SAN FRANCISCO – One of two climbers attempting a grueling ascent up a half-mile of sheer granite in California’s Yosemite National Park is making a push to catch up with his partner. Thirty-year-old Kevin Jorgeson has been behind 36-year-old Tommy Caldwell for about a week as they try to scale …
Read More »Police say teen shot at Texas police station had lunged at officer with knife, Taser was used
LONGVIEW, Texas – A teenager fatally shot in an East Texas police station lobby was killed after she lunged at an officer with a butcher knife and a Taser failed to stop her, police said Wednesday Longview Police Chief Don Dingler and spokeswoman Kristie Brian provided new details about last …
Read More »Union: 7 fire department workers face discipline after probe into firefighter, paramedic sex
PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia firefighters union says seven fire department employees are facing discipline in an investigation of sex between firefighters and a female paramedic. The union said Friday that four of those employees are alleged to have had sex with the paramedic, including one inside a firehouse. It says …
Read More »Woman found dead in snow outside neighbor's New Jersey home amid subzero wind chill
LAKEWOOD, N.J. – Authorities say a New Jersey woman has been found dead in the snow just two doors from her home amid single-digit temperatures and subzero wind chills. Ocean County prosecutors say a neighbor found 66-year-old Olivia Benito shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday in a townhome development in Lakewood. …
Read More »US court rules former Bosnian prison guard eligible for extradition to face war-crimes charges
RICHMOND, Virginia – A federal appeals court says a former Bosnian prison camp guard living in Virginia is eligible for extradition to his native country to face war-crimes charges. The unanimous decision Wednesday by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a judge’s ruling in …
Read More »La. principal says gay student can't wear tuxedo to prom
A gay student in Louisiana says she is going to skip her prom because the school principal won’t let her wear a tuxedo. Claudettia Love, a senior and one of the top students at Carroll High in Monroe, said she was planning on going to the prom with a group …
Read More »Woman was batting away bee when stroller rolls into canal, killing twin toddlers, police say
YUMA, Ariz. – Police say a woman walking along an Arizona canal with her 18-month-old twin boys stopped to bat away a bee when her jogging stroller rolled into the flowing water, killing her sons. Yuma police said Tuesday that Alexis Keslar jumped into the canal Friday but couldn’t rescue …
Read More »California judge to reconsider serial rapist's freedom after neighbors complain
SAN FRANCISCO – Prosecutors are seeking to revoke the release of a serial rapist whose residence in a rural neighborhood has upset a Southern California desert community. Santa Clara County Judge Richard Loftus on Wednesday is expected to consider a request to lock up “Pillowcase Rapist” Christopher Hubbart in a …
Read More »Elderly man with prostitute under bed loses housing subsidy; he did booze runs for neighbors
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – Authorities say a man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted-living facility has lost his housing subsidy after officials found a prostitute underneath his bed. Uri Monson tells The Intelligencer in Doylestown (http://bit.ly/1cpH33U) the man, believed to be in his 70s, paid prostitutes using profits earned from peddling …
Read More »Beaver takes stroll down aisles of Alaska hardware store before being foiled in plumbing
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A beaver walked into an Alaska hardware store on Friday, but couldn’t find anything for his lodge. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://is.gd/6oWIqo) the beaver triggered the automatic doors and walked into Lowe’s about 7 a.m. Friday. Employees trapped the beaver with a cardboard box in the …
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