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Fireball reported in Southern California sky

Southern Californians from Santa Barbara to San Diego have reported seeing a fireball that forecasters said was most likely a meteor streaking across the sky.

 
EDITORIAL: School anti-gun policies defy common sense

The response to the unimaginable and senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has unfortunately gone off the rails. In the name of student safety, adults are teaching kids the wrong lessons.

 
Government shutdown or not, new $100 bill is coming

The new $100 bill, with an array of high-tech features designed to thwart counterfeiters, will get its coming out party on Tuesday — partial government shutdown or not.

 
Fox anchor apologizes after Obama gaffe

A Fox News Channel anchor apologized for falsely saying that President Barack Obama had offered to pay for the operation of a museum of Muslim culture “out of his own pocket” during the government shutdown.

 
Rescued sea turtle gets new life at Shark Reef

They open the gate and toss the leaves of romaine lettuce into the aquarium. The sharks ignore it, but a 320-pound sea turtle called O.D. snags the leaves from the water and eats like a hungry turtle will.

 
6 box-office face-offs to get excited about

The multiplex match-ups of fall and the holidays may not feature the battles between megabudget blockbusters that this summer did, but they have the added intrigue that the awards season brings.

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Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoir

Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. “Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed.

 
Americans, German-American win Nobel Prize in medicine

Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of insulin.

 
New Studies reiterate need for science and regulation of E-cigarettes

Two new studies this week reinforce the need for continued study of “e-cigarettes,” an emerging product that allows users to inhale vaporized nicotine in a cigarette-like fashion. Legacy has long held the position that e-cigarettes need to be approached with caution, and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products should regulate the devices.

 
Sept 11 Museum putting hallowed artifacts in place

Far below the earth where the twin towers once stood, a cavernous museum on hallowed ground is finally nearing completion.

 
Simple looks line-up New York Fashion Week

The simple things can be the hardest to do in fashion, because you have to do them well.

 
Giffords’ rehab shown in new music video

A new music video is showing images of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the earliest days of her recovery following injuries from a 2011 shooting.

 
Jackie Robinson statue vandalized with swastikas, hate speech

New York City police are investigating swastikas and hate speech scrawled on a statue of Jackie Robinson and a teammate outside Brooklyn’s minor league baseball stadium.

 
Close friend is suspect in California death, abduction

A family friend, James Lee DiMaggio now is a suspect in the death of Christina Anderson, the abduction of her 16-year-old daughter and the possible death or abduction of her 8-year old son.

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