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The man alleged to have sent a letter to President Obama that initially tested positive for the poison ricin has been charged with threatening President Obama. The Justice Department announced the charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, on Thursday.Curtis, who has worked as an Elvis impersonator, was arrested on Wednesday as a suspect in the mailing of the suspicious letters to the president and U....
A former justice of the peace has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of a Texas district attorney, his wife and another prosecutor, Texas authorities said Thursday.Eric Williams, 46, the former Kaufman County official, is accused of shooting and killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, NBC 5 of Dallas rep...
An Oklahoma lawmaker says an insulting comment he made about Jews "came out of the wrinkles of my brain" and he regrets it.State Rep. Dennis Johnson was talking about bill on sale-pricing at retail outlets on the House floor on Wednesday when used a derogatory turn that refers to bargaining down a price, the Associated Press reported.Several of his colleagues objected and Johnson offered an apolog...
Rescue crews were going door to door Thursday in the ruins of a small Texas town where a fertilizer-plant explosion killed as many as 15 people, injured more than 160 and destroyed dozens of home and businesses, including a nursing home.Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared a disaster and asked for an emergency declaration from the federal government as officials said the devastation made it difficult to...
BOSTON, Mass. -- Scores of marathon runners, doctors, nurses and others descended on Boston on Thursday to join a memorial service to pay respect to the victims of the bombings that struck the iconic road race.Some in the crowd wore their blue-and-yellow Boston Marathon jackets, while some nurses attended in their blue scrubs. There were many large contingents of staff from the various city hospit...
A massive storm system carrying potentially severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and possibly even tornadoes was soaking the nation’s midsection on Thursday, with flash floods reported in Chicago and heavy rain expected to cause major flooding along the Mississippi River.Flooding in the Chicago area – with more than 4 inches of rain reported -- closed major expressways and filled up the city’s und...
In 2011, the labor movement committed, as part of the Clinton Global Initiative, to help facilitate $20 million in investment in energy-efficient retrofits. Today President Clinton joined AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFT President Randi Weingarten for a ribbon-cutting ceremony as work begins on an energy efficiency retrofit of the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C.
