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Oklahoma miracle baby -- born amidst tornado chaos
Shayla Taylor was in labor when the devastating Moore, Oklahoma tornado hit. She had to moved to the operating room where there were no windows and braced herself along with the ...
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Watch Jodi Arias Jury Cannot Decide on Life or Death Sentence
The clerk will read -- -- -- State of Arizona vs -- and areas sentencing verdict. We the jury duly impaneled and sworn and above entitled action upon our -- Yunnan has unanimously find ...
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Marlins Face White Sox In Chicago Friday
MIAMI (AP) — Even though John Danks is about to begin his seventh season in the majors, he admits he will have some nerves heading into his first outing in more than a year for the Chicago White Sox. Danks will make his first start since arthroscopic shoulder surgery in Friday night’s opener of a three-game home set against the Miami Marlins. The left-hander last pitched May 19, ...
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US military fears taking on Assads troops in drawn-out Syrian war says Bob Carr
Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told a group of Syrian refugees in Lebanon that the United States military does not want to risk a drawn-out war with the Syrian army. Senator Carr spoke with the refugees during a visit to their camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on the border with Syria. The refugees urged Senator Carr to back military intervention to bring the civil war in Syria to an end. ...
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RI education board approves arming university cops
The proposal would leave it to URI officials to decide whether to arm the university's police force. Right now, Rhode Island is the only state that prohibits public higher education police officers from carrying ...
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Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Parking deck collapses at Md. mall 1 killed
BETHESDA, Md. -; A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete ...
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IRS replaces official in tea party controversy
In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he ...
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Three taxes fizzle for now
The Senate Appropriations Committee suspended consideration of the tax proposals amid its review of scores of bills to meet a legislative deadline. The levy on cigarettes could be heard later this year while the authors of the soda and oil severance taxes expect to have to wait until ...
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Severe weather to impact Memorial Day travel
bad weather is making news elsewhere tonight as well a lot of unsettled weather in the northeast in particular have made a very hectic holiday travel weekend ...
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Hard-hit region revitalized by RV sales
rv sales plunged 58% as the recession deepened and banks stopped lending. as the economy bounces back so have sales. shooting up 72%. good news for ...
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Warrant for rapper Tim Dog despite death reports
JACKSON, Miss. -- Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.The 46-year-old, whose real name is Timothy Blair, is best known for a 1990s song "F-- Compton" that criticized West Coast ...
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Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in Minn. park
Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a second child killed when a rockslide hit a group of fourth-graders in a St. Paul park a day earlier, and announced that the popular fossil-hunting area would be closed ...
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Invest In American Manufacturing Five Charts For Your Business Decision
Is manufacturing a good bet in America these days? The talk about reshoring, in which companies return to the United States those operations that they had previously located in a foreign country, is spurring renewed interest in factories here. Let's roll through five key points about the outlook for ...
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Report calls for diversification in Latin American economic ties
/enpproperty--> China should diversify its economic relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean and drop its previous model of relying more on trade, according to a "yellow book" by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released on Thursday. Cooperation with the region would not only boost trade but also promote more investment and financial ties, said the Annual ...
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Scouting Community Fear Sex Politics of Gay Agenda Will Fracture Boy Scouts of America
May 23, 2013 3:21 pm GRAPEVINE, Texas – Opponents of the BSA's resolution to allow openly-gay membership in the scouts frequently speak about keeping sex and politics out of the scouts – an institution where young boys, many of whom grow up in fatherless homes, depend on mentors who can teach them how to become moral and upstanding citizens, according to Robert Schwarzwalder, ...
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Father of slain man linked to Boston bombing suspect maintains sons innocence
Ibragim Todashev is seen in a mug shot on May 4 after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. Todashev, who was being questioned in Orlando by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot on May 22, when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials ...
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Moore children head back to school
Days after a tornado ripped apart the town of Moore, Okla., students from the two devastated schools reunited for their final assembly that ends the school year. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...
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Oklahoma tornado recovery continues – as does politics of storm relief
MSNBC host Craig Melvin reports on day three of damage assessment in Oklahoma before Martin Bashir salute Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) for his consistency - but not his position - on disaster ...
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Zimmerman defense releases texts about guns fighting from Trayvon Martins phone
George Zimmerman, defendant in the killing of Trayvon Martin, stands in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Florida, with his attorney Mark O'Mara, right, for a pre-trial hearing on April ...
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Tesoro expected to take over BP Los Angeles refinery June 1 - sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Independent refiner Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) is expected to take control of BP Plc's (BP.L) 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in Carson, California, on June 1 as part of a $2.5-million purchase of the ...
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In deeply religious Oklahoma prayer brings solace after tornado
Justin Stephan (L) shows his son Timothy, 3, his tornado-destroyed home for the first time since the storm on 6th Avenue in Moore, Oklahoma May 23, ...
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Lawsuits seek more than U.S. acknowledgement of drone killings
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a point about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Kansas reporters run for tornado shelter during newscast
Television cameras were rolling when staff at an NBC affiliate in Kansas had to run for cover as a tornado approached in Wichita. JD Rudd, KSN-TV's weatherman, was reporting on a tornado warning in the area, to the point where the news team needed to follow their own advice and take ...
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Cubs Lose 4th Straight As Pirates Beat Chicago 4-2
Michael McKenry #19 of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits an RBI sinlge in the first inning against the Chicago Cubs during the game on May 23, 2013 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty ...
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