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Pistorius involved in S. African club scuffle

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:33 PM PDT

Oscar Pistorius Involved in South African Club ScufflePistorius, currently on trial for his girlfriend's murder, was involved in a "bar brawl."


N.J. diner manager pleads guilty in murder-for-hire plot

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 02:22 PM PDT

Georgios Spyropoulos appears in court in Paterson, N.J. on Monday, July 14 2014. Spyropoulos, the former manager of a northern New Jersey diner, has pleaded guilty in what authorities say was a foiled plot to kill the co-owner of the restaurant, who is his uncle by marriage. (AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Kevin R. Wexler, Pool)A former manager of the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Monday to hiring a hit man to murder his uncle, who co-owns the popular eatery, prosecutors said. In exchange for Georgios Spyropoulos admitting to a charge of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, prosecutors at his sentencing on Sept. 19 will recommend sending him to prison for 10 years, said acting state Attorney General John Hoffman. Spyropoulos, 46, of Clifton, also faces up to five years of supervised release. ...


Alice Coachman dies at age 90

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The first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, Alice Coachman Davis died in Georgia.


U.K. foreign minister William Hague stepping down

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:09 PM PDT

British Foreign Secretary William Hague inform the media in front of Hotel Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Foreign ministers are adding their diplomatic muscle to try and advance troubled nuclear talks with Iran, with a target date only a week away for a pact meant to curb programs Tehran could turn to making atomic arms. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)Hague has been one of Britain's most visible statesman on international crises in the Middle East, Ukraine.


Man sentenced in NYC Dead Sea Scrolls case

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, Raphael Golb enters a courtroom in New York. Golb, who was convicted in 2010 of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his father's academic rivals on the ancient subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls, was sentenced on Monday, July 14, 2014, to two months in jail. Golb had been sentenced in 2010 to six months in jail but was free on bail during his appeal.(AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)A man convicted of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his father's academic rivals on the ancient subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls was sentenced Monday to two months in jail after the state's highest court tossed out some of his convictions — and with them a widely used harassment law.


Egypt proposes Israel-Hamas cease-fire

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 01:23 PM PDT

Palestinians drive past a building destroyed by an Israeli strike on Friday, in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Sunday and sought safety in U.N. shelters, heeding warnings from the Israeli military about impending plans to bomb the area in the sixth day of an offensive against Hamas that has killed more than 160 people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Proposal marks most serious attempt yet by international mediators to end conflict.


Fla. police officers linked to KKK

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT

Ku Klux KlanTwo police officers are no longer with the city department here after a law enforcement report tied them to the Ku Klux Klan, an official said Monday.


Perry-Paul launch war of words over foreign policy

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:40 AM PDT

Rick Perry and Rand PaulTwo leading Republicans have begun an unusually personal war of words over foreign policy, highlighting a broader divide within the GOP over international affairs in one of the first public clashes of the Republican Party's presidential primary process.


More than 100 evacuated as Oregon wildfire moves rapidly

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 12:42 PM PDT

In this photo provided by South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership, smoke from a fire is seen Sunday, July 13, 2014, near Moccasin Hill, Ore. Officials say a fast-growing wildfire in southern Oregon has destroyed homes and forced dozens of evacuations. (AP Photo/South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership)A fast-growing wildfire in south-central Oregon has forced more than 100 people to evacuate their homes and destroyed structures, officials said.


Clashes in Libya kill 13, close airports as U.N. pulls out staff

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 02:44 PM PDT

In this image made from video by The Associated Press, smoke rises from the direction of Tripoli airport in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Rival militias battled Sunday for the control of the international airport in Libya's capital, as gunfire and explosions echoed through the city and airlines canceled some international flights. (AP Photo)The U.N. has evacuated dozens of staff from Libya, where at least 13 have been killed.


Morgan speaks out for first time since crash

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Released from medical care, comedian Tracy Morgan talked to the media as he left his home in Cresskill, N.J.


Haslam-owned co. to pay $92M for scheme

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:08 PM PDT

Jimmy Haslam and Bill HaslamPolice: Pilot Flying J, owned by Jim and Bill Haslam, cheated patrons out of rebates, discounts.


Second probe into anthrax breach at fed labs finds major lapses

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 11:40 AM PDT

The Centers for Disease Control sign is seen at its main facility in AtlantaA second U.S. investigation into the anthrax breach at federal laboratories found major safety lapses, from keys left in supposedly locked refrigerators containing anthrax to the use of disinfectants that had passed their use-by dates, according to a document released by lawmakers on Monday. The findings go beyond details provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its account of lapses that led to the potential exposure of more than 80 lab workers to live anthrax bacteria in June. A subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on Wednesday about CDC's mishandling of anthrax as well as of a second deadly microbe, avian influenza. In addition to asking CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden about the anthrax and bird flu incidents, the subcommittee is expected to probe whether those biosafety lapses have implications for federal oversight of "select agents," the most dangerous pathogens, and the high-containment labs that handle them.


