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Albuquerque police were hunting for a 31-year-old man Thursday after two young girls were abducted from the same apartment complex within a week.David Jesus Hernandez was described as a person of interest wanted for questioning in Wednesday's child-snatching, which ended when the mother of the 4-year-old victim chased the kidnapper with her car.Police said they were investigating a "possible conne...
New Orleans police said Thursday that they had arrested a second suspect in a shooting rampage that left 19 people injured at a Mother’s Day parade.Police identified the suspect as Shawn Scott, 24. His brother, Akein, was arrested late Wednesday and ordered held Thursday on $10 million bond. Each faces 20 counts of attempted murder, police said.Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said four other pe...
Dozens of families who lived in homes they helped build with their own hands saw their neighborhood devastated by a tornado that struck north Texas on Wednesday night.Habitat for Humanity, a Christian group that organizes volunteers to build homes for the needy, had worked with residents to construct 61 houses in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood that was battered by the twister in Granbury, Texas. A...
The Obama administration, four short months into its second term, finds itself beset by three political storms.Republicans in Congress, some Democrats and the press are pelting the White House with questions about the raid on an American post in Libya, the conduct of the Internal Revenue Service and the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press.Taken together, the three have consumed the ...
The Phoenix jury that convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder last week begins work Thursday on deciding whether she should live or die for gruesome killing of her onetime boyfriend.WATCH LIVE: Arguments over death penalty for Jodi AriasJurors declared Wednesday that Arias' actions were was so extreme that they could merit the death penalty, finding that she had been "especially cruel" in kill...
A judge set bond at $10 million on Thursday for the suspect in a shooting rampage that left 19 people injured at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans.The suspect, Akein Scott, is charged with 20 counts of attempted murder, and the bond reflected $500,000 on each court, NBC affiliate WDSU reported. Judge Gerard Hansen ordered Scott held at least until Tuesday, The Times-Picayune reported.Scott, 19,...
There will be no fish stories at this year's Winni Derby in New Hampshire.Organizers of the annual landlocked salmon-fishing contest will force the winner to take a polygraph exam to ensure the grand-prize specimen isn't imported from another lake or caught earlier."It's something that's always been in our rules, but it was never done before," derby chair Diane LaBrie said Thursday, the eve of the...
Before a company, say Oracle, would be allowed to recruit and hire foreign workers under the H1B visa program in the draft of the immigration bill now under consideration in the Senate, it first must give U.S. workers who are equally or better qualified the first shot at the jobs. That sounds like a patriotic no-brainer.But recent news reports outline a huge lobbying effort by high-tech firms—like Google and Microsoft—to get those pro-U.S. worker provisions out of the bill.
