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A journalist who could face jail time if she refuses to reveal the source of a report detailing the contents of a notebook Colorado massacre suspect James Holmes sent his psychiatrist won a temporary reprieve on Monday.Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr., who is presiding over the Aurora movie theater shooting case, ruled that he will not make Fox News reporter Jana Winter testify until he decides if the n...
ORANGE, Calif. — One of two hikers who got lost in the Southern California wilderness last week said Monday she remembers little about her four-day ordeal because she began hallucinating on the first night after the pair finished the three bottles of water they had and darkness fell.Kyndall Jack, 18, and her friend, Nicolas Cendoya, went missing on March 31 in Cleveland National Forest after ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark — The Republican-led Arkansas state Senate approved a measure on Monday that would require random drug testing of Arkansas residents who receive state unemployment benefits — a plan that the state's Democratic governor said could violate federal law.The bill, which passed on a 25-5 vote and now goes to a House committee, could affect about 85,000 Arkansas residents curre...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire — A New Hampshire man who took several members of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign staff hostage in 2007 was taken into custody on Monday on suspicion of leaving a halfway house overnight without permission.Leeland Eisenberg, 52, faces a charge of escape punishable by up to seven years in prison after he was re-arrested in the lobby of a community center in Man...
A 51-year-old Orlando man was arrested on charges that he stole a tractor trailer containing $75,000 worth of soup, authorities said.Eusebio Diaz Acosta, 51, faces charges of grand theft of cargo worth $50,000 or more and grand theft of a motor vehicle following his arrest early Sunday on the Florida’s Turnpike, according to authorities.Broward Circuit Judge John Hurley called the facts of the cas...
Closing arguments began Monday morning in the trial for a man who posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family after allegedly killing a Southern California man whose remains were unearthed decades later in his family's backyard.Christian Gerhartsreiter, who used several aliases that included Clark Rockefeller, is accused of murder in the death of John Sohus, whose remains were found by a c...
Authorities have suspended the search for a father and his 12-year-old daughter who were last seen kayaking in Lake Erie in Ohio.Rescue teams recovered two empty kayaks from Sandusky Bay on Sunday, but there was no sign of the girl or her 30-year-old father, officials said. The two are not believed to have been wearing life jackets. The two were first reported missing early Sunday by friend after ...
KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Forecasters called for strong hail and possible tornadoes in western Kansas and a blizzard in four other states on Monday in the first of what are expected to be several days of nasty weather in the middle of the country.The blizzard was expected to hit Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming on Monday. An Arctic cold front has triggered winter weather warnings over...
With the families of children killed in last year’s Newtown school shooting looking on, President Barack Obama on Monday made an emotional plea for Americans to urge Congress to pass new gun control measures."We all have to stand up," Obama said in a speech in Hartford, Conn., where he flew to try and maintain faltering momentum for a package of new gun laws the Senate could take up this week. "If...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday ordered the Pentagon's General Counsel to take the necessary steps to end the authority of commanding generals to overturn military court convictions.The Pentagon will seek legislation from Congress that would remove that authority under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).Hagel ordered the review after Air Force Lt. General Craig Franklin overturn...
