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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction – and the White House said he will be tried in a civilian court.“He will not be treated as an enemy combatant. We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.“Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in mi...
An Oregon man is in custody after he allegedly used his 7-month-old son as a shield during a standoff with police Saturday.Police in Estacada, a small town about 30 miles southeast of Portland, were trying to speak with Raleigh Reynolds, 25, about a burglary investigation when they saw him run from his house, jump a fence and hide at his sister's house next door, Sgt. Robert Wurpes, of the Clackam...
Authorities say the driver involved in a fatal bus crash earlier this month failed to maintain his lane along a North Texas highway before the bus careened off the roadway and struck a concrete barrier.Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Lonny Haschel said Monday a preliminary investigation found no defect with the Cardinal Coach Line bus and faulted 65-year-old bus driver Loyd Rieve.The bus wa...
The North Dakota AFL-CIO is calling out the hypocrisy of legislative Republicans and asking the state's residents to demand that Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) veto a bill that would deny locked-out workers unemployment benefits. According to an action alert sent out by the state federation, extreme right-wing Republicans in the legislature have voted to both deny locked-out workers unemployment benefits and to give themselves pay raises and more benefits.
A man who says he was abducted by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects during a carjacking told police the suspects said they would not kill him because he “wasn’t American.”The man, who has asked that his identity not be revealed, told NBC News that he managed to escape Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s clutches, describing them as “brutal and cautious.”Details of the Thursday night carjacking – p...
