CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to its home base Saturday for the second day in a row, and kept the astronauts circling Earth after a successful repair job at the Hubble Space Telescope. The offshore storms, which later moved in, prompted NASA to skip …
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A federal agency has cited Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for inadequate crowd management following last year’s death of a temporary worker on Long Island. OSHA, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said Tuesday Wal-Mart should have recognized the need to implement effective crowd management during its …
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Police investigating the shooting death of a Wesleyan University student found a copy of an infamous anti-Semitic book in her suspected killer’s hotel room, according to court records. The records detail new writings attributed to Stephen Morgan two hours before the death of Johanna Justin-Jinich that said: …
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NORFOLK, Va. – The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck in 2010. The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in a filing by RMS Titanic Inc. in U.S. District Court, …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have fired 10 mortar rounds at an army base close to the Iraqi border, wounding one soldier. The attack on Wednesday came two days after a group of Kurdish rebels and Kurds crossed into Turkey from northern Iraq on a …
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Pennsylvania state officials arrest five men, including a man who allegedly used Facebook to ask his own daughter for sex. Attorney General Tom Corbett said on Friday that John Forehand, of Lititz, pa., allegedly used Facebook to find and sexually proposition his own biological daughter, calling himself “Bad Daddy.” According …
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The swine flu is causing an unprecedented amount of illness for this early in the fall, with the deaths of 11 more children reported in the past week. And less vaccine than expected will be ready by month’s end, federal health officials said Friday. Of the 86 children who have …
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SOUTHEAST, NY — An archaeologist has found ancient tool fragments and other artifacts at the site of a suburban New York sewer construction project. The find was made around Peach Lake, in the Putnam County town of Southeast. Archaeologist Michael Pappalardo says the artifacts also include pottery shards; a 2 …
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PHOENIX – Phoenix has proposed a $250,000 settlement to the family of a New York City woman who accidentally strangled herself while in police custody two years ago at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. In a statement Monday, the Phoenix Police Department maintained its officers acted properly and acknowledged that …
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In a brutal job market, here’s a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits. Yet even with 15 million people hunting for work, even with the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, some employers can’t find enough qualified …
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