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By Al Henkel, Producer, NBC News FALFURRIAS, TEXAS -- Benny Martinez, the Chief Deputy of the Brooks County Sheriff’s office, gets out of his truck to give us a tour of the Falfurrias Burial Park. It’s depressing and sad. We’re just across the road from the Brooks County Fairgrounds.Headstones are neat, well-maintained. Most date from the turn of the century, resting places for the founders of t...
A three-alarm fire in New York City's the Bronx Saturday morning left 37 people injured, including one child and four adults who were in critical condition, fire department officials said.The fire broke out in an apartment on the fifth floor of a building on East 149th Street in Melrose at around 7:45 a.m. Authorities said smoke from the fire quickly spread throughout the 27-story high-rise."...
Speaking exclusively to NBC News, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is the first GOP senator to say publicly she will vote for the bipartisan compromise on expanded background checks for the sale of guns online and at gun shows.Collins said "I do intend to support it" now that she has reviewed the actual text of the Manchin-Toomey bill and calls it a "reasonable" approach. Collins described the Manchin...
A Senate proposal to expand criminal background checks to people who buy firearms at gun shows and online would increase sales at traditional gun stores, many retailers agree — and perhaps even hand licensed dealers a “sweetheart” boon that amounts to “an Obama tax,” according to one industry leader.The bipartisan plan to broaden background checks — fueled by anger from the mass shooting in Newtow...
A mother who lost her 6-year-old son in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School made an emotional plea for national gun-control legislation in an address from the White House.Francine Wheeler made her appeal in lieu of the president’s weekly address. Her appearance is the only time President Obama has handed the address to anyone other than Vice President Joe Biden since the two first took of...
SALMON, Idaho -- A transgender woman whose use of a women's restroom in an Idaho grocery store reportedly upset other customers has been cited for trespassing and banned from the store for a year, police said on Friday.A Rosauers supermarket in Lewiston asked police to charge 25-year-old Ally Robledo, who was born male but identifies as female, with the misdemeanor trespass charge on Monday, Lewis...
In just about any small town that has lost a big factory, you'll hear it was the union's fault. I live in Mayfield, Ky., population about 10,000. A big Continental General Tire plant was our factory. It’s been gone for a half-dozen years.
Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to wear and no panic because the aircraft they are sitting in is spiraling out of control. Instead of soaking in sensory information through their eyes and ears and fingers, drone pilots spend hours watching their crafts through their compute...
When Virginia approved restrictions that could force abortion clinics to close, it joined a rapidly growing list of states that are energizing social conservatives by making it more difficult for women to terminate pregnancies.Four other states have tightened abortion restrictions in less than two months — part of what abortion-rights groups say is an alarming trend since Republicans swept the 201...
A New Mexico woman is charged with child abuse after her son was mauled by bobcat at the zoo, allegedly because she took the boy across a protective barrier to get a closer look at the cat.Police say 22-year-old Courtney Hutchins ignored warning signs last month and hopped a metal barrier to the bobcat enclosure, NBC station KOB TV reported.Hutchin’s brother, who was also at the zoo that day, told...
