| 4 dead, 1 injured, more missing in Maine fire Posted: 01 Nov 2014 01:40 PM PDT  Fire swept through a two-apartment building housing students from the University of Southern Maine on Saturday morning, killing four people and critically injuring one, authorities said. They were still trying to account for several people who had been at a Halloween party at the building the night before.
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| Gas under $3 for 1st time in 4 years Posted: 01 Nov 2014 01:24 PM PDT  The sight is so surprising that Americans are sharing photos of it, along with all those cute Halloween costumes, sweeping vistas and special meals: The gas station sign, with a price of $2-something a ...
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| Funeral held for soldier killed in Quebec car attack Posted: 01 Nov 2014 12:52 PM PDT  Mourners including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid respects in Quebec on Saturday at the second of two funerals for soldiers killed in attacks police said were carried out independently by radical recent converts to Islam. Patrice Vincent, a 53-year-old warrant officer, died on Oct. 20 near Montreal when a man ran over him and a fellow soldier with a car. The driver was later shot and killed by police. Vincent's funeral on Saturday in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, just across the St. ...
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| Ebola-free Texas nurse, pet dog reunited after long quarantine Posted: 01 Nov 2014 10:44 AM PDT  The Dallas nurse treated for Ebola had an emotional reunion on Saturday with her "best friend", a King Charles Spaniel, after the pet spent the last three weeks in quarantine being monitored for the deadly virus. The dog named Bentley showered Nina Pham with licks at a handover ceremony near the Dallas shelter where he had been kept in isolation and cared for by kennel workers in protective suits. Pham, 26, became the first person in the United States to be infected with Ebola after treating an infected man. ...
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| Report says 60,000 veterans get triple benefits Posted: 01 Nov 2014 08:50 AM PDT  Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report.
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| Boko Haram leader says all kidnapped girls married Posted: 01 Nov 2014 07:45 AM PDT  Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists claimed in a new video message.
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| 'We just had a hunch': How U.S. marshals nabbed Eric Frein Posted: 01 Nov 2014 06:08 AM PDT  MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) — Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abandoned airplane hangar in the Pocono Mountains. Looking at his face, his black hat and fleece, and his height and weight, Malkowski was certain he had his man.
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| Ebola costs encourage budget flexibility among U.S. Republicans Posted: 01 Nov 2014 05:21 AM PDT By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Worries about Ebola are chipping away at some congressional Republicans' support for maintaining across-the-board spending caps on U.S. government agencies and the military. An increasing number of Republicans are speaking out in favor of Ebola "emergency" funds, which would be passed outside of the normal budget process, and would not require offsetting spending cuts or explicit sources of revenue. ... |
| New question in Texas: Can Wendy Davis survive defeat? Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:31 AM PDT  KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — It's a sunny afternoon just before the election and Wendy Davis isn't addressing an arena packed with adoring supporters, speaking on national television or working a hotel ballroom of top donors.
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| Driver sought in crash that killed 3 on Halloween Posted: 01 Nov 2014 01:43 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles area authorities say they're looking for a motorist who crashed into three teenage girls trick-or-treating in Halloween costumes, leaving them with fatal injuries and fleeing the scene.
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| Investigators, Branson go to spacecraft crash site Posted: 01 Nov 2014 01:10 AM PDT  Investigators will examine the wreckage of the winged spaceship designed to give wealthy tourists a high-altitude view of Earth.
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| 3 girls trick-or-treating killed in hit-and-run Posted: 31 Oct 2014 11:52 PM PDT The girls were hit at an intersection in Santa Ana, Calif., authorities said. |
| Test flight of Virgin Galactic spaceship ends in fatal crash in California Posted: 31 Oct 2014 11:22 PM PDT  By Alex Dobuzinskis MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) - A passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday near the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other, officials said. The crash of the suborbital vehicle, undergoing its first powered test flight since January over the Mojave Desert, 95 miles (150 km) north of Los Angeles, came days after another private space company, Orbital Sciences Corp, lost a rocket in an explosion moments after liftoff in Virginia. ...
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| Third victim in Washington state school shooting rampage dies Posted: 31 Oct 2014 07:55 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A girl shot during a rampage at a Washington state high school last week that left two other girls dead along with the gunman has died from her wounds, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett said on Friday. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, died at 4:45 p.m. at the hospital as a result of severe injuries after being shot in the head during last Friday's incident in a cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, an hour's drive north of Seattle. ... |
| Former U.S. Marine freed after spending months in Mexican jail Posted: 31 Oct 2014 07:40 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine, who had been held in Mexican jail for months after arriving at the border from California with guns in his vehicle, was freed on psychological grounds on Friday, a Mexican court said. Andrew Tahmooressi, 26, an American veteran of the war in Afghanistan who left the U.S. Marines in 2012, had been held in Mexico since his March 31 arrest by Mexican customs agents at the San Ysidro border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. After agents discovered three guns in his pick-up truck, he was charged with weapons offenses and put in prison. ...
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| Ebola quarantines a 'disincentive' for health workers Posted: 31 Oct 2014 05:51 PM PDT  Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Yahoo News Friday that "blanket restrictions" on health care workers returning from West Africa could worsen the Ebola epidemic in the region.
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| Judge rejects strict limits on nurse who treated Ebola patients Posted: 31 Oct 2014 05:33 PM PDT  By Joel Page FORT KENT Maine (Reuters) - Declaring Ebola fears in the United States "not entirely rational," a judge rejected Maine's bid for a quarantine on a nurse who treated victims of the disease in West Africa but tested negative for it, and instead imposed limited restrictions. Nurse Kaci Hickox's challenge of Maine's 21-day quarantine became a key battleground for the dispute between officials in some U.S. states who have imposed strict quarantines on health workers returning from three Ebola-ravaged West African countries and the federal government, which opposes such measures. ...
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| Federal charges appear unlikely in Ferguson police shooting: Washington Post Posted: 31 Oct 2014 04:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Justice Department officials probably will not bring civil rights charges against a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager set off rioting in August, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The newspaper, citing law enforcement officials, said investigators had all but concluded there was not a sufficiently strong case to prove officer Darren Wilson violated the rights of 18-year-old Michael Brown when he killed him in the St. Louis suburb on Aug. 9. ...
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| Seattle Pacific University campus on lockdown after gun threat Posted: 31 Oct 2014 02:38 PM PDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle Pacific University said on Friday its campus was on lockdown after a student received a threat of someone coming to campus with a gun, the school said in a statement. The small Christian college was the site of a campus shooting spree in June in which one person was killed and two others wounded. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Eric Beech) |
| New York's top uniformed police chief resigns ahead of promotion Posted: 31 Oct 2014 02:07 PM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The highest-ranking uniformed officer in New York City's police department unexpectedly announced his resignation on Friday, days before he was due to be promoted to become the force's second in command. Philip Banks, the force's chief of department, is stepping down from his job running the patrol units of the country's largest police force shortly after it was announced he would become Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's immediate deputy. ... |
| Former marching band member guilty of manslaughter in Florida hazing Posted: 31 Oct 2014 01:51 PM PDT ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida jury on Friday found a former college marching band member guilty of manslaughter in a Florida hazing case that drew national attention, according to an attorney for the victim's family. Percussionist Dante Martin, 27, was convicted for his role in a November 2011 hazing ritual involving the Florida A&M University's celebrated "Marching 100" band that led to the death of Robert Champion, a 26-year-old drum major. (Reporting by Barbara Liston; Writing by Letitia Stein; Editing by Chris Reese) |
