Saturday, October 29, 2016

Ex-NSA Worker Accused of Stealing Secrets Stays in Custody and other top stories.

  • Ex-NSA Worker Accused of Stealing Secrets Stays in Custody

    Ex-NSA Worker Accused of Stealing Secrets Stays in Custody
    A former National Security Agency contractor accused in a massive theft of classified information will remain in custody as prosecutors continue building a criminal case against him, a federal judge ruled Friday.U.S. Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite agreed with prosecutors that Harold T. Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, represented a flight risk if released and said there was no doubt that the top secret information he was accused of stealing over two decades is something "this country..
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  • Storm-ruptured pipeline spills 55K gallons of fuel in central Pa., reports say

    Storm-ruptured pipeline spills 55K gallons of fuel in central Pa., reports say
    Pennsylvania flooding Sheb Brown, of Trout Run, Pa., stands behind his elevated home on McIntyre Way as flood waters surround it Friday morning, Oct. 21, 2016. Freak storms packing up to 100 mph winds hit Pennsylvania early Friday, sending floodwaters into hundreds of homes and causing a pipeline rupture that dumped more than 50,000 gallons of gasoline into a stream, threatening drinking water supplies. (..
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  • A superior court judge in NC needed a favor. So he tried to bribe a federal agent with Bud Light.

    A superior court judge in NC needed a favor. So he tried to bribe a federal agent with Bud Light.
    (Gene Puskar/AP) The offer was simple enough. Arnold Ogden Jones II suspected his wife was having an affair, and he needed a favor: access to some text messages on his wife’s phone, between her and another man whose number was from outside the state. So last October, Jones — a sitting superior court judge in North Carolina — approached an FBI officer he knew to see whether he could obtain copies of the texts. “I want down low — see what you can do without drawing attention,” Jones told the o..
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  • Police search for teen who may have fallen down storm drain in NH

    Police search for teen who may have fallen down storm drain in NH
    Nashua police say Jacob Goulet was last seen wearing the vest in this undated photo and had a mohawk.(Photo: Courtesy of Nashua Police)A search is underway for a teen in Nashua, N.H., who may have fallen into a storm drain Friday during torrential rain.Multiple agencies are searching local waterways for 16-year-old Jacob Goulet, who was reported missing Saturday morning, according to a news release from the Nashua Police Department. The search, overseen by Nashua police, includes the Nashua Rive..
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  • Thousands Of California Vets Who Fought With National Guard Told To Repay Their Enlistment Bonuses

    Thousands Of California Vets Who Fought With National Guard Told To Repay Their Enlistment Bonuses
    LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)   —  “It certainly hurts the credibility going forward if we can’t depend on the promises that were made to us when we volunteered to put our life on the line,” says retired Commander Francis McVey of the US Navy. Nearly a decade ago, the US Armed Forces was short on troops after years of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The California National Guard offered thousands of soldiers bonuses to enlist, up to $15,000 to go to war. The government is now asking for that m..
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  • Company in Fatal Boston Water Main Break Faced Violations

    Company in Fatal Boston Water Main Break Faced Violations
    A company involved in a water main break in Boston that killed two workers has a history of safety violations, federal records show. Occupational Safety and Health Administration records show that Atlantic Drain Services, of Boston, has received citations for workers lacking oxygen underground and for conditions that could lead to cave-ins. Records show the company faces tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid fines for violations reaching back to at least 2012. Two workers were trapped Fri..
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  • Bill Murray Could Teach Hillary Clinton a Lot

    Bill Murray Could Teach Hillary Clinton a Lot
    The candidate is a lot like the comic actor in that we think we know them both because they’ve been around so long. But he’s honed his public act, and she needs to do likewise.Is there anyone left in the United States who has no opinion about the personalities of the presidential candidates? And through what curious metrics do we arrive at these opinions?Donald Trump, whether shouting off a teleprompter or more unscripted (a mode Stephen Colbert has described as “angry creamsicle”) is someone we..
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  • Father sentenced to 1503 years in prison in daughter's rape

    Father sentenced to 1503 years in prison in daughter's rape
    FRESNO, Calif. –  A Fresno man was sentenced to 1,503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period. PETITION: IMPEACH JUDGE WHO ISSUED 60-DAY INCEST SENTENCE The 41-year-old was sentenced Friday to the longest-known prison sentence in Fresno Superior Court history, the Fresno Bee reported. The Associated Press is not naming the man because it could identify his daughter. The AP does not name victims of sexual abuse. In announcing the punishment, Judge Edward Sarkisian..
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  • Trump says he will win general elections

    Trump says he will win general elections
    Trump promised of having a strong policy against Islamic terrorism and stop illegal immigration pouring into the US. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump asserted that he will win the general elections even as the mainstream media and political pundits predicted very little chances of him making it to the White House.Mr. Trump’s rival Hillary Clinton, 68, the Democratic presidential nominee, is leading him by more than seven points in most of the key battleground States but an unpertu..
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  • The battle for the Senate has narrowed to these 6 states

    The battle for the Senate has narrowed to these 6 states
    After all the head fakes, the millions of dollars in ad reservations made and canceled and the pleas for help from underdogs to D.C. bosses, the battle for the Senate has winnowed to six races. The Senate will be won, insiders say, in a half-dozen states that could go either way on Election Day: The traditional swing states of Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, and the newly competitive states of North Carolina, Missouri and Indiana, which historically lean Republican. Story Continued Bel..
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