Storms and Blackout Kill 26 Across East. Power Restored
The death toll from storms and outages rose to 26 after two Virginia accidents. Pepco reported 90 percent restoration in D C and two Maryland suburbs, while BGE noted about 78 000 central Maryland customers without power. Virginia homes and businesses without power fell to about 177 000 from a peak of 1.2 million. Hallandale Beach lifeguard Tomas Lopez was fired for aiding a drowning man out of his patrol area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
United States
Virginia
Pepco
D.C
Maryland
BGE
Hallandale Beach
Fla
Tomas Lopez
South Florida
Jeff Ellis and Associates
Lopez
Sun Sentinel
Student confesses to fake kidnapping in Brazil
Police in Amazonas state say 22 year old Susan Paola Fadel Correia admitted fabricating a kidnapping claim to avoid a year end university project. She had claimed three men abducted her for 24 hours before release. she spent the time at a friend's home and now faces charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Amazon
Para State
Susan Paola Fadel Correia
Fadel
Romney shifts stance on Obama health care tax claim
Romney says the individual insurance mandate in ObamaCare is a tax rather than a penalty, reversing earlier campaign position and aligning with Supreme Court ruling. Obama campaign accuses him of contradictions as Romney defends Massachusetts mandate as a penalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romney
Switch
Washington
Reuters
Mitt Romney
Barack Obama
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
CBS
Obama
U.S
Eric Fehrnstrom
Tests revive debate over Arafat death explored
A Swiss lab found abnormal polonium-210 on Yasser Arafat’s underwear raising new poisoning questions. Institute says findings are significant but require more bones tests. Palestinian officials contemplate exhuming his Ramallah burial with family approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuters
Yasser Arafat
West Bank
Ramallah
Palestinian Authority
Arafat
Tel Aviv
Israel
Hicari
Darcy Christen
Institute of Radiology
Lausanne
Saha
Mahmoud Abbas
Nabil Abu Rudeineh
Paris
Al-Jazeera
Suha Arafat
Physicists Claim Evidence for Higgs Like Particle
Scientists at the large particle collider near Geneva announce discovery of a subatomic particle resembling the Higgs boson. The finding, hailed as the God particle by some, involves thousands of researchers worldwide in the universe’s origin quest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Geneva
CERN
James Gillies
The God particle and the hunt for mass
British physicist Peter Higgs and colleagues proposed a field that gives particles mass. Experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider captured a Higgs like particle, confirming ideas but suggesting deviations from the Standard Model. This may spark theories such as supersymmetry and future discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Higgs
Belgium
United States
CERN
European Center For Nuclear Research
Al Qaeda Inspired Group Claims Syria Attacks
An al-Qaida linked group claims responsibility for dozens of incidents across Syria including an attack on Al Ikhbariya TV near Damascus. The statements, circulated on extremist sites via Al Nusra Front, allege retaliation for regime abuses as Western and Arab powers seek Assad's removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Al-Qaida
Syria
Beirut
Bashar Assad
Free Syrian Army
Al-Nusra Front
Drousha
Damascus
Al-Ikhbariya TV
Al-Nusra
Al-Ikhbariya
Iraq
Ayman al-Zawahri
al-Zawahri
Osama bin Laden
U.S
Also Mentioned on This Page
Associated Press
Td Press
Danny Kaner
Science
CMS
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!