| Perry indicted on 2 felonies for veto threat Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:57 PM PDT  Jury: Gov. Rick Perry carried out threat for corruption prosecutors in major abuse of power.
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| Tens of thousands march into Pakistani capital Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:23 PM PDT  Anti-PM rallies follow arrival of convoys led by cricket star-turned-politician, fiery anti-Taliban cleric.
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| Ex-cop who burned body again gets 17 years Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.
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| None brazen enough to bid on possibly booby-trapped land Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:00 PM PDT  No one bid for the compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months.
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| Boko Haram kidnaps 100 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT  Most captives were freed by forces from Chad, officials said.
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| 11 dead in Quetta airbase attacks Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:26 AM PDT  Eleven Taliban-linked militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said. Pakistan's military has been fighting an offensive against the Taliban insurgency in the remote, largely lawless region of North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border since June. A wing of the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out Thursday night's raids in response to that offensive. "It is a revenge for the army's killing of innocent people in North and South Waziristan," said Ghalib Mehsud, who said he was a commander and spokesman for the Fidayeen Islam, a Taliban wing responsible for training suicide bombers.
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| Chief: Cop didn't know Brown was suspect Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:10 PM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police on Friday identified the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager and released documents alleging the young man had been suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars from a convenience store in a "strong-arm" robbery shortly before he was killed.
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| SeaWorld to build bigger enclosures for killer whales in U.S. Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:18 AM PDT  Theme park operator SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. said on Friday it would nearly double the size of its San Diego killer whale tank and expand similar enclosures in Florida and Texas amid criticism over its treatment of the animals. "The new projects will build on SeaWorld's legacy of providing state-of-the-art, innovative homes for its animals," the company said in a statement. Expansions will follow for the company's tanks in Orlando and San Antonio, Texas, SeaWorld said. The group said SeaWorld should instead put the captive orcas in seaside sanctuaries with the goal of releasing them into the ocean.
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| ISIL may be planning attacks on U.S. soil Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT Exclusive: Well-armed group may have America in its cross-hairs. |
| Jet Airways flight plunges 5,000 ft. as pilot dozes off, co-pilot busy on iPad Posted:  A potential incident was averted when a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Brussels dropped 5,000 feet in airspace while the pilot was "on rest."
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| Chief: Cop didn't know Brown was suspect Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:36 PM PDT  Ferguson Chief: Cop didn't know Michael Brown was suspect
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| Cops: Amish girls kidnapped by more than 1 person Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:58 PM PDT  A New York sheriff says two young Amish sisters now safe at home were kidnapped from their family farm stand and police are seeking more than one person responsible.
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| Notre Dame players investigated for possible academic fraud Posted:  Notre Dame administrative officials are investigating instances of potential academic fraud on campus that could include several members of the Fighting Irish football team, sources have told Yahoo Sports.
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| Report: CDC scientist kept quiet about flu virus blunder Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:31 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A government scientist kept silent about a potentially dangerous lab blunder and revealed it only after workers in another lab noticed something fishy, according to an internal investigation.
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| Gore sues Al Jazeera for unpaid millions Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  Former VP says network still owes millions for Current TV network deal.
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| Israel prepares for 'next big battle' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — With the Gaza war seeming to have calmed, Israel is now preparing for its next big battle: a diplomatic and legal challenge over Palestinian civilian deaths in its campaign against Hamas militants.
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| More Cubans risking life and limb to get to US Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — One early morning this April, Dairon Morera climbed onto a raft of aluminum tanks with 22 other people, revved up a Volvo car motor and pushed off the Cuban shore, joining a never-ending stream of islanders desperate to reach the United States.
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| Judge slaps down McDonnell request Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:08 AM PDT  By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected defense motions that former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife be acquitted in their corruption and bribery trial. U.S. District Judge James Spencer turned down the bids after a one-hour hearing. The motions came after prosecutors wrapped up their case against McDonnell, a Republican, and his wife after almost three weeks of testimony. Defense lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses on Monday.
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| Ukraine says it's destroyed Russian military vehicles Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:08 PM PDT  KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — NATO on Friday said a Russian military column ventured overnight into Ukraine, and the Ukrainian president said his forces destroyed most of it. Russia denied all of this, but the reports spooked global markets and overshadowed optimism driven by agreement over a Russian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine.
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| Dire Ebola update from WHO Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:27 AM PDT  The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as 76 new deaths were reported in the two days to August 13 in the four West African nations affected by the epidemic. The U.N. health agency said that a total of 152 confirmed, probable and suspected new cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were reported in the two day period in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, bringing the total for the outbreak to 2,127.
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| EU's crucial move to save Iraq from "true catastrophe" Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:46 AM PDT  EU ministers agreed at an emergency meeting on Friday to back the arming of overwhelmed Iraqi Kurd fighters in the face of an onslaught by Islamic State jihadists.
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| Massive Revolutionary War artifact find Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:29 PM PDT  LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — An archaeological dig at a Colonial military site in the southern Adirondacks of New York has turned up thousands of artifacts, from butchered animal bones to uniform buttons, along with a lime kiln used to make mortar for a British fort that was never completed.
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| Va. deputy shot daughter, crashed car, say police Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:17 AM PDT  WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A Virginia deputy sheriff shot his 16-year-old daughter after mistaking her for an intruder, then crashed his car as he rushed her to the hospital, authorities said.
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| USDA: Puppy imports must be healthy, 6 months old Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Foreign dog breeders have gone unregulated for years, shipping puppies so young and so sick that one in four died before reaching a U.S. airport, animal welfare workers say.
