Islamic State executes British hostage
Prime Minister David Cameron calls the slaying of David Haines 'an act of pure evil.'Read More ...
Obama condemns beheading of Briton by extremists
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama condemned as a "barbaric murder" the
slaying of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State extremists.Read More ...
About 100 rescued from sunken Philippine ferry
MANILA,
Philippines (AP) — Rescuers saved about 100 people overnight and
recovered two bodies from a ferry that sank in rough seas after
encountering steering trouble in the central Philippines, officials said
Sunday.Read More ...
Foley family: We were 'threatened' over ransom
The
family of murdered American journalist James Foley says it was
threatened by a U.S. ABC News quoted Foley's mother and brother as
saying a military officer working for President Barack Obama's National
Security Council had told them several times that they could face
criminal charges if they paid a ransom. The White House refused to
discuss conversations that the family had with officials, but said they
involved people from different government branches, including the White
House, the FBI, the intelligence agencies and the Defense Department.
"I'm not going to get into who said what in the context of these
individual conversations," spokesman Josh Earnest said, but he
reaffirmed the U.S.Read More ...
Crews battle out-of-control wildfire as Southern California bakes
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of firefighters spent a second day on Saturday battling a wildfire burning out of control in a national forest southeast of Los Angeles, as the region baked under triple-digit temperatures that prompted authorities to issue a "heat alert." The so-called Silverado Fire, which broke out in the Cleveland National Forest on Friday morning, had charred some 1,600 acres (647 hectares) by Saturday afternoon as it burned through brush and chaparral left bone dry by California's record drought. The heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in parts of Southern California on Saturday and was not expected to break until late Sunday. The sweltering heat prompted Los Angeles health officials to issue a "heat alert" for this weekend, urging residents to take special precautions. "Extreme heat such as this is not just an inconvenience, it can be dangerous and even deadly, but we can protect ourselves, our families and our neighbors if we take steps to remain cool and hydrated," Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the city's interim health director, said in issuing the heat alert.
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Miss America to be crowned Sunday in stressed Atlantic City, N.J.
By
Sean Landis Sept 13 (Reuters) - The winner of the 2015 Miss America
Pageant will be crowned on Sunday night in Atlantic City, and the
wearer's glittering tiara will stand in contrast to the tarnished
fortunes of this New Jersey beach town where yet another casino is
slated to close this week. The newest Miss America is choreographed to
walk the 50-foot runway to the tune of "There She Is, Miss America," in a
hall next door to Trump Plaza, whose slated shutdown on Tuesday means
the gambling mecca will have lost a third of its casinos since the start
of the year. Atlantic City officials hope the 94-year-old beauty
pageant, which returned to the casino-dotted Jersey Shore town last year
after eight years in Las Vegas, will help revive the city in the wake
of recent financial turmoil. The owner of the aging Trump Plaza is also
threatening to close the enormous Trump Taj Mahal in November.Read More ...
Islamic State: British hostage executed
The militants release a video which purported to show the beheading of David Haines.Read More ...
Rescuers end ocean search for Navy fighter pilot
LEMOORE,
Calif. (AP) — Rescuers on Saturday have called off their search of the
Pacific Ocean for a Navy fighter pilot whose jet was one of two that
crashed west of Wake Island.Read More ...
Pa. State Police identify trooper killed in ambush
BLOOMING
GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A late-night ambush outside a state police barracks
in Pennsylvania's rural northeastern corner left one trooper dead and
another critically wounded, and authorities scoured the densely wooded
countryside and beyond on Saturday looking for the shooter or shooters.Read More ...
Egypt seeks broader alliance with US over Libya
CAIRO
(AP) — As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought Egyptian support on
Saturday for an international coalition to combat jihadi groups, Egypt
pressed for broader international efforts to fight militants in its
troubled neighbor, Libya.Read More ...
Putin trying to destroy Ukraine, says its PM
Ukraine's prime minister said Putin's goal "is to take all of Ukraine."Read More ...