Octomom pleads no contest to welfare fraud

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 11:06 AM PDT

FILE-This Tuesday, March 11, 2014 file photo shows Nadya Suleman, a single mother of octuplets and six other children, known as "Octomom," appears for arraignment in Los Angeles Superior Court. Suleman pleaded no contest on Monday, July 14, 2014 to a single count of welfare fraud for failing to disclose income she was receiving from videos and personal appearances while accepting public assistance funds. (AP Photo/Nick Ut,File)Octomom Nadya Suleman pleaded no contest Monday to a single count of misdemeanor welfare fraud for failing to disclose income she was receiving from videos and personal appearances while collecting more than $26,000 in public assistance funds to care for her 14 children.


Brooklyn 8th-graders earn Sony record deal

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A trio of friends from Brooklyn, N.Y., who are not yet out of middle school have signed a record deal with Sony.


N.J. mayor lashes out over memorial for cop-killer

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 01:02 PM PDT

Lawrence Campbell allegedly shot Jersey City police officer Melvin Santiago, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Campbell was then killed by police gunfire. (AP Photo/New Jersey Department of Corrections)Police say Lawrence Campbell ambushed 23-year-old officer Melvin Santiago.


Heavy fighting rages near Baghdad

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:50 AM PDT

Baghdad municipality workers clean the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Allawi neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, July 14, 2014. Parked car bombs killed civilians in commercial areas of Baghdad on Monday, as government forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters tried to dislodge militants from a small town north of the capital, officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Iraqi forces and allies battled to dislodge militants from a town near Baghdad, while 2 car bombs in the capital killed at least 7.


Residents of 150 Philadelphia homes return after evacuation

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:44 AM PDT

Mysterious odor evacuationsResidents of 150 suburban Philadelphia homes are being allowed to return home as their houses are tested after a voluntary evacuation overnight due to a mysterious odor.


Sotheby's plans to broadcast live auction bidding via eBay

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 02:52 PM PDT

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of the biggest names in auction sales, the traditional Sotheby's and the digital pioneer eBay, said on Monday they are joining forces to make it easier to buy antiques, collectibles and works of fine art online. The two plan to stream selected auctions with live bidding in real time late this year or early in 2015 from Sotheby's New York headquarters. The deal will connect the 270-year-old Sotheby's, with its extensive inventory of fine art, antiques, books, jewels, watches and furniture, with eBay's 145 million active buyers around the world. "We are joining with eBay to make our sales more accessible to the broadest possible audience around the world," Bruno Vinciguerra, Sotheby's chief operating officer, said in a statement.

Shipwrecked Costa Concordia refloated

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:29 AM PDT

Shipwrecked Costa Concordia refloatedThe cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during a refloat operation at Giglio harbour at Giglio Island July 14, 2014. Technicians on Monday began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)

Honduras: U.S. drug policy to blame for migrant surge

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 09:35 AM PDT

Deportees board a bus outside the Care Center for Returning Migrants (CAMR) after arriving on an immigration flight from the U.S., at the international airport in San Pedro SulaHonduran President Juan Hernandez blamed U.S. drug policy for sparking violence in Central American countries and driving a surge of migration to the United States, according to an interview published on Monday. Hernandez, who took office in January after winning on a pledge to be tough on crime, said only a drop in violence would curb the wave of families and unaccompanied minors fleeing Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras who have overwhelmed temporary detention facilities on the U.S. border. "Honduras has been living in an emergency for a decade," Hernandez told Mexican daily newspaper Excelsior. "The root cause is that the United States and Colombia carried out big operations in the fight against drugs.


Anti-government fervor puts cops at risk

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Las Vegas police bow their heads during a memorial service for Joseph Wilcox at Palm Downtown Mortuary on Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Las Vegas. Wilcox went for his own legal and concealed handgun after a couple killed Officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck at a nearby pizza shop and walked into a Wal-Mart, fired a shot in the air, and declared the start of a revolution two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, David Becker, Pool)Recent police slayings celebrated on social media; rise in extremism increases safety fears.


