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Rivers including the Mississippi and Illinois are expected to remain in “major flood stage” through this weekend, the National Weather Service warned on Tuesday.A number of flood warnings were in place as ongoing rain and runoff from last week’s intense downpours continued to keep the water levels high in rivers across Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan in particular, the NWS added.“Th...
One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives -- Eric Justin Toth, a former D.C. teacher accused of producing and possessing child pornography -- was detained by police in Nicaragua, sources said.Toth was found over the weekend. He had rented a room in a small town near Managua, was using an assumed name and had a fake passport.Nicaraguan National Police Chief Aminta Granera said he would be deported...
A suspected shoplifter was arrested after trying to steal more than 100 bottles of nail polish from a local CVS, police said.Marco Gonzalez, 42, entered the store in Middletown, Conn., on Thursday night and stuffed 102 bottles of nail polish into his sweatshirt and pants, police said.Police confronted him around 9 p.m. at the CVS on Washington Street.The nail polish bottles, made by Essie and Sall...
PHILADELPHIA -- A quick-thinking bank teller is being credited with helping to save the lives of seven people who were being held hostage. Police say three gunmen broke into the Levittown Trace Apartments on Ford Road in Pennsylvania's Bristol Township early Monday morning. The men, identified as 38-year-old Orlando McNeil, 21-year-old Daesean Smith and 18-year-old Dennis Redding, allegedly held f...
If you use your personal smartphone or tablet to read work email, your company may have to seize the device some day, and you may not get it back for months.Employees armed with a battery of smartphones and other gadgets they own are casually connecting to work email and other employer servers. It's a less-than-ideal security arrangement that technology pros call BYOD — bring your own device.Now, ...
Muslims helped foil an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to blow up a rail line between the United States and Canada, according to a community leader and police.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday that it had arrested Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, of Toronto, over what sources said was a plan to derail a train from the United States after it had crossed the border.Esseghaier...
BOSTON – Nearly 20 people out of the more than 170 wounded in the Boston Marathon bombings were hurt so badly that they had to have one or two limbs amputated -- while another 50 other injured runners and spectators are still in the hospital a week after the blast.But another group of hurt survivors are beginning the long roads to recovery at home, with hospitals releasing more people each day. Th...
Maybe they should have furloughed Chicken Little.Dire predictions to the contrary, the furlough of FAA air traffic controllers (ATC) that began on Sunday hasn’t led to massive delays and cancelations. Although there have been sporadic issues since then, it’s safe to say the nation’s air transportation system hasn’t come to a grinding halt and that the sky most definitely hasn’t fallen. “There are ...
Although Washington’s battle over gun control ground to a sudden halt earlier this month, proponents of overhaul legislation say the fight is far from over. But while the political ground may have shifted, there is no denying the massive sway of the National Rifle Association and the perception that the window of opportunity to strengthen gun laws in the wake of the Newtown shootings has closed.Fo...
The criminal complaint filed Monday against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev contains chilling new details about the attack and the aftermath:-- When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan allegedly carjacked an SUV on Thursday night, one of them pointed a gun at the driver and said, "Did you hear about the Boston explosion?...I did that." The gunman -- the complaint did not s...
