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Officials in West Hollywood, Calif., are warning members of the public to protect themselves against meningococcal infection, an illness caused by a bacteria or virus that can be fatal.City Councilman John Duran held a news conference Friday afternoon alongside Chris Brown, director of health and mental health for the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, to sound an alarm.See original report at NBCLosAn...
A gun once owned by a rogue former LAPD officer who killed four people before fatally shooting himself after a frenzied manhunt is being auctioned by a southern Nevada pawn gun dealer.George Bramlett, at Bargain Pawn in North Las Vegas, thinks the .38 Special that Christopher Dorner sold him in January – one month before Dorner's revenge-fueled killing spree began – might fetch a couple of tho...
ALBANY, New York - A New York state high school English teacher who asked students to imagine they were Nazis and give reasons why Jews were evil could be reprimanded or dismissed, a school district superintendent said on Friday.City School District of Albany Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard apologized at a news conference and pledged officials would personally express regret to Alba...
The list includes 16 people directly related to the case of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in his jail cell in 2009, as well as two others, a senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity. Those named on the list will be subject to visa bans and asset freezes in the United States under a law passed by Congress last year. One U.S. lawmaker said the list was...
A Tennessee state senator dropped an effort to link welfare to the children's grades after an 8-year-old girl confronted him with a petition -- and a choir -- opposing the bill.Republican state Sen. Stacey Campfield’s proposal, officially called the "Education to End Poverty Act," was nicknamed the "Starve the Children" bill by opponents and was widely criticized in national and local media.The bi...
The annual Fleet Week in New York City may not be canceled this year, but a U.S. Navy official says it will be scaled back significantly from recent years because of sequestration."It's not going to look like anything we've seen in the past," the official said, adding that the Navy "is not going to be able to support it like we have in the past."Read more at NBCNewYork.comDepartment of Defense pol...
The home of a former Kaufman County, Texas, judge who says he was questioned by agents just hours after District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were shot to death was searched Friday afternoon.Local, state and federal agents were at the home in the 1600 block of Overlook Drive in Kaufman executing a search warrant.See original story at NBCDFW.comThe FBI, Texas Rangers and Kaufman County in...
This article, the second in a series on the paths to citizenship, is part of NBC News’ special report “Immigration Nation,” an in-depth examination of immigration in America. For Sergio Garcia, the magic number is 25. That's how many years he will have waited for his green card if, as he estimates, he gets it in 2019.Garcia, 36, is one of millions of immigrants seeking a green card, or legal perm...
A Colorado teen pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and kidnapping in the kidnap-slaying and dismemberment of a 10-year-old girl that panicked Denver-area residents last fall — despite police testimony that the suspect confessed to the crime.Austin Sigg, 18, stunned a courtroom by entering the not-guilty pleas in the death of Jessica Ridgeway in the Denver suburb of Westminster. Sigg also ple...
