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• Oregon police struck college gunman with one bullet before his suicide
• Hillary Clinton doesn’t support revival of Glass-Steagall Act
• Pumpkin crop hit by soggy June - will affect holiday pies
• Supreme Court tackles 'Wichita Massacre' death penalty case
• Crash kills two, injures three in Wisconsin police chase
• How a team of Obama veterans helped Bernie Sanders pull in a record number of donations
• Hopes of survival fade for missing U.S. ship crew as search goes on
• Massachusetts teen accused of murdering popular teacher to face trial
• Two missing as floodwaters persist in South Carolina
• Scientists win Nobel chemistry award for work on DNA repair
• U.S. officials ask how ISIS got so many Toyota trucks
• Fifteen dead as South Carolina gripped by historic flooding
• Journalist who allegedly helped hackers makes final pitch to jury
• Oregon attorney general visits town shaken by college massacre
• Deep seas complicate search for ship lost in hurricane: U.S. investigator
• Oregon shooter's mother wrote about guns in online forum
• How Trump could help Main Street win one over Wall Street
• Jihadist threat posted online against Navy SEAL from bin Laden mission

Oregon police struck college gunman with one bullet before his suicide Posted: 07 Oct 2015 12:17 PM PDT The gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon college exchanged fire with two police officers, who struck him once before he retreated to a classroom and killed himself, authorities said on Wednesday as they hailed the officers as heroes. Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg at a news conference said he found the two plainclothes officers were justified in opening fire on the gunman after he carried out the rampage Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The shooting carried out by Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, ranks as the deadliest in the United States in two years and the bloodiest in modern Oregon history.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t support revival of Glass-Steagall Act Posted: 07 Oct 2015 11:24 AM PDT

Pumpkin crop hit by soggy June - will affect holiday pies Posted: 07 Oct 2015 10:15 AM PDT "It would be wise to buy it for Thanksgiving now," said Roz O'Hearn, a spokeswoman for Nestle USA, owner of Libby's, which produces most of the country's canned pumpkin. O'Hearn said that the pumpkin harvest usually runs from the end of August into early November, but this year it ended on Tuesday. O'Hearn said Libby's will ship the last of its canned pumpkin to retailers in early November, but will not have any more to ship until the 2016 harvest.

Supreme Court tackles 'Wichita Massacre' death penalty case Posted: 07 Oct 2015 09:59 AM PDT The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared poised to rule against two brothers challenging their death sentences for a 2000 crime spree in Kansas that included the execution-style murders of four people on a snowy soccer field. The brothers, Jonathan and Reginald Carr, were sentenced to death over the "Wichita Massacre" crimes but the Kansas Supreme Court threw out their sentences in July 2014. Kansas appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for the death sentences to be re-imposed.

Crash kills two, injures three in Wisconsin police chase Posted: 07 Oct 2015 09:42 AM PDT Two people were killed and three injured early Wednesday when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed while they were being chased by a sheriff's deputy in southern Wisconsin, police said. The driver and front-seat passenger were killed and three passengers riding in the back were injured and taken to hospitals, the Watertown Police Department said in a statement. Police have not released the identity of the driver or passengers or said why a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy was pursuing the vehicle when it struck a tree in Watertown, Wisconsin, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Milwaukee.

How a team of Obama veterans helped Bernie Sanders pull in a record number of donations Posted: 07 Oct 2015 09:26 AM PDT

Hopes of survival fade for missing U.S. ship crew as search goes on Posted: 07 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT The U.S. Coast Guard resumed a search-and-rescue effort for a U.S. cargo ship on Wednesday, but hopes for the mostly American crew were fading six days after it sank in the Bahamas after running into Hurricane Joaquin. A decision on how much longer the search for the El Faro will continue could be announced on Wednesday afternoon, the Coast Guard said. Officials have acknowledged that chances of finding survivors are remote, given that the 790-foot (240-meter) container ship disappeared in the middle of a ferocious storm with winds of 130 miles (215 km) per hour.

Massachusetts teen accused of murdering popular teacher to face trial Posted: 07 Oct 2015 06:36 AM PDT Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday morning in the trial of a former Massachusetts high school student accused of raping and murdering his teacher in a suburban community north of Boston. Philip Chism, 16, is charged with the murder of Colleen Ritzer, who was a popular math teacher known for her upbeat personality at a high school in Danvers, a town of 26,000 about 20 miles (32 km) north of Boston. Prosecutors say that on Oct. 22, 2013, Chism, who was 14 at the time, was upset by a conversation he had with Ritzer, his algebra teacher.

