http://news.yahoo.com/rss-stableford/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Wed, 22 May 2013 09:44:58 -0400 5 http://news.yahoo.com/rss-stableford/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif An unidentified FBI agent shot and killed a man in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday after questioning him about his link to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Dave Couvertier, a special agent and spokesman for the FBI's Tampa field office, told Yahoo News the shooting is under investigation. He identified the man as Ibragim [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ibragim-todashev-fbi-shooting-boston-tsarnaev-134458251.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 22 May 2013 09:44:58 -0400blogs/lookout/ibragim-todashev-fbi-shooting-boston-tsarnaev-134458251An Oklahoma man captured on video what appears to be the formation of Monday's deadly tornado. The incredible footage, posted to YouTube, shows a swirling funnel cloud forming over a field near Newcastle, Okla. The man, identified as Charles Cook, shot the cell phone video from a parking lot while sitting in his car. "The [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/video-moore-tornado-formation-oklahoma-170200551.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 21 May 2013 13:02:00 -0400blogs/lookout/video-moore-tornado-formation-oklahoma-170200551A day after a massive tornado tore through Moore, Okla., photos, video footage and eyewitness accounts painted a chilling picture of the destruction left by the deadly F4 storm. Mangled heaps of debris stretched for some 20 miles in the Oklahoma City suburb. Two dozen people, including children, were killed during Monday's storm, and officials [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/video-moore-tornado-aftermath-153933593.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 21 May 2013 11:39:33 -0400blogs/lookout/video-moore-tornado-aftermath-153933593Dramatic raw video, taken just after a massive tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., on Monday, shows panicked parents reuniting with their shell-shocked children outside of Briarwood Elementary, one of two schools leveled during the storm. The harrowing scene was repeated throughout the Oklahoma City suburb, where dozens of people were killed and many others feared [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tornado-briarwood-school-video-132252381.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 21 May 2013 09:22:52 -0400blogs/lookout/tornado-briarwood-school-video-132252381A devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, killing dozens of people—including children—decimating homes, businesses and a pair of elementary schools in the suburb of Moore. According to the state's medical examiner, the death toll, reduced to 24 Tuesday morning, was expected to rise. About 40 bodies were expected to be transported [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tornado-oklahoma-city-moore-205548879.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssMon, 20 May 2013 20:53:06 -0400blogs/lookout/tornado-oklahoma-city-moore-205548879Less than a week after a string of tornadoes killed six people in north Texas, a massive storm system that tore through the center of the country on Sunday spawned at least a dozen tornadoes, killed two people, injured dozens more and caused extensive damage from Georgia to Minnesota. According to the Oklahoma state medical [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tornadoes-oklahoma-video-132831345.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssMon, 20 May 2013 16:11:31 -0400blogs/lookout/tornadoes-oklahoma-video-132831345Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that's engulfed the White House. On CNN's "State of the Union," Paul told Candy Crowley he heard about a "written policy" that encouraged IRS officials to target "those who are critical of the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-scandal-mcconnell-paul-obama-191839606.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssSun, 19 May 2013 15:18:39 -0400blogs/ticket/irs-scandal-mcconnell-paul-obama-191839606President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Department of Justice, Benghazi—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta. "What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every graduating class I address," Obama [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-morehouse-commencement-speech-172854207.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssSun, 19 May 2013 13:28:54 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-morehouse-commencement-speech-172854207At an interfaith vigil in the wake of last month's bombings at the Boston Marathon, President Barack Obama vowed that Americans would "summon the strength that maybe we didn’t even know we had" and "finish the race.” On Thursday, the Boston Athletic Association announced that the 5,633 runners who were unable to finish the race [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-marathon-finish-race-bombings-173554827.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 16 May 2013 13:35:54 -0400blogs/lookout/boston-marathon-finish-race-bombings-173554827Officials and residents in north-central Texas had to wait until daybreak to assess the damage caused by a string of tornadoes that touched down Wednesday night, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. At least seven people remained unaccounted for Thursday morning, Hood County spokesman Tye Bell said. In Granbury, Texas, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/texas-tornadoes-granbury-photos-video-121304415.