| Reports: American dies fighting for ISIL Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:31 PM PDT  A U.S. citizen from California was killed fighting for ISIL in Syria: Free Syrian Army.
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| Serial stabbing suspect sues to be sent to Israel Posted: 26 Aug 2014 03:20 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A man serving a life sentence for murder in a series of stabbings in Michigan is suing to try to be sent to Israel, his native country.
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| Police: 9-year-old girl accidentally kills gun instructor Posted: 26 Aug 2014 02:16 PM PDT  A 9-year-old girl accidentally killed an Arizona shooting instructor as he was showing her how to use an automatic Uzi, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Feds propose ban on rope-swinging from Utah arches Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal officials have proposed a two-year ban on rope-swinging from iconic Utah arches and other high-flying activities at two popular landmarks that have led to deaths and injuries witnessed by visitors flocking to the sites for peaceful reflection.
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| Ex-Marine pleads not guilty to killing lover Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) — A former Marine has pleaded not guilty to killing the pregnant wife of another Marine.
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| Conrad Hilton hurt in car crash near Palm Springs Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:56 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Conrad Hilton received major injuries when he lost control of his BMW and crashed on a highway near Palm Springs over the weekend.
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| GM ignition-switch fund receives claims for more than 100 deaths Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A program to compensate victims of crashes linked to a faulty ignition switch in General Motors vehicles has received claims for 107 deaths as of Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the lawyer overseeing the program. Amy Weiss, a spokeswoman for Kenneth Feinberg, told Reuters that the 107 deaths were among 309 claims that have been submitted so far. Before a claim is deemed eligible, it will be evaluated by Feinberg and his staff to determine whether the ignition switch was in fact responsible for causing a serious physical injury or death. The number of death claims submitted already far exceeds the 13 deaths that GM has officially attributed to the switch, which prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles earlier this year.
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| Jeter recalls day he and Rivera were sent down Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — It's the type of anecdote that sounds like an urban legend: The New York Yankees once sent Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera down to the minors at the same time?
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| Wine + Food Wire: 10 Charleston Wine + Food Tickets to Grab Tomorrow Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT  The BB&T Charleston Wine + Food Festival launched their new website and list of events for the upcoming 2015 season. Tickets are snapped up in a matter of moments, and those wanting first dibs will need to sign up...
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| Coming Attractions: Schilling Cider House's 32 Taps Start Flowing Next Weekend in Fremont Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:53 PM PDT  Schilling Cider House opens soon with stats that rival or beat most beer-based tasting rooms and many bars: Expect 32 tap ciders and more than 250 craft ciders in the bottle at the Fremont spot near Milstead & Co....
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| 2 new Maya civilization centers studied in Mexico Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:50 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two lost Maya cities recently uncovered by an international team of scientists in Mexico could help decipher the story of the empire's early capitals to the south that were eventually abandoned for large cities on the Yucatan peninsula.
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| Women talk about sports on CBS Sports Network Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:50 PM PDT  CBS officials talked about an all-women sports show for more than a year, and now they're set to make television history.
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| Hurricane Cristobal moving away from U.S., but rip currents likely Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT  Hurricane Cristobal continued to turn to the northeast on Tuesday, moving away from the Bahamas and the United States coast but is still likely to stir up dangerous coastal conditions, the National Hurricane Center said. Centered about 460 miles (740 km) southwest of Bermuda, Cristobal had picked up speed to 15 mph (24 kph) with winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour), the NHC added. The center of Cristobal is expected to pass northwest of Bermuda on Wednesday, causing tropical storm conditions on the British territory about 640 miles (1,030 km) off the coast of North Carolina. "Swells generated by Cristobal are affecting portions of the United States east coast from central Florida northward to North Carolina ... and will spread northward later this week," the Miami-based forecast office warned, adding that life-threatening surf and rip current conditions were likely.
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| 3 bodies of family members found in Oregon lake Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT  Divers have recovered the bodies of a 40-year-old mother and her two children a day after another family member — a 3-year-old grandchild — was found drowned.
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| EaterWire: T-Doug's Salmon Chanted Evening; KuKuRuZa in Cairo Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT  ARBITRARY LISTICLES—Palace Kitchen's Palace Burger Royale is one of the Best Burgers in the US as voted by Zagat readers. T-Doug's $17, half-pound burger is served with fries on a bun from Dahlia Bakery. Brave Horse Tavern and Li'l Woody's...
