Search for man under Seffner Sinkhole abandoned
SEFFNER -- As dusk settled over the neighborhood where a sleeping man disappeared into a sinkhole, faint hope gave way to grim resignation Saturday evening. Family and friends had been eager to see a...
View ArticleCommercial Pilot Spots Mystery Drone at JFK
(File Photo)The pilot of a commercial jetliner spotted a drone aircraft hovering near his plane as he landed at JFK Airport yesterday, according to sources. The Joint Terror Task Force is now probing...
View ArticleLos Angeles Officials Tell Residents to Prepare for 'Two Weeks on Your Own'
(File Photo)Los Angeles fire officials, on the anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake, advised people to be ready to be on their own for two weeks if disaster hits. As people in California...
View ArticleSchool District responds to transgender discrimination claim
Mathis FamilyFountain-Fort Carson School District 8 has responded to a discrimination complaint filed by parents of a transgender child who has been denied access to a girl's bathroom at her elementary...
View ArticleActivists push end-of-life bill in Vermont
Dick and Ginny Walters envision a new approach to dying for Vermont residents: They want terminally ill patients with a prognosis of less than six months to live to have the right to request and take...
View ArticleIs your car spying on you?
Is your car spying on you? If it's a recent model, has a fancy infotainment system or is equipped with toll-booth transponders or other units you brought into the car that can monitor your driving,...
View ArticleNo Surprise: New York State ranks dead last in personal freedom
New York's big government - with its hands deep in taxpayers' pockets and regulations controlling everyone's lives - has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal liberty, a new study...
View ArticlePainting of Jesus Coming Down Under Pressure
A recently controversial painting of Jesus that had hung in school hallways in Jackson since 1947 is coming down. Jackson City Schools officials believed the law was on their side in defending the...
View Article5 to 15 people killed in Texas explosion
WEST, Texas - Rescue workers searched rubble that witnesses compared to a war zone early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people...
View ArticlePlant explosion death toll now at 14
WEST -- Fourteen bodies have been recovered after an explosion at a decades-old fertilizer plant demolished a section of the small Central Texas town of West, officials said Friday. But as the sun set...
View ArticleInfestation coming to the East Coast
WASHINGTON - Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that...
View ArticleSandy Hook school to be demolished, rebuilt
NEWTOWN -- After considering 40 locations, deliberating for weeks and hearing from countless residents, officials Friday decided the Sandy Hook Elementary School community belongs in its original home...
View ArticleUN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world
ROME - The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now. Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills at least 24
(AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school...
View Article3 veteran storm chasers killed by Oklahoma tornado
Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they loved: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms like the one in Oklahoma that ended their final pursuit. Tim Samaras, his son Paul and...
View ArticleNTSB: Asiana flight tried to abort landing at SFO just seconds before crash
SAN FRANCISCO -- By the time the pilot of Asiana Airlines flight 214 realized there was something wrong with his landing approach Saturday, he was unknowingly seven seconds away from impact. At that...
View ArticleAfter Egyptian coup, hundreds of Morsi supporters rally in Chicago
About a year ago, Wael Elfeqy waited in a long line to cast his ballot for Egypt's first democratically elected president. His candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won the election but was removed from office...
View ArticleFired IT director to sue Zimmerman prosecutor
Ben Kruidbos testified last month that prosecutors did not turn over all information to George Zimmerman's defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Last week, State Attorney Angela Corey...
View ArticleLegally armed Zimmerman stopped for speeding in Texas
Forney City Manager Brian Brooks is usually busy with budget issues in July, but this week he has been handling media calls about George Zimmerman, recently acquitted on a murder charge in the...
View ArticleFormation of Citizens' Commission on Benghazi Announced at Washington Press...
A newly formed Commission is determined to get to the bottom of the many questions surrounding the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi last September 11th. The Citizens’ Commission on...
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