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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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• Alabama boy discovered in Ohio 13 years after reported missing
• Chicago teachers take practice vote for possible strike
• Widow, son of northern Illinois policeman under investigation: reports
• Patrick Kane, star of NHL's Blackhawks, will not face rape charges: prosecutors
• U.S. Reform Jews poised to adopt sweeping transgender rights policy
• Martin O’Malley gets his opening, at last
• Four dead in apparent murder-suicide in Maine: local media
• U.S. women paid less in all industries, every level: report
• Small plane crashes in waters off New York City, at least one killed
• Carson: Egypt's pyramids were for grain, not tombs
• Man shot dead after stabbing four at University of California campus
• Ex-President George H.W. Bush blasts Cheney, Rumsfeld
• Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria
• Man who stabs four at California university is shot dead
• U.S. judge sets Dec. 21 date for claims in deadly El Faro wreck
• Sanders introduces Senate bill to end federal pot prohibition
• Pentagon chief to visit U.S. aircraft carrier in South China Sea
• California man arrested in stabbing of France train attack hero
• Officials: Bomb may have downed Russian jet
• No federal charges for Seattle patrolman who punched woman
• Michigan ex-policeman abused power in traffic stop: prosecutors
• In caverns deep below N.Y. streets, train terminal taking shape

Alabama boy discovered in Ohio 13 years after reported missing Posted: 05 Nov 2015 09:40 AM PST U.S. federal investigators located Julian Hernandez after he used an incorrect Social Security number for his college applications, said Lieutenant Kevin York of the Vestavia Hills, Alabama police department. "He was applying to several different colleges and the Social Security number didn't add up," York said on Thursday.

Chicago teachers take practice vote for possible strike Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:54 AM PST The purpose of the vote in the nation's third-largest city is to test both the process of collecting the vote and teacher sentiment as negotiations with school officials continue, said Jesse Sharkey, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Its former chief executive, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, pleaded guilty last month to a fraud charge related to the awarding of a no-bid contract to her former employer, infuriating parents and teachers who had already seen budget cutbacks.

Widow, son of northern Illinois policeman under investigation: reports Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:38 AM PST The widow and a son of the northern Illinois policeman who officials said staged his suicide in September are under criminal investigation, according to media reports that cite unnamed sources. Melodie and D.J. Gliniewicz are being investigated in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Explorer program that Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz ran, the Fox TV affiliate in Chicago reported. Gliniewicz, 52, was found dead on Sept. 1 after reporting that he was investigating three suspicious people.

Patrick Kane, star of NHL's Blackhawks, will not face rape charges: prosecutors Posted: 05 Nov 2015 07:29 AM PST (Reuters) - Patrick Kane, star of the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks, will not face rape charges related to an August incident in New York state involving a woman he met at a nightclub, Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said on Thursday. "The totality of the credible evidence - the proof - does not sufficiently substantiate the complainant's allegation that she was raped by Patrick Kane and this so-called 'case' is rife with reasonable doubt," Sedita said in a statement. ...

U.S. Reform Jews poised to adopt sweeping transgender rights policy Posted: 05 Nov 2015 05:24 AM PST By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Temples and synagogues affiliated with the nation's largest Jewish movement could adopt gender-neutral bathrooms and their rabbis would be encouraged to give sermons on transgender topics, under a groundbreaking resolution expected to pass at a conference of Reform Jews on Thursday. It also has generated little discord within the movement of 1.5 million North America Jews affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism, the organization that will vote on the measure as part of its biennial conference in Orlando. "It's a big deal but at the same time it's not controversial for them at all," said Michael Toumayan of the national Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for gay rights.

Martin O’Malley gets his opening, at last Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:47 AM PST The Democratic candidate's moment has arrived, if only he can figure out what to do with it.

Four dead in apparent murder-suicide in Maine: local media Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:14 AM PST (Reuters) - A man shot and killed three people inside a home in Maine before turning the gun on himself, local media reported on Thursday, citing law enforcement authorities.

U.S. women paid less in all industries, every level: report Posted: 05 Nov 2015 12:40 AM PST Women in the United States are paid less for equal work than men in all industries and a new report released on Thursday showed the widest discrepancy in wages is between married men and women with children. Fathers earned the highest overall median salaries at about $67,900, compared to $46,800 for married mothers, and single women with children had the lowest median salary at $38,200. "The gender pay gap is absolutely real," said Aubrey Bach, senior editorial manager of PayScale Inc., the online salary, benefits and compensation information company that compiled the report.

Small plane crashes in waters off New York City, at least one killed Posted: 04 Nov 2015 10:10 PM PST The single engine airplane went down in Breezy Point, Queens, around 7:30 p.m., New York police said. Some of the plane's wreckage has been located and one body was pulled from the water, a police spokesman said. Investigation will continue through the night," the department's Special Operations Division said on Twitter.

