobacco, a loaded handgun, illegal drugs and the drone. The attempt is the first in Maryland to fly contraband into a prison using a drone, the spokesman said.

New England prep school rape defendant in competition: friend Posted: 24 Aug 2015 10:59 AM PDT A former student at an elite New Hampshire prep school, who is on trial for allegedly raping a younger student last year, told a friend he was in competition to "score" with the most girls before graduation, the friend testified on Monday. Prosecutors have said Owen Labrie, now 19, took a 15-year-old girl to the roof of a campus building before sexually assaulting her in a machine room at St. Paul's School. Central to the trial has been an alleged, long-standing tradition among students at the nearly 160-year-old school known as "senior salute": an invitation from graduating students to younger students to get together, often for sexual purposes.

Criminal justice reformers await holy ally: Pope Francis Posted: 24 Aug 2015 10:42 AM PDT

Colorado movie gunman Holmes to be formally sentenced to life Posted: 24 Aug 2015 08:11 AM PDT Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes will be sentenced to life with no chance of parole at a three-day hearing that begins on Monday following his conviction last month for murdering 12 people and wounding 70 in his rampage. While the murder convictions carry mandatory life sentences with no parole, Colorado law requires that Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour formally impose the penalties. Samour must also decide the punishment for the other charges Holmes was convicted of. A jury found Holmes guilty of 165 counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and explosive charges stemming from the July 20, 2012, mass shooting inside a Denver-area multiplex during a midnight screening of a Batman movie.

Louisiana trooper dies after being shot in head Posted: 24 Aug 2015 07:56 AM PDT Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, had pulled over to assist the driver of Dodge pickup truck in a ditch on Sunday afternoon, state police said in a statement. The driver, Kevin Daigle, who was driving recklessly earlier, then pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired, striking the trooper in the head. You're going to die soon," Louisiana State Police Colonel Michael Edmonson told reporters on Sunday.

White House announces plans to boost renewable energy use Posted: 24 Aug 2015 06:30 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday announced plans to increase renewable energy exploration and decrease homeowners' cost of using rooftop solar panels and other such energies. President Barack Obama will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada later on Monday to unveil the plan, which includes $1 billion in loan guarantees for new research projects and a tax break for homeowners using renewable energy. (Reporting By Julia Edwards; Editing by Susan Heavey)

New Orleans' finances still vulnerable 10 years after Katrina: Moody's Posted: 24 Aug 2015 04:15 AM PDT Pension, retiree healthcare and debt service costs combined increased nearly 54 percent from 2009 to 2014, from $129 million to $198 million in 2014, Moody's noted, while fixed costs exceeded 30 percent of the city's operating revenues, even as its contribution to its public pensions fell $17.7 million short in fiscal 2014. New Orleans is also dependent on the oil and gas sector, which is volatile, and its population remains about roughly 18 percent below pre-hurricane levels. In addition, after using its reserves to fill budget gaps during the recession, its liquidity is weak, Moody's said.

How President Bernie Sanders would handle foreign policy Posted: 24 Aug 2015 03:44 AM PDT Here is where the Democratic presidential candidates stands on a range of important foreign policy issues.

Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal Posted: 24 Aug 2015 03:12 AM PDT Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as the Dutch-borne crew works to refine a clean-up strategy it will roll out globally. The crew of the Ocean Cleanup, backed by volunteers in sailboats, ventured to areas of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", a swirling mass of human-linked debris spanning hundreds of miles of open sea where plastic outnumbers organisms by factors in the hundreds. The debris, concentrated by circular, clockwise ocean currents within an oblong-shaped "convergence zone", lies near the Hawaiian Islands, about midway between Japan and the U.S. West Coast.

How a New Orleans church found salvation from Katrina in Texas Posted: 24 Aug 2015 01:45 AM PDT The congregation of Smoking For Jesus Ministry is still together ten years after the storm.

