| Planned Parenthood report says fetal tissue videos were distorted Posted: 27 Aug 2015 11:50 AM PDT  Planned Parenthood told U.S. congressional leaders on Thursday that manipulations and deletions used in the editing process of secretly recorded videos slamming the organization rendered the tapes unreliable for government inquiries. In an 11-page letter to Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, the reproductive healthcare group's president, Cecile Richards, detailed the findings of an analysis conducted by research firm Fusion GPS and commissioned by Planned Parenthood. In recent weeks, the Center for Medical Progress has released eight videos showing Planned Parenthood technicians gathering fetal tissue from abortions.
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| TV newsrooms pay tribute to slain journalists Posted: 27 Aug 2015 10:44 AM PDT  #WeStandWithWDBJ: Television newsrooms are paying tribute online to the pair of journalists who were shot and killed during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday.
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| New Hampshire prep school rape trail lawyers make final cases Posted: 27 Aug 2015 10:27 AM PDT  Closing arguments in the rape trial of a former student at an elite New Hampshire boarding school focused on whether he coerced a 15-year-old classmate into a sexual encounter or whether she accused him to save her reputation. A county prosecutor on Thursday said defendant Owen Labrie, 19, told a friend had he had used "every trick in the book" to get the victim to have sex with him. "You only need tricks if someone says no," Assistant Merrimack County Attorney Joseph Cherniske said.
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| Shooter reported, suspect in custody at Mississippi State University Posted: 27 Aug 2015 08:44 AM PDT (Reuters) - Mississippi State University said on Twitter on Thursday it had a suspect in custody after an active shooter was reported on campus. |
| Ex-San Francisco 49ers player Ray McDonald charged with rape Posted: 27 Aug 2015 08:28 AM PDT  The felony indictment against McDonald, marking the latest sex abuse scandal to embroil the National Football League, stems from a December 2014 incident at his home, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. McDonald was arrested on Wednesday and released after posting $100,000 bail.
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| Obama to herald New Orleans' progress ahead of Katrina anniversary Posted: 27 Aug 2015 07:20 AM PDT  President Barack Obama on Thursday will highlight the "structural inequality" that hurt poor black people in New Orleans before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, during a visit to celebrate the city's progress 10 years after the storm. On what the White House said was his ninth trip to Louisiana, Obama will meet with people who lived through the storm and recovered, heralding a city reborn. Obama, who as a presidential candidate in 2008 sharply criticized Republican President George W. Bush for his administration's handling of the storm, will touch on that past again, according to excerpts of his remarks released by the White House.
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| Online posts by Virginia shooter show alarming trend: victim's fiance Posted: 27 Aug 2015 06:34 AM PDT  Social media posts by the man suspected of brazenly shooting two television journalists during a live broadcast in Virginia show a disturbing trend of unashamed exhibition of his crimes on the Internet, the partner of one of the victims said on Thursday. "What we are starting to see is continued boldness from people who want to commit murders in cold blood for notoriety," said Hurst, who was a news anchor at WDBJ7 and was dating one of the slain journalists, Alison Parker. Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were shot dead on Wednesday during a live segment for the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, at a local recreation site about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington.
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| Low-lying Louisiana parish regroups behind reinforced levee system Posted: 27 Aug 2015 05:45 AM PDT  Of all the areas near New Orleans blasted by Hurricane Katrina, none was harder hit than St. Bernard Parish, a low-lying coastal stretch southeast of the city, once known for its small fishing villages and thriving seafood industry. The full force of Katrina's 125-mile-an-hour winds and a 20-foot-high wall of water slammed the parish in August 2015, killing 127 residents and all but destroying its 25,000 homes. Considering the devastation, St. Bernard has made an impressive recovery: its population has grown to 44,000, about two-thirds of its 2005 size, according to a 2014 census estimate, and housing units now total 17,000.
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| Trump's appeal grows among right-wing fringe Posted: 27 Aug 2015 02:40 AM PDT  The Republican front-runner's anti-immigration message is attracting support from some unsavory elements.
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| TV station balances grief, journalism after on-air shooting Posted: 27 Aug 2015 02:08 AM PDT  Alison Parker and Adam Ward's colleagues at WDBJ-TV saved their tears for off the air.
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| Obama visiting New Orleans on hurricane's 10th anniversary Posted: 27 Aug 2015 12:32 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina by celebrating the revival of New Orleans, which suffered the worst of the ferocious storm's devastation, while again warning all levels of government to start helping communities prepare for the stronger hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires that climate change will bring.
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| 'I've been a human powder keg for a while' Posted: 26 Aug 2015 10:20 PM PDT  A man claiming to be the alleged Va. shooter sent a 23-page list of grievances to ABC News.
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| Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with 'powder keg' of anger Posted: 26 Aug 2015 08:40 PM PDT  By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) - Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States. The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after the shooting. Flanagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital, police said.
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| Policeman shot, two people stabbed in southwest Louisiana Posted: 26 Aug 2015 05:42 PM PDT  The suspect, who was not immediately identified, was captured after police fired tear gas into the building about an hour after the violence began in the small town of Sunset, about 70 miles (112 km) west of the state capital, Baton Rouge. The standoff began after the suspect allegedly stabbed and wounded two people inside a home, then shot and wounded a police officer arriving on the scene, the sheriff said. Officers fired volleys of tear gas into the building, then stormed inside to arrest the suspect, who "resisted" before he was subdued and taken into custody, the sheriff said.
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| Video links white supremacist to Kansas killings: prosecutors Posted: 26 Aug 2015 05:26 PM PDT  Prosecutors presented witnesses, video and forensic evidence on Wednesday they said proved white supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year. Prosecutors said they expected to rest their case on Thursday after presenting one more witness in the jury trial of Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, who is representing himself and has promised to take the stand. Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, could be sentenced to death if convicted of the April 2014 fatal shootings of Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri LaManno, 53, outside the Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.
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| Hillary Clinton on a Biden run: give him ‘space’ for ‘a very difficult decision’ Posted: 26 Aug 2015 03:47 PM PDT |
| US stocks rebound to log best day in 4 years Posted: 26 Aug 2015 02:10 PM PDT  An afternoon surge Wednesday gave the stock market its best day in close to four years, as stocks rebounded from a six-day slump.
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