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Small Calif. town shocked by family murder-suicide

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
SELMA, Calif. (AP) -- Neighbors of an Indian family killed in a murder-suicide grappled with allegations Sunday that the man accused in the shooting in a small California agricultural town was a former Indian army officer wanted for years for murder in his homeland....
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4 dead, 1 wounded in Calif. home shooting attack

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities sought a motive Sunday after an assailant entered a Sacramento home and shot three people to death, police said. A fourth person who has been determined to be a suspect also died, while a fifth person was wounded and was in critical condition....
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Study suggests risks from same-sex parenting

Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married mother-father parents.

"The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go," University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus said in his study in ...

Hundreds evacuated as Colo., NM fires spread

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
LAPORTE, Colo. (AP) -- Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary....
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Hundreds evacuated as Colo., NM fires spread

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
LAPORTE, Colo. (AP) -- Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary....
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Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....
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Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....
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Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....
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Police: 3 killed in shooting near Auburn U.

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Investigators were searching Sunday for a gunman who killed three people - including two former Auburn University football players - and wounded three others at a pool party near campus after several men got in a fight over a woman, authorities and witnesses said....
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Police: 3 killed in shooting near Auburn U.

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Investigators were searching Sunday for a gunman who killed three people - including two former Auburn University football players - and wounded three others at a pool party near campus after several men got in a fight over a woman, authorities and witnesses said....
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Auburn killing suspect surrenders after manhunt

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A man accused of killing three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in Tuesday after a three-day manhunt that included a tense but fruitless search of a Montgomery home by police tactical units....
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Ex-Auburn football players among 3 killed in shooting

AUBURN, Ala. — A gunman opened fire during a fight at a party at an apartment complex near Auburn University, killing three people, including two former school football players, authorities said Sunday.

Three other people were injured. One of them was listed in critical condition with a gunshot wound to ...

Hundreds evacuated as Colorado, New Mexico fires grow

LOVELAND, Colo. — Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary.

The Colorado fire, burning in a mountainous area about 15 miles west of Fort ...

WILLIAMS: Media fog in the recall

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Last week, Fox News was the first to call the Wisconsin recall election in favor of Gov. Scott Walker while NBC continued to ticker-tape blast that it was too close to call. I checked the Internet for the results of the election posted on the New York Times website ...

Safety measure lets cars talk to each other to avoid crashes

As a safety demonstration, it was a heart-stopper: A Ford Taurus was seconds away from cruising through an intersection when suddenly a row of red lights pulsed on the lower windshield and a warning blared that another car was approaching fast on the cross street.

Braking quickly, the driver stopped ...

American Scene: George H.W. Bush visits namesake carrier

MAINE

KENNEBUNKPORT — Former President George H.W. Bush was performing ceremonial duties and posing for photos while visiting an aircraft carrier named for him off the Maine coast.

Mr. Bush and his wife, Barbara, along with their son, former President George W. Bush, and other family members flew by helicopter ...

4 dead in Calif. home attack, suspect wounded

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:30
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities sought a motive Sunday after an assailant entered a Sacramento home and shot four people to death, police said. The suspect also was wounded and in critical condition....
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