Tag: Nation

Killer of 2 NY firemen had semiautomatic rifle

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 5:16 pm

Cops: NY killer of 2 firemen left note on plan to ‘do what I like doing best, killing people’

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 4:56 pm

Hero dog missing snout seems to have beaten cancer

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 3:15 pm

NY firefighters in guarded condition

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 3:13 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, Josh Brones, president of the California Houndsmen for Conservation, walks his hunting dogs, Dollar, left, Sequoia, center and Tanner right, near his home in Wilton, Calif. After Jan. 1, California hunters will no longer be able to use dogs to hunt bobcats and bears, under a law authored by Sen. Ted Lieu, D- Torrence.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Calif. ban draws interest in using hounds to hunt

Don Thompson · December 25, 2012 2:05 pm

Volunteers take phone calls from children asking where Santa is and when he will deliver presents to their house, during the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday Dec. 24, 2012. Over a thousand volunteers at NORAD handle more than 100,000 thousand phone calls from children around the world every Christmas Eve, with NORAD continually projecting Santa's supposed progress delivering presents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

NORAD says record number of calls to track Santa

Dan Elliott · December 25, 2012 8:39 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 file photo, Christmas stockings with the names of shooting victims hang from railing near a makeshift memorial near the town Christmas tree in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Some in Conn. town couple activism with mourning

BROCK VERGAKISKATIE ZEZIMA · December 25, 2012 7:28 am

Snow-covered stuffed animals with photos attached sit at a memorial in Newtown, Conn. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims

Brock Vergakis, Stephen Singer · December 25, 2012 5:00 am

Snowboarder dies in avalanche at Tahoe-area resort

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 3:30 am

1 killed, 1 wounded in bar shooting near Seattle

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 3:25 am

President Barack Obama waves from the window of his motorcade vehicle as he returns from a workout at Marine Corp Base Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Kailua, Hawaii. The president and the first family are in Hawaii for a family holiday vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s Christmas vacation in Hawaii: Day 3

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2012 3:04 am

This undated photo provided by the Bellaire Police Department shows Cpl. Jimmie Norman who was on of two people shot and killed by by a motorist who fled following a traffic stop Monday morning Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Houston. The confrontation followed a chase that began shortly before 9 a.m. Monday when the suspect sped off in his car rather than pull over as an officer had requested, Houston police spokesman John Cannon said. As the suspect fled, he sideswiped a white truck, which also took off after him, he said. (AP Photo/Bellaire Police Department via Houston Chronicle)

Police officer among 2 fatally shot in Houston

Juan Lozano · December 25, 2012 3:00 am