Investigations underway into Ohio prison escape
LIMA,
Ohio (AP) — Criminal and internal investigations are underway to
determine how a convicted killer of three Ohio high school students
managed to escape from prison, along with two other inmates, state
correction officials say.Read More ...
'Nothing they could do to get Steve out'
Slain reporter's family told by U.S. official they could be prosecuted for paying ransom.Read More ...
Ferguson video shows slain teen raising hands in air
Cellphone
video that shows a witness raising his hands in the air immediately
after the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police
officer in Ferguson appears to support previous accounts and could
bolster arguments that Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot,
legal experts said Friday.Read More ...
Autopsy: N.Y. inmate died from heat, meds in cell
NEW
YORK (AP) — The death of a mentally ill, homeless former Marine in a
101-degree New York City jail cell was caused by hyperthermia due to
environmental exposure to heat, according to a spokeswoman for the
medical examiner, who ruled the February death an accident on Friday.Read More ...
Priest found guilty of raping dozens of children in Canada
A
defrocked Catholic priest was found guilty Friday of raping dozens of
children and a sled dog in the Canadian Arctic, where he worked as a
missionary for decades. The Belgian-born Eric Dejaeger, 67, was
convicted of 31 counts of sexual offenses against children and one count
of bestiality. At the start of the his trial last November in Iqaluit,
the capital of Canada's northernmost Nunavut territory, Dejaeger
acknowledged and pleaded guilty to eight out of 80 original charges.
Justice Robert Kilpatrick ruled the evidence had been weakened by the
passage of time, and whittled down the number in the indictment.Read More ...
Slain mountain lion confirmed as cat that attacked Calif. boy
A
mountain lion that was shot out of a tree by California wildlife
officers has been confirmed by DNA testing to be the same cat that
attacked a 6-year-old boy earlier this week, state officials said on
Friday. Samples of DNA taken from the 74-pound cougar during a necropsy
and forensic examination matched saliva left on the boy's shirt
following the encounter on Sunday, the California Department of Fish and
Wildlife said in a written statement. Lab tests also determined that
the mountain lion was about two years old, healthy and did not have
rabies, the department said. The boy was hiking on a trail with family
and friends in a densely wooded preserve adjacent to a winery, just west
of the town of Cupertino, when the mountain lion pounced on him and
tried to drag him away, his parents told officials.Read More ...
Syria's role in Islamic State’s growth
Yahoo's Katie Couric examines how the war-torn country became a breeding ground for ISIS.Read More ...
Ebola: U.S. to train Liberian armed forces to help tackle crisis
The
United States said on Friday it would train Liberia's security forces
to assist in isolation operations to tackle an Ebola epidemic ravaging
the West African nation, after a boy was killed when soldiers opened
fire on a protest last month. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has
killed more than 2,400 people in West Africa - more than half of them in
Liberia. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac told reporters in Monrovia
that the United States would support Liberia both through the epidemic
and beyond.Read More ...
Peterson deactivated for Patriots game over child abuse charges
The
NFL, already swamped with negative news in what has been a horrible
week for the league, now has to deal with Adrian Peterson, one of its
biggest stars, being indicted for injuring a child.Read More ...
Congressman announces breakup on Facebook
Mark
Sanford is over-sharing again. The former South Carolina governor who
nearly had to resign after disappearing for a romantic getaway with his
Argentinian girlfriend has deigned to update the public on his latest
personal foibles with a 2,346-word Facebook post. Sanford (R), who won
election to the House again in 2013 after defeating Stephen Colbert's
sister, buries the lede a bit, but the gist is that his ex-wife, Jenny,
is taking him to court again, and he also has decided to break off his
engagement to the Argentinian woman, Maria Belén Chapur.Read More ...
VA shooting suspect pleads guilty
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon in an attack that injured an employee.Read More ...
