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General Motors is recalling almost 200,000 SUVs because corrosion in the driver’s door could cause a short circuit that poses a fire risk.In a notice to consumers [see PDF link here] GM says affected owners should park vehicles outside until they can be repaired.The recall involves certain model year 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL and 2006-2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Bu...
During the more than a decade that Ariel Castro allegedly held kidnapped teenagers and young women captive in his home at 2207 Seymour Ave., police officers were within shouting distance of the house more than a thousand times, according to Cleveland Police Department records analyzed by NBC News.From the time the first kidnap victim vanished in August 2002 until the three women and a 6-year-old g...
A Utah man was critically injured Sunday after he was shot in the back of the head while attending Mass.Police in Ogden, Utah, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, say Charles Richard Jennings, 35, entered St. James Catholic Church and confronted the victim before shooting him. Authorities believe Jennings then pulled out a gun in the church and fired at the man, whose name has not yet been re...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Department's Office of Guantanamo Closure, shuttered since January and folded into...
A five-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand "for peace" right across the street from a notorious church in Kansas whose mission has been spread hate and homophobia wherever they go.The purpose behind young Jayden Sink's beverages is to raise money for a nonprofit organization called Planting Peace, which supports orphanages, works to conserve rainforests and provides medication to poverty-stricke...
An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme Court intervened. Paula Cooper's death sentence at such a young age sparked international protests and a plea for clemency from Pope John Paul II. Now 43 years old, Cooper is being given a second chance at ...
This may be the first incidence of someone threatening to blow up a building with a burrito.Brian Demarco, 50, was arrested late last week after he allegedly called the FBI’s Public Access line, based in West Virginia, on June 11 and said he was going to blow up the Albuquerque FBI field office by sending “a burrito with CO2 explosive inside of it,” according to a criminal complaint filed in the U...
