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Mom exercising with son kicked out of LA Fitness gym
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:00 PM PDT
Krista Grubb never thought that working out with her 13-year-old son Mason Halye at the LA Fitness gym in Palm Harbor, Florida would get her membership revoked. Full Story | Top |
Stiviano lawyer says she's sad over Sterling ban
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:57 AM PDT
 LOS ANGELES (AP) — V. Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is "very saddened" by his lifetime NBA ban, and she didn't release the recording of their conversation, her lawyer said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
Unique home spares Vilonia family from Arkansas tornado's direct hit
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:30 AM PDT
Jerri Weaver's house is certainly unconventional. Some might even call it kooky. But come crunch time – when Mother Nature's fury is at her doorstep as it was Sunday night – the native Arkansan has peace of mind in her bunkerlike abode. "I have no fear," Weaver said. "I know that we're going to be OK." Full Story | Top |
White House Defends New Benghazi Email
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 03:41 PM PDT
Jay Carney and ABC News' Jon Karl Go Head-to-Head Full Story | Top |
CSX train carrying oil derails in Virginia in fiery blast
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 03:19 PM PDT
 By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A CSX Corp train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia on Wednesday, spilling oil into the James River and forcing hundreds to evacuate. CSX said 15 cars on a train traveling from Chicago to Virginia derailed at 2:30 p.m. EDT. The fiery derailment a short distance from office buildings in the city of 77,000 was sure to bring more calls from environmentalists and activists for stricter regulations of the burgeoning business of shipping crude oil by rail. JoAnn Martin, the city's director of communications, said three or four tank cars were leaking, and burning oil was spilling into the river, which runs to Chesapeake Bay. Full Story | Top |
Latest weather wallop: Florida, Alabama flooding
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:52 AM PDT
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding early Wednesday, with people stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around impassable roads and others abandoning vehicles to walk to safety. Full Story | Top |
Botched Oklahoma execution comes as alternatives emerge from shadows
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 04:50 PM PDT
 By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Firing squads, electric chairs and other methods of execution seen as cruel or antiquated could be getting a fresh look after Oklahoma botched a lethal injection, leaving the condemned inmate withering in apparent pain on its death chamber gurney. Lawmakers in several states this year have put forward legislation to revise alternative methods of capital punishment in the face of a shortage of drugs once used for executions as well as legal challenges to new lethal "cocktails." Oklahoma was among those states, and it had faced lawsuits to stop the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Clayton Lockett, who died on Tuesday night of an apparent heart attack minutes after a medical official on the scene called a halt to the botched process, saying something had gone wrong with the lethal injection. "As long as there are problems with lethal injection, and there have been and there will be, there will always be legislators determined to kill people with some other method," said Rick Halperin, director of the Embrey Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Full Story | Top |
Reports: Abducted girls married to Nigerian rebels
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:02 PM PDT
 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Drug resistance found worldwide, new drugs needed
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:21 AM PDT
LONDON (AP) — Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization. Full Story | Top |
Searchers dismiss possibility wreckage in Bay of Bengal is from MH370
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:50 AM PDT
(Reuters) - A private company said it had found what it believes is wreckage of a plane in the Bay of Bengal that should be investigated as potential debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, but the possibility was dismissed by search coordinators. The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) managing the multinational search for the missing plane said it believed that the plane came down in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia. "I think that we have been looking in the right place," Angus Houston, the head of JACC, told Sky New Australia. "I'm confident the aircraft will be found." A massive search operation involving satellites, aircraft, ships and sophisticated underwater equipment capable of scouring the ocean floor has failed to turn up any trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared on March 8. Full Story | Top |
Heisman winner Winston accused of stealing food
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:31 AM PDT
 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State's Heisman Trophy quarterback Jameis Winston was issued a civil citation after sheriff's deputies say he walked out of a supermarket without paying for $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish. Full Story | Top |
Ukraine's restive east slipping from government's grasp
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 02:13 PM PDT
