Alcatraz escape, 50 years later
John Anglin's cell at the former Alcatraz Island federal prison greets visitors on Monday, June 11, 2012, in the San Francisco Bay. On June 11, 1962, Anglin and two other inmates escaped from the prison using holes, pictured in the background, dug out of their cell walls. The National Park Service is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the escape of the three bank robbers. REUTERS/Noah Berger (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW)Read More ...
L.A. celebrates first NHL championship
The Los Angeles Kings won their first Stanley Cup since the franchise was founded in 1967, eliminating the New Jersey Devils in Game 6, 6-1, on Monday night. Goalie Jonathan Quick was given the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP. … Continue reading Read More ...
Commerce sec. takes medical leave after crashes
Commerce Secretary John Bryson, facing felony hit-and-run charges stemming from two car crashes in Southern California over the weekend, is taking a medical leave of absence from his post, the White House said late Monday.Read More ...
Aussie coroner agrees dingo took baby in 1980 case
Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken conviction, an Australian coroner ruled that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.Read More ...
Arizona special election: About Giffords or Obama?
In a closely-watched race, Arizona voters will choose a candidate to complete the remainder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s term nearly 18 months after a gunshot wound to the head, which forced her to resign in January.Read More ...
Cops leave home after search for Auburn suspect
Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding.Read More ...
Coast Guard: Yacht explosion may be a hoax
The Coast Guard responded to a report of a yacht explosion near Sandy Hook, N.J. where at least nine passengers were said to be injured. But officials are considering the possibility that the call was a hoax.Read More ...
'Disorder defense' in Sandusky child sex abuse trial?
Jerry Sandusky’s defense team filed a motion Monday that asked permission for a psychologist to testify about histrionic personality disorder, a psychiatric disorder characterized by dramatic, emotional and attention-seeking behavior. The former Penn State assistant football coach is charged with 52 criminal counts of sexual...Read More ...
Wildfires in Colo., N.M. burn out of control
Massive wildfires in drought-parched Colorado and New Mexico tested the resources of state and federal crews and underscored the need to replenish an aging U.S. aerial firefighting fleet.Read More ...
Too little sleep tied to stroke risk
Middle-aged and older people who regularly sleep less than six hours a night may be significantly raising their risk of stroke, a new study suggests.
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Afghans fear 80 dead after quake triggers landslide
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An earthquake in Afghanistan triggered a landslide which buried mud homes in a mountain village and rescuers feared at least 80 people had been killed, provincial officials said on Tuesday, Two quakes with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.7 struck mountainous northern Afghanistan on Monday, bringing a slide of mud and rocks down on the remote settlement. The governor of Baghlan province said 22 homes were buried but the bodies of only two women had been recovered. Twenty people were in hospital with injuries. ...Read More ...
Mexico City packed for Bieber concert
Pop star Justin Bieber, front, performs during a free open-air concert in Mexico City, Monday, June 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Read More ...
Mass. town OKs $20 fines for swearing in public
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Authorities investigate lungs found on L.A. sidewalk
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities said on Monday that a pair of lungs had been found on a Los Angeles-area sidewalk and that coroner's investigators were trying to determine if they were from a human or an animal. The organs were found by an unidentified person on Sunday night in an area just outside the city limits, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sergeant Pauline Panis said. "It's at the coroner's office right now and they are trying to ascertain if it's human or animal," she said. A coroner's spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment. ...
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Obama: Too busy to help with Wis. recall
President Obama explained Monday why he didn't do more to help Wisconsin Democrats in their battle to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker: He was too busy. "As president of the United States, I've got a lot of responsibilities."Read More ...
RFK Jr. in nasty family feud with in-laws
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s former in-laws angrily denied allegations that she was mentally ill and would beat her husband in the years before she hanged herself in a barn at her upstate New York compound last month.Read More ...
Feds, Florida sue each other over voter purge program
The state of Florida filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming the federal agency restricted access to information on people who might not be eligible to vote.Read More ...
U.S. violent crime down for 5th year in 2011: FBI
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Violent crime in the United States fell for a fifth straight year in 2011 and the number of murders dropped to the lowest in more than four decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday. U.S. violent crime rates, which include murder, rape, robbery and assault, dropped 4 percent in 2011 from the previous year, according to the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report. In addition, property crime, covering burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft, edged down by just 0.8 percent, the smallest decrease in three years. ...
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Secret files put Steve Jobs in new light
Recently released Pentagon documents indicate that in the 1980′s Steve Jobs expressed concern that his daughter might be kidnapped in an effort to blackmail him. The documents also provide more information about the Apple co-founder’s drug use as a teenager as well as a previously...Read More ...
Despite Syria, world more peaceful in 2012: survey
LONDON (Reuters) - Despite an escalating conflict in Syria and mounting civil unrest in Europe, the world became a more peaceful place in the last year, a study showed on Tuesday, highlighting particular improvement in Africa. The Global Peace Index, produced by the Australia and U.S.-based Institute for Economics and Peace, showed its first improvement in two years. For the first time, sub-Saharan Africa was no longer the world's least peaceful region, losing that dubious distinction to the Middle East and North Africa in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring". ...
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Limbless Frenchman plans Africa to Asia swim
A Frenchman who has lost all of his limbs said he plans to swim 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) across the Red Sea from Taba in Egypt to Jordan's Aqaba this week as part of a global challenge.Read More ...
Apple unveils new gear, but no iPhone 5
At Apple's annual WorldWide Developers Conference keynote today, CEO Tim Cook took the stage to detail the company's plans for its upcoming hardware and software releases. He opened the show by telling everyone that the company had some "really cool … Continue reading →Read More ...
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