The 'Punkin Reaper' was supposed to launch pumpkins. Instead, it exploded, hospitalizing two.
Paramedics tend to a person who was injured at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin Contest on Sunday. (Kyle Grantham/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP) For three decades — minus a two-year hiatus due to safety concerns — tinkerers, engineers and inventors have gathered in fields to see whose custom-made contraption could propel pumpkins the farthest. The best machines could launch the vegetables through the air for thousands of feet. On Sunday afternoon, an air cannon named Punkin Reaper..>> view originalPhiladelphia Transit Strike Ends, Just In Time For Election Day
Enlarge this image Market-Frankford line trains remain idle at a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority station in Upper Darby, Pa., just outside Philadelphia, on Nov. 1. Philadelphia's transit strike ended early Monday, as SEPTA said it has reached a tentative, five-year deal with the union. Jacqueline Larma/AP hide caption toggle caption ..>> view originalRelative of Texas girl Kayla Gomez-Orozco jailed after body found
A relative of a Texas girl whose body was found Sunday following a massive search was jailed as authorities continue to investigate the girl's disappearance and death. A body believed to be Kayla Gomez-Orozco's was found in a well near a property in ...>> view original7 things to watch for on election night
The two candidates are making a last-minute dash across swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as the 2016 presidential race enters its final hours. They've also gone north to Michigan and New Hampshire to states Democrats have won in recent cycles but could flip this year.Most plausible paths to victory for Trump start with holding onto two battlegrounds that Mitt Romney won four years ago -- North Carolina and Arizona -- and flipping three states President Barack Obama carr..>> view original5.0 Quake Near Oklahoma Oil Hub Causes Substantial Damage
CUSHING, Okla. (CBS / AP) — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs brought down building facades and shattered windows in a central Oklahoma city, rendering century-old buildings unsafe and raising concerns about key infrastructure. As the sun rose Monday, television news footage showed widespread, substantial damage to buildings, with piles of bricks and other debris littering the ground following the earthquake the previous evening. Cushing Assistant City Man..>> view originalSecond body found on property of SC murder suspect
Todd Kohlhepp faces four counts of murder in the killings more than a decade ago at Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, South Carolina. Investigators say Kohlhepp has confessed to killing four people at a motorcycle shop in 2003. (Nov. 6) APTodd Christopher Kohlhepp, 45, is led into the courtroom for a bond hearing at the Spartanburg County Detention Center in Spartanburg, S.C., on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. A second body was found on his property Sunday.(Photo: Ken Ruinard, Anderson (S.C.) I..>> view originalChris Christie: Bridgegate “one of the most abjectly stupid things I've ever seen”
Speaking publicly for the first time about the conviction of two former allies in the Bridgegate scandal, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the plot to punish a northern N.J. mayor for not endorsing his re-election “one of the most abjectly stupid things I’ve ever seen.”N.J. Governor Chris Christie, who denies knowledge of a plot to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge for political payback, says he has previously survived claims that his political career was over. ..>> view originalUS seeking death penalty as trial begins in South Carolina church shooting
Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina Thomson Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The final phase of jury selection begins on Monday in the U.S. death penalty trial for a white man charged with federal hate crimes after the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a historic South Carolina church last year. Dylann Roof, who is accused of holding white supremacist views, was indicted on 33 federal counts of hat..>> view originalClinton and Trump in last-day dash with FBI email probe over but not forgotten
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief expressed relief Monday that the FBI’s email probe had been put to rest, but Donald Trump appeared ready to hammer the issue in his last-ditch bid for critical swing states as the campaign entered its final day. FBI Director James B. Comey said Sunday that the bureau had completed its examination of newly discovered emails connected to Clinton — an inquiry that had roiled the presidential race for nine days — and found nothing to alter its months-old decision no..>> view originalJanet Reno, First Female US Attorney General, Dies At 78
Enlarge this image Former Attorney General Janet Reno in 2004. Charlie Dharapak/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Dharapak/AP Former Attorney General Janet Reno in 2004. Charlie Dharapak/AP Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as attorney general of the United States,..>> view original
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