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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported seven confirmed and three likely cases of E. coli infection linked to raw clover sprouts. According to CNN.com: The patients are all in either Idaho or Washington. Half the people who have fallen ill have been hospitalized. Preliminary investigations indicate the likely source of this outbreak […]
KACHINA VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters are working to protect communities from a wildfire chewing up a scenic Arizona canyon, but some business owners worry that the blaze will keep customers away from the premier tourist area over the important holiday weekend. The human-caused Slide Fire started Tuesday and by Thursday had burned […]
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A grandmother arrived at a dilapidated home on a busy Southern California street to visit her daughter and three grandchildren, only to find the girls’ small, blood-covered bodies neatly arranged on a bed. Neighbors and authorities say the woman frantically ran outside, throwing a bloody knife to the ground and told […]
Should bullying be a criminal offense? Lawmakers in a California city decided it isn’t, defeating a proposed anti-bullying law on Tuesday, KTLA 5 reports. The…
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombing suspects used “relatively sophisticated” bombs with fuses made from Christmas lights and remote-control detonators made from model car parts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in a court filing arguing statements one of them made to FBI agents after being captured shouldn’t be thrown out. The filing argued against a […]
How does a 19 year old with a clean rap sheet get sentenced to 99 years in prison? Make a batch of pot brownies and you could be in the same boat. What is usually considered a misdemeanor in Texas, it was the amount of has oil used in the baked goods that warrants a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. Obama, in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and the Senate, notified lawmakers about the latest steps underway to assist in the return of […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago was reunited with her family after she went to police and told them her mother’s ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to marry him and fathered her child. Isidro Garcia, 41, of Bell Gardens, was arrested on […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With outrage mounting over veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at VA hospitals will not be tolerated, and he left open the possibility that Secretary Eric Shinseki, a disabled war veteran, could be held to account. “I will not stand for it — not as commander-in-chief […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran have arrested six young people for posting a video online of them dancing to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy,” showing them on state television as a public warning to youth in the Islamic Republic. The song has sparked similar videos all over the world, with people dancing down […]
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police anti-bomb squad officers on Wednesday dug into a crater left by one of two bombs that exploded in a bustling marketplace and bus station in a central Nigerian city as people searched for missing loved ones after the horrific attack that left at least 118 people dead. Security forces cordoned […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department will allow some schools to delay adding more whole-grains to meals this year, responding to criticism from school nutrition officials and Congress that the standards were too difficult to put in place. The delay comes hours after a Republican-led House spending panel criticized the Obama administration’s healthier school-lunch standards […]
