Minnesota woman credits her dog for detecting breast cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KIMT) – Doctors recommend women start getting regular mammograms at 40 years old to detect breast cancer. In the fall of 2014, a student attending classes at Minnesota School of...
View ArticleTexas cuts off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas announced Monday that it was cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics following undercover videos featuring discussions about fetal tissue, potentially...
View ArticleStudy reveals workers’ ridiculous excuses when calling in sick
(WFLA) — Ever call in sick to work when you’re not sick at all? If so, you’re not alone. The results of a new study from CareerBuilder found that a greater percentage of people are calling in sick when...
View ArticlePicture of Titanic iceberg to be auctioned
(CNN) – It’s a picture that may show the most infamous iceberg in history, and it’s going up for auction. The grainy black-and-white photo was taken on the morning of April 15, 1912. By the time the...
View ArticleChild gives teddy bear to Colorado teen suffering medical emergency
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (FOX21)— A local woman wants to thank the child who gave her daughter a teddy bear while the teen was having a medical emergency in Old Colorado City Saturday. Casi Dunavin...
View ArticleUpcoming nuke plant closure could roil New England markets
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – The impending retirement of Massachusetts’ only nuclear power plant could roil energy markets across New England, leading to greater reliance on natural gas, driving up carbon...
View ArticleReal bullet hits actor during Old West gunfight reenactment
TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) – An actor staging a historical gunfight in the Old West town of Tombstone was shot with a live round during a show that was supposed to use blanks, leading officials to put the...
View ArticleAging gangster accused of ‘Goodfellas’ heist goes on trial
NEW YORK (AP) – An aging gangster went on trial Monday on charges he was in on the $6 million Lufthansa holdup in 1978, a legendary theft dramatized in the hit film “Goodfellas.” The brazen armed...
View ArticleMan who killed deputy was charged with terrorizing wife
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Minnesota man who authorities say killed a sheriff’s deputy in a hospital over the weekend had terrorized his wife just a week earlier, according to a criminal complaint. Danny...
View ArticleClose calls with drones spur federal registration of owners
WASHINGTON (AP) – Concerned about rising reports of close calls and safety risks involving drones, the government announced Monday it will require many of the increasingly popular unmanned aircraft to...
View ArticleDemocrats: Benghazi testimony debunks GOP claims
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats on the House committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, issued a report Monday disputing what they say are unsubstantiated claims about former Secretary...
View ArticleUS appeals court upholds gun laws after Newtown massacre
NEW YORK (AP) – Gun control laws passed in New York and Connecticut to ban possession of semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School were...
View ArticleMonitors arrive after radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Radiation wasn’t immediately detected during fly-overs of a burned trench containing long-buried radioactive waste at a commercial disposal site in rural southern Nevada, state and...
View ArticleGovernment tightens payments to for-profit college ITT Tech
WASHINGTON (AP) – Education officials are placing new limits on federal student aid administered by struggling for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services. The move comes after the government...
View ArticleCrackdown: Amazon sues to stop phony product reviews
NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon is stepping up its fight against bogus product reviews on its site, suing more than 1,000 people for allegedly offering to post glowing write-ups for as little as $5 apiece. The...
View ArticlePolice describe suspect, seek clues after ZombiCon shooting
FORT MYERS, Florida (WKBN) – Fort Myers police released a vague description of a suspect who shot into a crowd during a zombie festival over the weekend, causing people dressed in ghoulish costumes to...
View ArticleBaltimore cop accused of biting man’s testicles loses job
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man is no longer an Anne Arundel County police officer after he was charged for public intoxication and accused of biting another man’s testicles during a fight outside a...
View ArticleRyan to seek speakership if House GOP unifies behind him
WASHINGTON (AP) – Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday that he will run for speaker, but only if they embrace him by week’s end as their consensus candidate – an ambitious bid to...
View ArticleNew York police officer responding to gun reports is shot
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City police officer responding to reports of a man with a gun has been shot and wounded in a gunfight. The officer has been taken to a hospital. His condition is unknown. The...
View Article4-year-old girl shot, killed in Albuquerque road rage incident
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Police say a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed during a road rage incident on I-40 Tuesday afternoon. I-40 westbound was shut down at Coors for nearly six hours. I-40 westbound...
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