Carson: Egypt's pyramids were for grain, not tombs Posted: 04 Nov 2015 09:05 PM PST The GOP presidential front-runner made the remarks in a 1998 address at Andrews University.

Man shot dead after stabbing four at University of California campus Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:59 PM PST The four victims - two students, a campus employee and a construction worker credited with helping prevent more bloodshed - were taken to hospitals for treatment, two by helicopter, though all are expected to make a full recovery, officials said. The identity of the suspect, a student in his early 20s who lived on campus, was not being publicly released until his next of kin were notified, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told a news conference hours later. Classes at UC Merced, a campus of about 6,600 students, 300 faculty and about 1,000 other staff, were canceled through Thursday, and university officials said they hoped to resume normal operations on Friday.

Ex-President George H.W. Bush blasts Cheney, Rumsfeld Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:27 PM PST Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday. In "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush," author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.

Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria Posted: 04 Nov 2015 06:21 PM PST Sen. Tim Kaine said the president still does not have a clear strategy for confronting the so-called Islamic State in Syria.

Man who stabs four at California university is shot dead Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:55 PM PST The University of California Merced tweeted that the campus had been locked down after the morning incident and that classes were canceled for the rest of Wednesday as well as Thursday. It had urged students to stay where they were during the incident. All of the victims - two students, one staff member and a non-staff worker - were expected to recover, it added.

U.S. judge sets Dec. 21 date for claims in deadly El Faro wreck Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:31 PM PST A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday set a Dec. 21 deadline for damage claims to be filed by the families of 33 sailors lost at sea when the freighter El Faro went down last month in a hurricane off the Bahamas. Survivors and bereaved family members in other personal injury cases normally have three years to bring their claims, according to Houston lawyer Kurt Arnold, who has sued Tote on behalf of two seamen's families. The same court deadline applies to families who want to contest Tote's claim that the company was not at fault for the disaster, according to the order signed by Judge Harvey Schlesinger in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville.

Sanders introduces Senate bill to end federal pot prohibition Posted: 04 Nov 2015 04:07 PM PST If successful, the bill would remove all references to cannabis in the Controlled Substances Act.

Pentagon chief to visit U.S. aircraft carrier in South China Sea Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:49 PM PST U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will visit a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the South China Sea on Thursday, a move sure to raise the ire of China as tensions between Washington and Beijing simmer over the disputed waterway. Carter will visit the USS Theodore Roosevelt with Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, U.S. officials said. The warship is "conducting routine operations while transiting the South China Sea", Carter said on Wednesday after a meeting of defense ministers from Southeast Asia in Malaysia, a forum marred by U.S.-China disagreements over the busy sea lane.

California man arrested in stabbing of France train attack hero Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:14 PM PST Police in California arrested a man on Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder in the stabbing of U.S. Air Force airman Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who thwarted an August train attack in France. Sacramento police Chief Sam Somers said on Twitter that 28-year-old James Tran had been arrested. Stone, who along with friends Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos subdued a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris in August, was stabbed in the torso several times last month in what police described as a "nightlife-related incident" in Sacramento's busy midtown district.

Officials: Bomb may have downed Russian jet Posted: 04 Nov 2015 02:57 PM PST A U.S. official believes Islamic State may have planted an explosive device on the plane that crashed in Egypt

No federal charges for Seattle patrolman who punched woman Posted: 04 Nov 2015 02:40 PM PST Federal prosecutors declined to file criminal civil rights charges against a Seattle police officer who punched an intoxicated 23-year-old woman as he arrested her last year, a letter from a U.S. attorney to police showed on Wednesday. Video of the incident and photos of Miyekko Durden-Bosley with a swollen eye emerged last year as protests swept the country over the killing of unarmed black men by police in Missouri and New York City. Prosecutors in Seattle's King County also decided in December not to charge officer Adley Shepherd in the case.

Michigan ex-policeman abused power in traffic stop: prosecutors Posted: 04 Nov 2015 02:08 PM PST A white former suburban Detroit police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a black motorist in January abused his power during a traffic stop, prosecutors said on Wednesday in opening statements for his state criminal trial. Former Inkster, Michigan, police officer William Melendez, 47, has pleaded not guilty to charges of misconduct in office, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and strangulation. Melendez could be seen punching Floyd Dent in the head several times on a police dashboard camera video, one of a number of incidents across the United States that have fueled a national debate on race and policing.

In caverns deep below N.Y. streets, train terminal taking shape Posted: 04 Nov 2015 01:16 PM PST Fifteen stories beneath midtown Manhattan, hundreds of workers are slowly converting massive subterranean chambers into a new terminal for the Long Island Railroad, the United States' busiest commuter rail system. Two enormous caverns, each several city blocks long, will house eight tracks and platforms, serving an estimated 162,000 customers a day, officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said during a tour of the planned station on Wednesday. A $10.2 billion project, known as East Side Access, will divert some Long Island Railroad trains from their current terminus at overcrowded Pennsylvania Station on the West Side to Grand Central.

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