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| Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger in gigantic 256-page FCC petition Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  Netflix has filed a 256-page petition with the FCC asking the regulator to deny the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable because it would cause "serious public interest harm." FROM EARLIER: Netflix rails against ISPs even as it agrees to pay off yet another one for better connections Netflix has defended Net Neutrality numerous times before, all the while having to ink interconnect deals with four major ISPs (including Comcast and TWC) to ensure its customers get an enjoyable movie streaming experience. In its lengthy FCC petition, Netflix explains that a Comcast-TWC giant would have huge leverage over Netflix, Hulu and other competing providers, as it would not only be in a position to charge these services fees for faster service, but also provide competing video-on-demand services
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| Review: 'As Above' so-so Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," is the inscription uncovered by a gang of 20-something treasure hunters in the catacomb-hopping horror flick, "As Above, So Below." But the warning could easily apply to viewers checking out this rather hopeless mash-up of "The Descent" and "(Rec)," not to mention a dozen other found-footage movies that have clogged the screens over the last five years.
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| Miley Cyrus' MTV awards date wanted on probation violation Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  The young homeless man who accepted Miley Cyrus' MTV Music Video Award has a warrant for his arrest in Oregon on a probation violation, his probation officer said on Tuesday. Lee Warren, the Polk County probation officer of 22-year-old Jesse Helt, said local authorities were unsuccessful in finding Helt in Salem, Oregon after his mother told the Oregonian newspaper that Cyrus had given him money to fly home. Cyrus, 21, opted not to collect the video of the year award on Sunday for her hit "Wrecking Ball" and instead sent Helt in her place as a way to draw awareness to youth homelessness.
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| Ex-Virginia governor spars with prosecutor in corruption trial Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT  By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - Former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell said on Tuesday a federal prosecutor was "completely off base" to suggest that he had provided help to a dietary supplement businessman in exchange for loans. In a heated fifth day on the witness stand in his federal corruption trial, McDonnell said there was no link between $50,000 in loans to a realty company McDonnell was a partner in and help he may have given the entrepreneur, Jonnie Williams Sr. "You're completely off base," McDonnell, a Republican whose four-year term ended in January, told Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dry during the second day of his cross-examination in a packed U.S.
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| Detroit's $1.8 billion refunding bonds priced in muni market Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:41 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Detroit completed the pricing on Tuesday of $1.8 billion of water and sewer refinancing bonds related to a tender offer aimed at dealing with a big chunk of the bankrupt city's debt. A day after receiving approval from a federal judge overseeing its historic bankruptcy case, Detroit offered the bonds in the U.S. Underwriters led by Citigroup priced $937 million of sewage disposal system senior lien bonds with a top yield of 5.10 percent for term bonds subject to the alternative minimum tax and due in 2044. Uninsured senior lien bonds were priced to yield 4.73 percent in 2034, and yields on insured second lien bonds reached 4.87 percent in 2036.
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| Curbed Inside: Take a Tour Through Ktown's New The Vermont Rental Towers Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:41 PM PDT  Koreatown's The Vermont is big, it's expensive, and it's called itself the "largest residential project under construction since the recession began in 2008." If the idea is to make a splash, to shout, "Ktown is coming up!" then it's...
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| Herd mentality: 'Sheepdog mystery' solved at last Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT  There is the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. The answer, revealed on Tuesday in a journal published by Britain's prestigious Royal Society, is that sheepdogs cleverly follow a simple rulebook. Researchers fitted highly accurate GPS tracking devices into backpacks that were then placed on a trained Australian Kelpie sheepdog and on a flock of 46 female merino sheep in a five-hectare (12-acre) field. "It basically sees white, fluffy things in front of it," said Andrew King of Swansea University in Wales.
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| Police: Plane stowaway arrested at Phoenix airport Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:34 PM PDT  A woman accused of trying to sneak aboard multiple flights and sentenced to jail for one incident in California has been arrested at a Phoenix airport.
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| Spider Personalities Shine Among Friends Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT  Results showed that social interactions can shape an animal's personality, said study leader Andreas Modlmeier, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. The study builds on a theory of animal behavior known as "social niche specialization." The idea is that within social groups, individuals have to stand out from each other, and will thus develop distinct personalities — defined, in this case, as differences in behavior. These spiders live together in communally built webs of up to 2,000 individuals, Modlmeier said.
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| Pryor invokes Ebola outbreak in new TV attack ad Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:29 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor invoked the Ebola outbreak in a new television ad unveiled this week criticizing his Republican rival over a vote against medical disaster funding, injecting fears about the deadly disease into an already intense race.
