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The Pentagon is considering plans for a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards -- as part of an ambitious project recommended by the top general in charge of its operations, officials tell NBC News. The proposed spending spree comes amid mounting signs of unrest among Guantanamo d...
Authorities are asking the public for help finding an unknown gunman who shot dead the executive director of Colorado’s department of corrections at his home Tuesday night.Police believe the director, Tom Clements, was shot when he answered the door of his Monument, Colo. home. Why and by whom remain a mystery."Because of the fact that Mr. Clements served in the the position that he did as the exe...
An Oklahoma woman was recovering Wednesday from injuries she suffered when the pickup truck she was riding in struck a pack of feral hogs in the road this week — again raising the danger posed by the nation's rapidly growing population of wild pigs.Carolyn Martin, 63, of Ryan, Okla., was upgraded to serious condition at Oklahoma University Medical Center after initially having been listed as criti...
In a case that is drawing comparisons to the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case, police in a Connecticut town have charged two members of the high school football team with sexual assault involving different 13-year-old girls.At least one of the alleged victims has been reportedly taunted online.Though many of the details of the allegations are sealed from the public, two Torrington High School footbal...
Pleading to have jurors spare her son's life, the mother of a triple killer who lured his victims with Craigslist job offers testified Wednesday that he had a troubled childhood and suffered physical and sexual abuse. "I love Richard with all my heart," a teary-eyed Carol Beasley testified during the sentencing phase of the trial of her son, 53-year-old Richard Beasley. He was convicted last ...
Taking cross-branding to new highs, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Stanley "Flesh-N-Bone" Howse has partnered with a medical marijuana facility in Otisville, Mich., to create a new strain for patients in the area, Michigan Live reports."We worked closely together to figure out what we wanted out of the medication," said Anthony Butler, owner of the Green Oasis dispensary. The partnership will a...
Pleading to have jurors spare her son's life, the mother of a triple killer who lured his victims with Craigslist job offers testified Wednesday that he had a troubled childhood and suffered physical and sexual abuse. "I love Richard with all my heart," a teary-eyed Carol Beasley testified during the sentencing phase of the trial of her son, 53-year-old Richard Beasley. He was convicted last ...
A suspicious blast that leveled a home brought the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and explosive-detecting dogs to rural Pennsylvania on Tuesday, after the explosion killed a man who was due in court that day and injured two other people.
While the White House, Congress and outside groups debate the details of what the exact shape of the country's immigration system will be, an article from ABC-Univision details three shocking examples that make clear any legislation addressing the topic must include protections for temporary workers brought to the United States.
A 43-year-old man from Saudi Arabia has been indicted in federal court in Brooklyn and will stand trial on charges that he plotted to kill U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and U.S. diplomats in Nigeria, prosecutors said Wednesday afternoon.
