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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner’s office says two potential pieces of human remains have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center site. The office says the discovery was made Monday. About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny human bone fragments have […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools across the nation should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director of a National Rifle Association-sponsored study said Tuesday. The task force that produced the report has […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Condemned killer Steven Smith‘s argument for mercy isn’t an easy one. Smith acknowledges he intended to sexually assault his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter but says he never intended to kill the baby. The girl, Autumn Carter, of Mansfield, died because Smith was too drunk to realize his sexual assault was killing the […]
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn’t sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo shorts when he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says 480 workers on the president’s budget staff have been notified they may have to take days off without pay because of a partisan budget stalemate. Press secretary Jay Carney wouldn’t say whether notices have gone out to other aides to President Barack Obama outside the Office of Management […]
DENVER (AP)— Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month’s killing of Colorado’s corrections chief was freed from prison in January – four years earlier than authorities intended. Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel‘s previous felony conviction had been inaccurately recorded and his release was a mistake. In 2008, Ebel pleaded […]
NBC Chicago is reporting that several teens were arrested after dozens of mob groups began attacking pedestrians on Chicago’s downtown Magnificent Mile area on Saturday night. Police responded to reports of disturbances near Michigan and Chicago Avenues. Police said 28 teens were arrested during the incident and no serious injuries were reported. The teens charged […]
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A preliminary investigation supports a father’s account of shooting and killing a dog that bit his 11-year-old son in order to recover the boy’s severed pinky, a Manatee County Sheriff’s report said. The boy was at his home Friday evening when he approached the dog in its cage. As the boy […]
72-year-old Ilene Henry loves her some “American Idol”. So much so, that Henry devised a way to vote for her favorite “AI” singers over 100 times an hour. She told FOX 5 DC, “I’ve got it down to a science now and instead of counting the calls I keep hitting redial and I timed it […]
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors. The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike […]
SEATTLE (AP)- One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood – the Easter egg hunt – turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Blame the moms. A statement on the Seattle Police Department blotter Monday says the “hard-boiled tale” began Sunday afternoon, “when one woman reportedly pushed a child aside as her own […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North’s plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament […]
