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WV Metro News

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Multiple tanker rail cars carrying crude oil derailed Monday afternoon in Fayette County, triggering explosions and a huge fire as several cars rolled through a residential subdivision and into the Kanawha River.

At least one house was destroyed, but police have found no evidence of fatalities.

The CSX train jumped the tracks at about 1:20 p.m. Eyewitness Randy Fitzwater of Boomer said he thought a plane had crashed.

“I heard this loud noise. It sounded like a jet airplane flew over my house and then I heard an explosion,” Fitzwater told Metronews.  “I looked across the river and I could see this big ball of flame.”   Continue reading “Evacuations Ordered – Train derailment sends oil cars into Kanawha River; explosions erupt”

ABC News – by Rob Gillies

Canadian police foiled a plot by two suspects who were planning to go to a mall and kill as many people as they could before committing suicide on Valentine’s Day in Halifax, a senior police official said.

The official told The Associated Press on Saturday that police acted quickly after receiving information from the public on the Crime Stoppers tip line.

The official spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly.   Continue reading “Body Found in Home As Police Foil Mall Attack Plot”

What the Heck is going on with all these Newsmen/Journalists suddenly dying?

NBC News – by Erin McClam

Ned Colt, who reported from Asia and around the world for NBC News before joining two humanitarian agencies, has died in Boston after suffering a massive stroke. He was 58.

Colt left NBC in 2009 to work in the aid sector with the International Rescue Committee and the United Nations office dedicated to refugees. He joined NBC News in 1996 in its London bureau, then moved to Asia in 1997, working from Beijing and Hong Kong. He covered devastating earthquakes in India and Turkey, the ever-evolving relations between Washington and Beijing, reuniting families in North and South Korea, and the U.S. war against terror in Afghanistan.   Continue reading “Ned Colt, NBC News Journalist, Dies in Boston at 58”

New York Times – by BRUCE WEBER and ASHLEY SOUTHALL

David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand media columnist at The New York Times, and the star of a documentary about the newspaper, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58.

Mr. Carr collapsed in The Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.   Continue reading “David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58”

CNN – by Alexandra Jaffe

Kitzhaber has been under criminal investigation by the state attorney general. The Oregon attorney general’s office declined to comment on the growing police presence outside his home, which local press chronicled on Twitter.   Continue reading “Cops gather outside Oregon governor’s house”

Daily Finance – by Erik Sherman

Barack Obama has promised a veto on the bill that would enable construction of the Keystone XL pipeline without a presidential permit. Without enough support for an override in the House, let along the Senate, passage of the measure seems unlikely. Given the political calculus was clear at the start, you might wonder why so many Democrats as well as Republicans voted for the measure.

The answer may be money. Senators and representatives who voted for the measure received far more in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry than those who opposed it, according to an analysis by watchdog group MapLight.org. Working from public contribution data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, the organization matched votes on the bill to the money received by members of Congress from the oil and gas industry.   Continue reading “Keystone XL Votes, Big Oil Contributions Connected”

Daily Finance – by Mitch Lipka

Nearly 5 million Kidde fire extinguishers sold over the past two years are being recalled because a defective valve could cause them to fail when used to put out a fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.

The massive recall involves 31 different models of disposable fire extinguishers — the type that aren’t made to be refilled. Most were sold between August 2013 and November 2014 for $18 to $65 at stores including Home Depot (HD) and Walmart (WMT), but one model, the XL 5MR, sold for $200, the CPSC said.   Continue reading “Kidde Recalls 4.8 Million Fire Extinguishers That Could Fail”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, JOSEPH STEPANSKY, BILL HUTCHINSON, DENIS SLATTERY

60 Minutes” reporter Bob Simon, a survivor of numerous close calls as a war correspondent, was killed Wednesday in a horrific car crash on the West Side Highway.

The 73-year-old CBS veteran, who won 27 Emmy Awards in a career spanning five decades, had to be cut from a mangled livery cab that rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz and slammed into a concrete median near W. 30th St.   Continue reading “Bob Simon, ’60 Minutes’ reporter and veteran war correspondent, killed in horrific crash on West Side Highway”

New York Times – by BARRY PADDOCK, EDGAR SANDOVAL, JOHN MARZULLI, LARRY MCSHANE

A rookie cop accused of fatally shooting a man in a Brooklyn housing project stairwell was taunted by the victim’s relatives Wednesday after pleading not guilty.

Officer Peter Liang, 27, was released without bail after a hearing during which he stood silently in a dark gray suit, accompanied by an attorney for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

“Murderer!” screamed Hertencia Peterson, an aunt of Akai Gurley, as Liang was hustled from the courtroom. “He’s a murderer! Why is he out? … If he was a black man, he’d be shackled.”   Continue reading “NYPD Officer Peter Liang pleads not guilty in Akai Gurley shooting”

ABC News 7

DEMAREST, N.J. (WABC) — A prop gun sparked a brief lockdown at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, New Jersey, police say.

A student came to school on Knickerbocker Road this morning carrying a prop rifle for the school’s production of Hello Dolly, police said.   Continue reading “Prop Gun Sparks Lockdown At Northern Valley Regional High School In Demarest, NJ”

Huffington Post – by Christopher Mathias

A New York City police officer has been indicted in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, law enforcement sources told both NY1 and The New York Daily News on Tuesday.

A bullet fired by rookie officer Peter Liang killed Gurley inside the darkened stairwell of the Louis Pink housing project in East New York, Brooklyn, on Nov. 20.   Continue reading “NYPD Officer Indicted In Death Of Akai Gurley, According To Reports”

New York Daily News – by Caitlin Nolan

Two NYPD officers allegedly stormed a Brooklyn apartment, knocking the door open and a woman to the ground, after they mistook the lollipop she had in her hand for drugs, according to a complaint filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

In April 2013, the black-clad duo — who later identified themselves as police officers — forced their way into the East New York apartment of Malik Saunders, 38, as his friend Jarnale Henry was leaving to go food shopping, Henry and Saunders testified Monday during a departmental hearing.   Continue reading “NYPD cops allegedly storm into Brooklyn apartment after mistaking lollipop for drugs”

Politco – by Burgess Everett

It wasn’t a new attorney general or defense secretary, but the Senate still hit a milestone on Monday by confirming President Barack Obama’s first nominee following a Republican takeover of that chamber.
The Senate voted 92 to 0 to approve Michael Botticelli as director of National Drug Control Policy, a nomination that didn’t even draw procedural opposition in the hyper-partisan Senate.   Continue reading “Senate confirms new drug czar”

New York Post – by Bill Sanderson

This plot was too crazy even for Charles Manson.

Manson’s engagement to a woman 53 years his junior was part of a wild scheme of hers to profit by putting his body on public display after his death, says the author of an upcoming book.

Manson’s fiancée, 27-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, known as Star, sought to wed the convicted mastermind of the Sharon Tate murder and eight other slayings so that she could gain possession of his corpse, according to journalist Daniel Simone.   Continue reading “Charles Manson’s fiancée wanted to marry him for his corpse: source”