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 16 May 2013 09:33:04 -0400blogs/lookout/texas-tornadoes-granbury-photos-video-121304415In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, gun control advocates called for more background checks. Gun rights advocates called for more school security. And mental health advocates called for more dialog about mental health. While the first two calls have gone largely unanswered, it appears the third is beginning to be addressed, at [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/poll-majority-parents-children-mental-health-problems-not-183945378.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 15 May 2013 14:39:45 -0400blogs/lookout/poll-majority-parents-children-mental-health-problems-not-183945378Lawyers for Ariel Castro say he'll plead not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping three women while holding them captive for a decade in his west Cleveland home. "The initial portrayal by the media has been one of a 'monster' and that's not the impression that I got when I talked to him for [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/castro-plead-not-guilty-123152315.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 15 May 2013 08:31:52 -0400blogs/lookout/castro-plead-not-guilty-123152315Robert Greenwald was not terribly surprised to hear that the U.S. Department of Justice had secretly obtained two months of telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors. "It is consistent with a national security state," Greenwald, a documentary filmmaker whose recently-released "War on Whistleblowers" focuses on the White House assault on press freedom, told [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/obama-war-press-whistleblowers-drones-223724346.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 14 May 2013 18:37:24 -0400blogs/lookout/obama-war-press-whistleblowers-drones-223724346Novice spy gear. Cash. A recruitment letter. Bad wigs. That's what Russia’s Federal Security Service said an American accused of being a spy was carrying when he allegedly tried to recruit a Russian agent for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Russian counterintelligence bureau now wants the man, identified as Ryan Christopher Fogle, expelled from [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/cia-spy-russia-wig-detained-fogle-144500405.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 14 May 2013 10:45:00 -0400blogs/lookout/cia-spy-russia-wig-detained-fogle-144500405Police in New Orleans have released surveillance footage of one of at least three suspects wanted in connection with the afternoon shooting that injured 19 people at a Mother's Day parade. In the footage, posted to YouTube, a man wearing a white T-shirt and dark pants can be seen standing on the side of a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/orleans-mothers-day-parade-shooting-video-suspect-141839164.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssMon, 13 May 2013 10:18:39 -0400blogs/lookout/orleans-mothers-day-parade-shooting-video-suspect-141839164Ariel Castro's brothers say they were as shocked as everyone else to learn of his alleged crimes, and they have no sympathy for the man they now call a monster. Pedro Castro and Onil Castro gave CNN an exclusive interview about their 52-year-old brother, who is accused of kidnapping three women—Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/castro-brothers-pedro-onil-ariel-interview-130015065.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssMon, 13 May 2013 09:00:15 -0400blogs/lookout/castro-brothers-pedro-onil-ariel-interview-130015065Sen. John McCain continued his criticism of the White House's handling of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, calling for a select committee to investigate what he called the Obama administration's "cover-up." "Now, what you’ve got to look at this in the context of the times there," McCain told Martha Raddatz in an interview [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mccain-benghazi-cover-investigation-143339866.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssSun, 12 May 2013 10:33:39 -0400blogs/ticket/mccain-benghazi-cover-investigation-143339866The brothers of accused kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro have broken their public silence, giving CNN what's billed as an exclusive sit-down interview about the case. Pedro, 54, and Onil Casto, 50, told CNN's Martin Savidge that they had no knowledge of their 52-year-old brother's alleged crimes. "It’s going to haunt me down because people [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/pedro-castro-onil-cleveland-interview-132025979.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssSun, 12 May 2013 09:20:25 -0400blogs/lookout/pedro-castro-onil-cleveland-interview-132025979NEWTOWN, Conn.—After weeks of emotional, sometimes-contentious debate, a task force charged with deciding the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School recommended tearing down the school and building a new one on the same property where a gunman killed 26 people—including 20 children—in December in one of the worst school massacres in U.S. history. The 28-person [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sandy-hook-elementary-school-future-131117994.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssFri, 10 May 2013 23:11:17 -0400blogs/lookout/sandy-hook-elementary-school-future-131117994Blueprints for what's being called the world's first 3-D printed handgun have been downloaded more than 100,000 times since the controversial files were published online earlier this week, developers say. Defense Distributed, the company that produced the schematics, told Forbes that CAD files for the so-called "Liberator" hit the six-figure download mark within two days, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/3d-gun-download-liberator-200112720.