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Post Newtown, elementary schools reject the traditional lockdown
In the wake of last year’s fatal shooting of 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many schools are no longer relying solely on the traditional “lockdown” response to an armed intruder and are teaching students and teachers to fight back.
Yahoo NewsMystery 'Tips for Jesus' tipper identified in NYC
The generous mystery tipper who has been leaving waiters and waitresses across the country thousands of dollars in "Tips for Jesus" was identified by a New York City waiter as Jack Selby, former PayPal vice president.
Yahoo NewsMortgage Rates Hit 2.63% (2.82% APR)
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AdChoices LendingTreeSponsoredCold-snap stories: From frozen Vegas to the frigid Midwest, residents commiserate
Areas further east are bracing for the frigid blast as the storm creeps into the Southern plains, the Tennessee Valley and the Northeast later this week. Yahoo News is collecting anecdotes from residents in the storm’s path. Below are lightly edited excerpts from stories they shared with us this…
Yahoo News'Worst ice storm' in years wallops Texas, much of the Midwest
The National Weather Service has issued ice and winter storm advisories for more than a dozen states. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee have already declared states of emergency. Snow, ice and freezing rain are moving to the Northeast.
Yahoo NewsHillary? Biden? They’d both be great, Obama says
There may come a day when President Barack Obama has to say whether he’d rather hand the keys to the White House to Vice President Joe Biden or former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. That day is not today.
Yahoo NewsU.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal:report
By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the heart of a Navy contracting scandal is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court next week, California media reported. NCIS…
Reuters44 mins agoOhio school employees plead not guilty in Steubenville rape case
By Elizabeth Daley STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Four adults in Steubenville, Ohio, including the school's superintendent, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges stemming from the handling of the investigation into the rape of a teenage girl in August 2012. The rape case drew national attention…
Reuters54 mins agoCleveland man found guilty in city's deadliest house fire
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland man accused of setting the city's deadliest house fire, which killed eight children and a woman, was found guilty by a jury on Friday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office said. Antun Lewis, 29, was convicted of arson and faces up to life in…
ReutersVeterans group to fight order to tear down landmark California cross
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A veterans association that built a massive cross overlooking San Diego as part of a war memorial plans to fight a federal judge's order to tear it down, a lawyer for the group said on Friday. Attorney Jeff Mateer said he hoped the U.S. Supreme Court, which…
ReutersStudent opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said. The student entered Arapahoe…
ReutersAmerican missing in Iran was probing possible money laundering: lawyer
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American with links to the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating suspicions that Iranian government officials were diverting petroleum funds and laundering them through Canada when he went missing in Iran in 2007, a lawyer for his family said on…
ReutersOhio man found guilty in Cleveland's deadliest house fire
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal jury on Friday found a man guilty of setting a blaze that killed eight children and a woman in the deadliest house fire in Cleveland's history, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office said. Antun Lewis, 29, was convicted of arson and faces up to…
ReutersTwo dead in Utah as boulders crush home near U.S. national park
Two people were killed and the home they occupied was destroyed after building-sized boulders crashed down a cliff and crushed the two-story structure outside Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said on Friday. The rock slide on Thursday night likely killed the couple instantly, said…
ReutersOhio man guilty of arson in retrial for deadly Cleveland blaze
A federal jury in Cleveland found a man guilty on Friday of setting a blaze that killed a woman and eight children in the deadliest house fire in the city's history, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office said. Antun Lewis, 29, was convicted two years ago of arson, but had been granted a new…
ReutersPublic Records Posted Online for Anyone to See
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AdChoices Instant CheckmateSponsoredU.S. schools' approach to student data threatens privacy: study
By Molly Hensley-Clancy NEW YORK (Reuters) - School districts across the United States are failing to properly protect troves of sensitive student data as they rush to adopt new online systems pitched by private companies, a report released on Friday found. Most of the 23 school districts studied…
ReutersDreams of riches drive sales for $425 million U.S. lottery
(Reuters) - The U.S. Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $425 million, prompting a rush of ticket-buying by people betting their luck will hold when the game's second-largest drawing on record takes place on the night of Friday the 13th. The lottery prize that may be snagged on what…
ReutersStudent opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - A student seeking to confront one of his teachers opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson told a…
ReutersMan arrested for suspected suicide plot to blow up Kansas airport
Authorities said Friday they foiled a suicide bombing plot to blow up the Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, arresting a man who proclaimed himself Muslim and had talked of committing "violent jihad on behalf of al Qaeda." Terry Loewen, a 58-year-old aviation technician from Wichita, was…
ReutersToyota to start settlement talks for acceleration cases
Toyota Motor Corp will begin talks to potentially settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that defects caused some of its vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate, according to a court filing. Thursday's order from U.S. District Judge James Selna in California federal court put a halt to the lawsuits…
ReutersWitness: A year later, reflections from Newtown
By Dan Burns NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - N-E-W-T-O-W-N. There's a second "W." Of course, most everyone knows that now. But on that day, even President Obama got it wrong, initially calling us "Newton." We'd been used to that.
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