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Demolitions ordered in fatal Ind. home explosion

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By RICK CALLAHANAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Demolitions have been ordered for more than two dozen homes in a blast-ravaged Indianapolis neighborhood where a house explosion that killed two people is being investigated as a homicide case, officials said Wednesday. The 29 homes slated

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,029

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By The Associated Press As of Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at least 2,029 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is one less than the Defense Department's tally

Parade where vets killed used route for 3 years

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 18th

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCAAssociated Press MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - Organizers of a parade in West Texas in which four U.S. military veterans were killed when a train plowed into a truck had been using the same route for three years, investigators said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board

Officials: Vets' float crossed track after signals

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 17th

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCAAssociated Press MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going off, investigators said Saturday. Four veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were killed

Defense lawyers say BP rig workers are scapegoats

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - While BP has resolved a sweeping criminal probe of its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two company employees charged in the deaths of 11 rig workers claim the Justice Department is trying to make them scapegoats

BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the biggest criminal fine in U.S. history. Three BP

Residents in blast-shaken subdivision want answers

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

By CHARLES WILSONAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - When a house two blocks away exploded with a deafening boom, the staggering force knocked Billie Chipman to the floor. The freckled 16-year-old hasn't slept since. "I was walking to the couch and I fell," she said Thursday. As clocks and

BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

Microsoft's Windows chief leaves in power struggle

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 13th

By MICHAEL LIEDTKEAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't going to let anyone get in his way. Not even his presumed heir apparent, who runs the software maker's Windows empire, can stop Ballmer as he pushes the company in a new direction. That was the