Grand juror in Missouri police shooting case sues prosecutor
By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - A member of the grand jury that declined to indict the white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old sued the prosecutor in the case on Monday, criticizing the way evidence was presented to grand jurors and seeking court permission to speak…
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Hunter in deer stand kills bear that began climbing up tree
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A deer hunter in a tree stand fatally shot a black bear that began climbing up the tree toward him after it got within a few feet of him, state wildlife officials said.
Grieving family haunted by AirAsia victim's final birthday wish
When fashion store owner The Meiji Thejakusuma bid goodbye to relatives before boarding AirAsia's Flight 8501, she light-heartedly quipped she would "spend time alone at sea" on her birthday, which she planned to mark with a New Year's cruise. On January 3, when Thejakusuma would have turned 45 on…
Georgia Woman Says She Was Asleep When Shot by Police Chief Husband
A Georgia woman who was shot by her police chief husband on New Year's Day in their bedroom told investigators today that she was asleep when the shooting happened.
Etan Patz case
Thirty-five years after Etan Patz's disappearance helped ignite a national missing-children's movement, scores of prospective jurors filed into court Monday for a murder trial that eluded authorities for decades. About 100 people began filling out lengthy jury questionnaires for the trial of Pedro…
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Hidden World War II Battlefields Reveal Germans' Secret Tactics
These landscapes preserve troves of bomb craters, trenches and even the remains of supply depots — all of which have not been well studied until now. David Passmore, a geoarchaeologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, led the study. "Although the history of the Second World…
JetBlue flight diverted as Utah officers help restrain woman
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three Utah officers returning from the funeral of a slain New York City policeman helped restrain an unruly passenger on a JetBlue Airways flight until the plane was diverted to Chicago.
Islamic State 'police' official beheaded: Syria monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A top figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said. The man was an Egyptian national and was known as the deputy "emir" of the al-Hesbah force in a Syrian province,…
Brother of malnourished NE Ohio toddler dies in foster care
CLEVELAND (AP) — The 10-year-old brother of a toddler whose death was attributed to malnourishment has died while in a Cleveland foster home.
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Chinese Communist hero Lei Feng not beloved by US cadets after all
A former Chinese journalist has admitted falling for an April Fool joke which sparked a decades-long myth in his country -- that US officer cadets learnt from the example of Communist military hero Lei Feng. Li Zhurun, a former reporter for China's official Xinhua news agency who is now a…
Divers go down to AirAsia wreckage as weather clears
Indonesian search officials sent divers down to the bed of the Java Sea during a break in bad weather Tuesday in hopes of recovering more bodies from the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501. Recovery teams, hampered by rough seas, have found fewer than 40 bodies since the plane crashed on December 28,…
Raleigh woman who died after fire had been charged in crash
Anastasiya Bergeron died from severe burns after apparently setting fire to a Raleigh apartment building Friday evening.
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Son arrested on murder charge in hedge fund founder shooting
NEW YORK (AP) — A man shot his hedge fund founder father to death inside his apartment near the United Nations headquarters after they argued over the son's allowance, police said Monday.
Pennsylvania boy, 10, to be tried as juvenile in beating death of woman, 90
By Elizabeth Daley Pittsburgh, Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday that a 10-year-old boy charged as an adult in the beating death of an elderly woman will have his trial moved to juvenile court, attorneys said. Tristen Kurilla of Damascus, Pennsylvania, a small township 120 miles…
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Protesters disrupt ceremony for 100-year old Navy vet. Is 'uncivil' disobedience rising?
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Mystery Illness That Struck Oscar Wilde's Wife Finally Identified
A new analysis of her unpublished letters suggests that she most likely had multiple sclerosis. The diagnosis, published today (Jan. 2) in the medical journal The Lancet, comes 116 years after Constance's death at age 40. At the time she died, Constance was living in exile in Genoa, Italy, with her…
Police in California seek man who wounded 3, left baby dead
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police pleaded for the public's help Monday to find a gunman who shot the parents and uncle of a 3-week-old baby girl who later was found dead in a trash bin near the Mexican border 120 miles from her home.
Doorless India village sure thieves won't be knocking
Members of the Gade family proudly show off a stash of Indian rupees kept in an unlocked tin barrel in their bedroom, despite their home not having a front door. In Shani Shingnapur village in western India, residents see little need for such security, thanks to their belief in special protection…
