Updated 1:40 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. The gunman who killed two people and himself in a shooting rampage at an Oregon mall was 22 years old and used a stolen rifle from someone he knew, authorities said Wednesday. Jacob Tyler Roberts had armed himself with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and had several fully loaded magazines when he arrived at a Portland mall on Tuesday, said Clackamas County Sheriff...
Dec
11
US stocks finish solidly higher
Labels: Technology NEW YORK: US stocks finished solidly higher Tuesday, with gains in Apple, Google and Intel boosting the tech-rich Nasdaq.Also helping were gains in Europe's markets on the back of a surge in German investor sentiment, to a seven-month high, and a successful Spanish debt auction that saw borrowing costs drop sharply.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 78.56 points (0.60 percent) to 13,248.44,...
NFL revokes bounty case suspensions
Labels: LifestyleNew Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma's suspension for the 2012 season has been vacated. STORY HIGHLIGHTSDecision by former commissioner overturns current NFL chiefCase affects the New Orleans Saints from 2009-11Tagliabue says Saints given incentives to hurt opposing playersWas it typical "trash talk" that occurs regularly before games?(CNN) -- Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Tuesday...
Right-to-work poised to become law in Michigan
Labels: Health Against a backdrop of raucous protests in the Michigan capitol, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is poised to sign controversial right-to-work legislation after it neared final passage in the GOP-led state legislature. Play VideoTens of thousands protest right-to-work in Mich. The Michigan house passed two right-to-work laws today - one focused on public sector workers, and one focused on private-sector...
Serial Killer 'Broke Own Rule,' Lost Control
Labels: Business Serial killer Israel Keyes' capture was his own undoing. It was the meticulous murderer's loss of control and violation of his own careful rules of murder that ended years of traveling to kill for fun.When Keyes, 34, approached an Anchorage coffee stand Feb. 1, he told himself that if the person working inside did not have her own car, he would only rob the place and leave.But...
Dec
10
Doha summit launches climate damage aid
Labels: World The latest summit to stop climate change, held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks has been roundly slammed. Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least...
US stocks edge up amid hopes for 'cliff' deal
Labels: Technology NEW YORK: US stocks ended slightly higher Monday amid hopes that a political deal over the looming fiscal cliff was in the works.Markets showed little effect from the fresh turmoil in the eurozone, after Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said he would resign in the coming days and Silvio Berlusconi threatened a comeback on an anti-austerity platform.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose...
Bodies ID'd as missing Iowa cousins
Labels: LifestyleBy Dana Ford, CNNupdated 6:02 PM EST, Mon December 10, 2012The bodies of Elizabeth Collins, 8, and her cousin Lyric Cook, 10, missing since June have been identified.STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Girls' disappearance sparked a massive volunteer search effort A sheriff vows vigilance in pursuit of those responsibleLyric Cook, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, had been missing since JulyHunters found their bodies...
Report: Asian economies to be world's largest by 2030
Labels: Health WASHINGTONThe United States could see its standing as a superpower eroded and Asian economies will outstrip those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, according to the best guess of the U.S. intelligence community in its latest forecast. "The spectacular rise of Asian economies is dramatically altering ... U.S. influence," said Christopher Kojm, chairman of the National Intelligence Council,...
New Evidence Suggests Biblical Flood Happened
Labels: Business The story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood is one of the most famous from the Bible, and now an acclaimed underwater archaeologist thinks he has found proof that the biblical flood was actually based on real events.In an interview with Christiane Amanpour for ABC News, Robert Ballard, one of the world's best-known underwater archaeologists, talked about his findings. His team...
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