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| Four-year-old unhurt after falling from third story window Monday, Mar 04, 2013 07:18 PM PST “I fall … really, really far,†4-year-old Dylan Hayes said in an interview after miraculously surviving a three story drop during which the child somersaulted twice before landing on his feet. Local Denver CBS affiliate KCNC reports that young Dylan was standing on the living room couch trying to talk to his downstairs neighbors when [...] Full Story | Top |
| Brooklyn community mourns expectant parents killed in car crash Monday, Mar 04, 2013 02:18 PM PST BROOKLYN, N.Y.â€"Raizy Glauber had just wrapped up a dinner with her family when she suddenly began feeling sharp abdominal pains. Six months pregnant with her first child, Glauber and her husband of less than a year, Nathan, members of Brooklyn's tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community, called a livery cab to take them from the apartment in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Online baby-naming contest a hoax Monday, Mar 04, 2013 01:20 PM PST Last month, a Web company announced the winner of a "Belly Branding" contest that awarded $5,000 to a woman who supposedly agreed to let online voters pick the name of her child. Now it seems the contest was a hoax. Belly Ballot, an Austin, Texas, start-up that allows expecting parents to crowdsource their baby names [...] Full Story | Top |
| Is your vanity license plate banned in D.C.? Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:16 PM PST Getting a politics-themed slogan on a vanity license plate in Washington, D.C. may be harder than you think. According to the official list of banned D.C. plate combinations, it may take some extra creativity to get your idea accepted by the city's meticulous censors. The capital city's DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license [...] Full Story | Top |
| Oberlin cancels classes after person in KKK outfit spotted on campus Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:07 PM PST Oberlin College canceled classes on Monday after a person wearing what appeared to be a KKK outfit was spotted on campus, sparking a police investigation at the Ohio school. "Early this morning, there was a report of a person wearing a hood and robe resembling a KKK outfit between South and the Edmonia Lewis Center [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mystery of Hindenburg air catastrophe solved Monday, Mar 04, 2013 11:21 AM PST Researchers say they know how the Hindenburg airship came to its fiery end: static electricity. Seventy-six years ago, the German dirigible was promoted as the future of trans-Atlantic flight, but instead it became the notorious poster child of air disasters. As the hydrogen-filled blimp was landing in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, it suddenly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man fakes own kidnapping to avoid girlfriend’s anger Monday, Mar 04, 2013 10:35 AM PST File this one under: bad ideas. A man faked his own kidnapping after a two-week absence in order to escape the anger of his girlfriend. The New York Post reports that 36-year-old Rahmell Pettway of Brooklyn was away for two weeks. Upon returning, he staged a kidnapping scene. Police found Pettway tied with duct tape [...] Full Story | Top |
| LaPierre: NRA would fight new gun laws in courts Monday, Mar 04, 2013 10:23 AM PST If President Barack Obama successfully drives new gun laws through Congress, the National Rifle Association will fight them in the courts, NRA CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said in an interview published Monday. “There definitely will be legal challenges,†LaPierre told Field & Stream as part of the magazine’s series on the response [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jeb Bush reverses course: No path to citizenship necessary in immigration reform Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:36 AM PST Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a TV interview Monday that he no longer supports a path to citizenship in an immigration reform bill, a reversal that puts him to the right of the current bipartisan immigration proposal forming in the Senate. "If we want to create an immigration policy that's going to work, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama ‘not bluffing’ on Iran nukes, Biden tells AIPAC Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:28 AM PST President Barack Obama “is not bluffing†when he says the U.S. will go to war if necessary to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Vice President Joe Biden told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a speech on Monday. “The president of the United States cannot, and does not, bluff,†Biden told the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Watch how people react to a (staged) attempted murder Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:21 AM PST How would you react if, while waiting for an elevator, the doors opened to reveal two men trying to kill each other? For many of us, the natural response would be shock and fear. Some would run for help, others would simply run. And then there are the select few who would actually put themselves [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Red coat girl’ in ‘Schindler’s List’ was traumatized by role in Holocaust film Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:57 AM PST Oliwia Dabrowska, the Polish actress better known as the girl in the red coat in Steven Spielberg's otherwise monochromatic Holocaust film "Schindler's List," says she was so traumatized when she first saw it at age 11 that she kept her role a secret for years. Dabrowskaâ€"who was 3 when "Schindler's List" was released in 1993â€"admitted [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama names Wal-Mart’s Burwell to OMB; new energy secretary, EPA head Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:20 AM PST  President Barack Obama on Monday announced three Cabinet nominations, including Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Wal-Mart Foundation, as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget. Obama, speaking from the White House East Room, said Burwell will help America find a "way forward" as the country begins to face sequestrationâ€"$85 billion in [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Harlem Shake’ gets miners fired Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:14 AM PST The "Harlem Shake" has not been welcome everywhere. Up to 15 miners in Australia were fired after they put a video on the Web of eight men performing the dance craze deep underground, according to the Australian newspaper The West. What got the miners in trouble? Some had removed their protective gear for the video. [...] Full Story | Top |
| 12-year-old alleged bullying victim dies Monday, Mar 04, 2013 07:35 AM PST A boy who was the victim of apparent bullying died Sunday at a Philadelphia-area hospital after being taken off life support, his family said. Bailey O'Neill, who turned 12 on Saturday, had been in a medically-induced coma since January, when he was allegedly beaten by two classmates on the playground during recess at his school. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jeb Bush won’t rule out 2016 run Monday, Mar 04, 2013 05:12 AM PST Jeb Bush isn't ruling out a run for the White House in 2016. "That's way off into the future," Bush, a Republican and former Florida governor, responded on Monday's "Today" show when asked about a possible presidential bid. "I won't [rule it out], but I won't declare today either." Bush was on the NBC show [...] Full Story | Top |
| Monday in politics: Obama to name OMB nominee, Kerry on Iran, and more Monday, Mar 04, 2013 03:22 AM PST President Barack Obama will announce the nomination of Walmart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Burwell served as OMB's deputy director in the Clinton administration and chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. She currently runs the Walmart Foundation, the retail giant's philanthropic wing, and previously served as [...] Full Story | Top |
| Argument against gay marriage in California hinges on accidental pregnancies Monday, Mar 04, 2013 01:51 AM PST In a brief filed with the Supreme Court last week, the Obama administration slammed the unusual legal argument now key in the movement against gay marriage: that gay couples cannot become accidentally pregnant and thus do not need access to marriage. The argument has become the centerpiece of two major cases addressing gay marriage that [...] Full Story | Top |
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