IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 12/05/2013

Panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild

FILE - This Dec. 14, 2012 aerial file photo shows Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman shot 27 people dead, including 20 children. A task force of elected officials in Newtown on Friday, May 10, 2013 recommended tearing down the school and rebuilding on the same site. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

A task force recommends razing the school and rebuilding on the site.

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Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala

Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt stands in court before the judge enters to announce the verdict for his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Friday, May 10, 2013. The court convicted Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison. The 86-year-old former general is the first former Latin American leader ever found guilty of such a charge. The war between the government and leftist rebels cost more than 200,000 lives and ended in peace accords in 1996. (AP Photo/Moises Castilo)

Efrain Rios Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison.

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Pressure rises on White House over Benghazi memo

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest

President Obama's administration fought back against accusations that it covered up details.

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Finding woman alive lifts Bangladesh rescuers

A survivor lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed the woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal. (AP Photo)

Rescuers on Saturday returned to the grim task of dismantling the factory wreckage.

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Boston bombing suspect buried in Virginia cemetery

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass. Tsarnaev is the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a police shootout. His uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told The Associated Press Friday, May 10, 2013, that the body was buried in Virginia with the help of a “faith coalition.” (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial angered members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted.

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Carbon dioxide level crosses milestone at Hawaii site

In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, a flock of Geese fly past the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan. Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday, May 10, 2013. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii which sets the global benchmark. The last time the worldwide carbon level was probably that high was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hits a record.

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Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion

FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo investigators move and look through the debris of the destroyed fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Texas law enforcement officials launched a criminal investigation Friday, May 10, 2013, into the massive explosion last month that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/LM Otero, Pool)

The massive fertilizer plant explosion killed 14 people last month.

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Longest-held Cleveland captive out of hospital, in seclusion

Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office booking photo of Ariel Castro

Michelle Knight was discharged from the hospital on Friday.

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Pakistan marks democratic milestone in close-fought election

Election workers prepares ballot boxes for transportation to polling stations in Lahore

Pakistanis hope the polls will deliver change and ease frustrations in their country.

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School bus overturns in Ky.; students hurt

In this photo provided by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, emergency crews respond to the scene of an overturned Union County school bus on U.S. 60 at Silver Mine Road near Smithland, Ky., Friday, May 10, 2013. The bus was carrying the Union County High School girls' softball team and had 28 people aboard when it overturned. 25 of those on board were taken to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. State Police Trooper Richie Wright said one patient was airlifted from the scene, but it was not due to serious injuries. (AP Photo/Kentucky Transportation Cabinet)

A bus carrying a high school girls softball team overturned in far-western Kentucky.

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Authorities: Gunman in standoff with police at N.J. home
Trenton Police Lieutenant Edelmiro Gonzalez said officers responded to a well-being call about the house.

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USGS: Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Oman
The quake had a depth of 21 miles, the agency said.

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In Seattle, pot-carrying bus riders can reclaim lost weed

Marijuana plants are displayed for sale at Canna Pi medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle

City bus drivers are under orders to handle small amounts of marijuana left behind by passengers as normal lost-and-found items.

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4 pit bulls blamed for S. Calif. jogger's killing
A pack of dogs remained under quarantine at a Mojave Desert shelter on Friday.

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Prince Harry gets Olympic welcome in Colo.

England's Prince Harry visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, Friday, May 10, 2013. The British soldier-prince is spending most of his week in the U.S. honoring the wounded and the dead of war. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

Britain's Prince Harry mingled on Friday with Olympians including Missy Franklin, British business executives, students and military officers living in Colorado before cheering on wounded servicemen and women at the Warrior Games.

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N.C. man sentenced in plot to behead witnesses
A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families.

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Northern Calif. manhunt for suspected killer expands

This undated photo released by the Shasta County Sheriff's office shows Shane Miller, 45, who is suspected of a triple homicide at his home in rural Northern California. Shasta County Sheriff's Lt. Tom Campbell said Miller remained on the loose on Wednesday, May, 8, 2013, a day after the killings six miles west of Shingletown. (AP Photo/Shasta County Sheriff)

The manhunt for a Northern California man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters continues to expand as law enforcement officials ask for help from neighboring agencies.

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200 sick after dining at popular Vegas restaurant
It's the largest outbreak southern Nevada health officials have seen in a decade.

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White House calls for IRS investigation

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and the Senate GOP leadership answer questions following a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. From left are Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The agency apologized for placing heavier scrutiny on conservative groups.

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