Ukraine accuses Russian officers of fighting alongside rebels

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 08:27 AM PDT

Fragments of a Ukrainian AN-26 transport aircraft are seen near the village of Davido-Nikolsk, in Ukraine's Lugansk region, on July 14, 2014Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russian military staff officers on Monday of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said a newly-developed Russian missile system was being used against government forces. Poroshenko was speaking at an emergency meeting of his security chiefs after a weekend of Ukrainian air strikes on rebel positions near the border with Russia and charges by Moscow that Kiev killed a Russian man with a cross-border shell. "Information has ... been confirmed that Russian staff officers are taking part in military operations against Ukrainian forces," Poroshenko said, adding to his charges on Sunday of movements of heavy military equipment into the country from Russia. Earlier on Monday, a military spokesman in Kiev said Russia was building up forces on its border with Ukraine, and separatists, backed by Russian "mercenaries", were firing on Ukrainian border guards in an attempt to bring armoured vehicles into the country.


Rash from IPads may be due to heavy metal nickel

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:57 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by American Academy of Pediatrics shows a rash on an unidentified 11-year old boy from a nickel allergy. Case reports in medical journals detail nickel allergies from personal electronic devices, including laptops and cell phones. But it was an Apple iPad that caused an itchy body rash in this 11-year-old boy recently treated at a San Diego hospital, according to a report in Pediatrics. Nickel rashes aren't life-threatening but they can be very uncomfortable, and they may require treatment with steroids, and antibiotics if the skin eruptions become infected, said Dr. Sharon Jacob, an associate professor and dermatologist at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital, where the boy was treated. (AP Photo/American Academy of Pediatrics)If you have a strange skin condition, check your iPad. The popular tablet may contain allergy-inducing nickel.


Refloated Concordia now heads for scrap heap

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:07 AM PDT

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been successfully refloated in preparation for towing it away for scrapping.

Activist Malala joins 'Bring Back Our Girls' cause in Nigeria

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 07:28 AM PDT

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, left, shakes hands with Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, right, at the Presidential villa, in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, July 14, 2014. Yousafzai on Monday won a promise from Nigeria's leader to meet with the parents of some of the 219 schoolgirls held by Islamic extremists for three months. Malala celebrated her 17th birthday on Monday in Nigeria with promises to work for the release of the girls from the Boko Haram movement. (AP Photo)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president promised Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai that he would meet with the parents of some of the 219 schoolgirls held by Islamic extremists for three months, she said Monday.


Be much more precise with kid medicine doses, says study

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 07:18 AM PDT

FDA Cuts Recommended Dosage of LunestaCHICAGO (AP) — The song says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but a study says that kind of imprecise measurement can lead to potentially dangerous dosing mistakes.


For Twitter, Facebook, World Cup beat its gooooooals

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 06:04 AM PDT

Germany's Goetze celebrates near Mueller after scoring a goal during extra time in their 2014 World Cup final against Argentina at the Maracana stadium in Rio de JaneiroGermany produced just one goal in its win over Argentina in Sunday's World Cup final. But the game produced a record number of Facebook and Twitter posts.


Former POW Bergdahl returning to duty

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 08:08 AM PDT

Idaho Town Awaits Return Of Taliban Hostage Bowe BergdahlU.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl completed post-Afghanistan therapy, counseling; to head to Fort Sam Houston.


Did somebody wire the Appalachian Trail? Time for a selfie!

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:49 AM PDT

Hiker Matthew Donnelly of Milford, Pennsylvania, uses his cell phone on the Appalachian Trail in Bear MountainBy Barbara Goldberg HARRIMAN STATE PARK N.Y. (Reuters) - Maybe it was guilt over alarming her parents when she inadvertently dialed 911 from the Appalachian Trail, but Caitlin Belcher wishes she could ditch her cell phone for the rest of the 2,180-mile (3,508-km) hike. I just want to be out in the woods, isolated," said Belcher, 23, who has called home to Fredericksburg, Virginia, twice weekly since her journey began in April and gets constant texts from her parents, who even call her hiking partner's phone as well. Then Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina used "hiking the AT" as an excuse for disappearing for six days in 2009, while in fact he was on a rendezvous in Argentina with his mistress. Today camping gadgets such as a twig-fueled stove that can charge a smartphone while it heats baked beans, and online tips such as using an empty foil-lined potato chip can to boost Wi-Fi signals, mean there is no need to go off the grid while on the trail.     With Twitter, Instagram and blogs, hikers may be safer but lose the solitude and silence once found in the woods.     "The whole idea of the Appalachian Trail is to get away from it all," said Bill Bryson, whose best-selling 1998 book "A Walk in the Woods" about the trail is being made into a movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.     "I am all in favor of gadgets, but my fear is that most people spend all their rest time texting and staring at little screens and miss out on all the glorious solitude around them," Bryson said.     Summer is high season on the trail that draws up to 3 million visitors a year, including 1,100 "thru hikers" like Belcher who hope to conquer the entire 14-state route.


