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• Russian plane black boxes point to 'attack', Putin halts flights
• Texas jury finds man guilty of murdering four with car at SXSW
• New rules bring California a step closer to resuming executions
• Convicted Russian Taliban fighter to be sentenced in U.S. next month
• U.S. can still close Guantanamo before Obama leaves: White House
• Autumn storms make small dent in California drought
• New York woman who aided prison escape to pay $80,000 restitution
• Kentucky's governor-elect to remove clerk names from state marriage licenses
• N.Y. jurors urged to convict accused mobster for 'Goodfellas' heist
• Boston men accused of hate crimes; police say they cited Trump
• Obama rejects Canada-to-U.S. Keystone pipeline
• Russia to suspend flights to Egypt pending improved security
• Dallas boy who was allegedly fed ant poison released from hospital: police
• Up to six die in charter bus crash in Arkansas: police
• Detective: 'Hero' cop sought hit-man to cover up thefts
• Obama says bomb may have caused Egypt plane crash
• Slain California university stabbing suspect was angry about study group
• Christie, Huckabee relegated to undercard at next GOP debate
• Obama praises Adidas move to help schools eliminate Native American mascots
• Kidnapped Arizona baby goat reunited with his mother
• Kansas teen eleventh U.S. high school football fatality since July
• Boy shot dead in Chicago was targeted in gang rivalry: police

Russian plane black boxes point to 'attack', Putin halts flights Posted: 06 Nov 2015 01:23 PM PST An analysis of black boxes from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt point to a bomb attack, sources close to the probe said Friday, as Moscow halted flights to the country. Meanwhile, British airlines were scrambling to evacuate passengers in Sharm el-Sheikh after cancelling flights to the Red Sea resort from which the doomed Airbus had taken off Saturday. One of the black boxes recovered from the crash site showed that the plane suffered "a violent, sudden" end, a source close to the case in Paris told AFP.

Texas jury finds man guilty of murdering four with car at SXSW Posted: 06 Nov 2015 01:07 PM PST A man charged with killing four people by plowing his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival last year was found guilty of capital murder by a Texas jury on Friday and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors said Rashad Owens, 23, acted with intent and malice when he sent bodies flying in the air and traveled at high speed for several city blocks, leaving nearly 30 victims and a trail of blood in his wake. Owens, who was driving while intoxicated, evaded a police check point on March 13, 2014, and drove at about 55 mph (90 kph) into crowds of people, some lined up for nightclubs, until his car crashed.

New rules bring California a step closer to resuming executions Posted: 06 Nov 2015 12:34 PM PST California published its proposed new rules for lethal injection of condemned prisoners on Friday, moving the state a step closer to resuming executions after nearly a decade of not doing so. The proposed regulations, released for public comment Friday morning, would instruct prison officials to use a single drug for lethal injections, rather than the three-drug cocktail that was declared unconstitutional by a California court because it may not block pain to the recipient. The state, the most populous in the country and a Democratic stronghold where public support for the death penalty has been slipping for years, stopped executing prisoners after Clarence Ray Allen was put to death nearly 10 years ago for three murders in Fresno.

Convicted Russian Taliban fighter to be sentenced in U.S. next month Posted: 06 Nov 2015 12:02 PM PST The first enemy combatant from Afghanistan to be found guilty in a U.S. federal court of charges related to helping Taliban fighters will be sentenced next month, a judge ruled on Friday, according to a defense attorney. Irek Hamidullin, a former Russian army officer who became a Muslim jihadist, was convicted by a federal jury in Richmond, Virginia, in August on 15 charges tied to a Nov. 28, 2009 attack by Taliban-related insurgents on an Afghan police base. The charges included conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, material support for terrorists, attempting to destroy a U.S. military aircraft and attempting to kill an officer of the United States.

U.S. can still close Guantanamo before Obama leaves: White House Posted: 06 Nov 2015 11:47 AM PST The Obama administration still has time to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison before the president leaves office, the White House said on Friday, adding that it is continuing to work on transferring detainees from the center. The United States is working to reach agreement with countries around the globe to transfer 53 eligible Guantanamo prisoners from the facility in Cuba, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, adding that some transfers would take place by the end of the year. It's still something that we are working very hard to accomplish," Earnest said.

Autumn storms make small dent in California drought Posted: 06 Nov 2015 10:38 AM PST By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Fall storms that brought rain and snow to parts of California have made a small but measurable dent in the state's four-year drought, experts said. The precipitation has put the state ahead of the normal rainfall for the season and nudged a few areas out of the worst drought designation, scientists at the U.S. Drought Monitor said Thursday. The weekly report shows that as of Nov. 3, 44.84 percent of the state was experiencing exceptional drought conditions, the worst designation, down from 46 percent last week and 55 percent a year ago at the same time.

New York woman who aided prison escape to pay $80,000 restitution Posted: 06 Nov 2015 10:21 AM PST A former prison worker who helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum security lockup in upstate New York earlier this year will pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to repair damage caused by the inmates in preparing for their daring breakout. The agreement to reduce the amount from an initial $121,000 requested by the state inspector general came after "tireless review" of the damages, said Clinton County Assistant District Attorney Nick Evanovich at a restitution hearing on Friday. Joyce Mitchell was sentenced to 2-1/3 to seven years in state prison in September after admitting to providing the escapees, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat, with blades and other tools hidden in frozen hamburger meat.

Kentucky's governor-elect to remove clerk names from state marriage licenses Posted: 06 Nov 2015 10:05 AM PST By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE (Reuters) - Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin said on Friday that when he assumes office next month he will change the state marriage license form to appease clerks who have objected to issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Bevin said he would make the change by executive order. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who spent five days in jail for not issuing licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a court order, took steps to remove her name and office from the forms in September.

