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The governor of Colorado on Friday ordered the National Guard into a town outside Boulder in hopes of evacuating hundreds of people feared stranded by floods that were ravaging the state for a third day.
Following Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto Thursday of a living wage bill for workers in big-box stores such as Walmart, backers of Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA) are mounting a campaign to override the veto.The bill, which sets a $12.50 wage for workers, passed the D.C. City Council in June by an 8–5 vote, and an override requires nine votes. The Metropolitan Washington Council’s e-news Union City reports that LRAA backers are focusing on D.C. Council member Tommy Wells for the ninth vote.
The raging boardwalk fire that turned six blocks of New Jersey shoreline attractions into embers on Thursday evening still smoldered the next morning, and authorities began to look for a cause for the blaze that dealt a heavy blow to an area just beginning to recover from Hurricane Sandy.
A 30-foot deep "surge of water, mud, rocks and debris" dissipated before reaching the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., emergency officials said early Friday.
A judge on Thursday ordered a Montana woman who allegedly killed her new husband by pushing him off a cliff to be released from jail and placed in her parents' custody pending trial, legal documents show.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Four people were found shot to death in a car near a remote gated community about 100 miles east of Nashville, Tennessee, early Thursday, police said.
The devastation wrought by a monstrous fire that raged across an iconic Jersey Shore boardwalk Thursday was like a punch in the gut to many locals and officials who just four months ago celebrated the reopening of two beach communities ravaged by Superstorm Sandy.
A 30-foot deep "surge of water, mud, rocks and debris" was heading toward the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., early Friday, emergency officials warned.
Two Washington state teens accused of brutally beating to death an 88-year-old World War II veteran in Spokane last month pleaded not guilty to all charges in court Thursday, NBC station KHQ reported.
