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August 19, 2017 at 9:32 pm
Wreckage from the USS Indianapolis, which sank 72 years ago after being torpedoed during World War II, was found in the Philippine Sea by the expedition crew of billionaire Paul Allen.
The Indianapolis was hit by the Japanese on July 30, 1945 and sank in only 12 minutes, leading to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the Navy's history. Of 1,196 crew aboard the ship, only 317 survived.
The men who didn't go down with the ship faced dehydration, saltwater poisoning and shark-infested waters.
"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role during World War II is truly humbling," Allen said in a statement.
Prior to being attacked, the Indianapolis had delivered componen...
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August 19, 2017 at 9:31 pm
A second Florida police officer died Saturday after he and a colleague were shot while scuffling with a suspect.
The Kissimmee Police Department issued a statement late Saturday afternoon saying Sgt. Richard "Sam" Howard had died of his injuries. His colleague, Officer Matthew Baxter, died Friday night.
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Undated mugshot of Everett Glen Miller, who is accused of killing Kissimmee police officer Matthew Baxter
Everett Glen Miller, 45, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Baxter, Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said earlier Saturday at a news conference.
O’Dell said it does not appear that Miller, a Marine veteran, has an extensive criminal history but authorities are still investigating.
The two officers ...
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August 19, 2017 at 9:31 pm
Three people were in custody Friday night, including a “strong suspect,” after one police officer was fatally shot and another suffered grave injuries in Kissimmee, Fla., south of Orlando.
At a press briefing, Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said police Officer Matthew Baxter succumbed to his wounds, and Officer Sam Howard was in critical condition, but the “prognosis does not look good,” O’Dell said.
Initial reports said both officers had died.
The two officers were in the area of Palmway and Cypress, checking out a report of a suspicious person at approximately 9:27 p.m. Soon afterward, a 9-1-1 call came in, saying the officers had been shot, O’Dell said.
The area is known for high drug activity, the chief said.
O’Dell said the officers did n...
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August 18, 2017 at 5:56 pm
Baltimore, MD — August 18, 2017 - Authorities are investigating a stabbing that happened Friday morning in northwest Baltimore.
A male from outside of the community was stabbed in the stomach in the 2600 block of Gage Court in the Pickwick Apartment complex.
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August 18, 2017 at 5:55 pm
A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains “100 percent natural spring water” that hails from Maine.
The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn’t meet the federal definition of spring water.
A Nestle Waters representative says the water meets all relevant federal and state regulations for spring water.
Nestle Waters settled a 2003 Connecticut lawsuit claiming Poland Spring’s water was not sourced deep in the Maine woods.
The lawsuit comes as the Stamford, Connecticut-based company embarks on an expansion in Maine amid rising demand for bottled water.
Nestle i...
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August 18, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 18, 2017 - A severe motor vehicle accident, with one vehicle clipping another causing it to hit the electric box from the traffic light, has just occurred in front of Seven Mile Market on Reisterstown Road and has traffic backed up with Reisterstown Road closed off from Seven Mile Lane all the way to Slade Ave.
Emergency personnel are on scene.
Avoid the area.
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August 18, 2017 at 5:28 pm
EpiPen maker Mylan has finalized a $465 million government agreement settling allegations it overbilled Medicaid for its emergency allergy injectors for a decade — charges brought after rival Sanofi filed a whistleblower lawsuit and tipped off the government.
It’s the second settlement with the Department of Justice that Mylan has made since 2009 for allegedly overcharging the government for its medicines.
A prominent senator and a watchdog group both criticized the latest settlement for being far smaller than the amount Medicaid was overcharged.
Mylan NV, technically based in England but with operational headquarters near Pittsburgh, became a poster child for pharmaceutical industry greed for hiking the list price of EpiPens repeatedly. It raised the price per pair from $94...
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August 18, 2017 at 5:21 pm
Gingrich, who has consistently been one of Trump’s most optimistic supporters, said Friday morning that Trump is more isolated than he realizes and needs to make “serious changes” if he’s going to have a stable presidency.
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August 18, 2017 at 4:46 pm
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced the start of major construction for a new light-filled train hall across from the cramped and dark Penn Station.
The Democratic governor said Thursday that the planned Moynihan Train Hall was “for many years too difficult to achieve.” He said construction is underway because “New Yorkers don’t give up.”
The planned transit hub in the landmark Farley Post Office building is named after U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who championed the project and died in 2003.
A concourse linking the Farley building to the existing Penn Station across the street opened in June.
The $1.6 billion project is scheduled to be completed in 2020.
The 255,000-square-foot (23,690-square-meter) Moynihan Train Hall will be used ...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:43 pm
A prominent Republican senator delivered a stinging rebuke Thursday of Donald Trump’s short time in office, declaring he has not shown the stability or competence required for an American president to succeed.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, also said Trump “recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation.” During comments to local reporters after a speech to the Chattanooga Rotary Club, Corker called for “radical changes” in how the Trump White House operates.
Separately, Republican Sen. Tim Scott told a newspaper in his home state of South Carolina that Trump’s heavily criticized response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, “complicates this administration’s m...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:42 pm
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Hamas terrorist who was trying to stop the attacker from crossing into Egypt, Hamas announced, blaming an ISIS sympathizer for carrying out the unprecedented attack.
It marked the first time that Hamas, which has carried out dozens of suicide attacks over the years targeting Israelis, was itself struck in such an assault. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said five other Hamas security forces and an accomplice of the bomber were wounded.
The ministry described the assailant and his colleague as “ideologically deviant” — a term Hamas uses to describe members of ISIS and other terrorists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Hamas has ruled Gaza with an iron fist since seizing con...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Severe thunderstorms and heavy rains across Maryland may lead to flooding from Friday into Shabbos, weather officials advise.
