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NY Angel Flight dead IDd as cancer patient wife
in the wooded area day before. The twin engine plane was flown by an Angel Flight volunteer pilot and was carrying at least two passengers when it took off from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y. on Friday. Angel Flight is a nonprofit group that arranges free air transportation for sick patients from volunteer pilots. (AP Photo/The Daily Gazette, Bethany Bump) NO ...
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San Antonio area braces for more possible flooding
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- San Antonio and the surrounding counties along rain-swollen rivers are bracing for the possibility of more flooding amid storm ...
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Rare 3-Planet Sight Tonight See Jupiter Mercury and Venus Together
Three planets will perform a rare celestial dance in the sunset sky tonight (May 26), a cosmic show that stars Jupiter, Venus and Mercury. Weather permitting, ...
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GOP continues to slam new Obama war approach
President Barack Obama walks with Col. Greg Urtso to board Air Force One, Sunday, May 26, 2013, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Moore, Okla., to visit with families and first responders in the wake of the tornadoes and severe weather that devastated the area. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Obama set to tour Oklahoma tornado response today
View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - President Barack Obama boards Air Force One, Sunday, May 26, 2013, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Moore, Okla., to visit with families and first responders ...
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10 things to know about the Indianapolis 500
View Photo Associated Press/Darron Cummings - IndyCar driver Marco Andretti waits in the pit area before the start of the final practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ...
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In prior overhaul legalized farmworkers prospered
With Congress considering a new immigration proposal that includes a speedier process to legal status for farmworkers, experts say the best indicator of how such an overhaul would play out is to look at the fate of the generation of farmworkers legalized over two decades ...
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Native American vets push for recognition
Before World War II and in the decades since, tens of thousands of American Indians have enlisted in the Armed Forces to serve their country at a rate much greater than any other ...
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Kenya UK soldier killing suspect arrested in 2010
Michael Adebolajo was believed to have been preparing to train and fight with the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab in 2010 when he was arrested with five others, Kenya's anti-terrorism police unit ...
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NYPD investigating Amanda Bynes sexual harassment claims
The New York Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau has launched an investigation into Amanda Bynes' claim she was sexually harassed by the two officers who arrested her for throwing a bong out of a ...
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Crews still searching for pilot of NY Angel Flight
EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities investigating the crash of a volunteer medical flight returned to the site Sunday to scour the woods and a nearby pond for the pilot, who remains missing days after the bodies of two passengers were ...
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High-tech industry big winner after Senate committee OKs immigration bill
FILE In this May 20, 2013, file photo Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington as the committee assembled to work on a landmark immigration bill. More than any other group, the high-tech industry got big wins in the approved immigration bill that week. It amounted to a bonanza for the industry, ...
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Frankfurt weathers euro crisis better than rivals
With banking union brewing and London mulling an EU exit, analysts are wondering whether Frankfurt is ready to take on the mantle as Europe's unchallenged financial ...
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China to hold talks with EU over trade dispute
European Commission tomorrow to discuss a trade row over solar panels and wireless equipment, laying the ground for formal negotiations amid concerns of an escalating ...
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U.K. sets up task force to target radical preachers
east London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife. It also raised questions about the reach of the terrorist group al-Shabab, after a British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the group.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, ...
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French police search for man who stabbed soldier
Saturday's stabbing came just days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes. However, there was no immediate confirmation of any link to the France ...
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Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has hailed a priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia and urged mobsters to stop exploiting people in criminal rackets including ...
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Paper Ireland considering reform of corporate tax system
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Apple Operations International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc, is seen in Hollyhill, Cork, in the south of Ireland May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Michael ...
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Rockets strike Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut suburb sparking fears that Syria conflict is spreading across border
Hezbollah has heavy backing from Shia Iran, with analysts in the region fearing that the Syrian conflict is turning into a proxy war in the ...
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Aid group describes siege of Afghan compound
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The head of an international aid agency has described how nine of its workers were trapped in a fortified room as an attack by the Taliban raged around them in Afghanistan's capital. He praised the work of the Afghan police who rescued them during an eight-hour battle in one of Kabul's most upscale ...
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Report Pistorius Fined for Unpaid Taxes
A South African newspaper says Oscar Pistorius has been fined for unpaid taxes after having to declare his assets in court during his bail hearing. The City Press newspaper reports Sunday that the South African Revenue Service audited and fined the double-amputee runner "less than one million rand" (under $105,000), which he ...
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2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold - NBC40.net
By ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Rockets slammed Sunday into two southern Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly moving to Lebanon. Lebanon's sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria, and Lebanese armed factions have taken sides in their neighbor's civil ...
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Trailblazing Israeli electric car company to fold
The company announced Sunday that it was filing for liquidation, marking a stunning end to an ambitious plan aimed at revolutionizing the auto industry by reducing the world's dependency on ...
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Iran fields massive number of missile launchers
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers. The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles. The report did not ...
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Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China Xinhua
Xinhua said. The pipeline has a capacity to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Energy released from the explosion knocked over people hundreds of meters away, Xinhua said, without detailing the length of the exploded pipeline. The government is investigating the cause of the explosion, the agency ...
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