Saturday, June 18, 2016

Mother fights off mountain lion after it attacks son in Colorado and other top stories.

  • Mother fights off mountain lion after it attacks son in Colorado

    Mother fights off mountain lion after it attacks son in Colorado
    Story highlightsColorado 5-year-old attacked by mountain lion The boy is reported in fair condition The attack happened Friday night in Lower Woody Creek, according to Ginny Dyche, a representative of the Aspen Valley Hospital. The boy's mother fought off the animal and brought him to the hospital, Dyche said After initial treatment in Aspen, the boy was transferred to Children's Hospital in Denver. He's in fair condition while his mother has been treated and released. The boy and his mother hav..
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  • Ex-Amish Family Traded Underage Daughter for Financial Assistance

    Ex-Amish Family Traded Underage Daughter for Financial Assistance
    When the Stolzfus family found themselves financially strapped after leaving the Amish church, they allegedly traded their daughter to a business associate for help.A Pennsylvania couple financially ruined after leaving the Amish church was arrested on Thursday for conspiracy to commit sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child after admitting to “gifting” their underage daughter to a business associate who went on to father two of her young children.  Daniel and Savilla Stolzfus were..
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  • Man Hit in Back in Orlando Shooting Played Dead to Survive

    Felipe Marrero wakes up in his hospital bed at night still thinking he smells gunpowder, nearly a week after the shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It's just one of the ways the 30-year-old has suffered after being shot four times in his back and left arm during the attack last Sunday morning that left 49 victims dead and more than 50 wounded. The gunman, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, also was killed in a firefight with police. "It's the same smell that was in the club that nigh..
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  • Oakland loses third police chief in nine days, will operate under civilian control

    Oakland loses third police chief in nine days, will operate under civilian control
    The Oakland Police Department will now operate under civilian control after the agency parted ways with its third police chief in nine days, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Friday.Acting Chief Paul Figueroa tendered his resignation to Schaaf on Friday, and the department’s command staff will now report to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Schaaf said during a news conference Friday evening. Figueroa was appointed to replace Interim Chief Ben Fairow on Wednesday, after Schaaf said she had receiv..
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  • Obama family travels to Carlsbad Caverns for Father's Day weekend

    Obama family travels to Carlsbad Caverns for Father's Day weekend
    The Obama family received a tour of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico as part of a tour of national parks for Father's Day weekend. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP). BY Christopher Brennan. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Updated: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 3:07 AM.
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  • Alabama county refuses to lower flag to honor Orlando shooting victims

    Alabama county refuses to lower flag to honor Orlando shooting victims
    Story highlights Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey said the Orlando massacre doesn't meet the standards to lower the flagPresident Barack Obama ordered flags to be lowered following the Orlando massacreCiting the U.S. Flag Code, Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" Friday that while he is "certainly heartbroken in the face of tragedy," the code states that the flag should only be lowered "for instances where there are the passing of individuals ..
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  • Donald Trump makes overtures to LGBT community after Orlando, but their response is mixed

    Donald Trump makes overtures to LGBT community after Orlando, but their response is mixed
    Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Richmond Coliseum in Virginia on June 10. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Donald Trump has made a point in recent days of talking about the LGBT community, arguing that he is the only presidential candidate that can protect gays and lesbians from hate crimes like the mass slayings in Orlando at a gay nightclub. “We want to live in a country where gay and lesbian Americans and all Americans are safe from radical ..
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  • Border Control vs. Gun Control

    The Pulse night club massacre was the latest in a series of Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, quite a few of which have succeeded, while others have been foiled. These attacks have used a variety of weapons: box cutters, knives, pistols, pressure cookers and rifles. There is a sharp partisan divide with respect to how such terrorist attacks should be viewed. Republicans say that we should try harder to keep potential terrorists out of the country. Since we have no practical way to vet immi..
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  • Sherpa fire in Santa Barbara County grows to nearly 6000 acres as a hot, windy weekend looms

    Sherpa fire in Santa Barbara County grows to nearly 6000 acres as a hot, windy weekend looms
    A fast-moving brush fire in Santa Barbara County more than tripled in size Friday as strong overnight winds, rising temperatures and an extended drought plagued weary firefighters.The Sherpa fire has grown to nearly 6,000 acres, and officials described the blaze as 20% contained. But even that progress was at risk late Friday from so-called sundowner winds expected to gain strength, as they had the previous two nights. “Even though conditions appear to have become better in the day, the truth i..
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  • RNC delegates launch 'Anybody but Trump' drive

    RNC delegates launch 'Anybody but Trump' drive
    Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate, organized a call with dozens of other delegates Thursday night to discuss ways to block Trump at the convention. The group, Unruh says, marks the coalescing of disparate "pockets of resistance" -- including backers of Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich -- which had been opposing Trump with little success. "This is a coalition of Kasich, Cruz and Rubio (supporters) and we are all agreeing on one goal, which is: Anybody but Trump," Unruh sa..
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