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from Huffington Post
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from The Spokesman-Review
Boston bombing suspect to be tried in federal court
Suspects planned more attacks, police believe
Weapon stockpile called ‘as dangerous as it gets’
Investigation into blast has Texas town on hold
Nearly 70 federal, state agents working to determine cause
Getting There: Cuts will likely bring air travel delays
FAA to furlough 47,000 employees
Cargo ship rocket test successful
Company will resupply space station
Weapon stockpile called ‘as dangerous as it gets’
Investigation into blast has Texas town on hold
Nearly 70 federal, state agents working to determine cause
Getting There: Cuts will likely bring air travel delays
FAA to furlough 47,000 employees
Cargo ship rocket test successful
Company will resupply space station
Cinnamon challenge poses significant risk to lungs
Hagel on first visit to Mideast
Defense secretary arrives in Israel
Turkish leader asked to delay visit to Gaza
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
BAGA, Nigeria – Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians.
The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction, homes, businesses and vehicles were burned throughout the area.
The assault marks a significant escalation in the long-running insurgency Nigeria faces in its predominantly Muslim north, with Boko Haram extremists mounting a coordinated assault on soldiers using military-grade weaponry.
Authorities had found and buried at least 185 bodies as of Sunday afternoon, said Lawan Kole, a local government official in Baga.
Officials could not offer a breakdown of civilian casualties versus those of soldiers and extremist fighters. Many of the bodies had been burned beyond recognition in fires that razed whole sections of the town, residents said. Those killed were buried as soon as possible, following local Muslim tradition.
Troops kill 80, Syrian opposition says
BEIRUT – Syrian government security forces and paramilitaries killed dozens of people, many of them civilians, in a five-day battle for a Damascus suburb, rebel activists and a pro-opposition nongovernmental organization said Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, considered close to the opposition, said at least 80 people had been killed in the fighting in Jdeidat al Fadel, a suburb of Damascus. The British-based organization said the dead included three children, six women and 71 men, of whom 19 were fighters.
The Syrian government had no immediate comment on the report.
Syrian opposition activists gave widely varying estimates of how many had died in the fighting, with figures as high as 250.
A rebel spokeswoman in Damascus, who goes by the name Susan Ahmed, said thousands of army and pro-government fighters had pushed into the suburb Saturday after bombarding the area with rocket and mortar fire. They also began summary executions, Ahmed said. Fighting in the war that began more than two years ago has intensified in recent months, including in Damascus.
Hundreds of Priest Lake site lessees sue Idaho
SANDPOINT – Three lawsuits on behalf of 353 leaseholders of cabin sites on Priest Lake in North Idaho have been filed to prevent Idaho officials from increasing annual rent payments.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reported the lawsuits were filed Thursday and Friday in 1st District Court.
A lawsuit filed Friday by the Priest Lake State Lessees Association represents 320 leaseholders, and another lawsuit on Friday includes 17 more.
A lawsuit filed Thursday includes 16 leaseholders and names the Idaho Department of Lands, the Land Board and its five members, including Gov. Butch Otter.
That lawsuit contends the appraisals by the Idaho Department of Lands are flawed and inaccurate.
Rates are set to skyrocket as the state seeks to maximize its profit from state endowment land as it is required to do by law.
Homeland Security looks into border fee
BELLINGHAM – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants Congress to authorize the study of a fee that could be collected from everyone who enters this country at land crossings.
The Bellingham Herald reported the department’s 2014 budget proposal seeks increases in existing fees charged for services, including fees air and sea travelers pay when they enter the country.
But the agency also wants to study the feasibility of collecting a land border crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the northern and southwest borders of the United States. Until now, no fees have been imposed on those who enter by car, bus or train.
The budget request says the study should consider a fee that could be added to existing tolls or to ticket prices for those arriving by bus or train.
Local officials say they’re skeptical.
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The Rock Doc: Seeds of change start creation of new apple
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1906: The Otis Mercantile sign is erected
by George Pringle and Rube Gebbers on
the roof of the store built for John
Halloran of Otis Orchards. The building
burned down in 1921, and the store was
rebuilt at Harvard Road and Wellesley
Avenue,a few blocks away.
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Farms stopped growing, community didn’t
Generation X braces for bleak future
Don’t allow laziness to reel in your health
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from The Weekly Standard
United States of America v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Supreme Court: ‘There Is No Bar to this Nation's Holding One of Its Own Citizens as an Enemy Combatant’
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