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Dallas teen charged in fatal shooting of Iraqi immigrant

Dallas police arrested a teenager in last week’s fatal shooting of an Iraqi immigrant who was gunned down while taking pictures of his first snowfall, officials said on Friday.

 
1 dead, 2 injured in Okla. medical helicopter crash

A medical helicopter crashed in eastern Oklahoma on Thursday night, killing one person and injuring two other people, the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Department said.

 
Ring returned after 70 years helps solve mystery of missing plane

Of 14 sorties flown by British World War Two pilots supplying anti-fascist fighters in Albania on Oct. 29, 1944, 12 returned to base in Italy, one failed to discharge its load and “the other is missing and assumed to have crashed”, according to military records.

 
Police hunting for suspects after 2 officers shot in Ferguson

The shooting of two police officers at a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered a sweeping manhunt for suspects on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the center of a national debate over race and policing.

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Seattle school bus waiting to pick up kids hit by gunfire

A school bus arriving outside a Seattle elementary school to pick up children at the end of the day on Thursday was struck by gunfire, prompting a lockdown of the school and a search for suspects, but no one was hurt, city police and school officials said.

 
Multiple injuries reported in Indiana college bus crash

A bus carrying 21 people, including members of an Indiana college’s bowling teams, overturned on Thursday resulting in multiple minor to serious injuries, officials said.

 
Search stopped for survivors after Army helicopter wreckage found

Search teams stopped looking for more bodies after finding the wreckage of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed during a nighttime training mission off Florida’s Gulf Coast, killing all seven Marines and four soldiers on board, authorities said on Thursday.

 
Worker at New Orleans monkey lab exposed to dangerous bacteria

An employee at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans has tested positive for a potentially deadly strain of bacteria kept at the facility.

 
US government legalizes powdered alcohol

Soon you can get your hands on some Palcohol — or powdered alcohol, for those who don’t know.

FBI worried Islamic State is corrupting Americans via social media

The radicalization of Americans by Islamic State and other groups, particularly through sophisticated use of social media, is a top concern for the FBI as it grapples with evolving terrorism threats, Director James Comey said on Thursday.

 
Florida brothers plead guilty to NY bomb terror plot

Two Pakistani-born brothers accused in a plot to detonate a bomb in New York City to avenge the deaths of people killed by drone attacks in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges on Thursday in Miami.

2 police officers shot outside Ferguson police headquarters

Two police officers were shot during a protest outside Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city’s police chief quit following a damning U.S. Justice Department report into his force.