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4 dead after car crashes into Okla. State parade

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 10:15 AM PDT

Kansas v Oklahoma StateThe driver of the car, a 25-year-old woman, was arrested on suspicion of DUI.


Obama encouraging limits on standardized student tests

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 21, 2014 file photo, students at a summer reading academy at Buchanan elementary school work in the computer lab at the school in Oklahoma City. Wading into one of the most polarizing issues in education, President Barack Obama called Saturday for capping standardized testing at 2 percent of classroom time, while conceding the government shares responsibility for having turned tests into the be-all-and-end-all of American schools. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki,File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing one of education's most divisive issues, President Barack Obama on Saturday called for capping standardized testing at 2 percent of classroom time and said the government shares responsibility for turning tests into the be-all and end-all of American schools.


Megastorm Patricia inflicts little damage in Mexico

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 03:24 PM PDT

Map shows Hurricane Patricia’s projected path; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;CHAMELA, Mexico (AP) — Only a day after menacing Mexico as one of history's strongest storms, Hurricane Patricia left surprisingly little damage in its wake Saturday and quickly dissipated into an ordinary low-pressure system that posed little threat beyond heavy rain.


Car slams into crowd at Oklahoma parade; four killed, dozens injured

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 04:34 PM PDT

People attend to the injured at the scene of a car crash after a car drove into a homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University in StillwaterBy Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton STILLWATER, Okla. (Reuters) - A car with a suspected drunk driver at the wheel barreled into crowds watching a homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University on Saturday, killing four people and injuring more than 40 others, authorities said. Witnesses told of bodies being flung dozens of feet into the air as the gray Hyundai Elantra plowed into the throng at the intersection of Main Street and Hall of Fame Avenue in Stillwater, some 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Oklahoma City, at the end of the parade. "At first we thought it was part of the show," Konda Walker, a 1991 graduate of OSU, told the local Stillwater News Press.


Colorado movie gunman James Holmes assaulted by fellow prisoner

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 11:06 PM PDT

Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes listens at a court hearing before beginning his life sentence with no chance of parole, in Centennial, ColoradoConvicted mass killer James Holmes, who is serving multiple life sentences for gunning down a dozen people at a movie theater in 2012, was assaulted by another inmate at a high-security Colorado prison, a corrections official said on Friday. Holmes was not injured when he was attacked by 27-year-old Mark C. Daniels at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Daniels lunged at Holmes and "took some swings" at him as the two prisoners were being escorted by guards down a hallway inside the lockup on Oct. 8, she said.


Judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit over NSA surveillance - report

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 11:59 AM PDT

A National Security Agency data gathering facility is seen in Bluffdale, south of Salt Lake CityA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, the Baltimore Sun reported. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S. constitutional protections and the law by tapping into high-capacity cables, switches and routers that move Internet traffic through the United States. The case is one of a number of challenges made by privacy advocates against U.S. spying programs since 2013, when documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the long reach of secret government surveillance.


Paul Ryan prepares to ascend to speaker; pile of mess awaits

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 05:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2015 file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. walks from his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. The honeymoon might be over before it even begins for House Speaker-in-waiting Paul Ryan when he is elevated to the top job this week. The Wisconsin Republican, on track to prevail in secret-ballot GOP elections Wednesday and in a full House vote Thursday, would take over the speaker's chair at a moment of chaos notable even for a Congress where crisis has become routine. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)The honeymoon might be over before it even begins for House Speaker-in-waiting Paul Ryan when he is elevated to the top job this coming week.


4 dead, including 2-year-old, after homecoming parade crash

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 05:08 PM PDT

Vehicle crashes into OSU homecoming paradeA vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators Saturday during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing at least three people and injuring nearly two dozen others, police said


Kerry: Israel, Jordan working to ease holy site tensions

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 09:52 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, after their meeting at Abbas' residence in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015. Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence. "All the violence and the incitement to violence must stop. Leaders must lead," Kerry told reporters in the Jordanian capital after meeting with King Abdullah II and Abbas. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence.


Donald Trump pans Iowa polls, says Carson 'super low-energy'

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 06:36 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he addresses supporters during a campaign stop at the Trump National Doral Miami resort, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 in Doral, Fla.. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)MIAMI (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump dismissed polls that show him trailing Dr. Ben Carson in Iowa, calling the retired neurosurgeon "super low-energy" before a boisterous crowd in Miami on Friday night.


Dash of drama: How the Royals returned to the World Series

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