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As he does almost every Sunday, Raymond Raborar was shopping in Walmart in San Jose, Calif. on Sunday, while his mother was nearby at church.But instead of having a peaceful shopping trip at the store at 777 Story Road, Raborar witnessed – and videotaped – a bizarre and violent scene on Easter Sunday, as his mother prayed at Iglesia Ni Cristo Church a few blocks away.A driver, identified Monday...
A human brain research program that could point to new strategies for dealing with illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and autism was expected to be unveiled by the White House Tuesday.President Barack Obama was due to launch the BRAIN Initiative, which a White House official touted as a "bold, new” move “designed to recognize our understanding of the human brain."It follows a pledge O...
Wyatt Erb couldn’t look away when he and his wife spotted a dog clinging to life as they walked near a creak in north-east Pennsylvania, Saturday. The lab mix was tied to a rock while inside the rising water.“The leash was actually hooked to a stone in the ground,” said Erb. “It’s not something the dog could have done by itself."Erb quickly took action and went inside the Neshaminy Creek, in Brist...
The body of an elderly woman missing since Saturday was found Monday at the bottom of a trash chute of the Chicago high-rise building in which she lived.Florence Banta, 80, lived on the 17th floor of the Astor Condominiums, in the 1500 block of North Astor Street.Her body was found on the ground floor of the trash chute by a building engineer, a Cook County Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman sa...
Phone records for two mobile numbers were being examined Monday as investigators probing the killing of a Texas prosecutor and his wife sought possible links to the January slaying of another area district attorney and amid suggestions that a white supremacist was involved.Authorities are looking at records for the two mobile numbers between Jan. 1 and Sunday, according to details of a search warr...
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributorDespite funding that has reached $5.8 billion annually and a slew of innovative community partnerships, the Obama administration is lagging in its goal to end homelessness among veterans – or, as federal veterans' leaders like to say, “drive to zero” – by the end of 2015.If the current rate of progress is maintained, roughly 45,000 veterans would still be withou...
NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Monday banning children under 17 from using commercial tanning beds, a move stemming from the case of a local woman accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth.Under the new law, youth age 17 and older must have a parent or guardian present for an initial consultation with a tanning salon. It also...
Texas officials theorized Monday that the slayings of a Texas prosecutor and his wife over the weekend and the shooting death of a prosecutor in the same county in January may have been the work of a white supremacist group chillingly called the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.Ten alleged members of the gang could face the death penalty if they're convicted of charges — including murder — in a federal ...
Ten people were seriously injured, some of them critically, when a car plowed into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant during the lunch rush Monday, authorities said.The car, which was traveling eastbound on Sahara Avenue a few blocks west of the Strip, swerved into the median, spun, hit two other cars and then barreled into the restaurant, witnesses told NBC station KSNV of Las Vegas. It was unclear w...
Connecticut lawmakers on Monday said they had reached an agreement on compromise gun control legislation that they said would be one of the toughest in the nation, 3½ months after 20 children and six other people were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school.The bill includes a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines like those Adam Lanza used to fire 154 shots in four 4 minutes Dec. 1...
