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August 31, 2016 at 7:30 am
Howell, NJ - A woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly leaving her infant in the car for more than half an hour while she went shopping.
The Asbury Park Press reported that the four month old little girl had been in the car for approximately 20 minutes when a pair of passers-by noticed her screaming and crying in the back seat of a Nissan Sentra in the parking lot of the Howell Commons shopping center, just north of Lakewood. Steve Eckel, a retired officer from the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office, and Sarah Mazzone were both walking in the parking lot on Route 9 when they noticed the infant. “It was a little baby wrapped up in a woolen blanket, crying, sweating, eyes rolling in back of her head,” said Eckel. The doors of the Sentra were locked and its ...
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August 31, 2016 at 6:00 am
The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem (BLMJ) will display important new archaeological findings to the public in an exhibit called In the Valley of David and Goliath, beginning on September 5, 2016.
The exhibition showcases 100 select artifacts from a mysterious two-gated city from 3,000 years ago. The site known by its modern name Khirbet Qeiyafa is on a mountain top overlooking the Elah Valley, between Sokho and Azekah.
Before the official museum opening, a press tour to the excavations highlighted the ancient city situated on the border between the Philistines and the Judeans and its significance.
For seven seasons from 2007-2013, Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, Yigal Yadin Chair of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew U...
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August 30, 2016 at 11:08 pm
San Francisco - A California startup has developed a portable technology that will allow consumers to test their food for gluten on the go.
“Even when you go out and see these labeled menu items, you are still playing Russian roulette,” said Shireen Yates, co-founder and chief executive of NIMA, which was founded in 2013.
Designed in San Francisco by a team from MIT, Stanford, Google and Nike, NIMA can analyze any type of food or beverage for gluten down to 20 parts per million, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) classification for gluten free products.
“There is still cross contamination, there is miscommunication, you just never know,” Yates added.
An estimated 15 million people in the United States have some form of food allergy, a statistic tha...
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August 30, 2016 at 11:04 pm
Chicago, IL - Joe Sutter, known for leading Boeing Co’s engineering team for the iconic 747 jumbo jet in the mid-1960s, died on Tuesday at the age of 95.
In addition to the 747, Sutter worked on projects including the 737 and 707 aircraft models, Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive officer Ray Conner said in a message to employees.
Sutter and his team became known as “the Incredibles,” for producing the world’s largest airplane within 29 months from the time of conception.
Sutter served the company as a consultant after his retirement from the company in 1986.
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August 30, 2016 at 11:01 pm
Florida - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who stepped down as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee last month, handily defeated primary challenger Tim Canova on Tuesday.
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August 30, 2016 at 10:59 pm
New York - Donald Trump says on Twitter he’s accepted invitation to visit Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, looks forward to meeting him Wednesday.
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August 30, 2016 at 10:56 pm
Pyongyang - North Korea has executed its vice premier for education, Kim Yong Jin, and has reprimanded two other high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday.
Kim Yong Chol, the influential head of the North’s United Front Department which handles inter-Korean relations, was made to undergo “revolutionary measures,” the South’s Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said.
The South’s comments follow a news report on Tuesday that said the North had executed two high-ranking officials earlier in the month for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un.
Jeong spoke at a briefing and declined to give further details.
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August 30, 2016 at 10:08 pm
On this coming Thursday, Yom Kippur Koton for Elul, the Ma’aras HaMachpelah in Hebron will be opened exclusively to Jews, including Ulam Yitzchak. Prominent rabbonim and admorim are expected to visit among the many mispallalim.
At 4:00AM the Machpelah will be opened to Jews exclusively until 22:00. Persons coming during the later hours are advised to arrive no later than 21:00. There will be buses from Jerusalem, Betar Illit and Modi’in Illit including the Egged 160 line from the capital (Central Bus Station).
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August 30, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Washington - The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI’s recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.
Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department’s lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.
Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department ...
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August 30, 2016 at 10:05 pm
New York - Every few months, a pilot somewhere in the world is stopped before their jet takes off because a passenger or co-worker smelled alcohol on their breath. It makes headlines and gives nervous travelers another reason to avoid flying.
Despite their notoriety, such cases are extremely rare.
Each day, there are 90,000 flights around the world, carrying more than 8 million people. And the overwhelming majority of pilots in those cockpits are sober.
Pilots take being fit to fly seriously and act accordingly,” says former US Airways pilot John M. Cox, now CEO of the consulting firm Safety Operating Systems. “Pilots know they are one of the most carefully monitored professions and therefore, are very conservative.”
There are occasional lapses. The latest inc...
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August 30, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Augusta, ME - Amid political pressure and calls for his resignation, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that he wants to make amends with the Democratic legislator he targeted in an obscene voicemail message, but he tweeted that any reports of his “political demise are greatly exaggerated.”
Speaking on WVOM-FM radio, LePage apologized for his tirade last week toward Rep. Drew Gattine and said it was “unacceptable and totally my fault.”
He said he’s going to meet with family and close advisers to decide what to do next. He initially declined to say whether he would serve out the remainder of his term, which ends in 2019.
“I’m not going to say I’m not going to finish it,” LePage said. “I’m not saying I am goin...
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August 30, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Manhattan, NY - Authorities in New York say five kayakers were injured when they were hit by a ferry departing a pier on the Hudson River.
Police say it happened just before 6 p.m. Tuesday near Pier 79 on Manhattan’s west side as a group of 10 kayakers were paddling down the river.
