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A series of wildfires flared up across three separate regions of Colorado on Tuesday, burning across thousands of acres and forcing evacuations as the fires stretched the limits of state and local fire agencies.A red flag warning was put into effect for southeastern Colorado through Tuesday night as 95-degree temperatures and strong winds contributed to “critical fire weather conditions,” the Nati...
An effort to place military sex assault cases in the hands of an independent prosecutor was thwarted late Tuesday when Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin sided with the top brass – and against a fellow Democrat.Levin (D-Mich.) stripped a proposal by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) from the policy-setting Defense Authorization Act, replacing it with a measure that instead requires senior...
How does Prism work? We have precious few details about the technical workings of the National Security Agency's global surveillance program, despite all the leaks and all the media coverage. That leaves the public and the technology community much like the blind men and the elephant.Details matter. Depending on which part of the elephant you touch, Prism is either a system that lets the NSA read,...
It’s been more than 30 years, but former FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick remembers well his first meeting with accused Boston mob kingpin and future fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger.“When I interviewed him, he said he was not an informant and I found that odd because my whole reason for going out there was to assess him as an informant,” Fitzpatrick said on the eve of opening statements in Bulger’s fed...
A patient was killed and two other people were critically injured Tuesday when a medical helicopter crashed at a hospital in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, authorities said.The Eagle Med helicopter was carrying the patient, a pilot, a nurse and a paramedic when it crashed on takeoff from Choctaw Nation Health Care Center near Talihina, about 150 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, about 6:30 p.m. (...
By Amber Payne, Producer, NBC NewsAt the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama, 300 children with unbridled energy are ordered to scream at the top of their lungs, three times. As their joyous shrieking fills the auditorium, Tyler Merriweather smiles and joins right in. Ten years ago Merriweather was a "club kid," as he affectionately calls them. He found security, escape and emotional release fro...
