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| Boy Scouts vote to end ban on gay youth members Thursday, May 23, 2013 04:55 PM PDT [Updated at 6:55 p.m. CT] DALLAS – The Boy Scouts of America, one of the country's largest and oldest youth organizations, decided on Thursday to break 103 years of tradition by allowing openly gay members into its ranks. The controversial move was approved by more than 60 percent of the approximate 1,400 votes cast by [...] Full Story | Top |
| Repentant thief leaves money and apology note for years of stolen beers Thursday, May 23, 2013 03:59 PM PDT An anonymous thief has attempted to make up for years of beer theft by leaving a stack of $20 bills and an apology letter. And the owner of the oft-raided beer fridge has a message for the repentant burglar: Come back and have a beer with us, sometime. Local CBS affiliate WKRC reports that Dee [...] Full Story | Top |
| Amid heckling, Obama defends drone strikes, vows to close Guantanamo Thursday, May 23, 2013 01:20 PM PDT Saying it's time "to fight terrorists without keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing," President Barack Obama invited Congress in a speech on Thursday to help him scale back the country's 12-year conflict against al-Qaida and its affiliates. "America is at a crossroads. We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else [...] Full Story | Top |
| Behold the full-scale Legos X-wing fighter Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:57 PM PDT Thousands gathered in New York City's Times Square on May 22 to see the world's largest Legos model. Click image to see more photos. (Amy Sussman/AP) The mad geniuses at Legos have created a full-scale X-wing fighter made from more than 5 million bricks—the most ever used to build a model. It's currently on display [...] Full Story | Top |
| Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin heckles Obama Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:55 PM PDT President Barack Obama's planned counterterrorism speech was temporarily derailed several times on Thursday when activist Medea Benjamin shouted criticisms of the administration's use of drones and operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Benjamin, co-founder of peace activist group Code Pink, was seated in the audience at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., where Obama [...] Full Story | Top |
| Anthony Weiner logo appears to feature Pittsburgh skyline Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:32 PM PDT Anthony Weiner's nascent New York City mayoral campaign might have hit a slight snag. Azi Paybarah at Capital New York notes on Thursday that the skyline featured in a banner on Weiner's campaign site appears to picture the lovely city of Pittsburgh, not New York. Weiner announced his candidacy in a video posted to the [...] Full Story | Top |
| N.J. police chief runs 100 miles to help Sandy victims Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:17 AM PDT  The police chief in Fairview, N.J., is running 100 miles to help raise money for victims of Superstorm Sandy. Frank Del Vecchio began his run on Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. If all goes according to plan, he should finish the 100-mile jaunt by Friday. He's been training since Jan. 2. Del Vecchio [...] Full Story | Top |
| Watch: Burning Texas railroad bridge crumples like dominoes Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:05 AM PDT A fire toppled a railroad bridge like it was made of dominoes outside the small town of San Saba, Texas. Members of the Lometa, Texas, volunteer fire department arrived on the scene, but they could only contain the fire and watch as trestle after trestle folded, leaving the train rails suspended in air momentarily like [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dog that survived Oklahoma tornado reunited with owner Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:01 AM PDT  A dog found guarding a deceased body on Monday among the rubble of tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., has been reunited with its owner. When a deputy from the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office found the dog, now known as Susie, guarding a body inside a house, he assumed she was protecting her owner. He posted a photo [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Extremely active’ 2013 hurricane season expected Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:56 AM PDT A year after Superstorm Sandy, residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should prepare for "an extremely active" 2013 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters say. There is a "70 percent likelihood" that will be three to six major hurricanes this year with winds above 111 mph, according to the 2013 hurricane outlook unveiled by the National [...] Full Story | Top |
