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Jury in Jodi Arias trial resumes deliberations

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

By BRIAN SKOLOFF and JOSH HOFFNERAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the

Arias speaks out about case in jailhouse interview

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

By BRIAN SKOLOFF and JOSH HOFFNERAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - In a surprise jailhouse interview just hours after a jury began deliberating her fate, Jodi Arias spoke out Tuesday about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance at

Wall that once divided races remains, teaches

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 1st

By JEFF KAROUBAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) - When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit's Birwood Street in 1959, she didn't know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet tall and a foot thick, it wasn't so imposing, running as it did between houses on her street and one

Colorado River tops 2013 endangered waterways list

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 17th

By KEN RITTERAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) - Drought and demand are pushing the Colorado River beyond its limits - with the needs of more than 40 million people in seven Western states projected to outstrip dwindling supply over the next 50 years, according to an advocacy group's report on

SKorea says NKorea behind computer crash in March

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 10th

By YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea was responsible for a cyberattack that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks last month, officials in Seoul said Wednesday, noting that an initial investigation pointed to a

Decades after King's death, Memphis jobs at risk

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 3rd

By ADRIAN SAINZAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - They rode the streets of Memphis in creaky, dangerous garbage trucks, picking up trash from home after home, toiling for a sanitation department that treated them with indifference bordering on disdain. In 1968 those workers took to the streets

Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking

$Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking$

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 22nd

By KEVIN BEGOSAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking. The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made

Mistrial declared in California corruption case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 21st

By GREG RISLING and JOHN ROGERSAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Saying she feared "all hell" had broken loose among jurors, a judge declared a mistrial Thursday on dozens of remaining counts against five former elected officials who had been convicted the day before of looting a working-class

Mistrial declared in California corruption case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 21st

5 of 6 ex-officials guilty in Bell, Calif., case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 20th

By JOHN ROGERSAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Five former elected officials of the small, blue-collar California city of Bell were convicted Wednesday of multiple counts of misappropriating public funds by paying themselves huge salaries while raising taxes on residents. Former Mayor Oscar