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Severe thunderstorms packing high winds, heavy rains, large hail and possibly tornadoes threatened much of Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma on Friday, a day after at tornadoes in the two states injured nine people.Tornado watches were in effect Friday morning across much of Arkansas, extending into southern Missouri and eastern Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service. Strong storms with p...
LONDON -- A 33-year-old Michigan woman who converted to Islam was among Westerners killed in Syria while fighting alongside rebels, according to reports on Friday.The family of Nicole Mansfield of Flint were informed of her death by the FBI on Thursday afternoon, her aunt told Reuters.She was killed alongside a British man, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human R...
NOGALES, Mexico -- Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother held for more than a week in a Mexico jail on suspicion of drug smuggling, was released late Thursday after the case against her was dismissed.The mother-of-seven, from Goodyear, Arizona, would return immediately to the United States, her lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz said.Maldonado, 42, had been detained since May 22, when she and her hu...
NOGALES, Mexico -- Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother held for more than a week in Mexico on suspicion of drug smuggling, was released late Thursday.The mother-of-seven, from Goodyear, Arizona, would return immediately to the United States, her lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz said.Outside the jail she told reporters she wanted to thank God, her lawyer and the media who who made sure her case w...
NOGALES, Mexico -- Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother held for more than a week in Mexico on suspicion of drug smuggling, was released late Thursday after the case against her was dismissed.The mother-of-seven, from Goodyear, Arizona, would return immediately to the United States, her lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz said.Outside the jail she told reporters she wanted to thank God, her lawyer a...
The father of a Cub Scout sat his son on his lap late last week and told him news that tore up both their hearts: The family was leaving the Boy Scouts.Aaron Butler, the leader of his 8-year-old son Evan’s Cub Scout Wolf den in Roseau, Minn., said he didn't explain to his eldest son exactly why they were walking away from an organization they loved so much, but he told NBC News that it was because...
Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats" — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are e...
NOGALES, Mexico -- An Arizona monther who had been held for more than a week in Mexico on suspicion of drug smuggling was released late Thursday.Yanira Maldonado of Goodyear, Arizona, would return immediately to the United States, her lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz said.Her husband, Gary Maldonado, crossed the border at Nogales, Ariz., to pick her up.Maldonado had been detained since May 22, wh...
An Arizona woman had been held for more than a week in Mexico on suspicion of drug smuggling was being released there late Thursday, her lawyer told NBC News from the prison.Yanira Maldonado of Goodyear, Arizona, was completing paperwork for her release, lawyer Jose Francisco Benitez Paz said by telephone from Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state. He said she would return immediately to the United Sta...
