DARRINGTON, Wash. – The rains that have bedeviled rescuers working to find more victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.
The number of confirmed dead rose from 21 to 24 on Monday, Snohomish County officials said in a media release. Seventeen of the victims have been positively identified, and authorities are working to identify the other remains. Read More HERE.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Digging through the mud
DARRINGTON, Wash. – The rains that have bedeviled rescuers working to find more victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.
The number of confirmed dead rose from 21 to 24 on Monday, Snohomish County officials said in a media release. Seventeen of the victims have been positively identified, and authorities are working to identify the other remains. Read More HERE.
Crossfire
North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said.
South Korean Marines fired artillery shells across a disputed sea border after North Korean shells from a live fire drill conducted by Pyongyang fell into the water south of the frontier, Seoul officials told the Associated Press. READ MORE HERE.
Yahoo in talks to buy News Distribution Network for $300 million
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in preliminary talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for $300 million, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
Read More HERE.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Not your typical badger
Frank Kaminsky scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Wisconsin knocked off the No. 1 seed Arizona Wildcats 64-63 in the West Regional final to advance to the Final Four next Saturday.
Arizona's Nick Johnson was called for an offensive foul with 3.2 seconds left, but the Wildcats got a final chance after the officials ruled that Wisconsin had knocked the ball out of bounds on the ensuing inbounds play. The ball went to Johnson, but the referees ruled that he did not get the final shot off before time expired.
Conflict averted
MOSCOW — A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised President Obama with a phone call to discuss a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Ukraine, there are signs that a deal might be on the horizon. Both sides publicly laid out positions, though they remain far apart on some issues.
“We are bringing our approaches closer together,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a Russian television interview. He added that “a possible joint initiative that could be offered to our Ukrainian partners is taking shape.” READ HERE
7.5 would California survive
Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded "Big One" from the more famous San Andreas Fault.
The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night's magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area. READ MORE HERE
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Live by the gun...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Line in the sand
Russia and the West drew a tentative line under the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday after U.S. President Barack Obama and his allies agreed to hold off on more damaging economic sanctions unless Moscow goes beyond the seizure of Crimea. Read More HERE
North Korea at it again?
The launch of what are believed to be Rodong missiles would be a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and marks a big escalation from a series of shorter-range rocket launches the North has staged in recent weeks to protest ongoing annual military drills by Washington and Seoul that the North claims are invasion preparation. READ MORE HERE
Russia in a box
The U.S. and some of its closest allies cut Russia out indefinitely from a major coalition of leading industrial nations and canceled a summer summit Russia was to host in its Olympic village of Sochi. Obama also sought to win backing from other foreign leaders in hopes of ostracizing or even shaming Putin into reversing his acquisition of Crimea and backing away from any designs he might have on other Eastern Europe territory. Read More HERE.
Death in Egypt
A court in Egypt sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on charges of murdering a policeman and attacking police, convicting them after only two sessions in one of the largest mass trials in the country in decades. READ MORE HERE.
Friday, March 21, 2014
NASA discovers new gully on Mars
A NASA spacecraft has spotted a big gully on Mars, a feature that appears to have formed only within the last three years.
The powerful HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) imaged the channel, which is found on the slope of a crater wall in the Red Planet's mid-southern latitudes, on May 25, 2013. The feature was not present in HiRISE photos of the area taken on Nov. 5, 2010. NASA unveiled the image on Wednesday. READ MORE HERE.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Dodged a bullet
Earth dodged one of the most massive magnetic solar bursts ever on July 23, 2012, scientists with the University of California, Berkeley revealed on Wednesday -- saving the planet from widespread havoc.
READ HERE.
Thousands of farmers in drought-stricken California are rallying this week in opposition to regulations that have frozen water supplies across the state. Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Former ISS Commander Talks About Being Blind in Space
During Hadfield's first spacewalk in 2001, a drop of an oil and soap mixture, used to keep the Canadian's helmet from fogging up, got caught in his left eye and caused him to tear up. Without gravity, the tears didn't stream down his face and instead got bigger, drifting into his other eye and rendering him blind in the vastness of space. Read more HERE.
Mick Jagger's girlfriend, found dead in 'apparent suicide'
A rep for Mick Jagger tells FOX411 the Rolling Stones frontman is "shocked and devastated" by the news that longtime girlfriend and fashion designer L'Wren Scott was found dead of an apparent suicide Monday morning.
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Crash Landing
At least two people died and one was injured when a news helicopter crashed Tuesday morning at Fisher Plaza near the city’s famed Space Needle.
Read More HERE
Monday, March 17, 2014
Russia throwing gang signs
Russia’s most influential television hosts appeared on the evening news in Moscow, before a huge mushroom cloud graphic, to remind viewers that Russia is still “the only country in the world capable of turning the U.S.A. into radioactive dust. READ HERE.
Drone Wars
FAA officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft. The agency has worked on those regulations for the past decade and is still months and possibly years away from issuing final rules for small drones, which are defined as those weighing less than 55 pounds. Rules for larger drones are even further off.
READ HERE.
A day in the life of a marijuana lobbyist
While hundreds of congressional staffers lunched around them, a group of foot soldiers in the effort to legalize marijuana stood over a rectangular table cluttered with plates of sushi and documents, busily stuffing white folders with literature about the need for the federal government to change the nation’s cannabis laws. Each folder, which would be delivered to a congressional office on one of the floors above, needed a primer on bills that had been introduced to reform banking and tax laws for the cannabis industry, a letter urging co-sponsorship of the bills, a position paper from Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, and a New York Times story about the burgeoning marijuana industry.
READ HERE
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay arrested for DWI
Colts owner Jim Irsay was jailed Monday on suspicion of intoxicated driving after police said he failed sobriety tests during a traffic stop and they found multiple prescription drugs inside his vehicle.
Irsay was stopped late Sunday after he was spotted driving slowly near his home in suburban Carmel, coming to a stop in the roadway and failing to use a turn signal. Police say the 54-year-old Irsay failed several roadside field sobriety tests before he was arrested, though details were not released.
Read more here.
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