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A man arrested after police allegedly found guns and nearly 50 bombs in his vehicle New Year's Day is a specialist in the Indiana National Guard who trained as an intelligence analyst with a reconnaissance unit, a Guard official said.

BRISTOL, Conn. -- Police believe former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was in an SUV when someone inside shot two people to death in Boston in 2012, according to a search warrant filed in Connecticut.

The U.S. Forest Service wants a 77-year-old Wyoming man to pay $6.3 million for allegedly sparking a 2012 forest fire that threatened the upscale Western town of Jackson.The Forest Service sent James G. Anderson Jr.

The worst of the brutally cold "polar vortex" that plunged millions of Americans into a deep freeze was over Wednesday, forecasters said, but temperatures remained between 10 and 20 degrees lower than normal.

One crew member has died and another is missing after a U.S. Navy helicopter made an emergency water landing off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday, the Navy said.

Utah has ordered state offices not do anything that would recognize more than 1,000 same-sex marriages performed in the two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary halt to gay nuptials.

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty and worked with Congress to pass legislation designed to lower poverty levels and mitigate the effects of poverty on America's families. Not long after, the war on poverty initiatives went into effect, and started showing significant results, conservatives went on the attack, attempting to weaken, defund or eliminate many of the policies that were working quite well. But the program was so effective that it still helped, and helps, keep tens of millions of Americans out of poverty. Now Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is weighing in on the war on poverty by claiming that it has failed, a smoke screen that he and others are using to continue their agenda to weaken or eliminate the war on poverty.

Four crew members were rescued after a U.S. Navy helicopter made an emergency water landing off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday, but a fifth was still missing.The helicopter, a MH-53E Sea Dragon, went down in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning off the coast of Norfolk, the Navy tweeted.

A former Georgia banker accused of faking his own death after swindling investors out of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court.Aubrey Lee Price, 47, allegedly embezzled $21 million from the small southern Georgia bank he became director of in 2010.

Since the House GOP left 1.3 million people out in the cold this holiday season when it refused to extend emergency unemployment insurance benefits, working families advocates, including President Barack Obama, are continuing to urge Congress to do the right thing. Call your representative today and ask him or her to renew the emergency unemployment insurance benefits: 877-318-0483.