Saturday, September 24, 2016

No Longer a Hurricane — for Now — Hermine Winds Up for Big Northeast Punch and other top stories.

  • No Longer a Hurricane — for Now — Hermine Winds Up for Big Northeast Punch

    Hermine may no longer be a hurricane but that doesn't mean the storm isn't still packing a wallop. "This storm is not done yet," said Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. "It's going to get worse over the next couple of days." Now officially a "post-tropical cyclone," Hermine — the first hurricane to strike Florida in 11 years — was on the back end of a long, slow journey up the East Coast. And by Monday morning, it's expected to have recovered to hurricane strength, the..
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  • Five burning questions about Trump's immigration plan

    Five burning questions about Trump's immigration plan
    Donald TrumpDonald TrumpStein: 'We are living with a couple of nightmare campaigns' Giuliani: Trump wasn’t supposed to discuss wall with Mexican president Carson touts Trump's outreach to African-Americans MORE on Wednesday offered the most detailed version yet of his plan to tackle illegal immigration, telling a crowd in Phoenix that he was giving them “the truth” on “a very complicated and very difficult subject.”But Trump's 10-point strategy, self-described as "a detailed policy address," om..
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  • Lawmakers likely to do what they do best: the bare minimum

    Lawmakers likely to do what they do best: the bare minimum
    WASHINGTON — Lawmakers return to Washington this week for an abbreviated election-season session in which they will likely do what they do best: the bare minimum. All Congress must do this month is keep the government from shutting down on Oct. 1 and, with any luck, finally provide money for the fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Republicans controlling Congress promise they won’t stumble now, but the weeks ahead could prove tricky. A chief motivation for the September session, especi..
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  • 2 officers shot, wounded by visitor at Fresno County jail

    2 officers shot, wounded by visitor at Fresno County jail
    FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Two unarmed officers were critically injured after being shot by a visitor in the lobby of a central California jail, authorities said. Correctional Officers Juanita Davila and Toamalama Scanlan were shot in the head and neck areas during a struggle Saturday at with a man who tried to cut to the front of the visitors' line and refused to take a seat when he began pacing near a secure area of the Fresno County jail, sheriff's spokesman Tony Botti said. Scanlan, who has 10 y..
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  • Two killed in Texas while doing stunts in single-engine plane

    Two killed in Texas while doing stunts in single-engine plane
    LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas - Two men are dead after a single engine airplane crashed into the Trinity River on Saturday evening, reports CBS affiliate KHOU. According to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, the men were identified as 26-year-old Patrick Joseph Falterman from Cleveland, Texas who piloted the airplane. He was accompanied by his friend, 25-year-old Zach Esters who was visiting from Louisiana. Authorities say the airplane stalled before it crashed in the river about a quarter mile ..
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  • Jacob Wetterling: Remains of missing Minnesota boy found, authorities say

    Jacob Wetterling: Remains of missing Minnesota boy found, authorities say
    Watch the season finale of "The Hunt with John Walsh" this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT."The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling's earlier today," the release said. The release didn't say if anybody has been charged. The sheriff's office said investigators will evaluate new evidence and "expect to be in a position to provide more detailed information early next week."The abduction of the 11-year-old boy led to the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes..
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  • This photo of an officer comforting a baby went viral. But there's more to the story.

    This photo of an officer comforting a baby went viral. But there's more to the story.
    By the time Michelle Burton and a dozen other Birmingham, Alabama, police officers arrived at an apartment Tuesday night, it was too late to save a 30-year-old man, who died of an apparent drug overdose.On the couch lay a 35-year-old woman, slack and unresponsive, but with a faint pulse. Paramedics on the scene administered a dose of Narcan, a fast-acting opioid antidote, before rushing her to the hospital. Then there was the matter of the couple's shaken children: a 7-year-old girl, a 3-year-o..
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  • Oklahoma Shuts Down Energy Companies' Disposal Wells In Area Of Strong Quake

    Oklahoma Shuts Down Energy Companies' Disposal Wells In Area Of Strong Quake
    After one of the strongest earthquakes ever to hit Oklahoma struck Saturday, state regulators ordered oil and gas companies to shut down all their wastewater disposal wells in a 725-square-mile area around the site of the quake's epicenter near Pawnee. The seismic activity immediately raised suspicions that it was linked to injection wells that oil and gas companies use as part of fracking and other operations. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was felt in five states; it followed a string of smalle..
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  • Tuskegee Airman, who marched with MLK from Selma, dies at 93

    Tuskegee Airman, who marched with MLK from Selma, dies at 93
    NEW YORK –  Dabney Montgomery, who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 93. His wife, Amelia Montgomery, said he died of natural causes Saturday morning at a Manhattan hospice care facility. He had lived in Harlem until he entered the facility Aug. 25. Montgomery was born in in Selma, Alabama, in 1923 and was inducted into the armed forces in 1943. He served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee ..
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