Two missing as floodwaters persist in South Carolina Posted: 07 Oct 2015 06:05 AM PDT (Reuters) - Rescuers searched early Wednesday for two people missing in floodwaters in South Carolina, while authorities urged residents in hundreds of homes to seek higher ground as a dam threatened to fail. Emergency responders in Richland County said two people were unaccounted for after a truck they were in drove around road barriers and became submerged in floodwaters resulting from the historic rainfall in the state. The rainstorm was blamed for at least 15 deaths in South Carolina, including nine people who drowned and six who were killed in weather-related car crashes.

Scientists win Nobel chemistry award for work on DNA repair Posted: 07 Oct 2015 04:07 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer treatments.

U.S. officials ask how ISIS got so many Toyota trucks Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:19 AM PDT U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world's second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group's propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned. Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is "supporting" the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department -- part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group. "We briefed Treasury on Toyota's supply chains in the Middle East and the procedures that Toyota has in place to protect supply chain integrity," said Ed Lewis, Toyota's Washington-based director of public policy and communications.

Fifteen dead as South Carolina gripped by historic flooding Posted: 06 Oct 2015 11:59 PM PDT South Carolina grappled with the damage wrought by record rainfall, as the death toll from widespread flooding rose to 15 on Tuesday and residents braced for more evacuations in areas near dams and swollen waterways across the state. "We are still in the mode that the next 36 to 48 hours will be volatile," Governor Nikki Haley told a news conference. Eleven dams in the southeastern state have failed, the state Emergency Management Division said.

Journalist who allegedly helped hackers makes final pitch to jury Posted: 06 Oct 2015 07:45 PM PDT (Please note that paragraph six contains language that may be offensive to some readers) By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A lawyer for journalist Matthew Keys, accused of aiding members of the Anonymous hacking collective, told a jury on Tuesday that the U.S. government had not proven the criminal charges it filed over the incident. Keys was indicted in 2013 on three criminal counts, including conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer. The indictment accused Keys of giving hackers access to Tribune Co. computer systems in December 2010.

Oregon attorney general visits town shaken by college massacre Posted: 06 Oct 2015 06:41 PM PDT Oregon's top law enforcement officer paid a visit to the grief-stricken town of Roseburg on Tuesday to meet with authorities investigating last week's massacre on a community college campus where a gunman killed his professor and eight classmates. The trip by state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum comes a day before Oregon state police planned to hold a news conference to give an update on the role played by officers who exchanged gunfire with the suspect before he committed suicide. Authorities initially suggested the gunman had been killed in a shootout with two Roseburg police officers arriving on the scene of Thursday's attack in a classroom building at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.

Deep seas complicate search for ship lost in hurricane: U.S. investigator Posted: 06 Oct 2015 06:23 PM PDT By Barbara Liston JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - Deep seas will likely hamper efforts to find the sunken U.S. cargo ship lost off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin, a federal safety investigator said on Tuesday, as a search for 32 missing crew ran into a sixth fruitless day. National Transportation Safety Board member Bella Dinh-Zarr spoke before her arrival in Jacksonville, Florida, to help spearhead an NTSB investigation into what maritime experts have called the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel in more than 30 years. Its last known location, after departing Jacksonville last week en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico, was off Crooked Island in the Bahamas.

Oregon shooter's mother wrote about guns in online forum Posted: 06 Oct 2015 04:57 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

How Trump could help Main Street win one over Wall Street Posted: 06 Oct 2015 04:09 PM PDT If Donald Trump reflects the zeitgeist, then some of America's One Percenters are in trouble...

Jihadist threat posted online against Navy SEAL from bin Laden mission Posted: 06 Oct 2015 02:11 PM PDT Undersheriff George Skuletich of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department said on Tuesday O'Neill no longer lives in the Butte area but that his agency was aware of the posting and contacted federal authorities. O'Neill, 39, who grew up in Butte, told The Washington Post last year that he was the Navy SEAL who fired the fatal gunshot that struck bin Laden in the forehead during the U.S. raid in May 2011 on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.

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