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| California pastor cleared in Las Vegas man's death Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:52 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped their case against a California pastor who was suspected of punching a man in a Las Vegas parking lot tussle, leading to the man's death six months later.
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| Slain US teen was robbery suspect Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT  The unarmed black teenager whose shooting death by a white police officer unleashed riots in a Missouri town was a suspect in a robbery just minutes before he was killed, police said Friday. The allegation reignited fresh anger and frustration in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, with the 18-year-old student's family accusing police of attempting to demean his character amid an ongoing investigation. Incident reports from the Ferguson police department linked Michael Brown to the theft of a $49 box of cigars from a convenience store, shortly before he was fatally shot by police in broad daylight on a nearby street on Saturday. Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson meanwhile identified the officer who shot Brown as Darren Wilson, 28, a white four-year veteran of the force with no record of ill discipline.
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| Correction: Immigration-National Guard story Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT  HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — In a story Aug. 14 about the National Guard arriving on the Texas border, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Texas National Guard, reported erroneously that the deployments were part of the 1,000 troops ordered by Gov. Rick Perry. Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker said the troops, which are part of a counterdrug task force, do not count toward Perry's "Operation Strong Safety."
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| Black box failed on Brazil politician's doomed flight Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT  The black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Brazilian socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos failed to record his flight, the air force said Friday. The two hours of recordings it contained were not related to Wednesday's doomed flight, according to the military branch in charge of the investigation into the crash.
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| Couple’s relationship survives messaging each other exclusively through emoji for a month Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  Emoji have become an incredibly popular way to add more color to our written communications but is there any way you could survive using them exclusively on your favorite messaging app? WNYC this week posted an interview with its own NewTechCity senior producer Alex Goldmark, who took up a challenge this summer to communicate with his girlfriend on their smartphones using only the emoji available on the WeChat messaging app for a full month. Although the couple found it challenging to communicate complicated ideas and requests to one another, they found that using emoji worked perfectly well from expressing their feelings. The couple started off picking emoji that they felt accurately represented themselves so they could have a proper emoji
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| Texas Governor Perry indicted for abuse of power Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Texas on two counts of abuse of power and coercion over a funding veto he made last year that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign. Perry, seen as a possible Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential race, was indicted by a grand jury in Travis County with abuse of official capacity, a felony, and coercion of a public official, a misdemeanor. A probe was launched last year when Perry vetoed $7.5 million in funding for an integrity unit that is part of the Travis County District Attorney's office. The move was seen as trying to force out county District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, after she pleaded guilty to drunken driving.
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| Struggling SeaWorld plans new tanks for killer whales Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:44 PM PDT  US theme park operator SeaWorld said Friday it would build new, giant tanks for its killer whales, whose captivity has caused uproar and hit the company's earnings. SeaWorld also pledged $10 million in funds for killer-whale research and announced a multi-million-dollar ocean health partnership, but animal rights groups were quick to savage the initiatives. The Orlando, Florida company, whose shares have hit their lowest point since going public in April 2013, has faced rising criticism since last year's release of the documentary "Blackfish." The film probed the impact of captivity on SeaWorld's orcas and the fatal 2010 attack by one of them, Tilikum, on a trainer.
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| Texas governor indicted over effort to remove official Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT  Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, was indicted Friday over an effort to force a local Democratic prosecutor to resign. A grand jury in Austin indicted Perry on two felony charges -- abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant for his threat to veto $7.5 million in state funding to the Public Integrity Unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. After Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, Perry said he would withhold the funding if she did not step down. When Lehmberg refused to leave her office, Perry carried out his veto.
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| Police: Chemicals in tea due to earlier mix-up Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say an industrial cleaning solution that ended up in tea that a woman drank at a Utah restaurant was unintentionally mixed into a bag of sugar a month earlier.
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| Los Angeles looks into making ballot bankable Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is considering turning voting ballots into lottery tickets.
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| Former Idaho GOP congressman dies Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:38 PM PDT  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — George Hansen, a former Idaho Republican congressman, died Thursday of natural causes at a medical center in Pocatello, Cornelison Funeral Home said. He was 83.
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| Revel casino to close 8 days earlier than planned Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:34 PM PDT  Revel Casino Hotel, the $2.4 billion resort that opened just over two years ago as a hoped-for savior for Atlantic City's sinking revenues, is closing a week earlier than planned.
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| Kiev says forces shelled Russian armour inside Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said its artillery partly destroyed a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia on Friday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states. Russia's government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine and accused Kiev of trying to sabotage deliveries of aid. NATO said there had been a Russian incursion into Ukraine, while avoiding the term invasion, and European capitals accused the Kremlin of escalating the fighting. Kiev and its Western allies have repeatedly accused Russia of arming pro-Moscow separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, and of sending undercover military units onto Ukrainian soil. |
| Officer's name begins to lift weeklong mystery Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:29 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — For nearly a week, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, has been a shadowy figure — nameless, faceless and seemingly shielded from the fury that has filled the streets of the town he was sworn to protect.
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| Officer in Missouri shooting unaware teen was a suspect: police Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT  By Nick Carey FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Minutes before a police officer shot him dead, Michael Brown had become a suspect in the theft of cigars from a store, according to police reports released on Friday after days of protests in a St. Louis suburb over the unarmed black teenager's death. Hours after the reports' release, police said that Officer Darren Wilson, 28, had no idea 18-year-old Brown was a robbery suspect. After nearly a week of accusations that the Ferguson Police Department did not know how to communicate with the public, Jackson did little to dispel that image during two appearances on Friday. The decision by the police department, which is overwhelmingly white, to release a report on the robbery while keeping details of the shooting secret only served to fuel outrage that has roiled the St. Louis area.
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