04-29-2024  11:23 pm   •   PDX and SEA Weather

USA News

Danish research includes 350,000 people; two US agencies have also concluded there is no risk

LONDON (AP) -- Danish researchers can offer some reassurance if you're concerned about your cellphone: Don't worry. Your device is probably safe.


READ MORE

While Jackson's death thrust propofol into the spotlight, the circumstances of the case are rare

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Doctors sometimes call the anesthesia drug by its nickname - milk of amnesia. Patients are calling it the "Michael Jackson drug."


READ MORE

GOP rising star has long played up ties to exile community, but his parents initially left Cuba before Castro took power

MIAMI (AP) -- Florida's freshman U.S. senator and rising GOP star Marco Rubio is fighting back against allegations he embellished his family's history by saying his parents fled Cuba before Fidel Castro's communist revolution.


READ MORE

Some worked aboard the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Sixty-four sailors from the San Diego-based U.S. Third Fleet will be kicked out of the Navy for drug use, mostly involving a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana, military officials said Thursday.


READ MORE

One victim said he met woman accused of being the ringleader through online dating site

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Detectives re-interviewed witnesses, sorted through tips and examined evidence Thursday as they tried to piece together a more complete picture of what police describe as a horrific Social Security fraud scheme in which four people locked disabled adults in a squalid basement.


READ MORE

The animals are also being seen in Birmingham, Tulsa and other metro areas

ATLANTA (AP) -- Wildlife biologists say black bears like the one that recently rambled through backyards in Atlanta's northern suburbs could soon be a permanent part of the community there, having cubs and multiplying.


READ MORE

Three Democrats abandon president on vote that fell well short

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his allies in the Senate promise to press ahead with separate votes on pieces of his failed $447 billion jobs measure despite unanimous opposition from Republicans. But there also are signs of slippage among Democrats and evidence the strategy isn't working with voters.


READ MORE

Candidate proposes "opportunity zones" to boost struggling neighborhoods

DETROIT (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain is redefining his signature "9-9-9" tax plan, which would have meant a tax increase for more than four out of five Americans.


READ MORE

Organizational support for Somali group could put pair in prison more than 20 years

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Two Minnesota women were convicted Thursday of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia as part of what prosecutors called a "deadly pipeline" sending money and fighters from the U.S. to al-Shabab.


READ MORE

Prosecutors in the state said to be unfairly suspicious of African American jurors

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- An advocacy group sued a district attorney for two Alabama counties on Wednesday, saying he and his assistants deliberately exclude blacks from juries in serious criminal cases.


READ MORE

Recently Published by The Skanner News

  • Default
  • Title
  • Date
  • Random

The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast