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• Sarah Palin gushes over Donald Trump in highly-anticipated interview
• Construction accident closes down major San Francisco freeway
• Hurricane Ignacio gains strength but expected to bypass Hawaii
• Like New Orleans, second-line parades struggle but survive
• Funeral for slain Missouri teen as family questions police shooting
• Deputy fatally shot from behind at Houston gas station
• With rhythm and reverence, New Orleans marks 10 years since Katrina
• Obama heads north to Alaska, where drilling decision looms large
• Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison
• Tropical storm losing strength as it nears Florida, 20 dead in Dominica
• Hurricane Ignacio marches across Pacific toward Hawaii
• Kentucky clerk seeks Supreme Court help to deny gay marriage licenses
• Los Angeles committee gives support to bid to host 2024 Olympics
• TV gunman plotted to 'hurt a lot more': state governor
• Oregon priest goes missing after hidden camera allegations

Sarah Palin gushes over Donald Trump in highly-anticipated interview Posted: 29 Aug 2015 11:54 AM PDT

Construction accident closes down major San Francisco freeway Posted: 29 Aug 2015 11:20 AM PDT Emergency work was expected to block off the principal freeway connecting San Francisco to the south for at least 20 hours, after a construction crane crashed into and demolished a tower supporting high-voltage power lines. "All southbound and northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 101 are closed down until possibly 5 p.m. today," Officer Eric Anderson of the California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, warning of significant traffic delays. The crane was being used to construct a new freeway overpass in Burlingame, a suburb south of San Francisco.

Hurricane Ignacio gains strength but expected to bypass Hawaii Posted: 29 Aug 2015 10:26 AM PDT (Reuters) - Hurricane Ignacio intensified as it blew across the Pacific on a route likely to bypass Hawaii on Saturday, said the Central Pacific Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service. With winds gusting up to 115 miles per hour (185 kmph), the hurricane centered 835 miles (1,344 km) southeast of Honolulu and 625 miles (1,006 km) south east of Hilo was moving northwest at 8 miles per hour (13 kmph), said center spokesman Neil Honda. "It just became a hurricane from a tropical storm," Honda said, noting the weather became fierce enough to be classified a hurricane at 5 a.m. Pacific on Saturday.

Like New Orleans, second-line parades struggle but survive Posted: 29 Aug 2015 08:31 AM PDT It is fitting that the "second line" parade, a central pillar of New Orleans African-American musical tradition, is playing a prominent role in the events marking the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago. Like New Orleans, the marching brass bands and the colorful crowds they attract are survivors whose status is more celebrated than ever: a parade on Saturday in the blighted Lower Ninth Ward, accompanied by some of the city's best known brass bands, has been billed as the biggest in the Big Easy yet. Any threat to second-line parades is a threat to New Orleans itself, say the people behind the city's Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs.

Funeral for slain Missouri teen as family questions police shooting Posted: 29 Aug 2015 05:27 AM PDT The funeral for Mansur Ball-Bey comes 10 days after he was fatally shot in the back by a plainclothes police officer outside a home where police were serving a search warrant. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said two officers fired at Ball-Bey after he and another African-American ran out of the back of a home being searched and Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them. Dotson said Ball-Bey was struck by one of the bullets and then ran from the backyard to the front of the house.

Deputy fatally shot from behind at Houston gas station Posted: 29 Aug 2015 04:55 AM PDT HOUSTON (AP) — A sheriff's deputy in uniform was shot and killed Friday night while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station, according to authorities.

