Russian military flights near US raise concern
The United States on Thursday said Russia had boosted its military flights near US shores and brusquely warned Moscow to abide by international law. The European Leadership Network detailed at least nine incidents over the past few months of either near misses between Russian and North American…
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Wyoming authorities warn of dangerous wildlife predator on the loose
By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - Wyoming authorities on Thursday warned residents of a sprawling Indian reservation to be on the lookout for a dangerous predator suspected in the death of a 40-year-old woman who died after being attacked by at least one unidentified animal. The warning from Fremont…
ReutersFerguson's neighbor warns residents to prepare for the worst
St. Louis-area resident Carolyn Colburn opened her front door two nights ago and found a bulletin from the City of Berkeley, Mo. “The grand jury decision regarding the Ferguson police officer shooting of Michael Brown is expected this month — rumored as the middle of November, possibly this week,”…
Yahoo NewsFlorida to execute man who killed wife and stepdaughter in 1992
By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was scheduled to die by injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half his life on death row. Attorneys for…
ReutersMcCain, other US lawmakers, vow to save A-10 'Warthog' aircraft
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential group of U.S. lawmakers, including John McCain, in line to become the head of the Senate's powerful Armed Services Committee, on Thursday pledged to thwart the Pentagon's plans to retire the U.S. fleet of A-10 "Warthog" aircraft. The…
ReutersCollege football player in Oregon charged with murder
By Shelby Sebens (Reuters) - A Willamette University football player from California has been charged with murder after a 66-year-old man was found dead near an intersection in Salem, Oregon, prosecutors said on Thursday. Authorities said Beau W. Smith, a 22-year-old senior at Willamette, a private…
ReutersMan held without bond in wife's fall death
DENVER (AP) — A man accused of pushing his wife to her death off a cliff in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park also killed his first wife 17 years earlier, prosecutors said Wednesday, and a judge agreed the cases were "glaringly" similar.
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Father of boys found in squalid Denver home pleads guilty to abuse
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A father of four malnourished boys found living amid cat feces in a squalid Denver home and unable to speak except by grunts pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony child abuse, prosecutors said. Wayne Sperling, 66, was arrested last year along with his common-law…
ReutersWhat is Vladimir Putin up to sending Russian bombers close to the US?
Russia’s announcement Wednesday that it plans to send long-range bombers to patrol the skies of America’s backyard over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico may have sounded to many Americans like the stuff of the Cold War.
Christian Science MonitorSkakel settles lawsuit against HLN's Nancy Grace
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel has settled a lawsuit against television commentator Nancy Grace and others over comments made on her HLN network show in 2012 about the murder case against him.
Associated PressGreece holds breath as skeleton found in Alexander-era tomb
Archaeologists are holding their breath that a skeleton found in a mysterious, richly-decorated tomb from the time of Alexander the Great will solve the riddle of who ancient Greece's biggest burial mound was built for. Having dug their way past huge decapitated sphinxes, broken through a wall…
AFPMan pleads guilty to keeping sons in filthy home
DENVER (AP) — A father whose four young sons could communicate only in grunts when authorities rescued them from a filthy Denver apartment could spend up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to felony child abuse.
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FBI letter to Martin Luther King, riddled with abuse, urges suicide
The release of a newly discovered, uncensored 1964 letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urging him, in graphic language, to kill himself, has experts on contemporary race relations pointing to a glass both half empty and half full.
Christian Science MonitorMan Shoots Woman At Busy Mall While Her Kids Are In Back Seat
Police near Chicago are investigating a mall shooting that left two people wounded.
WGN - ChicagoVictim's family doesn't want CBS to air segment
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a woman murdered while vacationing in Mexico wants CBS not to air a prison diary made by the man accused of the crime for fear it will make him a sympathetic figure.
Associated PressMessage from Islamic State group leader emerges
BEIRUT (AP) — In a recording released days after he was reported to be wounded in an airstrike, the leader of the Islamic State group said the U.S.-led coalition's campaign had failed and it would eventually have to send ground troops into battle.
Associated PressThin melanomas cause greater number of deaths
By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) - More people are dying from melanomas thinner than a dime than from the thicker cancerous skin lesions long thought to be more dangerous, according to a new study from Queensland, Australia. Thin tumors, which are less often lethal but far more common, accounted…
ReutersDoctor: Girl, 12, competent in Slender Man case
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A state doctor believes the mental condition of one of two girls accused of repeatedly stabbing a classmate to please the fictional horror character Slender Man has improved, and the 12-year-old is fit to stand trial, a Wisconsin judge said Wednesday.
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Arkansas Governor to pardon son's drug conviction: report
(Reuters) - Outgoing Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said on Wednesday that he will pardon his son for a felony drug conviction, local media reported. Beebe, who is set to leave office in January due to term limits, said he would pardon his son Kyle, now 34, for his 2003 felony conviction of marijuana…
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