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Bangladesh: Owners' many failings led to collapse

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

By FARID HOSSAINAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to "extremely poor quality" construction materials, to the massive, vibrating equipment

Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

By GILLIAN FLACCUSAssociated Press YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) - U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War. McGrath spent almost six years in North

Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

By VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life

1 child dead, 1 missing in Minn. park landslide

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

By STEVE KARNOWSKIAssociated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing. The landslide

Spokane Valley Police: Latest Brass Thefts Extremely Dangerous; Reward Offered

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE VALLEY POLICE DEPT: The Spokane Valley Fire Department has reported multiple buildings that have had the FDC's (Fire Department Connections) stolen from the exterior of the buildings. These brass fittings are used for the fire department to connect to and

Spokane Valley Police: Latest Brass Thefts Extremely Dangerous; Reward Offered

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

By ALLEN G. BREEDAP National Writer MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in. Huddled beside him in the darkened 5-foot-by-6-foot hole

NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

By JIM FITZGERALDAssociated Press SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) - Weeping filled a church Wednesday during a funeral for a Hofstra University student who was accidentally shot by police responding to a Long Island home invasion, with friends describing her fearlessness and love of life - riding bikes,

Czech president settles dispute over gay rights

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

PRAGUE (AP) - The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him. Milos Zeman has been under fire after suggesting over the weekend that his reason for denying the promotion to Charles University literary historian