N.Y. jurors urged to convict accused mobster for 'Goodfellas' heist Posted: 06 Nov 2015 09:47 AM PST Vincent Asaro, 80, is a third-generation mobster who spent his entire adult life immersed in organized crime as a member of the Bonanno crime family, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alicyn Cooley told jurors in Brooklyn federal court at the end of a three-week trial. Asaro was one of several armed men who stole $6 million in cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in December 1978, according to prosecutors. The heist, which remained one of the country's most notorious unsolved crimes until Asaro's arrest in January 2014, provided a key plot point for "Goodfellas," Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning 1990 film.

Boston men accused of hate crimes; police say they cited Trump Posted: 06 Nov 2015 09:30 AM PST Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said on Friday a grand jury had brought the new charges against Scott Leader, 38, and Steve Leader, 30, arrested on Aug. 19 on suspicion of beating 58-year-old Guillermo Rodriguez as he slept in a subway station. Trump, a candidate for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, has been vocal on immigration, proposing to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and promising to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States if elected.

Obama rejects Canada-to-U.S. Keystone pipeline Posted: 06 Nov 2015 09:14 AM PST U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Nebraska, more than seven years after the controversial project was first proposed. "The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States. Keystone XL would have linked existing pipeline networks in Canada and the United States to bring synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to refineries in Illinois and, eventually, the Gulf of Mexico coast.

Russia to suspend flights to Egypt pending improved security Posted: 06 Nov 2015 08:57 AM PST SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Russia announced Friday it will suspend all flights to Egypt until security is improved at its airports, the first sign of wariness from Moscow after days of resisting British and American warnings that a bomb planted by the Islamic State group may have brought down a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula last week.

Dallas boy who was allegedly fed ant poison released from hospital: police Posted: 06 Nov 2015 08:24 AM PST A 4-year-old Dallas boy whose mother is charged with feeding him ant poison and trying to do the same to his siblings has been released from the hospital, police said on Friday. Child Protective Services placed the boy and his two older siblings in a foster care home, according to Dallas police.

Up to six die in charter bus crash in Arkansas: police Posted: 06 Nov 2015 05:18 AM PST (Reuters) - As many as six people died early on Friday morning when a charter bus veered off an interstate in Arkansas and crashed into a highway overpass, according to the Arkansas State Police.

Detective: 'Hero' cop sought hit-man to cover up thefts Posted: 06 Nov 2015 01:42 AM PST FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Months before an Illinois police officer staged his suicide to make it seem like he died in the line of duty, subjecting his community to an expensive and fruitless manhunt, he apparently sought a hit man to kill a village administrator he feared would expose him as a thief, a detective told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Obama says bomb may have caused Egypt plane crash Posted: 05 Nov 2015 10:08 PM PST US President Barack Obama raised the possibility that a bomb brought down a Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, undermining efforts by Cairo and Moscow to downplay the suggestion of an attack. With concerns over security mounting, a number of European airlines readied to bring home thousands of tourists from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the plane took off last Saturday. "I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board and we are taking that very seriously," Obama told a US radio station, while emphasising it was too early to say for sure.

Slain California university stabbing suspect was angry about study group Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:02 PM PST Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke named the suspect as 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad, a freshman majoring in engineering and computer science. Warnke told a news conference that the Wednesday attack started in a classroom and evidence suggested it was personal. A two-page "manifesto" in Mohammad's pocket during an autopsy listed a specific target he planned to attack for removing him from a study group, Warnke told reporters, adding he had scripted the attack events, listing details of action and lines he planned to say.

Christie, Huckabee relegated to undercard at next GOP debate Posted: 05 Nov 2015 04:56 PM PST Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been bumped from the main stage at next week's GOP presidential debate, while George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been cut from the lineup altogether.

Obama praises Adidas move to help schools eliminate Native American mascots Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:36 PM PST President Barack Obama criticized sports teams' continued use of Native American mascots on Thursday and commended popular German sportswear company Adidas for its offer to help teams eliminate them. Adidas announced earlier on Thursday that it would partner with any high school across the U.S. that wanted to change its Native American-themed mascot or logo. At the seventh annual White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, Obama praised the initiative as a step toward breaking stereotypes.

Kidnapped Arizona baby goat reunited with his mother Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:20 PM PST A weeks-old pygmy baby goat that was believed stolen from a petting zoo at the Arizona State Fair was found safe and sound on Thursday and has been reunited with his crying mother, officials said. GusGus, who had been missing for some 20 hours, was reunited with his mom at the state fairgrounds in Phoenix after an unidentified man dropped him off at a pet store in the west of the city, officials said. "GusGus is fine.

Kansas teen eleventh U.S. high school football fatality since July Posted: 05 Nov 2015 02:30 PM PST (Reuters) - A high school football player from western Kansas who collapsed on the sidelines during a playoff game has died, becoming the 11th confirmed U.S. high school football fatality since July, his family and researchers said. Luke Schemm, 17, who played eight-man football for Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas, collapsed during the team's game on Tuesday night and was flown to a Denver hospital. Schemm's father, David Schemm, said in a posting on Facebook that he was removed from life support on Wednesday afternoon surrounded by family and friends.

Boy shot dead in Chicago was targeted in gang rivalry: police Posted: 05 Nov 2015 01:58 PM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Gang members targeted a 9-year-old boy and lured him to an alley on Chicago's south side before shooting him dead on Monday, police said on Thursday. Earlier it was believed the boy, Tyshawn Lee, had been killed in crossfire.

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