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I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state sends cars people into water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, ...
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2 full-time rangers added to patrol Capitol Hill Pioneer Square parks
Three violent assaults at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill this month have prompted the city to add two full-time park rangers, who will patrol there and at Occidental Square in Pioneer Square. Additionally, Seattle police will step up summer-emphasis patrols to ensure public safety as warm weather and long days draw more people to the city’s parks. "The rangers are a force ...
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Bridge collapses over Skagit River on I-5 in Washington
washington state say one lane of the skajit river bridge has collapsed and sent people and vehicles into the water below. the bridge is about 40 years old but was reportedly expanded from two lanes to four about five years ago. the collapse happened around 7:00. there are no reports of injuries or death but cars and debris is in the water. traditionally this is a weekend of heavy traffic and i-5 ...
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Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’
america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...
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Man survives kidnap ordeal in New York
Police have rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3-million ransom from his family in ...
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Part of Washington state freeway span collapses into river dispatcher
(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...
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Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution
May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...
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How young American fell victim to drone strike
Jude Kenan Mohammad, who was born in Florida and raised in Raleigh, N.C., is the least known of the four U.S. citizens whom the Obama administration acknowledged it had killed in drone attacks overseas since ...
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Jury rules for Trump over 87-year-old woman in Chicago hotel dispute
Jacqueline Goldberg, who lost her fight against Donald Trump, said she felt good about "exposing" him and offered this advice for anyone going into business with him: "Read the ...
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Boehner Committee Can Decide Whether to Subpoena Communications Between IRS and White House
- Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The ...
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Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry
USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...
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Video Okla. couple survived tornado in their closet
Lewis and Janie Haywood huddled in their closet when the 200-mile-an-hour tornado blew through and destroyed their home Monday. Now they're facing the painful question of where to ...
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Video Teacher injured in Okla. tornado takes first steps
With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to deliver. Shayla Taylor survived, and her son was born at a hospital a few miles away. Elaine Quijano ...
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Kids teachers from destroyed Okla. school reunite
Class photos still decorate a classroom wall amid the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, ...
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2 Dead in Drugstore Shootings in Tennessee
An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. District Attorney Jimmy Dunn said a former police officer in Bean Station was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and robbery Thursday at the Down Home Pharmacy. Dunn said the former officer, 37-year-old Jason B. Holt, took "a large ...
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Chicago Area Scouting Officials Endorse Inclusion Of Gay Youths
(CBS/AP) – Openly gay youngsters will no longer be banned from the Boy Scouts, after a vote Thursday by the national organization. An openly gay scout from Maryland, whose troop refused to expel him, praised the historic move of the century old scouting movement. "Simply because you’ve been taught something for a long amount of time doesn’t mean it's right," ...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Feds to review policy on media leaks
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said on Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government ...
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Video 523 Obama The war on terror like all wars must end baby born as tornado struck
Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror; and, With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to ...
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10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. HOW OBAMA IS DEFENDING DRONE STRIKES The attacks are legal, effective and necessary as threats evolve, he says in a speech outlining America's post-war counterterror policies. 2. BOY SCOUTS END BAN ON GAY YOUTHS The decision is unlikely to end a bitter debate over the ...
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Haas Waldorf share Senior PGA Championship lead
Jay Haas shot a 5-under 66 Thursday that gave him a share of the lead after the opening round of the 74th Senior PGA Championship. Duffy Waldorf, playing his 12th event on the Champions Tour, also posted a 66 in the first major tournament for senior players this year. Haas, a 16-time winner on the Champions Tour, captured this event in both 2006 and 2008. He is looking for his first win on the ...
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UPDATE 1-Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program
Thu May 23, 2013 9:27pm EDT By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion. The Defense Department's annual report to Congress on major arms programs ...
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Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference Semifinals Game 4
Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard (L) is congratulated by teammate Jakub Kindl after the Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks during Game 2 of their NHL Western Conference semi-final playoff hockey game in Chicago, Illinois, May 18, 2013. Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings takes place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 4 on Thursday night, with the Blackhawks looking to go on the ...
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Mother in labor during tornado reunited with nurses
Thanks to the quick work of Moore, Okla., nurses, Shayla Taylor was able to safely deliver her son Braeden Immanuel - who is now nicknamed 'Twister.' NBC's Ron Mott ...
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Arlington prepares for Memorial Day
arlington cemetery . they placed flags on grave sites of each service member buried at arlington. 267,000 in all in the annual tradition known as flags ...
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