| Officials: Bomb may have downed Russian jet Posted: 04 Nov 2015 02:41 PM PST  A U.S. official believes Islamic State may have planted an explosive device on the plane that crashed in Egypt
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| Sanders introduces Senate bill to end federal pot prohibition Posted:  If successful, the bill would remove all references to cannabis in the Controlled Substances Act.
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| Man arrested in California stabbing of French train hero Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:11 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A tip from the public led police in California's capital city to arrest a 28-year-old man Wednesday in the stabbing of a U.S. airman hailed as a hero for helping thwart a European terror attack.
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| Polls: Carson surges in Republican race Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:35 AM PST  The brash billionaire must now share frontrunner status in the US Republican presidential nominations battle with retired neurosurgeon and fellow political outsider Ben Carson, fresh polling showed Wednesday. The conservative Carson, the only African-American in the 2016 White House race, is virtually tied at the top with Trump, trailing him by one percentage point, according to the Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday. Tuesday's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Carson surging into a six-point lead, quite a showing for a candidate who has largely shunned traditional campaign strategies and refused to play rough and tumble campaign politics with his rivals.
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| Illinois policeman committed suicide, embezzled funds: officials Posted: 04 Nov 2015 12:42 PM PST  The northern Illinois policeman whose September death prompted an extensive manhunt for murder suspects committed "a carefully staged suicide" as authorities began an audit that would have exposed his embezzling public funds, authorities said on Wednesday. Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz used public funds for personal purchases, stealing and laundering money over the past seven years, and forging signatures on documents, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Commander George Filenko said. The investigation "strongly indicates criminal activity on the part of at least two other individuals," Filenko said, adding that because the investigation was ongoing he would not comment further.
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| Oklahoma woman charged in parade crash that killed 4 Posted: 04 Nov 2015 11:07 AM PST  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A woman accused of running a red light and purposely driving around a barricade and over a police motorcycle before crashing into spectators at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade was formally charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of felony assault.
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| Iran holds negative attitude toward US despite nuclear deal Posted: 04 Nov 2015 11:48 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As Iran marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, there are signs that the Islamic Republic's attitude toward the United States is as negative as ever.
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| Pentagon chief to visit U.S. aircraft carrier in South China Sea Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:29 PM PST  U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will visit a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the South China Sea on Thursday, a move sure to raise the ire of China as tensions between Washington and Beijing simmer over the disputed waterway. Carter will visit the USS Theodore Roosevelt with Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, U.S. officials said. The warship is "conducting routine operations while transiting the South China Sea", Carter said on Wednesday after a meeting of defense ministers from Southeast Asia in Malaysia, a forum marred by U.S.-China disagreements over the busy sea lane.
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| In caverns deep below N.Y. streets, train terminal taking shape Posted: 04 Nov 2015 12:55 PM PST  Fifteen stories beneath midtown Manhattan, hundreds of workers are slowly converting massive subterranean chambers into a new terminal for the Long Island Railroad, the United States' busiest commuter rail system. Two enormous caverns, each several city blocks long, will house eight tracks and platforms, serving an estimated 162,000 customers a day, officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said during a tour of the planned station on Wednesday. A $10.2 billion project, known as East Side Access, will divert some Long Island Railroad trains from their current terminus at overcrowded Pennsylvania Station on the West Side to Grand Central.
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| Mistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:03 PM PST  Eric Parker, 27, was retried on accusations that he used unreasonable force while working as a Madison, Alabama, police officer. During his first trial in September, another jury in Huntsville, Alabama, federal court also deadlocked, resulting in the first mistrial. Sureshbhai Patel, who testified in both trials, suffered serious injuries during the February incident that was captured on videotape.
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| Health exchange hopes to move past troubles in 3rd go-round Posted: 02 Nov 2015 10:41 AM PST  It's survived an IT meltdown and attempts to kill it in the Legislature. It's now facing the loss of two insurance carriers and an effort to constitutionally ban it. But leaders of the Silver State Health ...
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