Med director out at clinic that treated Joan Rivers
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Foley mom: Government threatened family over ransom
Diane
Foley, James Foley's mother, offered a rare interview to ABC News this
week in which she admitted the family considered a ransom payment to
ISIS to secure her son's safe return. The message came directly from a
high-ranking military official on the White House National Security
Council. "We were told that several times and we took it as a threat and
it was appalling," Diane Foley told ABC News, "Three times he
intimidated us with that message. We knew we had to save our son, we had
to try." Michael Foley, James Foley's brother, said he, like his
mother, was also "directly" threatened by a State Department official
with the same charge.Read More ...
White House: U.S. 'at war' with al-Qaida
The U.S. is characterizing its mission against ISIS as a war with al-Qaida, its affiliates.Read More ...
Ariz. man wins fight for same-sex death benefits
A
judge has handed a victory to a gay man who lost his spouse to cancer
last month and was denied death benefits because Arizona does not
recognize same-sex marriage.Read More ...
Is it a crime to raise a killer?
Anthony Pasquale wants the parents of his daughter's killer to share the blame.Read More ...
Former day care worker convicted in kidnapping, assault
A
former day care worker was convicted Friday of abducting a 5-year-old
girl from her school classroom and sexually assaulting her during a
19-hour ordeal.Read More ...
Rare snowstorm slams South Dakota, Rockies states
It's
still summer, but a snowstorm blanketed parts of Wyoming, South Dakota,
Montana and Colorado, setting early snowfall records in some places,
covering lawns and flower gardens and providing a preview of what is to
come.Read More ...
L.A. issues 'heat alert' as temperatures soar
Los
Angeles health officials on Friday issued a special "heat alert" for
this weekend, urging residents to take special precautions with
temperatures expected to soar into triple digits across the region. With
California already baking under a record drought that has brought acute
water shortages, forecasts called for temperatures to reach more than
100 degrees in downtown Los Angeles and even higher in some surrounding
communities. "Extreme heat such as this is not just an inconvenience, it
can be dangerous and even deadly, but we can protect ourselves, our
families and our neighbors if we take steps to remain cool and
hydrated," Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the city's interim health director,
said in issuing the heat alert. Gunzenhauser said some 60 "cooling
centers" would be open at libraries, recreation centers and other
community buildings throughout the weekend, offering shelter to
residents suffering from what is predicted to be sweltering heat.Read More ...
Rob Ford quits mayor's race; brother to run in his place
TORONTO
(AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford withdrew his re-election bid Friday as he
seeks treatment for a tumor in his abdomen, dramatically ending a
campaign he had doggedly pursued despite a stint in rehab and calls for
him to quit amid drug and alcohol scandals. But he announced his brother
would run in his place, saying "we cannot go backwards."Read More ...
Prison knew about school shooter's escape plans: union
Authorities say they have apprehended T.J. Lane after he escaped from an Ohio prison.Read More ...
Zimmerman accused of threatening to kill driver
ORLANDO,
Fla. (AP) — A driver says George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of
murdering Trayvon Martin, threatened to kill him, asking 'Do you know
who I am?' during a road confrontation in their vehicles, a police
spokeswoman said Friday.Read More ...
Obama, Clinton celebrate 20 years of AmeriCorps
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton on
Friday highlighted the benefits of volunteering as they celebrated the
20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program and welcomed
the newest class of volunteers.Read More ...
Reeva Steenkamp parents: Pistorius verdict 'not right'
The
parents of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius,
reacted on Friday with shock and disbelief at a judge's decision to
acquit the star athlete of murder charges. Disappointed," June Steenkamp
told British ITV News. Judge Thokozile Masipa found Pistorius not
guilty of murder, but later convicted him on the less serious charge of
culpable homicide. Pistorius said he shot Steenkamp in the dead of the
night after he mistook her for an intruder.Read More ...
Malala's attackers arrested
Pakistan nabs 10 Taliban militants accused of shooting the teenage activist.Read More ...
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