Category Archives: National News
1 World Trade Center Opening Highlights Rebirth, Renewal Following 9/11 Attacks
iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — It’s finally done.Thirteen years after the Twin Towers were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, the new centerpiece skyscraper at the World Trade Center op...
Nov 03, 2014
Winter Comes Early for Tennessee Lodge
LeConte Lodge(SEVIERVILLE, Tenn.) — Employees at the LeConte Lodge in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee dug themselves out of 22 inches of snow that fell Saturday.The tempera...
Nov 02, 2014
Man Survives Driving Off Cliff, 17 Hours Trapped Underneath Vehicle
iStock/Thinkstock(BOONE, N.C.) — A man in North Carolina survived 17 hours pinned underneath his vehicle after he fell asleep behind the wheel and drove off a cliff, authorities said.Joseph Wood...
Oct 30, 2014
Man Says He Wrongly Confessed to Murder After Undergoing ‘Exorcism’
iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — A man claims he was under a sort of exorcism when he confessed to killing a fellow member of a religious group in Kansas City, Missouri, whose death was ori...
Oct 30, 2014
NASA Completes Initial Assessment of Virginia Launch Site Following Rocket Explosion
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Zaperach(WALLOPS, Va.) — NASA said on Wednesday that the Wallops Incident Response Team completed its initial assessment after Orbital Science Corporation’s Antare...
Oct 29, 2014
Five Cases in Ferguson, Mo., In Which Darren Wilson Was ‘Indispensable Witness’ Dismissed
AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(FERGUSON, Mo.) — Saint Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced on Wednesday that five felony cases in Ferguson in which Officer Darren Wilson —...
Oct 29, 2014
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