 By Marko Djurica HORLIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow separatists seized government offices in more Ukrainian towns on Wednesday, in a further sign that authorities in Kiev are losing control of the country's eastern industrial heartland bordering Russia. Gunmen who turned up at dawn took control of official buildings in Horlivka, a town of almost 300,000 people, said a Reuters photographer. The heavily armed men wore the same military uniforms without insignia as other unidentified "green men" who have joined pro-Russian protesters with clubs and chains in seizing control of towns across Ukraine's Donbass coal and steel belt. Some 30 pro-Russian separatists also seized a city council building in Alchevsk, further east in Luhansk region, Interfax-Ukraine news agency said. Full Story | Top |
BOYFRIEND'S 'OTHER WOMAN' IS PERMANENTLY ATTACHED
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 10:00 PM PDT
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. We live together, and his child from another woman lives with us. I love my boyfriend and his child, but one thing prevents me from imagining us being married: He has his child's mother's name tattooed on his body. The tattoo bothers me for many reasons, and I'd like him to have it covered up if we ever do marry. He says he doesn't want to get rid of it. When the topic comes up, we argue. ... Full Story | Top |
Couple married for 72 years die just one day apart
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:49 AM PDT
After being married 72 years, June and Norbert Rogers of South Carolina died just one day apart. Full Story | Top |
US gen: Corruption is top threat in Afghanistan
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:12 PM PDT
 WASHINGTON (AP) — A former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday that corruption, not the Taliban, is the worst threat to the future of the war-torn country. Full Story | Top |
Malaysia to open new budget airport in MH370 shadow
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:40 AM PDT
 Sepang (Malaysia) (AFP) - Malaysia this week opens what it calls the world's largest airport built specifically for low-cost airlines, a project driven by budget travel's phenomenal growth but which debuts under the shadow of missing flight MH370. The $1.2 billion facility near the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was originally targeted to open three years ago but has been hit by repeated delays, amid concerns over safety and subpar construction, even as costs have doubled. But the new KLIA2 budget terminal will begin operations Friday with an initial 56 flights, increasing the load as airlines move full operations over from a nearby existing facility in coming days. Its modern design features soaring ceilings, natural lighting, people-mover belts and improved connectivity with access to an existing express airport train to Kuala Lumpur 50 kilometres (31 miles) away. Full Story | Top |
Here's a List of All the Rich People Who Say They Want to Buy the L.A. Clippers
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 10:51 AM PDT
 It's a rare event when a major sports franchise goes on sale in one of America's biggest and richest cities. So now that the NBA will force (or attempt to force) Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers, it seems everyone with a checking account and a Twitter handle is saying they want a piece of the action. NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday that the league's board of governor's will vote to remove Donald Sterling as owner of the team as outlined by the NBA constitution. Most of the league has come forward to publicly support Silver now, indicating he should have no problem getting three-fourths majority vote (or 22 team owners) need to banish Sterling. Full Story | Top |
DNA sought to close 1926 missing-person case
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 11:56 PM PDT
 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Marvin A. Clark vanished during a short trip to Portland on Halloween weekend 1926, but the search to find out what happened to him may finally be drawing to a close nearly 90 years later. Full Story | Top |
Toronto mayor Ford to 'get help' as new video surfaces: reports
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:23 PM PDT
 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who gained global notoriety after admitting to smoking crack cocaine, will take a break to deal with substance abuse issues, his lawyer told Canadian media, as one newspaper reported a new video showed him using what appears to be drugs. The Globe and Mail newspaper said on Wednesday that two of its reporters had seen a new video of Ford taking a drag from a long copper-colored pipe. The story, citing a self-professed drug dealer, said the video was secretly filmed early Saturday morning. Ford's office and lawyer could not immediately be reached to comment on the report. Full Story | Top |
NASA Unveils Futuristic Z-2 Spacesuit: Mars-Tough Duds that Glow (Photos)
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 02:20 PM PDT
 NASA's next-generation spacesuit is really coming together, with a little help from the public. The cover layer option dubbed "Technology" won the spacesuit design challenge with 147,354 votes, or just over 63 percent of the total ballots cast, NASA officials said. So whatever NASA learns about the Z-2 will inform the design of the next iteration, the Z-3. The cover protects the lower layers and technical details from abrasion and snags during testing," NASA officials wrote in a press release today. Full Story | Top |
Kiev says it's "helpless" to restore order in east
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:13 AM PDT
HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's police and security forces are "helpless" to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, and in some cases are cooperating with pro-Russian gunmen who have seized scores of government buildings and taken people hostage, the country's acting president said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