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| Hull sign Tottenham stalwart Dawson Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT  Hull City announced on Tuesday that they have signed English centre-back Michael Dawson from Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee. Dawson, 30, has signed a three-year contract at the KC Stadium, having decided to end a nine-year association with Tottenham that saw him appointed club captain in 2012. "I have been here for almost a decade and have loved every minute of it," Dawson said on Tottenham's official Twitter feed. Dawson, who has won four England caps, is the sixth new player to join Hull during the close season after Tom Ince, Jake Livermore, Robert Snodgrass, Andrew Robertson and Harry Maguire.
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| Police: Slain woman ID'd ex-deputy as her attacker Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:27 PM PDT  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A woman told police before she died that she had been shot by her brother-in-law, a newly retired Wisconsin sheriff's deputy suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, according to new court documents.
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| Official: Puerto Rico parrot births mark comeback Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:27 PM PDT  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two endangered Puerto Rican parrots were born in the wild in a natural nest found outside a national forest in the U.S. territory for the first time in 144 years, officials said Tuesday.
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| Celebrations erupt after Israel-Hamas deal Posted: 26 Aug 2014 02:43 PM PDT  Agreement details open-ended Gaza cease-fire, ends the 7-week war that killed 2,200.
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| Obama likely to hit ISIL in Syria without Congress’s OK Posted: 26 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  Obama unlikely to wait for green light to expand U.S. air war against ISIL beyond Iraq.
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| Sanctions-hit Russian economy nears recession Posted: 26 Aug 2014 08:54 AM PDT  The Russian economy is nearing recession, officials said Tuesday, with punishing Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict set to keep growth at ultra-low levels and drive up inflation. "The economy is close to recession," said Oleg Zasov, the head of forecasting at the economy ministry, according to Russian news agencies. Russia's statistics office reported earlier this month that the economy grew by 0.8 percent in the second quarter on an annual comparison. Seasonally-adjusted quarterly data has yet to be released, which could show that Russia entered a technical recession as the economy contracted by 0.5 percent in the first three months of the year.
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| Ukraine, Russia hold first bilateral talks Posted: 26 Aug 2014 04:17 PM PDT  Ukrainian Pres. Poroshenko and Russia's Putin have set out different paths to peace in Ukraine.
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| Soggy start: Burning Man crews stuck at Wal-Mart Posted: 26 Aug 2014 11:57 AM PDT  Ah, Burning Man, the annual weeklong rave that draws thousands of free-thinkers to a remote spot in the Nevada desert. It's a festival so remote and bizarre that the only limit to free expression is imagination ... and that dust that always gets into the electronics.
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| Lawyer: Audio shows gap in firing when Michael Brown was shot Posted: 26 Aug 2014 10:48 AM PDT  A previously undisclosed sound recording captured the shooting of Michael Brown by a white police officer, CNN reported Tuesday, as it broadcast what it said appeared to be audio from the gunfire that killed the unarmed black teen. The man was said to have been recording a Skype conversation at the same time as the deadly encounter nearby between Brown and the police officer, CNN said. The man who made the recording wishes to remain anonymous, said his lawyer Lopa Blumenthal, who said it could have "huge relevance" in the case -- particularly the pause in the shooting. A grand jury is hearing evidence to determine whether police officer Darren Wilson, 28, used excessive force in fatally shooing Brown, who autopsies found had been shot six times.
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| ISIL demands $6.6M ransom for U.S. female aid worker Posted: 26 Aug 2014 01:13 PM PDT  Family of 26-year-old hostage said jihadist terror group threatened to kill if demand not met.
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| 3 killed in UN helicopter crash in South Sudan Posted: 26 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT  A rebel commander who warned the U.N. not to fly over his territory shot down a U.N. helicopter Tuesday in rural South Sudan, charged a spokesman for a state governor.
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| China tests drone, destroys 'enemy' vehicle with missile Posted: 26 Aug 2014 02:32 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China's air force said it deployed an armed drone to multinational anti-terrorism drills on Tuesday, underscoring the country's rapid progress in developing unmanned aerial vehicles.
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| Four college students killed in Cleveland plane crash Posted: 26 Aug 2014 03:23 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A small rented airplane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff Monday, killing four college students who were taking a sightseeing flight around Cleveland after their first day of classes.
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| Scotland Yard wants to know about 'aspiring terrorists' Posted: 26 Aug 2014 08:10 AM PDT Scotland Yard wants people to inform on "radicalized" family, friends and neighbors. |
| Report: 1,400 children exploited in U.K. town Posted: 26 Aug 2014 03:10 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of "collective failures" by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period.
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