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Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future. A presidential commission found that's

Crews search for 4th victim in Fla. garage rubble

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By KELLI KENNEDY and MATT SEDENSKYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - Workers inched closer Thursday afternoon to pulling a fourth likely casualty from the site of a parking garage collapse as a search for answers continued over what reduced a routine construction project to piles of twisted steel

Violent street gang: US targets finances of MS-13

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration declared the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 to be an international criminal group on Thursday, an unprecedented crackdown targeting the finances of the sprawling U.S. and Central American gang infamous for hacking

Search Continues For Missing Colorado Girl After Body Found

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) - Police in Colorado say the search for a missing 10-year-old girl will continue after a body was found in a suburban Denver park seven miles from where the fifth-grader disappeared nearly a week ago. Westminster police spokesman Trevor Materasso on

UPDATE: 911 System In Ferry County Having Problems

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

UPDATE: according to Ferry County, as of 11am, they have partially restored the problem with incoming calls via land-line. People can now reach 911 via land-line but 911 is not able to identify where the call is being placed from without being told by the caller. PREVIOUS

Colorado authorities acknowledge body found in park, say search continues for missing girl

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

DENVER (AP) - Colorado authorities acknowledge body found in park, say search continues for missing girl. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

2 dead, 1 still missing in Fla. garage collapse

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By DAVID FISCHER and SUZETTE LABOYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - Rescuers pulled a badly injured man from the rubble of a collapsed parking garage and planned to continue searching Thursday for a missing construction worker a day after the five-story structure came down, killing two people.

Yemeni security officer for US Embassy killed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By AHMED AL HAJAssociated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) - A drive-by shooting Thursday that killed a top Yemeni security official who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa has raised concern that al-Qaida militants here are bouncing back and getting bolder after suffering defeats this year in a U.S.-

5 people killed in northeast Baltimore house fire

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

BALTIMORE (AP) - Authorities say a fire ripped through a northeast Baltimore home, killing one adult and four children. Fire department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright says firefighters were called around 2 a.m. Thursday and arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the first floor of the

Turkey: Syrian plane was carrying ammunition

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 11th

By FRANK JORDANS and SUZAN FRASERAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A plane intercepted by Turkish fighter jets on its way from Moscow to Damascus was carrying equipment and ammunition destined for the Syrian Defense Ministry, Turkey's prime minister said Thursday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan