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There’s been plenty of talk among Washington Republicans about the need to recruit better candidates, the kind who will avoid cringe-worthy campaign moments that did in several GOP candidates last fall, and weighed down the party nationwide.But there are already several conservatives gearing up for high-profile races over the next two years who threaten to stop that effort in its tracks.Following ...
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Like many Americans who move to the suburbs, Tara Simons came to West Hartford because she wanted her daughter to grow up in a nice, safe place with good schools.Her fall from a more financially secure suburban life to one among the working poor also happened for the same reason it’s happened to so many others. She had a bout of unemployment and couldn’t find a new job that ...
A Marine opened fire on two of his comrades late Thursday at a major base in Quantico, Va., before turning the gun on himself, a military spokesman said.All three Marines were killed in the shooting, which occurred in the barracks area of the Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps Base Quantico in suburban Washington, Sgt. Christopher Zahn said early Friday, adding that the assailant was believ...
A Marine opened fire on two of his comrades late Thursday at a major base in Quantico, Va., before turning the gun on himself, a military official said.All three Marines were killed in the shooting, which occurred in the barracks area of the Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps Base Quanitco in suburban Washington, spokesman Sgt. Christopher Zahn said early Friday, adding that the assailant w...
Three people were killed in a shooting at the Marine base in Quantico, Va., Thursday night, officials told NBC News.The assailant shot and killed two others and then himself in the barracks area of the Officer Candidate School campus, Marine Corps spokesman Sgt. Christopher Zahn said early Friday, adding that it remained unclear whether the victims and the shooter were civilians or Marines.The sho...
One person was killed in a shooting at the Marine base Quantico, Va. Thursday night, officials told NBC News.The shooting was reported at around 11 p.m. Prince William County and military police responded to the scene.A suspect is believed to be isolated in the barrack of the Officer Candidate School campus and the base is in lockdown, Lt. Agustin Solivan told NBC News.A message posted on Quantico...
David Ranta is hugged by family members after Judge Miriam Cyrulnik freed him, in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Ranta, 58, who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed on Thursday after a reinvestigation of his case cast serious doubt on evidence used to convict him in the Feb. 8, 1990 shooting of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger.Read the full story.
Two gay California couples who are leading the legal fight to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage said Thursday on the eve of their landmark Supreme Court hearing that they were relieved to have "the end in sight" and believe the justices will step in "to right these wrongs."Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, are the faces to the challenge to Proposition 8, a ...
Five teenagers have been charged in the carjacking and abduction of an 89-year-old woman from Lincoln, Del.Delaware State Police say Margaret Smith was approached on Monday by two teen girls at the Chicken Man convenience store in Milford, who asked her for a ride.Smith agreed and drove the two girls to a house in the Lincoln area, but when they arrived, police say the teenagers demanded her k...
A day after he walked out of a Kansas City, Mo., jail cell, the man who disrupted a speech by Mayor Sly James earlier this week said Thursday he's running for mayor himself.Derron Black, 31, jumped onto the podium Tuesday during James' annual State of the City address, then knocked over a flag, took the microphone and began an obscenity-laced complaint about neglect of the city's poorer neighborho...
