Category: National News
Three dead, more hurt in Vegas gun battle and crash
Feb. 21, 2013 – 9:15 By Ken Ritter (AP) VEGAS (AP) — Three people were killed and at least three injured in a gun battle between moving vehicles that ultimately crashed at a busy intersection on the Las Vegas Strip, police said. Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a taxi that burst into [...]
Update in CA shooting spree; 911 calls show fear and anger
Feb. 21, 2013 – 9:04 am By Gillian Flaccus (AP) TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — The construction worker was in a panic. He shouted into his phone. “There is one guy down! It’s a white truck! There are shots fired! … The guy has a shotgun and I need an ambulance too! There is someone who [...]
Three dead in California shooting spree
Feb. 20, 2013 BY GILLIAN FLACCUS ASSOCIATED PRESS TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — The early morning commute was just getting under way on suburban Orange County’s network of freeways when Melvin Lee Edwards pulled up to a stop sign near a busy off-ramp. It was just after 5 a.m. and Edwards, 69, was on his way to [...]
Video Update:One body recovered 14 hurt in Kansas City fire
Feb. 20, 2013 – 4:20 pm ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Feb. 20, 2013 BY DANA FIELDS AND MARIA SUDEKUM ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities were bringing in heavy equipment Wednesday to remove blackened rubble and aid their search for a missing employee of a popular Kansas City restaurant destroyed by a gas explosion and the ensuing [...]
Singer Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide
BY CHRIS TALBOTT AND JEANNIE NUSS ASSOCIATED PRESS HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday in Arkansas in an apparent suicide. She was 37. The Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that McCready was found dead [...]
Report: Bill would set an 8-year path to residency
By ALICIA A. CALDWEL WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today. President Barack Obama’s bill [...]
The final days of Chris Dorner
Big Bear Lake, CA (AP) — As soon as he heard officers were chasing the suspected cop killer in a stolen truck, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Roger Loftis was certain: His buddy Jeremiah MacKay would be there. In 15 years with the department, “Jer” had earned about a dozen and a half awards for [...]
Kansas City-area man was arrested in the killings of two prostitutes
AP – Kansas City, MO Feb. 17, 2013 A Kansas City-area man was arrested Saturday in the killings of two prostitutes whose bodies were found posed on the sides of rural Missouri roads nearly a year apart. At a news conference Saturday night, authorities said Derek Richardson, 27, has been charged with two counts of [...]
San Francisco Bay meteorite?
SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents in California reported seeing an unusual flash of light over the San Francisco Bay area that left many startled and thrilled. Based on reports, the light streaking in the [...]
Police believe Dorner took his own life
(AP) Feb. 15 2013 “The information that we have right now seems to indicate that the wound that took Christopher Dorner’s life was self-inflicted,” sheriff’s Capt. Kevin Lacy told reporters at a news conference. Authorities initially were unsure whether Dorner killed himself, had been struck by a deputy’s bullet or had died in a fire [...]
