Thursday, March 13, 2014

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Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 08:08 PM PDT
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Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 08:08 PM PDT
 Passengers evacuate US Airways Flight 1702 after the pilot was forced to abort takeoff shortly after 6 p.m., after a tire on the plane's front landing gear blew out, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Airbus A320 jet, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was carrying 149 passengers and five crew members, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said. All were rescheduled on departing flights Thursday night, she said. (AP Photo/Dennis Fee)Emergency slides were deployed to allow passengers to get off the crippled plane.
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Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 08:08 PM PDT
 A firefighter applies water to rubble a day after a gas leak-triggered explosion, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in East Harlem, New York. Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled additional bodies Thursday from the rubble of two apartment buildings that collapsed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEW YORK (AP) — Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear to search rubble for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body on Thursday while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with the city's aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.
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Russian troops engage in war games near Ukraine 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:48 PM PDT
 Pro Ukraine protestors, some of them injured, are shielded by police at right during clashes with pro Russia protestors following a rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Bloody clashes erupted between pro Russia and pro Ukraine protestors in the eastern city of Donetsk on Thursday evening, leaving dozens injured as police struggled to prevent the violence. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted new military maneuvers near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, and President Vladimir Putin said the world shouldn't blame his country for what he called Ukraine's "internal crisis."
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Air Force nuke crew failings worse than reported 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 01:33 PM PDT
 FILE - This undated handout photo provided by the National Park Service shows the inside of the deactivated Delta Nine Launch Facility near Wall, S.D., that is now open to the public. Failings exposed last spring at an Air Force nuclear missile base, described by one officer as WASHINGTON (AP) — Failings exposed last spring at a U.S. nuclear missile base, reflecting what one officer called "rot" in the ranks, were worse than originally reported, according to Air Force documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Chances for prosecution unclear in CIA-Senate spat 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:50 PM PDT
 In this March 11, 2014, photo, CIA Director John Brennan speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. A dispute between the CIA and the Senate that flared into public view this week has no obvious path toward criminal prosecution and may be better resolved through political compromise than in a court system leery of stepping into government quarrels, legal experts say. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — A fight between the Senate and the CIA over whether crimes were committed in the handling of sensitive classified material appears unlikely to be resolved in the courts, legal experts say.
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South By Southwest goes on after crash kills 2 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 07:51 PM PDT
 Map locates Austin, Texas, where a car crashed into a crowd; 1c x 3 1/2 inches; 46.5 mm x 88 mm;AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A driver fleeing police gunned a gray Honda Civic through a street barricade and into a crowd of South By Southwest festival attendees early Thursday, killing a Dutch man on a bicycle and a woman on a moped, injuring 23 others and casting a pall over one of the nation's hippest celebrations of music, movies and technology.
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FBI: Dead border agent suspected in kidnapping 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 04:38 PM PDT
 EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The FBI believes a Border Patrol agent found dead in his South Texas home is responsible for the kidnapping and assault of three females who were in the country illegally, the agency said Thursday.
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Panel urges end to US ban on transgender troops 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:26 PM PDT
 In this photo taken Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Army Reserve Capt. Sage Fox poses in El Dorado Hills, Calif. Following a deployment to Kuwait as a man, Fox began taking female hormones and began living as a woman. After notifying her battalion commander, whom she says expressed support, Fox received a set of orders informing her she had been placed on inactive status, a step from discharge. An independent commission has concluded there "is no compelling medical reason" for the U.S. armed forces to prohibit transgender Americans from serving, according to a report set to be published Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The United States should join the dozen other nations that allow transgender people to serve in the armed forces, a commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general said in a report released Thursday that concludes there is no medical reason for the decades-old ban and calls on President Barack Obama to lift it.
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Google cameras take rafting trip at Grand Canyon 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:26 PM PDT
 This August, 2013 photo provided by Google shows a frame from a moving time-lapse sequence of images of rafters on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park., Ariz. Google has taken its all-seeing eyes on a trip that few ever get to experience - a moving tour of the river through the Grand Canyon courtesy of a Google time-lapse camera making sequential images. The search giant partnered with American Rivers to showcase the whitewater rapids, a handful of hiking trails, the towering red canyon walls and the stress placed on the river by drought and humans. The imagery taken last August went live Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Google)FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Google has taken its all-seeing eyes on a trip that few experience: the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
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Photos show 'trail of blood' in Pistorius' home 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 02:28 PM PDT
 Oscar Pistorius puts his hands to his head as he listens to forensic evidence during his trial in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday March 13, 2014. Pistorius is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Alet Pretorius, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Blood on the stairs, walls and furniture, a cocked 9 mm pistol, bloody towels, fallen wall tiles. Like pieces of an unfinished puzzle, the photos of the blood-splattered interior of Oscar Pistorius' home gave a fragmented picture Thursday of his girlfriend's violent end.
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Denver pot job fair links industry, future workers 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 01:19 PM PDT
 DENVER (AP) — When Tim Cullen was opening his first marijuana business four years ago, the high school biology teacher turned pot entrepreneur struggled to get resumes and references from job applicants.
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Plane emergency reported at Philly airport 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:15 PM PDT
 Emergency vehicles drive past a damaged US Airways jet at the end of a runway at the Philadelphia International Airport, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Philadelphia. Airline officials said the flight was heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when the pilot was forced to abort takeoff around 6:30 p.m., after the front landing gear failed. An airport spokeswoman said no injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Passengers were evacuated from a Florida-bound plane at Philadelphia International Airport after a mechanical failure.
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Records: Man in theater shooting also was texting 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:58 AM PDT
 FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Curtis Reeves looks into the gallery Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, during a court bond hearing in Dade City, Fla. Records show that a Reeves who reportedly shot a man in a movie theater because he was texting had sent a text message to his own son moments before the incident. According to records released Thursday, March 13, 2014, by prosecutors, Curtis Reeves texted his son, who was on his way to the theater, saying that he was already inside. The 71-year-old Reeves is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Chad Oulson on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Andy Jones, Pool, File)DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer accused of killing a man in a movie theater during a dispute over texting had used his own phone to send a message to his son minutes before the shooting, according to documents released Thursday by Florida prosecutors.
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Worker lawsuits claim McDonald's wage theft 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:17 AM PDT
 McDonald's worker Keyana McDowell, 20, strikes outside McDonald's in Los AngelesAllegations include forcing workers to clock out but stay at work, docking pay for uniforms.
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Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 02:36 PM PDT
 Vietnamese Air Force Col. Pham Minh Tuan uses binoculars on board a flying aircraft during a mission to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand, Thursday, March 13, 2014. With no distress call, no sign of wreckage and very few answers, the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane is turning into one of the biggest aviation mysteries since Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. (AP Photo)NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't supposed to be any mysteries in the Digital Age.
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Pope Francis gets formal invite to address Congress 
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 12:15 PM PDT
 FILE -- In this file photo taken on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, the day of his election. From his gestures to his simple soundbites to his emphasis that priests are called to serve, Pope Francis has endeared himself to the public, radically shifted the paradigm of the papacy and reminded the world that the church's mission is one of mercy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has invited Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress.
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