Russian 'crucifixion' accusation against Ukraine revives Nazi-era epithets

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 04:48 AM PDT

Ukrainian servicemen sitting atop armored personnel carriers (APC) travel near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on July 11, 2014Russian state television has provoked a storm of criticism after it aired an uncorroborated report claiming that the Ukrainian army publicly nailed a three-year-old boy to a board in a former rebel stronghold. Ukraine accused Russia of ratcheting up its propaganda war by airing an interview in which a woman gave graphic details of the alleged incident in the Ukrainian flashpoint city of Slavyansk, which neither AFP nor other media have been able to confirm. Channel One television at the weekend broadcast footage of a woman who said she recently saw Ukrainian soldiers round up people in central Slavyansk, which the army took over this month after three months of clashes with separatists, and nail an insurgent's child to a notice board. A spokeswoman for Ukraine's interior ministry, Natalya Stativko, on Monday slammed the report as "following in the footsteps of Goebbels," Nazi Germany's minister of propaganda.


Spy flap frays CIA, White House ties

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 01:45 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 16, 2011 file photo shows law enforcement officers photographing a window at the White House in Washington, as seen from the South Lawn. A bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass, the Secret Service said. An additional round of ammunition was found on the White House exterior. The bullets were found Tuesday morning. An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to shooting at and hitting the White House is set to be sentenced. Prosecutors say Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez should spend 27 years in prison for the 2011 shooting. His sentencing is scheduled for Monday afternoon. No one was injured, but prosecutors say Ortega-Hernandez hit the executive mansion about eight times and did nearly $100,000 in damage. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)When Germany kicked out CIA station chief, tensions ratcheted up.


Tougher justice takes wind out of Somali pirates' sails

Posted: 13 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

a Somali soldier looks out at a Taiwanese fishing vesselMohamed Abdi Hassan, another notorious pirate nicknamed Afweyne, or "Big Mouth," said earlier he was getting out of the game. Things are changing in East Africa's high-profile pirate business: A combination of greater force at sea and swifter justice on land means the bottom has fallen out of the kind of Somali piracy vividly depicted in "Captain Phillips," the 2013 film about the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. "With a few very small exceptions, we've had two years now without any successful piracy attacks," says Alan Cole, regional coordinator of the maritime crime program for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).


Ukraine says Russian army officers fighting alongside rebels

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 11:43 AM PDT

Residents of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine prepare to board buses for Rostov-on-Don in Russia from a collection point in DonetskKiev says it had ended a rebel blockade of a strategic airport in the east as it traded charges and threats with Russia over violations of their joint border.


'Tragedy tourism' on the rise

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Egypt proposes cease-fire between Israel, Hamas

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 04:38 PM PDT

Palestinians drive by the rubble of a house destroyed by an overnight Israeli missile strike during the week-long conflict in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)JERUSALEM (AP) — Egypt presented a cease-fire plan Monday to end a week of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 185 people dead, and both sides said they were seriously considering the proposal.


Citigroup to pay $7B in subprime mortgages probe

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 file photo, shows a Citi Bank sign in Chicago. Citigroup will pay $7 billion to settle an investigation into risky subprime mortgages, the type that helped fuel the financial crisis. The agreement announced Monday, July 14, 2014, comes weeks after talks between the sides broke down, prompting the government to warn that it would sue the New York investment bank. The settlement stems from the sale of securities made up of subprime mortgages, which fueled both the housing boom and bust that triggered the Great Recession at the end of 2007. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting to a pattern of deception that Attorney General Eric Holder said "shattered lives" and contributed to the worst financial crisis in decades, the Justice Department said Monday.


Vote deal will work, Afghan candidate tells AP

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Afghan presidential candidate and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 14, 2014. Ahmadzai said that a U.S.-brokered deal for a full ballot audit pulled the country back from the brink and put government legitimacy back on track. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Declaring his nation "is not Iraq," one of two contestants in Afghanistan's deadlocked presidential election told The Associated Press on Monday that both he and his rival are committed to lead their war-ravaged nation inclusively in cooperation with international partners.


Answers on link between injection wells and quakes

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 02:58 PM PDT

Graphic shows earthquakes in Oklahoma over the past three days; 2c x 3 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 88 mm;FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — States where hydraulic fracturing is taking place have seen a surge in earthquake activity, raising suspicions that the unconventional drilling method could be to blame, especially the wells where the industry disposes of its wastewater.


Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returned to regular Army duty

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 12:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. A senior defense official says Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who spent nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, has been returned to regular Army duty. As of Monday he is assigned to U.S. Army North at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas. That is the same location where he has been decompressing from the effects of his lengthy captivity. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has given Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a desk job, ending the formal phase of his transition from Taliban prisoner to not-quite-ordinary soldier, and setting the stage for Army investigators to question the Idaho native about his disappearance that led to five years in captivity.


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