Source: Barbara Starr / CNN Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salary next year. Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a one percent increase in 2014. The Pentagon has calculated that the 2014 Employment Cost Index (ECI) from [...]
Source: Victor Blackwell, Martin Savidge and Carol Cratty / CNN Midland City, Alabama – A six-day hostage standoff came to an end Monday when a man holed up a bunker was found dead and police recovered the 5-year-old he abducted, according to a law enforcement official. The child appeared to be OK emerging from the ordeal, the official [...]
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Source: Christian Boone / The Atlanta-Journal Constitution Police are responding to a shooting at Price Middle School in southeast Atlanta. One student was shot, according to Channel 2 Action News. Earlier reports incorrectly said the shooting occurred at Carver High School. A teacher has been injured. One suspect is in custody. To follow this topic visit The [...]
Source: AP / USA Today NEW ORLEANS – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been indicted on 21 federal corruption charges including wire fraud, bribery and money laundering. The charges are the outgrowth of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen. [...]
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Source: CNN A Colorado police dispatcher listened helplessly early Tuesday as a man apparently killed at least one other person and then himself, part of an apparent murder-suicide that left four people dead, a sheriff’s office spokesman said. Weld County Sheriff’s spokesman Tim Schwartz said the call came in around 4 a.m. (6 a.m. ET). [...]
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Source: Tracy Connor / Rock Center / NBC News Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments, she told NBC News on Thursday. “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly [...]