(CNN) — Mississippi authorities said Friday that they have caught the man they believe gunned down two strangers last week along interstate highways in the northwestern part of the state. Tunica County Sheriff K.C. Hamp said charges were filed Friday against James D. Willie, 28, for kidnapping, rape, illegal possession of a firearm and murder [...]
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Trayvon Martin Witness Believes ‘He Intended for This Kid to Die’
A closer look at the witness statements and audio testimony taken in the immediate aftermath Trayvon Martin’s death provides the first insight into George Zimmerman’s behavior after he shot the unarmed teen. A man listed as witness 13 was one of the first people to approach Zimmerman minutes after the shooting. He saw him bleeding [...]
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Alaska News Features Alaskans can catch a glimpse of a partial solar eclipse on Sunday afternoon. That’s when the moon will pass in front of the Sun and cast a shadow across the home planet’s surface on a trajectory that begins in Asia and crosses the ocean into North America. “Something strange is about to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Day of glitches mar Facebook stock debut
But for the first two hours of regular trading, nothing happened to the share price. “Unchanged,” read the screens on Nasdaq’s exchange and on cable channels that had prepared special segments. When trading finally began at 11:30, applause broke out at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The stock shot up. Then chaos ensued. Traders [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Congress Decries $800M in Unused Federal Grants
Nearly $800 million in federal grant money authorized and appropriated by federal agencies remained unspent for years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The April 16 report was highlighted Friday by GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, following the release a day earlier of a GAO study he commissioned that cast doubt on whether taxpayers’ [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Path to US Fuel Security? Look North
Outside of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, America has no energy security plan. The next best thing may lie 500 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border in a remote area of Alberta. Here, in an area roughly the size of Florida, lies the largest single deposit of petroleum anywhere in the world. Current estimates of recoverable [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Poll: 63 percent in US back military action to prevent nuclear-armed Iran
Iran President’s Office via AP Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in Iran in this April 8, 2008 file photo. Some 63 percent of Americans would be in favor of taking military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a new survey. The Pew Research Center asked [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Romney’s ‘Day One’: What do we know about his plan?
Mitt Romney has outlined a bold agenda to spur economic growth and create jobs. On his first day in office, he will approve the Keystone pipeline, introduce pro-growth tax reforms, and repeal Obamacare. Forget a president’s first 100 days. Mitt Romney’s first television ad of the general election, “Day One,” comes as close as [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Facebook’s IPO fails to live up to the hype
Richard Drew / AP A man stops to photograph the Nasdaq in Times Square as Facebook debuts. In the end, Facebook’s IPO fell flat. After jumping more than 10 percent at the start of trading, shares of the social network pulled back in their debut Friday to gain a mere 23 cents a share, suggesting a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Final moments call to girlfriend
George Zimmerman, 28, faces second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, on February 26. Zimmerman said that before he shot the teenager, he was “assaulted (by Martin) and his head was struck on the pavement,” according to a police report. According to a fire department report, Zimmerman had “abrasions to [...]
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