MONTROSE, Ga. More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing at least four people and sending nine others to a hospital, officials said. Work crews on Interstate 16 were still clearing charred and twisted wreckage from the crash scene, which covered nearly a quarter-mile of the roadway, nearly six hours...
NTSB to Challenge 787 Battery Tests
Labels: Business The National Transportation Safety Board will publicly question at a news conference planned for Thursday morning in Washington whether the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing adequately tested the lithium batteries that have caught fire on Dreamliners in the U.S. and Japan, ABC News has learned exclusively from a government source.The NTSB will say its investigation...
Feb
05
What follows N. Korea's nuclear test?
Labels: WorldSTORY HIGHLIGHTSLopez: Uranium-based blast would pose new challenge to U.N. Security CouncilIndicates Pyongyang has advanced centrifuge technologies and related systemsNorth Korea's young leader appears to care little about what U.N. or China thinkProduct-based sanctions may stifle the North's ability to continue nuclear programEditor's note: George A. Lopez holds the Hesburgh Chair in Peace Studies...
Passion in US lower house immigration debate
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: US lawmakers debated plans on Tuesday to build a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants who remade their lives in America but found themselves at the heart of a fierce debate.President Barack Obama and a group of Republican and Democratic senators have submitted plans for reform, but as the House of Representatives took up the issue, there were signs the bipartisan...
Secret camera spied on Alabama kidnapper's bunker
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Ethan released from hospital, state police sayMother praises 'most compassionate people on Earth' for reuniting her with sonHostage taker was difficult to deal with from Day 1, source saysLaw enforcement used a secret camera to see inside bunker, source saysMidland City, Alabama (CNN) -- An Alabama mother awoke Tuesday to what she will forever remember as "the most beautiful sight...
Triple amputee vet takes on skydiving, alligator wrestling
Labels: Health (CBS News) HIRAM, Ga. -- When CBS News met Todd Love last year, he was learning how to kayak, and that's no small accomplishment, because Love is a triple amputee. As a U.S. Recon Marine in Afghanistan two years ago, he lost both legs and his left forearm to a landmine. Love said then that kayaking didn't completely satisfy his need for adventure. Watch: CBS News first met Todd Love when he was...
White House: Drone Strikes on Americans 'Legal'
Labels: Business Feb 5, 2013 3:54pm U.S. Air ForceThe White House today defended the use of targeted drone strikes against U.S. citizens abroad suspected of high-level terrorist activity, but declined to detail the criteria for ordering such an attack.“Sometimes we use remotely piloted aircraft to conduct targeted strikes against specific al Qaeda terrorists in order to prevent...
Feb
04
Richard III still the criminal king
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Football: Messi agility is all in the mind - scientists
Labels: Technology LONDON: Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi may owe his trademark feints and body swerves to the fact his brain is busier than that of a less gifted player, according to a study into footballers' minds.Researchers at Britain's Brunel University found that highly skilled footballers are able to activate more areas of their brain than novices when an opposing player approaches, enabling them...
Boy safe, suspect dead after Alabama bunker standoff
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Mom was whisked away to reunite with child, state legislator saysFBI says boy was rescued after negotiators felt he was in dangerBoy has been taken to a hospital in Dothan, another state legislator saidWitness said he heard explosion followed by gunshotsMidland City, Alabama (CNN) -- A 5-year-old child abducted from a school bus six days ago is safe and his kidnapper is dead,...
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