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Five people critically injured and sixty hospitalized after two New York commuter trains collide in Connecticut
Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...
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Heading for America Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
Welcome to America: now stand in line for three hours. Millions of British holidaymakers and business travellers heading for the US this summer face longer waits than ever to be processed by ...
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Albert Seedman Former Chief of Detectives in New York Dies at 94
New York Police Department 's chief of detectives in the early 1970s who became something of a celebrity as the savvy, cigar-chomping personification of the tough-guy cop while modernizing a tradition-bound force, died on Friday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was ...
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Trains collide in America
Two trains have collided in Connecticut injuring over sixty people, five critically, and closing the line between Boston and New York. It appears a New Haven-bound train derailed and was then hit by another train. About 250 people were on board at the time of the rush-hour crash. At the moment no cause of the crash is being ...
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Obama Agenda Seems to Be Weathering Controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue ...
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Growing Popularity Of Private Drones Concern California Privacy Groups
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - No longer exclusively used by the military, drones are increasingly being used by groups and private individuals. As drones become even more popular, and with very few rules regarding their use, privacy experts are worried. With a homeowner’s permission, KPIX 5 launched our drone, and shot video from their backyard. While we didn’t get close to the fence ...
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Saratoga Teen’s Research Takes Science World By Storm
18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), a senior at Lynbrook High School, is one of two runners up at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. ...
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Cops investigating after NY college student killed
Hofstra University students gather near the house where another student and an armed intruder were killed during an overnight house break-in next to the campus, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/ Louis ...
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Quotations of the day
Quotations of the day "Listening to the nightly news, this appears to be just the latest example of a culture of cover-ups and political intimidation in this administration. It seems like the truth is hidden from the American people just long enough to make it through an election." - Republican Dave Camp, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, speaking about the IRS scandal and ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast ...
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Navy pilot earns masters degree in engineering while in combat zone
The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he ...
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White House scandals could Obama lose his mojo
A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president. "The recent rash of scandals does complicate the life of the administration. It takes them off-message and distracts from the broader narrative of an improving economy,"Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Washington-based ...
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Feds to investigate Conn. train crash
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the site of the crash this morning, the agency said. The two Metro-North passenger ...
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Giants Unable To Overcome Miscues Lose To Rockies
Starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner #40 of the San Francisco Giants delivers to home plate during the first inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on May 17, 2013 in Denver. (Justin Edmonds/Getty ...
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Late Homer By Rosales Lifts A’s Over Royals
Adam Rosales #17 of the Oakland Athletics is congratulated by third base coach Mike Gallego #2 after Rosales hit a solo home run against the Kansas City Royals in the eighth inning at O.co Coliseum on May 17, 2013 in Oakland. The home run put the Athletics ahead in the game 2-1. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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Pentagon tells US Senate wars will continue for decades
Testifying before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services on Thursday, Pentagon officials claimed that "war on terror" legislation gives them sweeping powers to wage war anywhere in the world, including inside the United States, without Congressional authorization. Assistant Defense Secretary Michael Sheehan argued that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), ...
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Pew report shows decline in retirement security for most Americans
On Thursday, the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts released a new report documenting an important aspect of the growing social crisis in the United States. The study, titled "Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years?" provides a glimpse into the precarious situation facing those who are approaching retirement age. Among ...
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Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
A proposed injunction to halt the closure of one in ten public schools in the District of Columbia has been denied in federal court. The injunction, part of a lawsuit filed in March by community groups and parents affected by the closures, was intended to halt the closures of the schools announced at the beginning of the year by DC education chancellor Kaya Henderson. The complaint had ...
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Notorious dictator Videla dies in prison
Michael Warren Buenos Aires - 18 May 2013 Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens, has died in his sleep while serving life in prison for crimes against ...
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Internet star is charged with murder of lawyer
Tim Walker Los Angeles - 18 May 2013 An internet celebrity known as "Kai the hatchet-wielding hitcher" has been charged with murder, after he allegedly bludgeoned a 73-year-old man to ...
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France to buy American drones for Mali operation
War Two of America's medium-altitude Reaper drones will be sold to France as backup for the country's operations against Islamist rebels in Mali. The news comes from the 'Air et Cosmos' specialist magazine, which reported online that a deal had been reached between France and the United States for the sale of two non-armed MQ-9 units. The French air force had already ...
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Watch New York Mega Millions Drawing
Across America. Evening America I'm Brian hooker it's Friday may seventeenth the night mega million jackpot -- an estimated in the ninety million dollars. Our first quite well tonight. 43 and a ...
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Watch 60 Injured in Connecticut Train Collision
So far sixty people -- several critically injured and one of those patients extremely critical here's what happened in the eastbound train derailed. And then hit -- passing westbound train ...
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South Bay Teacher Arrested In Sex Sting
Grant Blair, a teacher at Old Orchard School in Campbell, was arrested on suspicion of illegally meeting a minor to engage in lewd or lascivious behavior on May 15, 2013. (San Jose Police ...
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Liga MX Wrap Monterrey share spoils with America
Aldo de Nigris has scored a crucial equaliser for Monterrey to salvage a 2-2 draw against America in their Liga MX semi-final first leg.Ecuadorian striker Christian Benitez struck two vital away goals for America to put the visitors ahead in the second half at Monterrey's Estadio Tecnologico but the hosts recovered soon after through de Nigris to stay alive in the two-legged ...
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