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Fed. court orders resentencing in Arkansas bombing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By JEANNIE NUSSAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for a 2009 bombing that nearly killed the head of the state medical board should be resentenced on some convictions, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A jury convicted Randeep Mann,

Authorities 'confident' bodies are 2 Iowa cousins

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By RYAN J. FOLEY and DAVID PITTAssociated Press EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) - Northeast Iowa residents who have been holding out hope that two young cousins missing for five months might be home for Christmas were grappling Thursday with the news that hunters likely found the girls' bodies.

Government acting against baby recliner maker

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By JENNIFER C. KERRAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is taking action against the makers of a portable baby recliner called the Nap Nanny after five infant deaths. The Consumer Product Safety Commission filed an administrative complaint Wednesday alleging that the new model

Longer tamoxifen use cuts breast cancer deaths

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical Writer Breast cancer patients taking the drug tamoxifen can cut their chances of having the disease come back or kill them if they stay on the pills for 10 years instead of five years as doctors recommend now, a major study finds. The results could

4 arrested in 4 deaths at unlicensed boarding home

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By GREG RISLINGAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The discovery of four bodies outside a Los Angeles home quickly led to the arrests of four people some 300 miles away and a day later in Las Vegas, police said. The four suspects were being held at Clark County Detention Center awaiting

Syrian civil war spills over into Lebanon

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) - The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime branded them foreign jihadists - and

About 350 die in Philippine typhoon, 400 missing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By BULLIT MARQUEZAssociated Press NEW BATAAN, Philippines (AP) - A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. More bodies were

Oklahoma executes inmate for 1993 shooting deaths

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By SEAN MURPHYAssociated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of a couple during a home invasion. In the final moments before he was injected with

'In Cold Blood' murderers investigated in Florida

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By TAMARA LUSH and JOHN HANNAAssociated Press OSPREY, Fla. (AP) - At the end of 1959, two families of four - one in Kansas, the other in Florida - were brutally murdered. Two men were arrested, charged and executed in the Kansas case, and writer Truman Capote captured the horrific tale in his

3 Idaho Women Die From Influenza Complications

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Three Idaho women have recently died from complications of the flu. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says the women were all over the age of 50. Two lived in southwestern Idaho and one in southeastern Idaho. Theirs are the first flu-related deaths in