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| Defying the odds, mother gives birth to third set of twins Monday, Jun 03, 2013 07:15 PM PDT A Scottish woman has defied odds of 500,000 to one by giving birth to twins for the third time. Karen Rodger, 41, welcomed her first pair of girls (Rowan and Isla) after having twice given birth to twin boys. "I still haven't really taken it on board because I was convinced I was having two [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dr. Dre helps launch college degree program in ‘disruption’ Monday, Jun 03, 2013 03:31 PM PDT Millions of hip-hop fans have been getting a degree in Dr. Dre since the late 1980's. But for a few dedicated students, that will soon be a real thing. Hip-hop icon Dr. Dre has helped launch a college degree program in "disruption" at the University of Southern California (USC). The influential rapper, record producer and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bumblebees–not pesticides–save berries from mold Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:56 PM PDT  The United Kingdom has a solution to its moldy strawberry problem: bumblebees. The buzzy insect has been deployed in strawberry fields to stop the gray gunk from growing. The trick: According to the Guardian, the bees pass through trays in their hive, which is filled with harmless fungus spores. The bees then visit the flowers [...] Full Story | Top |
| New York City sees surge in gun violence Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:37 PM PDT When a gunman opened fire Sunday night on Kelly Street in the Bronx, 15-year-old Sarah Rivera put herself in harm's way to save a toddler who had been left in a stroller on the street. While several adults ran from the scene, River dashed for the child. She was hit in the leg by a [...] Full Story | Top |
| New acting head of IRS says money isn’t the answer Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:06 PM PDT The newly appointed acting head of the Internal Revenue Service said Monday that the agency does not need more money to carry out the responsibility of processing applications for tax-exempt status, despite calls during the hearing for increased funding to help the embattled agency's workload. "The solution here is not more money," IRS acting Commissioner [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video captures Jasper, Texas, police officers beating woman Monday, Jun 03, 2013 01:45 PM PDT [Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET] A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman's head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground. "The amount of force used was abominable," the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen, told Yahoo News. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dunkin’s bacon doughnut sandwich goes national this week Monday, Jun 03, 2013 01:15 PM PDT Dunkin' Donuts wants everyone to have the opportunity to experience its culinary creation. So the store has decided to begin selling its bacon, egg and doughnut sandwiches at all of its locations beginning June 7. The sandwich contains a fried egg and slices of smoked bacon stuffed between the halves of a sliced, glazed doughnut. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Report by College Republicans details ways to capture youth vote Monday, Jun 03, 2013 12:24 PM PDT It will take a lot more than Facebook and Kid Rock to get young people on the Republican bandwagon. In the months since the 2012 presidential election, Republicans have acknowledged they have their work cut out for them in winning millennials—the generational tag given to those born between 1980 and 2000. On Monday, the College [...] Full Story | Top |
| In dissent, Scalia joins with court’s liberals to blast police DNA testing without warrant Monday, Jun 03, 2013 11:42 AM PDT The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Monday that police may take a DNA swab from people arrested for crimes without first getting a warrant to do so. In an unusual twist, the court's conservative firebrand, Antonin Scalia, joined three of his liberal colleagues in a scathing dissent that warns the court's decision paves [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kangaroo leads Florida police on wild goose chase Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:48 AM PDT Florida deputy Gene Smith thought the calls about a kangaroo on the loose were part of a prank. But WTSP reports that the story was true: A five-foot-tall, 200-pound kangaroo was hopping around Pasco County on Sunday. Then the call came that it was now on U.S. 301. Smith—who noted that the calls were the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Paid liar? Jay Carney refuses to respond to Issa’s accusation Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:27 AM PDT House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a fierce critic of the Obama administration, branded White House press secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar" this past weekend, accusing him of covering up what Issa believes was a coordinated effort to use the Internal Revenue Service to target conservatives. But when given the opportunity to respond to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman finally goes to prom after being held captive for a decade Monday, Jun 03, 2013 09:57 AM PDT Tanya Kach is owed some good times—including her missed prom. According to local station WTAE, the 31-year-old Pittsburgh woman, kidnapped in 1996 at the age of 14 and found in 2006, finally got that chance, attending the local Second Chance Prom thrown by radio station Star 100.7 for people 21 and over on Saturday night. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police dog bids farewell to slain cop Monday, Jun 03, 2013 09:27 AM PDT More than 1,000 people—including hundreds of fellow police officers from surrounding states—turned out at a funeral in rural Kentucky late last week to pay their respects to Jason Ellis, a 33-year-old K-9 officer gunned down last month in what authorities believe was an ambush. Fido, Ellis' police dog, was there, too, placing his paw on [...] Full Story | Top |
| DNA tests reveal man wrongly ID’d as kidnapped baby from 1964 Monday, Jun 03, 2013 08:14 AM PDT Paul Fronczak is having an identity crisis. The Nevada man, who back in 1964 was determined to be the kidnapped baby of Chester and Dora Fronczak, has learned he's not, in fact, their biological son, according to a CBS2 New York report. The story is this: In 1964, at the now-demolished Michael Reese Hospital in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sen. Lautenberg dies, Christie expected to name successor Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:57 AM PDT Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., died overnight of complications from viral pneumonia, his office said Monday. At 89, Lautenberg was the oldest senator—and the last World War II veteran serving in that legislative body. He enlisted at 18 and served in the Army Signal Corps in Europe during the war. Lautenberg served on the Senate committees [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man gets 11 pounds of pot in mail by mistake Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:48 AM PDT It sounds like a stoner's dream, but it's been a bit of a nightmare for a California man who recently got an unexpected FedEx delivery: 11 pounds of marijuana. George Burton, from Sacramento, Calif., said the FedEx Kinkos box—with his name and return address handwritten on it—was left on his porch Thursday. Burton and his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden on mental illness: There’s nothing to be ashamed of Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:34 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden closed out a mental health conference at the White House Monday afternoon with a message of support to those affected by mental illness. "Let's use this moment to send a message to tens of millions of Americans, especially the young people and parents of young people all over this country," Biden [...] Full Story | Top |
| Like Father Like Son: Evading death and strengthening their bond in the Afghanistan war Monday, Jun 03, 2013 04:24 AM PDT On the Radar Journalists Mike and Carlos Boettcher have spent as much time embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan as just about anyone. They've gone to some of the most dangerous parts of the country to cover the war. And, they've done it all as father and son. In their new documentary, "The Hornet's Nest," [...] Full Story | Top |
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