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06/20/2013 07:49 AM
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Report: Taliban offers to swap American POW for five Gitmo detainees
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A senior spokesman for the Afghan Taliban has said the group is ready to free the only known American prisoner of war from the conflict in Afghanistan in exchange for five senior operatives held at Guantanamo Bay, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Hailey, Idaho has been held captive since 2009 after going missing from his base in Afghanistan. His whereabou...
 
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06/20/2013 07:31 AM
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Cops: Neglected by family, disabled man weighed 69 pounds at death
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A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 pounds when he died, police said in charging his mother and two sisters with murder. Robert Gensiak had open sores down to the bone at the time of his death March 20. He was taken to the hospital a day earlier because he was only semi-responsive and ...
 
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06/20/2013 04:24 AM
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Obama's nuke-reduction goal is just the start of a slow process
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President Barack Obama says he wants to reduce the number of deployed U.S. nuclear weapons by a third, but even if the Russians agree to do the same, it could be a decade or longer before the 500 or so U.S. warheads under discussion are actually destroyed.A massive backlog at the Texas Pantex plant where nukes are dismantled means warheads removed from submarines and land-based missiles as a resul...
 
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06/20/2013 03:16 AM
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Consumer group says student loan 'debt relief' firms misleading borrowers
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Struggling student loan debtors are being tricked into paying up to $1,600 in fees to private firms offering "debt relief" that they could get for free, according to a report issued Wednesday by the National Consumer Law Center.Student loan debt relief ads began crowding their way onto media in recent months. Consumers deep in credit card debt have heard the pitch for years, in seemingly incessant...
 
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06/20/2013 02:32 AM
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North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions
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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — North Carolina's governor, hoping to resume executions in his state, on Wednesday signed the repeal of a law that has allowed death row inmates to seek a reduced sentence if they could prove racial bias affected their punishmentThe Racial Justice Act, the only law of its kind in the United States, had led to four inmates getting their sentences changed to life in pr...
 
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06/19/2013 10:13 PM
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Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim
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A prosecutor says a Boston man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home was a homicide victim.Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter's office said Wednesday the state medical examiner has identified 27-year-old Odin Lloyd and ruled he was a homicide victim.Lloyd's family says he had connections to Hernandez but hasn't elaborated...
 
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06/19/2013 09:35 PM
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Admitted father-and-son pimp duo acquitted of sex-trafficking charges
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A father and son who ran a prostitution ring in New York were acquitted of sex-trafficking charges Wednesday after three out of the five prostitutes who worked for them testified in their defense.Vincent George Sr. and his son, Vincent George Jr., were convicted on charges of money laundering by Judge Ruth Pickholtz.New York District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said, “The goal of this prosecution...
 
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06/19/2013 09:35 PM
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Julian Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden gain asylum
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.Speaking to reporters during a conference call on the one-year anniversary of his own asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange said his group has a “common cause” with ...
 
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06/19/2013 06:14 PM
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Naval Academy files sex assault charges against three football players
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Three male Naval Academy midshipmen have been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman last year and with making a false official statement.The woman told investigators that she was assaulted by the men — all Academy football players at the time — at an off-campus party in April 2012. On Wednesday, the academy announced the accused men were charged with making a false officia...
 
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06/19/2013 05:40 PM
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LA schools to give every student an iPad
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Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive ...
 
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06/19/2013 05:40 PM
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'Modern-day slavery': State Dept. says millions of human trafficking victims go unidentified
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Nine 7-Eleven store owners and managers who authorities say ran a “modern-day plantation system,” employing dozens of immigrant workers at New York and Virginia convenience stores, were just one thread in a vast human trafficking and forced labor web that stretches around the world and into American homes.Investigators filed indictments earlier this week against the eight men and one woman who wer...
 
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06/19/2013 05:18 PM
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George Zimmerman's parents attend jury selection
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George Zimmerman's parents were in a Florida courtroom Wednesday to "visibly advocate" for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin, the family said in a statement.Robert and Gladys Zimmerman did not previously attend jury selection because they have received death threats and have been taking care of an elderly relative with Alzheimer's, their older son, Rober...
 
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06/19/2013 03:00 PM
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Feds: 2 plotted to build 'Hiroshima light switch' weapon
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Two upstate New York men, one of them said to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, plotted to build a truck-mounted, industrial-strength X-ray weapon to kill “enemies of Israel” by poisoning them with radiation, federal authorities said Wednesday.One of them boasted that he could build a “Hiroshima light switch” and that “everything with respiration would be dead by morning,” authorities said.Investig...
 
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06/19/2013 03:00 PM
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Google: 'We're not in cahoots with the NSA'
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Google’s chief legal officer said Wednesday “we’re not in cahoots with the NSA” as the company stepped up its efforts to reassure customers that their gmail and Internet browsing history are safe from government prying."There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box," said David Drummond, Google's top lawyer, in a live webchat with The Guardian newspaper....
 
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06/19/2013 02:16 PM
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Son allegedly stabs father, cuts off his own hands
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An argument ended grimly in California this week, with a father found in the driveway bleeding from stab wounds and his son nearby, his severed hands lying on the ground.Shasta County Sherriff’s deputies responded to a reported stabbing in Redding, Calif., on Monday afternoon to find the gruesome scene with “visible injuries” in the driveway, according to a news release.Both Gregory Dunn, 58, and ...
 
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06/19/2013 01:21 PM
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Missing elderly Kansas couple found safe, 400 miles from destination
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A missing elderly Kansas couple who set out on an eight-hour trip from Kansas to Illinois to visit family on Monday afternoon was found Wednesday afternoon in Mio, Mich., – about 400 miles from their original destination.“They took a wrong turn,” Garnett Police Chief Kevin Pekarek said.Vernon Hunt, 92, and his wife Goldie, 81, of Garnett, Kan. were reported missing by their son Jay Selanders Monda...
 
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06/19/2013 01:04 PM
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IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses, senator says
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The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees' union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley...
 
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06/19/2013 01:04 PM
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FBI director tells Congress agency uses drones for surveillance on U.S. soil
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FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis."Mueller, the FBI director since 2001 who is set to retire this year, acknowledged that his agency uses drones in its investigative and law enforcement practices, and is further working to establish better guidelines fo...
 
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06/19/2013 12:53 PM
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FBI director: Drones 'seldom' used for domestic surveillance
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FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis."Mueller, the FBI director since 2001 who is set to retire this year, acknowledged that his agency uses drones in its investigative and law enforcement practices, and is further working to establish better guidelines fo...
 
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06/19/2013 12:48 PM
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Police return to home of star Patriots tight end Hernandez
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Police returned Wednesday to the home of star New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, about a mile away from an industrial park where a body two nights earlier.There was no answer at the door, and police declined to say what was in papers they were carrying, NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston reported.Police also visited the house Tuesday night. Sports Illustrated, citing an unnamed source, repo...
 
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06/19/2013 12:26 PM
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Paul McCartney: Being Stella’s dad, ‘pretty cool’
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06/19/2013 12:20 PM
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Big brothers save little sister from bear
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06/19/2013 12:09 PM
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Prosecutors: Disabled mom, child held captive, tortured
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06/19/2013 12:09 PM
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Police dog left to die in hot patrol car?
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06/19/2013 11:52 AM
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Teens claim ex-con hurled ax at their car
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