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A swarm of tornadoes tore through several counties in southern Mississippi and Alabama on Sunday, injuring at least 10 people and ripping apart hundreds of homes and other buildings, including parts of the University of Southern Mississippi, authorities said.
Authorities in Los Angeles have offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of a fired LA police officer sought in connection with a series of killings.
The items to be auctioned are part of the estate of David F. Powers, who was a close friend as well as Special Assistant to former President John F. Kennedy. Powers traveled with Kennedy from the beginning of his political career through the president's assassination in 1963.
Teenage birth rates fell 8 percent in a single year, from 2010 to 2011, the newest data shows. They’ve now plunged 25 percent since 2007 and they are down 49 percent since 1991, the federal government says.
Teenage birth rates fell 8 percent in a single year, from 2010 to 2011, the newest data shows. They’ve now plunged 25 percent since 2007 and they are down 49 percent since 1991, the federal government says.
Emergency officials in Mississippi are assessing damage after a tornado ripped through a populated area near the University of Southern Mississippi.
Three people have been killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show.
It was after midnight, early on a Saturday in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, and student Jason "Cowboy" Monson was at the police station to get back his Desert Eagle .45-caliber handgun. In McDonough, Ga., about the same time, two teenage brothers were still awake.
A newly released report commissioned by the family of late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno strongly challenges the conclusions by an earlier inquiry conducted for the university.
Police arrested two suspects Sunday morning who are being questioned in the death of slain teen Hadiya Pendleton.
