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• Back to the future: A last look at NYC's 1960's-era TWA Flight Center
• Suspect dead after killing sheriff's deputy at Minnesota hospital
• Two injured in separate shark attacks off Hawaii
• Jeb Bush: We can't trust Donald Trump with our nuclear codes
• One dead, four injured at shooting at Florida Zombicon event
• Reinventing New Jersey as 'Garden State' with ethnic crops, tourism
• Typhoon leaves 2 dead, 16,000 displaced in Philippines
• Official: Bombing of Afghan hospital was no mistake
• Reputed NY mobster faces trial for 1978 'Goodfellas' heist
• Tracy Morgan returns to 'Saturday Night Live' 20 months after near-fatal car wreck
• Israel, U.S. resume defense aid talks halted over Iran deal: envoy
• New Jersey tech institute wins U.S. solar home design competition
• Sketches of suspects in stabbing of French train hero released

Back to the future: A last look at NYC's 1960's-era TWA Flight Center Posted: 18 Oct 2015 01:15 PM PDT Thousands of visitors are expected at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday to get a last look at the iconic architecture of the Trans World Airlines Flight Center before the futuristic 1960's building is converted into a hotel. The terminal, built in 1962 as an uplifting symbol of the Jet Age, was designed by renowned Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, who also created St. Louis' Gateway Arch. The "Mad Men"-era edifice, now a national historic landmark, was used by TWA until the airline went bankrupt in 2001.

Suspect dead after killing sheriff's deputy at Minnesota hospital Posted: 18 Oct 2015 12:09 PM PDT The deputy, who guarding a person under investigation, was shot and killed around 5:15 a.m. CDT (1015 GMT) at St. Cloud Hospital, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Security officers responded and "subdued" the suspect, who later died, the agency said.

Two injured in separate shark attacks off Hawaii Posted: 18 Oct 2015 11:52 AM PDT (Reuters) - Two men have been seriously injured in separate shark attacks off Hawaii within the space of a few hours, local media reported on Sunday.

Jeb Bush: We can't trust Donald Trump with our nuclear codes Posted: 18 Oct 2015 10:40 AM PDT The former Florida governor's comments came just hours after his campaign released an attack ad mocking Trump.

One dead, four injured at shooting at Florida Zombicon event Posted: 18 Oct 2015 07:08 AM PDT A shooting at a Florida Zombicon event killed one person and injured four others, the Fort Myers Police Department said on Sunday in a social media post. The shots were fired shortly before midnight on Saturday at the festival in downtown Fort Myers on the state's west coast, according to the News-Press newspaper. The four who were injured sustained non-life threatening injuries, the News-Press said, citing police.

Reinventing New Jersey as 'Garden State' with ethnic crops, tourism Posted: 18 Oct 2015 06:17 AM PDT By Barbara Goldberg VINELAND, N.J. (Reuters) - Craving a taste of his native Liberia 4,500 miles (7,200 km)away, maintenance worker Alfred Jones drove just 20 miles from his New Jersey home and waded knee deep into rows of pick-your-own African vegetables at Morris Gbolo's World Crops Farm. The Garden State's newest crops were ready for harvest and Jones plucked baseball-sized eggplants known in Liberia as bitter balls and a tiny yet tangy plant called kittely to make the traditional stews he loved as a boy. New Jersey, officially nicknamed "The Garden State" since 1954, is striving to revitalize its farming sector.

Typhoon leaves 2 dead, 16,000 displaced in Philippines Posted: 18 Oct 2015 05:59 AM PDT MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, leaving at least two people dead, displacing 16,000 villagers and knocking out power in entire provinces, officials said.

Official: Bombing of Afghan hospital was no mistake Posted: 18 Oct 2015 04:34 AM PDT The head of an international medical charity whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was destroyed in a U.S. airstrike says the "extensive, quite precise destruction" of the bombing raid casts doubt on American military assertions that it was a mistake.

Reputed NY mobster faces trial for 1978 'Goodfellas' heist Posted: 18 Oct 2015 04:17 AM PDT For nearly four decades, it remained one of America's most infamous unsolved crimes: on Dec. 11, 1978, a crew of masked men stole $6 million in cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The brazen heist, which helped inspire the gangster movie "Goodfellas," left authorities largely frustrated until last year, when federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged Vincent Asaro, a member of the Bonanno organized crime family, with participating in the theft.

Tracy Morgan returns to 'Saturday Night Live' 20 months after near-fatal car wreck Posted: 17 Oct 2015 11:15 PM PDT Tracy Morgan returned to "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday to host the long-running comedy show on which he shot to fame, more than a year after he suffered near-fatal injuries in a deadly high-speed car accident. Morgan, a "Saturday Night Live" cast member from 1999 to 2006 before he left to join "30 Rock," the hit sitcom based on SNL, was joined by former co-stars including Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, who returned to the NBC program in a show of support. Morgan wasted no time in addressing his traumatic experience of June 2014, which killed his good friend, fellow comedian James McNair.

Israel, U.S. resume defense aid talks halted over Iran deal: envoy Posted: 17 Oct 2015 10:57 PM PDT Israel and the United States have resumed talks on future defense aid that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended in protest at the Iran nuclear deal, the Israeli ambassador to Washington said on Sunday. The allies had been looking to agree on a 10-year aid package to extend the current U.S. grants to Israel worth $3 billion annually, which are due to expire in 2017. "With the nuclear deal now moving ahead, Israel is also moving ahead, hoping to forge a common policy with the United states to address the continuing dangers posed by Iran," Ambassador Ron Dermer said in a Facebook post.

New Jersey tech institute wins U.S. solar home design competition Posted: 17 Oct 2015 08:59 PM PDT Students from New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology won the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, taking the top trophy at the event in California by building a flood-resistant house that is also energy efficient, officials said on Saturday. The so-called Sure House the students constructed at the Department of Energy's competition in Irvine, south of Los Angeles, was built with repurposed materials from the boat- building industry and was designed to be placed on the coastline, making use of natural light. It has a large shuttered patio to double the home's usable space in summer, and relies on solar energy for power.

Sketches of suspects in stabbing of French train hero released Posted: 17 Oct 2015 04:36 PM PDT The two composite sketches are based on eyewitness accounts of the Oct. 8 assault in the Northern California city, where Stone was stabbed several times during a fight outside a bar, police said. Investigators said they believe the male suspects were wearing white shirts and blue jeans. Police have not disclosed what caused the fight that led to "significant injuries" to Stone, who was taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

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