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Just heard that bombs went off at #boston marathon finish line twitter.com/chanyasulkit/s...Video of an explosion near the finish line:
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"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
The race has stopped and a nearby hotel has been placed on lockdown. 22News State House Reporter Christine Lee is at the Marathon finish line, and has live reports on 22News on the air, you can also watch our coverage streaming live on WWLP.com
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Though the IAU supports the public's curiosity about exoplanets, the astronomy group also supports the existence of a consolidated naming process for the more than 800 exoplanets that have been discovered to date. With advanced technology, astronomers expect thousands more to be located in the coming years.
Making money off of people's interest in space is nothing new. The New York Times' Simon Ennis wrote about Dennis M. Hope, a man who "sells" land plots in space, in 2013. Hope's business is thriving even though the entrepreneur has no legal authority to sell land plots in space.
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Newly elected President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores after the electoral victory on Sunday evening.
Newly elected President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores after the electoral victory on Sunday evening.
The "first bulletin" results were announced by the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, at around 11:20 p.m. Venezuelan time, with 99.12 percent of the votes totaled, enough to give Maduro an irreversible victory.
Nicolas Maduro received a total of 7,505,338 votes, against 7,270,403 for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, a difference of 234,935 votes. Total turnout was 78.71 percent of the electorate.
Given the closeness of the vote, Maduro's speech focused mostly on assuring the validity of his victory, and the reliability of the electoral body.
"If they want to do an audit, then do an audit. We have complete trust in our electoral body," he said from outside the presidential palace.
It was only two people who reported feeling nauseous, dizzy and generally sick, and once those people left, business went on as usual.
But then, several others fell sick. In total 16 adults were ill, and nine were taken to the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth to be evaluated. Three refused to be treated.
They have ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause, but do not know what sparked the rapid illness.
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Miles and MacCraig Warren claim they were the targets of racial discrimination, a lawyer said.
Miles and MacCraig Warren claim they were the targets of racial discrimination, a lawyer said.
A ticket counter employee repeatedly told the Warrens, who are both black, that their jeans, hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps violated an alleged first-class dress code. As the complaint states:
Doe employee informed plaintiffs that it was US Airways policy that everyone in first class is required to wear slacks, button up shirts and no baseball caps. Doe employee demanded plaintiffs to change from jeans into slacks, a button-up shirt and told plaintiffs to remove their baseball caps.
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Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard , Albany's school superintendent
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard , Albany's school superintendent
Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard says she doesn't believe the teacher who handed out the assignment had malicious intent.
The Albany Times Union reports the students were asked to research Nazi propaganda then assume their teacher was a Nazi government official who had to be convinced of their loyalty.
The construction site of the Department of Homeland Security's new headquarters, Feb. 15, 2012, in Washington, DC
The project would unite at a single location nearly all DHS's 22 divisions devoted to thwarting terrorists and safeguarding the populace from natural and manmade disasters. The site is the campus of St. Elizabeth Hospital, a former federal asylum that was once the home of poet Ezra Pound and John Hinckley, Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin. There would be 4.5 million square feet of workspace in the new facility and ample employee parking.
The project's supporters say the price tag is justified. They say it's not easy to get the various DHS divisions to operate in concert with each other if they are scattered throughout the capital area. At the 2009 groundbreaking, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano herself made the case for the agency's costly new digs: "It will help us have meetings. It will help us create a culture of 'one DHS.'"
Four dogs have been found beaten in the head and shot to death in rural southern Idaho, authorities said on Thursday, adding to the mysterious disappearance and killing of dozens of dogs that has left residents in that area on edge.
Examinations showed that the German Shepherd mixes, whose carcasses had been dumped in a pile off a highway south of Twin Falls, had been bludgeoned and shot in the head, said Gary Trostel, deputy with the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office.
"We didn't know until today how they had died: poisoned or shot or what. We knew it was some type of head trauma the way the eyes bulged out and with all the bleeding," Trostel said.
Animal control officers reported last month that roughly 30 dogs had gone missing since November in Twin Falls and nearby communities in a farming region known as the Magic Valley.
A German shepherd discovered by hikers last month in an area known as the Devil's Corral in neighboring Jerome County appeared to have suffered what animal control officers called a "ritualistic execution" in which its head was crushed with rock and its carcass covered with a purple cloth.
Examinations showed that the German Shepherd mixes, whose carcasses had been dumped in a pile off a highway south of Twin Falls, had been bludgeoned and shot in the head, said Gary Trostel, deputy with the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office.
"We didn't know until today how they had died: poisoned or shot or what. We knew it was some type of head trauma the way the eyes bulged out and with all the bleeding," Trostel said.
Animal control officers reported last month that roughly 30 dogs had gone missing since November in Twin Falls and nearby communities in a farming region known as the Magic Valley.
A German shepherd discovered by hikers last month in an area known as the Devil's Corral in neighboring Jerome County appeared to have suffered what animal control officers called a "ritualistic execution" in which its head was crushed with rock and its carcass covered with a purple cloth.
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Controversial: A police officer wields a Taser gun
Controversial: A police officer wields a Taser gun
A city student was subdued Wednesday morning with a Taser by Middletown Police outside Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
Middletown Police student resource and patrol officers "were called to the school today to assist the staff," according to Lt. Heather Desmond.
"When officers arrived, the student was uncooperative and combative. The officers tried to take the student into custody and during the arrest, the student was "drive" stunned one time with a Taser. The student was then compliant with officer's directions and the arrest continued without further incident."
No one was injured, Desmond said and declined to give out more details due to the student's age.
Superintendent of Schools Patricia Charles confirmed the incident took place at about 9:30 a.m. at the Middletown school that serves seventh- and eighth-graders, but was unable to provide much more information. Charles declined to provide the student's age, sex or grade.
Comment: Rather than helping struggling Americans, the government deems it more important that the DHA gets a new building to facilitate operations. The sequester will cause 600,000 low-income women and children to be denied benefits under the federal nutrition program for women, infants and children. The economy is in tatters and poverty is at record levels. Anything wrong with this picture?
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