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 09 May 2013 16:01:12 -0400blogs/lookout/3d-gun-download-liberator-200112720A note reportedly found inside Ariel Castro's Cleveland home includes a chilling admission: "I am a sexual predator. I need help." The letter, believed to have been written by Castro in 2004, was obtained by Scott Taylor, an investigative reporter for Cleveland's 19 Action News. Castro, 52, was charged on Wednesday with four counts of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/castro-note-120750000.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 09 May 2013 08:07:50 -0400blogs/lookout/castro-note-120750000Charles Ramsey, the 43-year-old Cleveland man hailed as a hero for helping free three women who police say were held captive for nearly a decade in his neighbor's home, has also been convicted three times of domestic violence. Ramsey, whose colorful television interviews quickly rocketed him to Internet stardom, was first charged with domestic violence [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/charles-ramsey-domestic-violence-211150810.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 08 May 2013 17:11:50 -0400blogs/lookout/charles-ramsey-domestic-violence-211150810Glenn Beck's speech comparing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Hitler wasn't the only controversy to emerge from the National Rifle Association convention in Houston held May 3-5. Anti-violence groups are criticizing the NRA for allowing a vendor at its annual conference to display "the Ex," a scantily-clad, blood-splattered female shooting-range target. According to [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nra-ex-girlfriend-zombie-target-173325873.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 08 May 2013 13:33:25 -0400blogs/lookout/nra-ex-girlfriend-zombie-target-173325873The Cleveland home where three women were allegedly held captive for nearly a decade had ropes, chains and padlocked doors inside, police say. "They were bound," Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath told NBC's "Today" show. McGrath said the women—Knight, now 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23—were held with chains and ropes, and allowed [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/castro-padlock-doors-inside-143140156.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 08 May 2013 10:31:40 -0400blogs/lookout/castro-padlock-doors-inside-143140156Pedro Castro, one of the three brothers suspected of holding three women captive for nearly a decade in a Cleveland home, told a local news crew last year that the search for Amanda Berry was "a waste of money." Castro appeared on camera in a Fox 8 segment on the search of an empty lot [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/pedro-castro-amanda-berry-waste-time-interview-130940562.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 08 May 2013 09:09:40 -0400blogs/lookout/pedro-castro-amanda-berry-waste-time-interview-130940562NEW YORK—New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says he wasn't surprised about the Boston Marathon bombings—just that they didn't happen sooner. "When something like Boston happens, it's a shock to the public psyche, but not to us," Kelly said at the Atlantic's New York Ideas Festival on Tuesday. "We thought something like this would [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nypd-ray-kelly-boston-marathon-bombings-173922894.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 07 May 2013 13:39:22 -0400blogs/lookout/nypd-ray-kelly-boston-marathon-bombings-173922894In a strange twist, the son of one of the men suspected of kidnapping and holding three women captive for close to a decade in a Cleveland home wrote an article about one of the missing women in 2004. Ariel “Anthony” Castro, the 31-year-old son of 52-year-old Ariel Castro, wrote an article published in Cleveland's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/anthony-castro-article-dejesus-161741407.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 07 May 2013 12:17:41 -0400blogs/lookout/anthony-castro-article-dejesus-161741407NEW YORK—West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Tuesday he's optimistic that a revised bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun sales will pass the Senate. "We really need five votes," Manchin, a Democrat, said during an interview at the Atlantic's New York Ideas Festival. The original bill, which Manchin co-sponsored with Republican Sen. Pat [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/manchin-background-check-bill-150416144.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 07 May 2013 11:04:16 -0400blogs/lookout/manchin-background-check-bill-150416144The neighbor who kicked open a door to help free three women who police say were held captive in a Cleveland home for close to a decade, said he at first thought the screaming he heard was a domestic dispute. "I heard screaming," Charles Ramsey told WEWS-TV of Monday’s dramatic rescue. "I'm eating my McDonald's, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/charles-ramsey-neighbor-amanda-berry-125709130.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 07 May 2013 08:57:09 -0400blogs/lookout/charles-ramsey-neighbor-amanda-berry-125709130Last year, radio host Peter Sagal was in Lexington, Ky., filming an upcoming PBS documentary on the U.S. Constitution when a man approached his film crew with a lead pipe. "He looked like the Jesse Pinkman character in 'Breaking Bad,'" Sagal—host of NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!"—told Yahoo News recently. Sagal was in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/man-tours-u-harley-asking-americans-constitution-means-113045182.