A man charged this month with killing two Los Angeles women more than three decades ago may be linked to as many as 30 unsolved murders and "numerous sexual assaults," Los Angeles police said. Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton called a Thursday news conference to reveal the suspect’s name and details of the cases against him.
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Taliban threatens attacks over U.S. surge
GOP Senator Specter’s Party Switch Gives Obama a 100-Day Gift
Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter turned the 111th session of Congress upside down on Tuesday by announcing that he will switch parties and become a Democrat. The move was the product of weeks of intensive negotiation between Specter and Democrats in the Senate and White House, and it favorably alters the balance of power for President Obama as he is facing tough votes in the months ahead on health care, energy and budget bills
Obama’s first 100 days in photos
O.J. comments misunderstood, Hulk Hogan says
Passenger helps land turboprop plane after pilot dies
It’s a nightmarish scenario straight out of the movies: A passenger is forced to land a plane after its pilot becomes incapacitated. But it became a reality for a passenger on board a plane over Florida on Sunday, and for the air traffic controllers who helped him land safely in what the National Air Traffic Controllers’ Association called “an Easter miracle.” The incident began about 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Rescue launched after helicopter ditches with 16 onboard
A helicopter believed to have 16 people aboard ditched Wednesday in the North Sea, 35 miles off the northeastern coast of Scotland, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency said. The announcement came after Obama and Medvedev met in London ahead of Thursday’s G-20 summit. The statement said the two leaders agreed that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms — which expires in December — “has completely fulfilled its intended purpose and that the maximum levels for strategic offensive arms recorded in the treaty were reached long ago.” “They have therefore decided to move further along the path of reducing and limiting strategic offensive arms in accordance with U.S.
U.S., Russia announce nuke talks; Obama plans to visit China
Suit filed in alleged ‘fight club’ at school for mentally handicapped
Alaska volcano back on eruption watch
Researchers have raised the alert status at Mount Redoubt, a volcano in southern Alaska, after another increase in seismic activity. “Shallow earthquake activity under the volcano has been as high as 26 events per 10-minute period,” officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Sunday in a statement announcing that the alert level was raised to “watch” status.