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The National Zoo announced Saturday that a team of scientists and veterinarians had artificially inseminated the Zoo's female giant panda after natural breeding failed to occur.The statement said that Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated with a combination of fresh and frozen semen taken from the zoo's male panda, Tian Tian. The fresh semen was taken earlier Saturday morning, while the frozen se...
Investigators in Los Angeles named a 30-year-old man recently released from prison as part of a realignment program as being wanted in the case of a missing 10-year-old Northridge girl, who turned up barefoot and wounded in Woodland Hills last week.Police asked for the public’s help in finding Tobias Dustin Summers, who has a distinct tattoo on his right arm. Summers has a lengthy criminal hi...
The North Texas man who was the first American to receive a full face transplant has married another burn patient he met at a support group.Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, was severely injured in a bizarre construction accident in 2008 when he came in contact with a high-voltage power line.Jamie Nash, of Garland, nearly died in a car crash in Ennis in 2010. Her car erupted in flames, and she was...
Police say three people were shot Saturday in a shopping plaza near Pittsburgh, Pa., NBC affiliate WPXI reported. Police are still searching for the gunmen.The Foot Locker, Villa and Dollar Tree stores at the Edgewood Towne Center shopping plaza were shot up, police said. Police told WPXI the two shooters knew each other. One of the shooters was inside a store, while the other one was outside. P...
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. -- Mary Owen, a 23-year-old woman who disappeared after going hiking alone on Mount Hood, was found alive on Sandy Glacier by a National Guard Helicopter Saturday morning, officials said.Owen was reportedly taken by helicopter to Legacy Emanuel Hospital with some injuries and frostbite, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. Owen was found after a second day of s...
Business and labor groups have reached an agreement on a temporary worker program, a final major sticking point in negotiations over a draft comprehensive immigration reform bill.A source with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed the deal reached in principle to NBC News.The AFL-CIO and the US Chamber of Commerce had been tussling over wages for temporary workers authorized to work in the Unite...
Powerball multi-millionaire Pedro Quezada got another lucky break.A child support warrant against Quezada, the winner of the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in history, has been temporarily stayed pending a court appearance on Monday, a spokesman for the Passaic County Sheriff’s office confirmed to NBC News.Quezada, whose lucky numbers won him $338 million, is due to appear before a New Jersey su...
The body of a student pilot who was ejected from a small aircraft above an area east of Chattanooga, Tenn., in a freak accident Friday evening was found on Saturday, authorities said.The man’s body was located after 8 a.m. local time, Bob Gault, a spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff’s department, told NBC News.The accident occurred when the owner of the Zodiac 601XL plane was taking lessons f...
