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Domestic violence victim’s 911 call ignored says family
Deanna Cook called 911 on the day she was allegedly killed by her ex-husband. Despite pleading for her life on the call, it took 50 minutes for police to arrive. The family says her death exposes a larger problem - a broken emergency response system that fails to take domestic violence seriously, especially in minority neighborhoods. Kate Snow ...
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Dallas 911 operator breaks silence on Deanna Cook case
Tonyita Hopkins breaks her silence on answering the chilling 911 call in which Deanna Cook is heard pleading for her life. Hopkins describes a 911 call center that was short-staffed and overwhelmed and reveals her surprising personal history that draws parallels to Cook. Kate Snow ...
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Video Extra Meeting Jodi Arias
"48 Hours" producer Jonathan Leach discusses meeting Jodi Arias after her arrest in 2008, and his impressions of Arias during her first television ...
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Your Chicago Student Activists At Reilly Elementary School
(CBS) - What do you do when you’re a seventh-grader and you want a nicer, safer park near your school, a place for the neighborhood kids to go? Why, you embark upon a letter-writing campaign, naturally, to convince adults that it's a good idea. CBS 2's Rob Johnson reports. Reilly Elementary School seventh-graders Jessica Llangari, Christian Urena and Victor Francisco sent a ...
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Conn. commuter trains collide 60 go to hospitals
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of ...
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Stop Persecution Solemn Peaceful Protest in New York
Falun Dafa practitioners protest peacefully in front of the Chinese Consulate General in New York on May 17, calling for an end to the persecution of the practice in China. (Edward Dai/The Epoch ...
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Dallas woman’s death sparks action to curb domestic violence
The murder of Karen Cox Smith by her husband allegedly sparked both her family and the mayor of Dallas, Texas to work to curb the rising number of domestic violence cases in Dallas. At the time of Karen's murder, police had a warrant for her husband's arrest, but the warrant was never served because of a case backlog. Kate Snow ...
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Possible tornado surprises north Alabama city
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said ...
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Police seek thieves who stole purebred dog from Miami-Dade shelter
Miami-Dade Animal Services is seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who stole a purebred Belgian Malinois shepherd dog from a county animal shelter on Tuesday.The dog, named Django, is an intact 1-year-old male, according to a news release from Animal Services.Belgian Malinois dogs look much like German Shepherds, but are smaller and more agile. They’re often used as ...
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Luna Rossa calls for safer Americas Cup
video The head of the Italian sailing team in the America's Cup called today for lowering limits on wind speeds and other safety measures to make the regatta less dangerous following a deadly accident last week. Prada fashion house co-founder Patrizio Bertelli said if the other three participants cannot agree on ways to improve safety, his team Luna Rossa Challenge could withdraw from ...
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ...
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Colorado sheriffs sue to block new gun-control laws
DENVER (Reuters) - A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry over two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the laws from going into ...
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Los Angeles Labor Leader Puts Focus on Immigrants
Maria Elena Durazo, head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, at a rally on Tuesday to thwart a sale of The Los Angeles Times to conservative ...
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American Idol 2013 And the winner is ...
Candice Glover, an R&B dynamo from St. Helena Island, S.C., was crowned the Season 12 winner of "American Idol" Thursday night.Glover, 23, who consistently blew away the judges and fans with dramatic power ballads and impressive vocal gymnastics, defeated Kree Harrison, a 22-year-old country singing specialist from Woodville, Texas. She became the show's first female champion ...
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Video 517 Congress grills acting IRS commissioner the student and the vet
Members of Congress grilled acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Nancy Cordes reports on the four-hour barrage of bipartisan disgust; And, Steve Hartman reports on how a school assignment to interview a vet turned into a personal mission to get him long-overdue ...
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U.N. panel Sanctions delaying NKorea nuke program
UNITED NATIONS A U.N. expert panel's report says North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related material but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on their prohibited weapons programs. Key parts of the report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea's attempts to evade four rounds of ...
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O.J. Simpsons ex-lawyer contradicts his testimony on guns
LAS VEGAS O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia. Miami-based attorney Yale Galanter quickly found himself under withering ...
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At least 20 injured as trains collide north of New York after derailment
Two trains collided after one of them derailed during the Friday evening rush hour in Fairfield, the U.S. state of Connecticut, injuring at least 20 people, local authorities said. The Fairfield police estimated that 20 to 25 people were injured in the accident, but no fatalities had been reported so far, media reports here said. An New York-bound train from New Haven derailed at around 6 p.m. ...
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Reyes rejoins Jays in New York rehab of sprained ankle progressing well
Toronto Blue Jays Jose Reyes, who twisted his left ankle during a Friday game, watches from the dugout during the second inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, April 13, 2013. (Orlin ...
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Buggy hordes of cicadas sighted in Virginia ... but New York Not yet
The first of the Brood II cicadas, which only mature every 17 years, are being spotted in some southern states including Virginia. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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UCF med students graduate debt free
Four years ago when UCF had just broken ground on its medical school, it offered free tuition and a stipend for living expenses to lure the best and brightest students. Now those students are graduating and heading off to prestigious residency programs. NBC's Kerry Sanders ...
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Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
ATLANTA -- A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the ...
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UPDATE 1-Americas Cup team calls for changes to make regatta safer
Fri May 17, 2013 9:32pm EDT By Noel Randewich and Ronnie Cohen ALAMEDA, California May 17 (Reuters) - The head of the Italian sailing team in the America's Cup called on Friday for lowering limits on wind speeds and other safety measures to make the regatta less dangerous following a deadly accident last week. Prada fashion house co-founder Patrizio Bertelli said if the other three ...
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Hackers Target New York Times Website
E! Online Twitter Account Hacked A company spokesperson was quoted by the paper as saying that "a small number of users" were unable to access the website and that ...
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Texas tornado leaves Habitat for Humanity neighborhood in ruins
Rescue workers go through the debris of a house left flattened by a tornado in this aerial photograph taken over Granbury, Texas on May 16, ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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