Americans, Briton who thwarted attack get France's top honor Posted: 24 Aug 2015 01:29 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — Three Americans and a Briton who tackled an attacker bristling with guns and ammunition prevented carnage on the high-speed train carrying 500 passengers to Paris, France's president said Monday, presenting the men with the Legion of Honor and praised them as an example of the need for action when faced with terrorism.

China stocks suffer biggest one-day fall since global financial crisis Posted: 24 Aug 2015 12:39 AM PDT Chinese stocks plunged more than 8 percent on Monday in panic selling, with flagship indexes smashing key support levels and posting their biggest one-day percentage losses since the height of the global financial crisis in 2007. The latest tumble, which wiped out what was left of market gains this year, was rooted in investor disappointment that Beijing did not announce expected policy support over the weekend after China's main market indexes shed 11 percent last week. "It's difficult to judge whether investors are overreacting, or whether the market is near its bottom," said Alex Kwok, analyst at China Investment Securities in Hong Kong, noting that economic fundamentals remained weak and investor sentiment battered.

Oklahoma labor commissioner killed in restaurant stabbing: local media Posted: 23 Aug 2015 08:14 PM PDT The Commissioner of Labor for Oklahoma, Mark Costello, was killed in a stabbing at a fast food restaurant in Oklahoma City on Sunday, local broadcasters reported, citing unnamed sources. Police declined to confirm that Costello was the victim but said one family member stabbed another family member at least four times with a knife after the pair agreed to meet at the restaurant following a fight earlier in the day. "So sorry to hear the tragic news about Mark Costello," Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said in a Tweet.

IndyCar driver Justin Wilson in coma after wreck at Pocono Posted: 23 Aug 2015 07:24 PM PDT LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — IndyCar driver Justin Wilson was in a coma and in critical condition after sustaining a head injury when he was hit by a large piece of debris that broke off a car Sunday in the crash-filled race at Pocono Raceway.

Softer winds, new trucks buoy fire crews fighting deadly U.S. Northwest blazes Posted: 23 Aug 2015 06:51 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Beleaguered ground crews battling newly swelled wildfires across Washington state were aided by softer winds on Sunday as they welcomed the expected arrival of new fire engines and water-carrying tankers to a military base in the drought-stricken U.S. region. The full fleet of 20 large fire engines, to be deployed to hot spots threatening homes, and 10 water tankers will arrive at Fairchild Air Force Base outside Spokane before Tuesday, officials said. Overall, there were 24 large wildfires or clusters of fires burning across Washington state and Oregon on Sunday, among the nearly 70 blazes raging in Idaho, California and Montana, the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise reported.

Boston police thwart possible shooting at Pokemon game competition Posted: 23 Aug 2015 05:15 PM PDT The men, 18-year-old Kevin Norton and 27-year-old James Stumbo, were stopped as they tried to enter the event on Thursday at Boston's Hynes Convention Center, the Boston Police Department said. Detectives learned they had toted a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition, and a hunting knife in their car from Iowa, Boston police said in a statement. The suspects, who could not be reached for comment, are to be arraigned at Boston Municipal Court, police said.

How does Trump intend to pull off his immigration plan? ‘It’s called management’ Posted: 23 Aug 2015 02:18 PM PDT The GOP frontrunner continues to dodge specifics on the cost of his reform plan and how he would execute it.

Reid says he's going to support Obama's Iran nuclear deal Posted: 23 Aug 2015 01:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid says he's throwing his full support behind President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.

Beirut protests turn violent for second day as PM threatens to quit Posted: 23 Aug 2015 01:12 PM PDT By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Protests against the Lebanese government turned violent for a second day on Sunday, and Prime Minister Tammam Salam threatened to resign as public discontent brought thousands into the streets. Anger at the Salam-led unity cabinet grouping Lebanon's fractious politicians has come to a head over its failure to resolve a crisis over garbage disposal that reflects the wider failings of the weak state. Salam's cabinet has been hamstrung by political and sectarian rivalries that have been exacerbated by wider crises in the Middle East, including the war in neighboring Syria.

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