| Volunteers rescue photos from Oklahoma tornado debris Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:10 AM PDT MOORE, Okla. — Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn't obliterate are the memories captured in the images. A girl playing kitchen with her pink toy stove. Colleagues clowning around the office. A father posing with his young girls at a daddy-daughter dance. "These are things [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘We aren’t daredevils’: Oklahoma’s storm chasers in the sky Thursday, May 23, 2013 09:52 AM PDT MOORE, Okla.—As a helicopter pilot for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, Jim Gardner had flown over deadly mudslides and earthquakes, covered car chases and was shot at by snipers during the L.A. riots. Yet Gardner was perhaps best known for giving the world its first glimpse of O.J. Simpson's infamous white Bronco leading police on a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police show up at kindergarten graduation after girl’s dad killed in line of duty Thursday, May 23, 2013 09:20 AM PDT Five-year-old Tatum Raetz was cheered on by hundreds of police officers on Wednesday at her kindergarten graduation. What was going to be a happy occasion took a heartbreaking, tragic turn when her father, Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz, was struck and killed by a car on Sunday during a DUI arrest. The officers were there [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pieces of 747 fall on woman’s house and Walmart lot Thursday, May 23, 2013 09:10 AM PDT Pieces of a 747 cargo plane fell onto a woman's house and a Walmart parking lot in Georgia on Sunday afternoon. Federal authorities are investigating why. Homeowner Pamela Ware spoke with WSBTV.com about the experience. "And boom! I was like, 'Huh?' Actually, I hit the floor," Ware told WSBTV.com. "If it had landed in here, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Anthony Weiner courts NYC voters: ‘It’s a second-chance city, man!’ Thursday, May 23, 2013 08:02 AM PDT Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner made his first appearance on Thursday since declaring his candidacy, apologizing again for his bizarre, Internet-only infidelity scandal that forced him out of Congress nearly two years ago. "There may be people who will never vote for me, and I respect that," Weiner told the phalanx of reporters who surrounded him [...] Full Story | Top |
| Homeless man’s stolen dog returned after Facebook campaign Thursday, May 23, 2013 07:58 AM PDT  A dog stolen from a homeless man has been found and returned after a Facebook campaign helped track down the pooch. The pit bull, Handover, was stolen from James Bryan on May 8 in Hudson, Fla. Bryan had been sleeping at the time of the theft. "Handover is my best friend. He's my heart and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Photos: What Obama looked like on prom night Thursday, May 23, 2013 05:45 AM PDT With a trio of scandals swirling around the White House, President Barack Obama could use some good press. Time magazine did its best to deliver just that on Thursday, releasing some vintage photos of a then 17-year-old Obama on prom night. The magazine obtained the photos from Kelli Allman (née McCormack), Obama's classmate at Punahou [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive in Cuba: Joanne Chesimard, First Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List Thursday, May 23, 2013 03:42 AM PDT For the first time, a woman has been added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list: Joanne Chesimard. The FBI and the state of New Jersey are now offering $2 million for information leading to her capture. Chesimard was already wanted for several felonies, including bank robbery, when she was accused of killing New Jersey [...] Full Story | Top |
| 10 things Washington (and you) could do to make college more affordable Thursday, May 23, 2013 02:39 AM PDT So you're considering college but don't have the dough. Or maybe you're out of college now and still don't have any dough. You're not alone: In the past 30 years, the cost of a college degree has risen 1,120 percent and the number of people taking out loans to pay for it has skyrocketed. The [...] Full Story | Top |
| Who makes money off your student loans? You might be surprised Thursday, May 23, 2013 02:33 AM PDT Making money off the student loan industry isn't just for big banks anymore. Thanks to new lending rules and historically low interest rates, the federal government is now getting a sizable piece of the action. Commercial banks like Sallie Mae, a former government agency now the nation's largest private student loan lender, continue to make [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fighting Gun Violence with Style Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:07 PM PDT  "I grew up in a family that embodied the spirit that you had a responsibility to repair the world. And so I jumped, I walked, I ran to every 5K, everything, and that was how we grew up. And Jewelry for a Cause is an extension of that." Jewelry for a Cause is a company [...] Full Story | Top |
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