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911 dispatcher helps Michigan man deliver baby

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:57 PM PDT

ANN ABROR, Mich. (AP) — A woman who didn't expect to give birth until mid-July delivered a healthy baby girl along a Michigan roadway with help from her husband and coaching from a 911 dispatcher.
    


Senators protest cuts to wildfire prevention funds

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:49 PM PDT

DENVER (AP) — A bipartisan group of Western U.S. senators on Friday urged the Obama administration to focus more on preventing wildfires rather than taking money from programs that clear potentially hazardous dead trees and brush to fund efforts to fight the increasingly destructive blazes.
    


Ernest Wallace, alleged associate of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, surrenders in Miramar, Fla.

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT

Ernest Wallace, the third suspect in the murder of Odin L. Lloyd, walked into the police station in the southern Florida community of Miramar today where he peacefully surrendered to police.
    


Beekeeper comes to rescue Gloucester shipyard from swarm of 25,000 honeybees

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:22 PM PDT

Somebody shouted out a warning, and Viking Gustafson and her coworkers at the Marine Railways shipyard in Gloucester dove for cover as the swarm came buzzing out of a sheet of rain.
    


NYC mayor: Police stop minorities 'too little'

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's remark that police "disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little," as compared with murder suspects' descriptions, is prompting criticism from police reform advocates and some mayoral candidates.
    


Mo. man arrested in suspected Vt. meth lab

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police arrested a Missouri man early Friday morning after raiding a suspected methamphetamine lab in an apartment in St. Albans.
    

Calif woman gets life for severing husband's penis

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:07 PM PDT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who cut off her husband's penis and threw it in a garbage disposal has been sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole.
    


Ernest Wallace, alleged ally of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, captured in Florida

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Ernest Wallace, the third suspect in the murder of Odin L. Lloyd, was arrested in Miramar, Fla., today, according to Massachusetts State Police. No details of the capture of the 41-year-old Wallace, a Connecticut man sought on charges of being an accessory after the fact to the murder of Odin L. Lloyd, were immediately available. Lloyd was shot and killed June 17 in North Attleborough, a killing prosecutors have alleged was orchestrated by former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.
    


Texas Senate blowup threatens lt. gov.'s future

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:56 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The chaotic scene that erupted over an abortion restrictions bill in the Texas Senate this week has cast doubt over the political future of Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
    

3rd man arrested in case involving ex-NFL player

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:51 AM PDT

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A man arrested in Connecticut in connection with the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was being sent to Massachusetts on Friday, and investigators said a third suspect was arrested in south Florida.
    

3rd man arrested in case involving ex-NFL player

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:48 AM PDT

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A man arrested in Connecticut in connection with the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was being sent to Massachusetts on Friday, and investigators said a third suspect was arrested in south Florida.
    


NH Gov. Hassan signs $10.7B state budget

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:42 AM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Maggie Hassan signed the $10.7 billion budget Friday that reduces the wait for services by the disabled and mentally ill but fails to address deteriorating highways or the expansion of Interstate 93, and could result in an unknown number of state worker layoffs.
    

Federal decisiveness thrives, for a week at least

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:40 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The three branches of government are challenging the inertia of federal gridlock by asserting their powers and surprising some analysts.
    

Silver Chrysler linked to Odin Lloyd murder recovered in Bristol, Conn.

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:27 AM PDT

Officials have located and recovered the silver Chrysler 300 with Rhode Island license plates that prosecutors were searching for in relation to the Odin L. Lloyd murder investigation, according to the Bristol, Conn., resident who spotted it and called it in. Also today, police in Florida arrested Ernest Wallace, who is accused of being an accessory after the fact to Lloyd's June 17 murder.
    


Federal panel: Neb. city's immigration law legal

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:27 AM PDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska city's ordinance that bans employing or renting property to people who are not in the U.S. legally is valid, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday, opening the door for Freemont to begin enforcing its law.
    


Federal panel: Neb. city's immigration law legal

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:21 AM PDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals panel says an eastern Nebraska city ordinance that discourages employing or renting property to people who aren't in the U.S. legally is valid, opening the door for the city to begin enforcing its law.
    

ACC ready to welcome Pitt, Syracuse, Notre Dame

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:08 AM PDT

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford has spent nearly two years working to bring in new schools, refuting reports of departures and securing a media rights deal to pump the brakes on realignment.
    

South Fork residents allowed back home near fire

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 01:27 PM PDT

SOUTH FORK, Colo. (AP) — People were allowed back to the southwestern Colorado town of South Fork on Friday, a week after residents and visitors were forced to evacuate because of a massive wildfire.
    


A do-it-yourself approach to bike ridership data

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT

Ari Ofsevit, who runs the blog "Amateur Planner," was underwhelmed by state data on bike use on Longfellow Bridge. So he hatched a plan to conduct his own ridership count, Ninja-style.
    


Suburban NY mom arraigned on pot growing charges

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:38 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A mother of three from a ritzy New York City suburb pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges she operated a secret, sophisticated pot-growing operation worth millions.