ELIZABETH, New Jersey – Hours after a boisterous Christmas dinner at her grandfather’s, 13-year-old Zainee Hailey came home and took out her family’s trash, a chore she rotated with her siblings. She bundled up the trash bag and stepped outside her Newark home into the path of a stray bullet authorities said was meant for someone else.
Prosecutor: Juvenile charged in Christmas slayings of 2 Newark children; ending a record year
LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas is securing its place on the list of the top places to ring in the new year with celebrity-studded bashes, exclusive concerts and a fireworks display billed as the country’s largest.
Lavish parties, uninhibited tourists rule New Year’s eve in Vegas, where party starts early
From huge street parties and fireworks displays in Sydney and Jakarta, to quiet moments of prayer in a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, people are welcoming in 2014.
AP PHOTOS: Revelers around the world ring in 2014 with fireworks, parties and prayers
ALBANY, New York – A federal judge upheld most of New York’s new gun control law on Tuesday, rejecting arguments that its bans on large-capacity magazines and the sale of some semi-automatic rifles violate Second Amendment rights.
Federal judge upholds NY limits on guns, large magazines but rejects 7-bullet limit
OAKLAND, California – A California hospital and family are embroiled in a harrowing legal and medical fight that has reignited the debate about when machines keeping a severely brain-damaged person alive should be turned off.
Q&A : Legal battle over Calif. girl declared brain dead reignites difficult debate
RENO, Nevada – Lawyers appealing an ex-Nevada lobbyist’s conviction for illegally contributing to Sen. Harry Reid’s re-election say he should be kept out of prison while the Supreme Court ponders a ruling on campaign finance laws they say have been «twisted into a pretzel» through a series of recent court decisions.
Ex-Nevada lobbyist cites Supreme Court case in bid to delay prison for illegal contributions
BRUNSWICK, Georgia – A south Georgia bank director accused of losing millions of investor dollars before vanishing last year has been arrested.
Missing Ga. bank director accused of losing millions in investors’ funds arrested in Brunswick
NEW YORK – Dr. John W.V. Cordice, a New York City surgeon who was part of the medical team that saved Martin Luther King Jr. from a nearly fatal stab wound in 1958, died Sunday at the age of 95.
Surgeon who saved Martin Luther King Jr.’s life after NYC stabbing dead at age 95
LAS VEGAS – The newest champion of football handicapping is a Chicago trader who consults for a major professional team and lectures on sports statistics analysis.
Chicago financial trader, sports statistics expert, wins largest football handicapping contest
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio will use a two-drug combination untried as an execution method in the U.S. to put to death a condemned inmate who raped and killed a pregnant woman, the state prisons agency confirmed Tuesday.
Ohio to execute pregnant woman’s killer with 2-drug injection combination never used in US
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