They're Baaack! Bugs Emerge After 17 Years

The life cycle of the periodical cicada is the stuff of horror movies

2013-05-06

Jacque Wilson CNN

This year Brood II is beginning to appear in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. You can see reported sightings of the insect on this map. Next year Broods III will arrive in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, and Brood XXII will come to Louisiana and Mississippi. Read the complete article

The Latest on the Boston Marathon Investigation

Officials will announce a plan on how to distribute roughly $28 million in compensation

2013-05-06

Holly Yan CNN

(CNN) -- As one bombing suspect recovers in a prison hospital and the other's body is being rejected by cemeteries, a whirlwind of new developments are swirling around the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. Read the complete article

Video Of Bagram Plane Crash Legitimate, U.S. Official Says

About 12 seconds into the video, the Boeing 747-400 appears to stall, rolls from side to side, and drops

2013-05-06

Mike Ahlers CNN

(CNN) -- American authorities have concluded that a widely seen video does show a U.S. civilian-operated cargo jet crashing in Afghanistan last week, a U.S. government official said. Read the complete article

42 Syrian Soldiers Dead in Reported Israeli Strike, Opposition Group Says

Reports of Israeli strikes are 'very worrying,' the Russian Foreign Ministry says

2013-05-06

From Frederik Pleitgen, Sara Sidner and Hada Messia CNN

DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) -- Concern over the possibility of broader war in the Middle East grew Monday in the wake of reported airstrikes on Syrian military installations. Read the complete article

Portland Police Seek Information Leading to Arrest of Murder Suspect Lonnell George

The 23-year-old is wanted in homicide of Edward Jewell Paden

2013-05-03

The Skanner News

Lonnell GeorgePortland Police Bureau has put a call out for information that leads to the arrest of Lonnell George. George is suspected of murder in the homicide of 18-year-old Edward Jewell Paden Jr. Read the complete article

VIDEO: NRA Gears Up For Annual Meeting

Mark Kelley: NRA invested in gun industry making huge profits

2013-05-03

CNN

gunsThe National Rifle Association's annual meeting will surely be in the spotlight this weekend, as it comes just weeks after the Senate voted down a controversial gun control measure--a major blow to the months-long push for tougher firearm laws in the wake of the Newtown elementary school massacre. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Tsarnaev Brothers Originally Planned Suicide Attack On July Fourth

Investigators now searching in and around Dartmouth, Massachusetts, FBI says

2013-05-03

By Ben Brumfield and Steve Almasy CNN

It could have been July Fourth. Live on television. The brothers believed responsible for the bloody Boston Marathon bombings originally planned a suicide attack on the city's massive Independence Day celebration, surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators, a U.S. law enforcement official regularly briefed on the investigation told CNN. Read the complete article

VIDEO: In Mexico Obama Pledges Cooperation on Economy, Immigration, and Drug War

2013-05-03

By Dan Merica and Catherine E. Shoichet CNN

obamaPresident Barack Obama said Friday he came to Mexico to break down stereotypes between the United States and its neighbor to the south. Speaking at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Obama said that too often the relationship between the United States and Mexico is “trapped in old stereotypes,” where Mexicans see America as trying to wall itself off from Mexico and Americans see Mexico through the sensational headlines of violence in the war on drugs. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Northern Ireland Man Acquitted In Killing Of British Soldiers

Conviction is quashed after judge finds DNA evidence unconvincing

2013-05-03

Peter Taggart CNN

A 47-year-old man from Northern Ireland was found not guilty Friday of murder in the 2009 killings of two British soldiers at an army base in Northern Ireland. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Bhutto Case Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali Gunned Down In Pakistan

An anti-Taliban politician and his son were also murdered

2013-05-03

By Nasir Habib and Ben Brumfield CNN

Benazir BhuttoGunmen in Pakistan killed a leading prosecutor working on high-profile terrorism cases and the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and an anti-Taliban politician and his son, the latest violence ahead of next week's national elections. Read the complete article