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 07 May 2013 07:30:45 -0400blogs/lookout/man-tours-u-harley-asking-americans-constitution-means-113045182The creator of what's being called the world's first 3-D-printed handgun is coming under fire from lawmakers concerned that anyone with a 3-D printer and an Internet connection will be able to print an untraceable arsenal. Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old founder of Defense Distributed, is expected to release his controversial blueprint for the gun—called the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/3d-printable-gun-153109290.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssMon, 06 May 2013 11:31:09 -0400blogs/lookout/3d-printable-gun-153109290In another show of intercity solidarity, more than 32,000 riders were expected in New York City on Sunday for the Five Boro Bike Tour to help raise money for the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Security at the tour, the largest cycling event in America, was increased in the wake of the bombings. Backpacks, saddle bags [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/five-boro-bike-tour-nyc-ride-boston-160619080.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssSun, 05 May 2013 12:06:19 -0400blogs/lookout/five-boro-bike-tour-nyc-ride-boston-160619080A substitute teacher at a Tulsa, Okla., high school may be out of a job after including references to serial killer Ted Bundy and a peeping Tom in a homework assignment. Oklahoma City's KFOR-TV reports that the substitute was filling in for a geometry teacher at Nathan Hale High School, where he distributed the assignment. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/creepy-homework-ted-bundy-peeping-tom-143345112.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 02 May 2013 10:33:45 -0400blogs/sideshow/creepy-homework-ted-bundy-peeping-tom-143345112The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the Libyan people for help in identifying three individuals who were on the grounds of the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi when it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012. The attack resulted in the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. The [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/fbi-benghazi-attack-132733889.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssThu, 02 May 2013 09:27:33 -0400blogs/lookout/fbi-benghazi-attack-132733889The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History held a press conference on Wednesday to announce breaking, albeit gruesome, colonial news: Evidence of the dismemberment and cannibalization of a 14-year-old British girl in Jamestown, Va., in 1609. Forensic anthropologists say marks found on the girl's bones, uncovered during a recent archaeological excavation, suggest her brain, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jamestown-cannibalism-smithsonian-202547327.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 01 May 2013 16:25:47 -0400blogs/sideshow/jamestown-cannibalism-smithsonian-202547327Henry Gribbohm, the New Hampshire man who says he lost $2,600—his entire life savings—playing a carnival game that was "rigged," has become something of an Internet star. His story has gone viral thanks, in large part, to the stuffed banana he took home as a consolation prize. The 30-year-old from Epsom, N.H., was playing a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/dreadlocks-banana-life-savings-video-192118384.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 01 May 2013 15:21:18 -0400blogs/sideshow/dreadlocks-banana-life-savings-video-192118384The man carjacked by one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers after the attack is speaking out about his ordeal—but not revealing himself, at least to the public. "Danny," identified as a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, gave on-camera interviews to NBC, CBS and CNN this week, with his face darkened and voice modified to protect his [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-bombing-carjacking-victim-danny-163729976.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 01 May 2013 12:37:29 -0400blogs/lookout/boston-bombing-carjacking-victim-danny-163729976The father of one of the young men the New York Post said were sought by the FBI in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings might sue the tabloid for tabbing his son as a suspect. El Houssein Barhoum, whose teenage son, Salah Barhoum, is pictured on the April 18 cover of the New York [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bag-men-ny-post-lawsuit-143522063.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 01 May 2013 10:35:22 -0400blogs/lookout/bag-men-ny-post-lawsuit-143522063Paula Broadwell, the woman at the center of the 2012 sex scandal that rocked the Central Intelligence Agency and led to the resignation of its director, Gen. David Petraeus, has not spoken publicly since their affair was first reported in November. But Broadwell, who wrote Petraeus' biography, "All In," attended an annual YMCA prayer breakfast [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/paula-broadwell-speaks-petraeus-124436306.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssWed, 01 May 2013 08:44:36 -0400blogs/lookout/paula-broadwell-speaks-petraeus-124436306Fifteen days ago, Jarrod Clowery was standing with three friends on Boylston Street in front of the Forum Bar watching the Boston Marathon. Today, Clowery, a 35-year-old carpenter from nearby Stoneham, is in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recovering from shrapnel wounds and thermal injuries suffered near the second explosion. He's had multiple surgeries to [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jarrod-clowery-boston-bombing-victim-tom-brady-194330265.html?.tsrc=rtlde/?format=rssTue, 30 Apr 2013 15:43:30 -0400blogs/lookout/jarrod-clowery-boston-bombing-victim-tom-brady-194330265