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Shinzo Abe says the video is likely authentic and offers condolences to the family. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 16:46 (about 2 days ago)
Two U.S. airline flights accompanied by military fighter jets landed safely on Saturday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after bomb threats were made against them, an airport spokesman said. The threats against Delta Air Lines flight 1156, coming from Portland, Oregon, and Southwest Airlines flight 2492, from Milwaukee, were deemed credible, said airport spokesman Reese McCranie. No bomb was found aboard the Delta flight while the Southwest flight was still being searched by explosives units, Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Special Agent Stephen Emmett said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 15:16 (about 2 days ago)
A winter storm spread freezing rain and snow and snarled traffic from the Middle Atlantic states into New England on Saturday, and forecasters said they expected a second system to lash the region early next week. Winter storm warnings were in place for much of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. Up to 8 inches of snow were expected in the area by Saturday night as the storm system headed east, said National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Brian Hurley in College Park, Maryland. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 15:16 (about 2 days ago)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ? Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 13:46 (about 2 days ago)
Jonathon Walker, 34, also critically wounded his 12-year-old daughter in the shootings in the borough of Queens, close to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Officers arrived at the home around 5:40 a.m. and found four people shot in an incident that "underscores the human toll and horror of domestic violence," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. Walker's daughter Christina, 12, survived and was in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 13:46 (about 2 days ago)
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a little leather book, the kind some men use to list lovers, Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. It has been 70 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where Abrams was taken at age 20 by German Nazi soldiers and separated from his mother, father, brother and three sisters. Abrams, at 90, is among the oldest of a dwindling population of Holocaust survivors who gather each week at a Brooklyn synagogue to share stories, and perhaps lunch and a dance or two. With an average age of 79, they are poor and in need of special help as the result of stress and malnutrition, said the UJA-Federation of New York, which supports the Brooklyn gatherings organized by Selfhelp Community Services. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 10:46 (about 3 days ago)
Kia Motors is recalling 86,880 Forte sedans in the United States because a cooling fan resistor may overheat and melt, increasing the risk of a fire, according to documents filed by U.S. auto safety regulators. The recall involves certain model year 2014 Forte compact sedans and is expected to begin on Feb. 24, according to documents on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. The South Korean automaker reported several incidents of engine fires that could be linked to the resistor but no accidents or injuries, the documents said. A Kia Motors representative was not immediately available for comment. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 09:16 (about 3 days ago)
By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, including a lock of the 16th U.S president's hair, will be up for auction in Dallas on Saturday, months before the United States marks 150 years since the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination. The collection of more than 300 items, with a combined estimated value of about $400,000, belonged to a Fort Worth history buff and is considered to be one of the best private Lincoln collections known to exist, according to Heritage Auction officials. The late Fort Worth art gallery owner Donald Dow built the collection over five decades, beginning in 1963 with the purchase of a box of books, according to his son Greg Dow, who is selling the collection. "He started collecting because of his interest in the Civil War and military history," Greg Dow said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 07:46 (about 3 days ago)
(Reuters) - A teenage student was fatally stabbed at a Los Angeles middle school on Friday afternoon, officials said, with no-one yet taken into custody. The 14-year-old victim, who was not identified by police, was on the David Wark Griffith Middle School campus around 3 p.m. local time when he was stabbed in the chest by another youth, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. The teen was a student at the nearby Garfield High School, and authorities did not know why he was at the middle school. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 24th January 2015 at 06:16 (about 3 days ago)
(Reuters) - Two marines died on Friday when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in southern California, military officials said. The crash occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time after the aircraft took off from a marine combat center in the desert city of Twentynine Palms, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar spokeswoman Captain Melanie Salinas said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the two Marines we lost in this tragic accident," Major General Michael Rocco said in a statement. Twentynine Palms is a city of some 25,000 people roughly 140 miles (225 km) east of Los Angeles. #