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Puzzling! Swine flu virus detected in elephant seals off West Coast
The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California.Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs. The seals seem to have picked up the virus while at sea, but it's unclear how this happened."We thought we might find influenza v...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 06:35:44 GMT)
Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida
Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early Sunday.The winning Powerball numbers drawn late Saturday were 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with Powerball number 11.Powerball's website said one winner was sold in Florida, and David Bishop of the Florida Lottery confirmed that it was so...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 05:46:13 GMT)
Lucky numbers for biggest Powerball jackpot are ...
Do you have the lucky ticket? The winning Powerball numbers drawn late Saturday are 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with Powerball number 11.Four out of every five possible combinations of numbers were in play, Powerball officials said. The jackpot of the 43-state lottery game surged ahead of the drawing, and had been estimated at $600 million. Powerball officials said after the drawing that the final amount w...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 04:02:01 GMT)
Plains states on edge under tornado watches
Large sections of the Plains states came under tornado watches Saturday as a wave of storms swept through.The greatest threat late Saturday was in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, weather.com reported, with central Oklahoma seeing a spike on Sunday.But Weather Channel meteorologist Michael Palmer said the storms on Sunday afternoon and evening were likely to carry a greater chance of tornadoes and the...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 02:17:43 GMT)
Anchorage sets record for longest snow season
232 days - it took over 30 years for Anchorage to set a new record for the longest snow season on record.The National Weather Service measured 2/10ths of an inch just after 9 p.m. Friday and 1/10th Saturday morning - breaking the old record of 230 days set in 1981-1982.Anchorage police responded to 22 crashes, 4 with injuries and 37 vehicles in distress between midnight and noon Saturday. Police s...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 02:06:46 GMT)
Hofstra student shot in home robbery was killed by police, officials say
The New York college student who was shot during a home robbery early Friday was killed by police gunfire, officials said at a news conference Saturday.According to NBC New York affiliate WNBC, Nassau County Police said Andrea Rebello, 21, was killed by police fire, not by the armed gunman attempting to rob the off-campus house where she lived with her twin sister, Jessica, and several other wom...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 00:50:19 GMT)
Car barrels through Virginia parade crowd, injuring at least 50, official says
About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported.The injuries ranged from critical to superficial, he said. Three of the victims were flown by helicopte...
(Sun, 19 May 2013 00:17:30 GMT)
Big dreams as Powerball jackpot soars to $600 million
(Sun, 19 May 2013 00:06:40 GMT)
Tornado risk increases in the Plains
(Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:22 GMT)
Dozens injured in Connecticut train collision
(Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:22 GMT)
Plane makes belly landing in Newark
(Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:21 GMT)
Car drives into crowd at parade
(Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:21 GMT)
Can Jodi Arias escape death penalty?
(Sat, 18 May 2013 23:33:55 GMT)
Deadly Greenwich Village shooting possible 'hate crime,' police say
Authorities are investigating the overnight shooting death of a 32-year-old man in New York’s Greenwich Village as a hate crime after police said the shooter may have hurled anti-gay slurs."This clearly looks to be a hate crime," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters on Saturday.While investigators continued to piece together the events leading up to the shooting, police identified the victim...
(Sat, 18 May 2013 21:27:43 GMT)
Gov. Malloy confirms 60 injuries in train collision
(Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:19 GMT)
Investigators to scour wreckage of Conn. derailment
(Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:18 GMT)
Risk of tornadoes threatens Nebraska, Kansas
(Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:17 GMT)
Car barrels through Virginia parade crowd, witnesses say
Witnesses in southwestern Virginia said a car drove into a crowd at a parade Saturday and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. It happened around 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, a small mountain town near the Tennessee state line about a half-hour drive east of...
(Sat, 18 May 2013 20:54:50 GMT)
Suspect identified in home robbery that left Hofstra student dead
Police identified Saturday the man allegedly involved in a home robbery and the death of a New York college student early Friday morning.Nassau County police said Dalton Smith, 30, of Hempstead tried to rob the off-campus house where Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello, 21, was shot and killed.According to a police statement, officers responding to a robbery in progress arrived on scene at 2...
(Sat, 18 May 2013 20:43:55 GMT)
Woman dies after waiting nearly an hour for police
(Sat, 18 May 2013 17:09:40 GMT)
Meet Minnesota’s pint-sized politician, Mayor Tufts
(Sat, 18 May 2013 17:09:39 GMT)
Students can't resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you
Are gadgets making us dumber? Two new studies suggest they might be. One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test. A second demonstrated that some students, even when on their best behavior, can't concentrate on homework for more than two minutes without distracting themselves by using social media or writing an email.Interruptions are...
(Sat, 18 May 2013 16:36:02 GMT)
'Absolutely staggering': Dozens injured in Connecticut train crash
Officials toured the scene of a two-train collision in Connecticut that injured dozens of people and halted rail traffic from New York to Boston on Friday.Area hospitals saw seventy people after the rush-hour collision. Two remained in critical condition on Saturday.“The damage is absolutely staggering,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal told reporters on Saturday after a tour of the scene. “Ribbons on the ...
(Sat, 18 May 2013 16:24:58 GMT)
Belly-landing caught on camera at Newark airport
(Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:11 GMT)
Analyst: O.J. Simpson unlikely to prevail in retrial attempt
(Sat, 18 May 2013 15:19:16 GMT)
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