Monday, August 29, 2016

Texas inmate who didn't kill anyone gets stay of execution and other top stories.

  • Texas inmate who didn't kill anyone gets stay of execution

    Everybody, including the prosecuting attorney, agrees Wood didn't kill anyone.In 1996, a 22-year-old Wood waited in a pickup truck while his friend Daniel Reneau went inside a gas station in Kerrville, Texas, to steal the store's safe. Reneau ended up killing the clerk during the robbery.Most states allow a distinction between accomplices and those who physically carry out the crime. But in Texas, sitting in that truck and taking part in the robbery was enough to get Wood convicted of murder and..
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  • 5 injured as spooked horse breaks loose at SW Washington Fair

    5 injured as spooked horse breaks loose at SW Washington Fair
    Medics work on a man injured when a horse got loose at the Southwest Washington Fair on Aug. 19, 2016. (Photo: Major Logan, KELA/KMNT Radio)CHEHALIS, Wash. -- Five people were injured when a horse got spooked at the Southwest Washington Fair in Chehalis Friday afternoon.A vendor was with the horse and carriage when the frightened horse broke loose and ran down the midway, pulling the carriage, according to Collette Young with Lewis County.Witnesses reported seeing at least two of the injured blo..
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  • Southern California wildfire destroys iconic inn

    Southern California wildfire destroys iconic inn
    (CNN) - Cecil Stephens sadly looked over the charred remains of the Summit Inn. The Southern California restaurant, once visited by Elvis Presley, had fallen victim to the Blue Cut wildfire."It makes me sick in my stomach," said Stephens, who owned the place for decades. "It's awful, 'cause I know every button in that restaurant that was there, every light switch, every pipe. After 50 years, you've had to repair half of that stuff."The fire was sparked Tuesday in San Bernardino County and sprea..
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  • In Louisiana, acts of kindness flourish amid the misery

    In Louisiana, acts of kindness flourish amid the misery
    Photos: Louisiana flooding is 'major disaster,' governor saysBaron Leblanc, left, and George Snyder move a refrigerator out of George's flooded home in St. Amant on Thursday, August 18. More than 30,000 people have been rescued in southern Louisiana after heavy rains caused flooding. "This is a major disaster," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has said. Photos: Louisiana flooding is 'major disaster,' governor saysA Virgin Mary statue is barely visible in front of a flooded home in St. Amant on A..
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  • CDC to pregnant women: Avoid another part of Miami

    CDC to pregnant women: Avoid another part of Miami
    The agency advised those who have traveled to this area since July 14 to be aware that active transmission of the virus is occurring. Pregnant women should talk to their health care providers about testing, and anyone with a partner who is pregnant should follow recommendations to prevent sexual transmission of the virus. Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday that five locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus have been confirmed in an area of Miami Beach.Three of those individuals were vis..
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  • The Everyday Heroes of Louisianas Greatest Disaster Since Hurricane Katrina

    The Everyday Heroes of Louisianas Greatest Disaster Since Hurricane Katrina
    Teachers, stagehands, and countless others are helping the state recover when it almost seems like no one else will.NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Sanders Davis of Baton Rouge saw the Great Flood of 2016 up close and personal last week.Davis, 25, lives in the Sherwood Forest subdivision, a leafy, standard-issue middle class enclave that lies east of the 27-story Capitol erected by Gov. Huey Long in the Great Depression. A Dartmouth graduate, Davis teaches English and is assistant football coach at Ca..
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  • Inside the fall of Paul Manafort

    Inside the fall of Paul Manafort
    Earlier this month, Paul Manafort met with Donald Trump and suggested that they put in place a succession plan for the upper ranks of the Republican nominee’s flailing presidential campaign, according to three campaign sources with direct knowledge of the events that led to Manafort’s resignation on Friday morning as campaign chairman. Trump was in the midst of a string of self-inflicted controversies that were starting to resonate in polls showing him slipping further behind Democratic rival ..
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  • Trump and Clinton Would Both Bring Ethics Baggage to White House

    Trump and Clinton Would Both Bring Ethics Baggage to White House
    Whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the next president will bring to office unprecedented financial entanglements that could pose significant conflicts of interest, ethics experts say, and there is no law that would regulate them. Since federal ethics rules don't apply to the president, there would be no formal impediment to Bill Clinton doing business with interested parties while his wife is in the Oval Office, or to Donald Trump demanding a tax break for a new golf course from a..
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