One person is in stable condition with a serious arm injury. The others had minor injuries. Police originally said 11 were hurt.
Police say they were riding in eight kayaks. At least two kayaks were hit by the NY Waterway ferry.
Authorities are investigating whether the sun’s glare was a factor.
Police say the ferry captain has tested negative for drugs and alcohol.
A spokesman for NY Waterway says it’s cooperating with police and the Coast Guard on the investigation.
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August 30, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Washington - When Bill Clinton left the White House, he was popular but tainted by scandal, struggling to find his footing. He eventually channeled his energy into the global philanthropy that bears his name and is shaping so much of his post-presidential legacy.
Now, he faces the prospect of walking away from the Clinton Foundation. He’s promised to step down from the board if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November, a commitment made amid swirling questions — pushed along by Donald Trump — about her ability to separate herself from the foundation’s wealthy contributors at home and abroad.
For the Clintons, the decisions surrounding the foundation are the latest chapter in an unprecedented partnership of personal and political ambitions. While p...
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August 30, 2016 at 9:59 pm
New York - People who have had gallstone disease are more likely than others to develop coronary heart disease, according to a large analysis of past studies.
Hardened deposits known as gallstones form in the gallbladder when the bile contains too much cholesterol or other abnormal substances, and while the cause is not fully understood, factors like obesity, high-calorie diets and metabolic syndrome are associated with gallstone risk.
The same factors increase the risk for coronary heart disease, which kills 370,000 Americans per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Several previous studies have suggested a potential link between gallstones and cardiovascular disease,” said senior author Dr. Lu Qi, professor of epidemiology at Tulane...
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August 30, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Florida - Sen. Marco Rubio has earned the support of Florida’s Republican voters to seek a second term, a decision he made at the last minute after his failed presidential bid.
Rubio beat millionaire developer Carlos Beruff, the only major GOP candidate to stay in the race after Rubio decided to run for re-election two days before the deadline to make the ballot. He had said for months he wouldn’t run again no matter what happened in the presidential race.
Rubio will now face the winner of the Democratic primary, either U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy or U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson.
Republican leaders encouraged Rubio to change his mind, seeing him as the best home to keep his seat in GOP hands as Democrats sought to regain a majority in the Senate.
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August 30, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Orlando, FL - A mother called 911 for help as she texted with her son, who was trapped inside the Pulse nightclub. A sister told a dispatcher that her 20-year-old brother also was trapped, in a bathroom at the gay club, and that “he said there were a lot of dead people.”
People were texting, calling and video-chatting for help during the mass shooting of 49 people in June, and their loved ones frantically called police dispatchers in turn, according to numerous audio recordings of 911 calls released Tuesday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office took overflow 911 calls when Orlando Police Department dispatchers were inundated during the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The recordings show sheriff’s dispatchers mostly ...
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August 30, 2016 at 9:50 pm
New York - Fifteen years after the Sept. 11th attacks, Lower Manhattan has been reborn.
The revitalization of the city’s downtown, powered by $30 billion in government and private investment, includes not just the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, but also two new malls filled with upscale retailers, thousands of new hotel rooms and dozens of eateries ranging from a new Eataly to a French food hall, Le District.
The statistics alone are stunning. There are 29 hotels in the neighborhood, compared to six before 9/11. More than 60,000 people live downtown, nearly triple the number in 2000. And last year, the area hosted a record 14 million visitors, according to the Alliance for Downtown New York.
And while there’s plenty to do downtown for free, including ...
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August 30, 2016 at 9:47 pm
Miami - Florida health officials on Tuesday said they were investigating three new Zika virus cases likely stemming from local mosquito bites in Miami-Dade County, including two cases outside of the known areas of active transmission.
The new infections bring the state’s total of non-travel-related cases to 46, according to the Florida Department of Health. Only one of Tuesday’s three new cases was linked to Miami Beach, which is known to be an active area for local Zika transmission.
The health department said it was investigating the other two cases to determine where they occurred, but cautioned, “One case does not mean ongoing active transmission is taking place.”
The department said it believes ongoing transmission is only taking place in part...
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August 30, 2016 at 5:59 pm
The Daily Mail reports that seven Indonesian students have been hospitalised after they were rescued from ‘freak’ surf while swimming between the flags at Sydney’s most iconic beach.
The group were on a school excursion to Bondi Beach on Tuesday when two of the boys, both 16, disappeared under the water for a ‘period of time’ at 12.30pm.
Their classmates rushed into the water to try and save the pair but were also dragged out by the ‘freak’ surf.
Lifeguards paddled out and dragged the two boys who had been ‘submerged for a period of time’ to shore.
They performed CPR while concerned beach-goers watched on as and paramedics and local Ambulance Community Responders (Hatzalah) rushed to the scene.
One boy was transported to St Vincent...
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August 30, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Washington - Pastor Marks Burns, a prominent supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, apologized on Tuesday for sending out a tweet that showed a cartoon image of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in blackface.
Burns, an African-American who is frequently one of the warmup speakers at Trump rallies, sent out the tweet on Monday to bolster the Trump campaign’s contention that Clinton is pandering for the black vote but will ignore the community if elected on Nov. 8.
“I ain’t no ways pandering to African Americans,” the cartoon image says.
The tweet emerged at a time when Trump has been trying to broaden his appeal to African-American voters by saying he wants to create more jobs and make black neighborhoods safe so people can walk down t...