With rhythm and reverence, New Orleans marks 10 years since Katrina Posted: 29 Aug 2015 04:38 AM PDT New Orleans, a town renowned for staging big celebrations, faces a tricky challenge on Saturday, 10 years to the day from when Hurricane Katrina slammed into southeast Louisiana and triggered flooding that would leave 80 percent of the city under water. Thousands of people are expected to turn out as the city's trademark "second line" parades snake through the streets and New Orleans puts its famous musical traditions on display. "A celebration would not be the right gesture for those who will never be made whole," said Kristian Sonnier, an official at the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Obama heads north to Alaska, where drilling decision looms large Posted: 29 Aug 2015 03:12 AM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean under what he said were rigorous standards, fending off criticism by environmental groups. The trip is part of a broad campaign to seal an international deal later this year to curb carbon emissions, something the White House hopes will cap Obama's legacy on climate during his time in office. While Obama pushes the world to wean itself from fossil fuels, his administration gave Shell the green light earlier this month to drill in the oil-rich Chukchi Sea.

Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison Posted: 29 Aug 2015 02:23 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison, the last twist in a long-running trial criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights activists.

Tropical storm losing strength as it nears Florida, 20 dead in Dominica Posted: 28 Aug 2015 11:22 PM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Erika was soaking Haiti with heavy rain and strong winds on Friday as it swirled across the Caribbean but showed signs of losing steam as it headed toward south Florida, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Twenty people were confirmed dead on the island of Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said in an address carried on television and online late Friday. Erika was no longer forecast to make landfall in the United States as a hurricane due to some likely weakening over mountainous areas of Haiti and Cuba.

Hurricane Ignacio marches across Pacific toward Hawaii Posted: 28 Aug 2015 10:15 PM PDT (Reuters) - Hurricane Ignacio was churning across the Pacific on Friday on a path that could take it past Hawaii in coming days, the National Hurricane Center said. A coastal storm watch could be issued for the Hawaiian islands early on Saturday, the center said. Hawaii officials urged residents to prepare in the event the storm hits the island early next week.

Kentucky clerk seeks Supreme Court help to deny gay marriage licenses Posted: 28 Aug 2015 09:58 PM PDT A Kentucky county clerk petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday for an emergency order allowing her to continue to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a move coming two days after a federal appeals court rejected her request. In a related move, a federal judge refused to extend a stay of his own ruling requiring the clerk to furnish marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples while she appealed on the grounds that her religious faith overrides her duties as a public servant. U.S. District Judge David Bunning said earlier in August that Kim Davis had to live up to her responsibilities as the Rowland County clerk despite her religious convictions, and he issued a preliminary injunction requiring her to issue marriage licenses.

Los Angeles committee gives support to bid to host 2024 Olympics Posted: 28 Aug 2015 08:00 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday to support an effort to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles, ahead of a deadline next month for U.S. Olympic organizers to decide on an American city to bid for the games. The U.S. Olympic Committee has turned to Los Angeles after dropping Boston in July, after that city's mayor said he would not expose taxpayers in the Massachusetts capital to assuming possible cost overruns. The full Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on Tuesday on whether to pursue the Olympics after a council committee unanimously recommended moving forward on Friday.

TV gunman plotted to 'hurt a lot more': state governor Posted: 28 Aug 2015 07:42 PM PDT The embittered gunman who shot dead two young American journalists on live TV was seemingly hell-bent on committing more violence before he took his own life, Virginia's governor said Friday. Terry McAuliffe visited the studios of WDBJ television in Roanoke two days after Vester Flanagan killed reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, as they were conducting an interview. Flanagan, 41, a former WDBJ reporter fired in February 2013, fatally shot himself a few hours later after police caught up with his rented get-away car on a highway that leads into the city of Washington.

Oregon priest goes missing after hidden camera allegations Posted: 28 Aug 2015 04:06 PM PDT Authorities in the Philippines are searching for a Catholic priest from Oregon who went missing while facing criminal charges for allegedly hiding a camera in a church bathroom, officials with the Archdiocese of Portland said on Friday. Father Ysrael Bien is accused of personal invasion of privacy, tampering with physical evidence, and initiating a false police report, according to a search warrant issued last week by a Washington County Circuit Court judge. The camera, disguised as an electrical outlet, was found in late April near a toilet in the men's bathroom of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Sherwood, Oregon.

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