BALTIMORE, MD (Updated at 3:30 p.m.) - A severe thunderstorm watch was issued Friday afternoon for the city of Baltimore and several Maryland counties. The region was already under a flash flood watch that is in effect into the early hours of Saturday.
At 2:25 p.m. the National Weather Service issued the thunderstorm watch, which is in effect until 9 p.m. for Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. Marys, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester counties, plus Baltimore City.
Large hail and damaging wind gusts are possibl...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:19 pm
Police say suspects in Spain's deadly twin terror attacks were preparing an even bigger assault but were thwarted in their plans.
The suspects in Spain's deadly twin terror attacks on Thursday were preparing an even bigger assault but were thwarted in their plans and forced to act in a "more rudimentary" way, police said Friday, according to AFP.
Catalonia police spokesman Josep Lluis Trapero added that a driver who mowed down crowds of pedestrians in the first attack in a busy Barcelona street could be among five suspects later shot dead in a nearby city.
"They were preparing one or several attacks in Barcelona and an explosion in Alcanar stopped this as they no longer had the material they needed to commit attacks of an even bigger scope," he was quoted as having ...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:16 pm
Crews removed the statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney from the grounds of the State House in Annapolis early Friday.
Capitol police have stood guard at the statue around the clock since Wednesday morning, and officials from the Department of General Services were at the location Thursday making plans for how to take the statue down.
The statue has been on the State House grounds for 140 years, and was a stop on the historical walking tour.
By 1 a.m. Friday, crews moved in a truck and a crane. About an hour later, the statue was removed from its pedestal and put on a truck to be hauled away.
An increasing number of people -- tourists and locals -- stopped by the location during the day Thursday to look at the monument for the first and last time.
"Of course, it's a...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:07 pm
In three places the Torah instructs us to celebrate the festivals by making a pilgrimage to the Temple on each of the three festivals; Pesach, Shavuos and Sukkos. The first two appear in the portions of Mishpatim and Ki Sisa with the final reference at the end of our portion, Reeh.
In each of these cases the Torah omits the exact calendar date each festival is to fall out on and merely makes mention of the ‘season’ it falls in. Pesach is to be celebrated in the אביב, springtime, Shavuos fifty days later, during the קציר, ‘harvest’ season; summer, and Sukkos during the season of אסיף, the ‘ingathering’ of the harvest; autumn.
Why the omission of its precise date in conjunction with its seasonal location?
The Torah instructs, שמור ...
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August 18, 2017 at 4:06 pm
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The Latest on reaction to President Donald Trump, the terrorist attack in Barcelona and the Charlottesville violence (all times local):
2:50 p.m.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says the departure of White House adviser Steve Bannon is “welcome news,” but she is calling on President Donald Trump to fire additional staff.
Pelosi said in a statement that Bannon’s departure “doesn’t disguise where President Trump himself stands on white supremacists and the bigoted beliefs they advance.”
Trump has said “both sides” are to blame for the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacists and counterprotesters last weekend. One woman protesting the far-right extremist groups died when a car drove int...
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August 18, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Add next week's total eclipse of the sun to the list of worker distractions that cost U.S. companies hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity.
American employers will see at least $694 million in missing output for the roughly 20 minutes that outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates workers will take out of their workday on Monday to stretch their legs, head outside the office and gaze at the nearly two-and-a-half minute eclipse.
And 20 minutes is a conservative estimate, said Andy Challenger, vice president at the Chicago-based firm. Many people may take even longer to set up their telescopes or special viewing glasses, or simply take off for the day.
"There's very few people who are not going to walk outside when there's a celestial wonde...
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August 18, 2017 at 3:49 pm
White Southerners who equate Old South symbols with regional pride rather than hate are even more on the defensive since neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other extremists became the face of the fight over Confederate monuments.
With more than two dozen relatives who fought for the Confederacy, Robert Castello literally wears his Southern pride. The visor, suspenders and ring he donned Thursday were all emblazoned with the familiar design of the rebel battle flag.
But Castello, whose Dixie General Store sells Confederate-themed hats, shirts, stickers and signs in rural eastern Alabama, said he doesn’t have any use for overtly racist groups like the Klan.
“When I was growing up it was like a badge of honor to be proud of your Southern heritage. It was taught and it was part of ...
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August 18, 2017 at 3:47 pm
An activist known for helping Arab women in the Chicago area lost her U.S. citizenship Thursday and will be deported for failing to disclose convictions for bombings in Jerusalem decades ago.
Rasmea Odeh was interrupted three times by a judge as she used her court appearance in Detroit to criticize Israel and the United States and deny that she’s a terrorist.
“This is not a political forum for you to fan the flames of Israeli-Palestinian disputes. … It’s about the application you filled out,” said U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain, who threatened to find her in contempt and send her to jail.
Odeh, 70, pleaded guilty in April to concealing her previous convictions when she entered the U.S. in 1994 and applied for citizenship a decade later. She would have ...
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August 18, 2017 at 3:45 pm
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new medicine for use against a rare, rapidly progressing blood cancer after other treatments have failed.
The agency approved Pfizer Inc.’s Besponsa for patients with a type of advanced acute lymphoblastic leukemia. By then, life expectancy is low.
“These patients have few treatments available and today’s approval provides a new, targeted treatment option,” Dr. Richard Pazdur, the FDA’s director for cancer drugs, said in a statement.
This year an estimated 5,970 Americans will be diagnosed and 1,440 will die from the cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The drug will cost $168,300 without insurance for the typical nine-week treatment course.
In testing that included 218 patients, 36 percent gi...
