FBI talking to suspect through pipe as Alabama hostage standoff enters 4th day
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130131_ap_negotiatorstalkingtoalacaptorthroughpipe.html
Midland City, Alabama (CNN) -- Kelly Miller heard the gunshots, then the screams from the school bus. She could hear her children screaming: "He's got a gun.
'Koch'-ya on film, Mr. Mayor
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/koch-ya-film-mr-mayor-article-1.1252768?localLinksEnabled=false
Pugnacious, outspoken, insightful and outrageous - everyone has an impression of what former New York Mayor Ed Koch is like, based on a persona that has kept him in the spotlight for a half century and glared most brightly during his three terms ...
Chuck Hagel's Third Purple Heart
http://nation.time.com/2013/02/01/chuck-hagels-third-purple-heart/
Chuck Hagel, who earned a pair of Purple Hearts as a grunt in Vietnam, all but earned a third on Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
NY inmates help build ice palace in Adirondacks
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggLZdHgKGAUdImW55SkByJsUkZEA?docId=4137616a5d5d45de866aa83fce8d546a
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. (AP) - It's a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a frozen lake to make a giant winter palace.
Australian general gets key US Army post
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUDjrQMTR_W40CuI3AgpVKAJwuHA?docId=bee369f5241d48c5976096c59747a1cd
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (AP) - Maj. Gen. Richard Burr salutes with his palm facing out, like he's shielding his eyes from the sun.
Hillary Clinton: A long journey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20311170
Over the decades, Hillary Clinton has gone from student activist to globetrotting stateswoman. On her last day as US secretary of state, has her journey ended or is there more to come?
'Gay' dog in Tennessee shelter gets speedy adoption after story
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gay-pitbull-saved-death-article-1.1252264
The Jackson, Tenn., shelter was flooded with phone calls after a story on the website Gawker went viral, a man who answered the phone there said.
US limited in fight against North Africa militants
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/01/263754.html
(Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. With AP Photos.) By LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is struggling to confront an uptick in threats from the world's newest jihadist hot spot, North Africa, with limited ...
Randy Travis pleads guilty in drunk driving case, gets probation
http://www.eonline.com/news/383959/randy-travis-pleads-guilty-to-drunk-driving-from-naked-arrest
SHERMAN, Texas - Randy Travis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated Thursday in a case that began last summer when the naked country music star crashed his Pontiac Trans Am.
Pennsylvania favors background checks for gun purchases: poll
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/poll-new-yorkers-back-cuomo-major-issues-article-1.1252734
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gun control is generally a tough sell in Pennsylvania - a Republican-ruled state with a large rural population - but a new poll suggests strong support for some measures, especially universal background checks on gun buyers.
Convicted murderer mistakenly released in Chicago
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ind-murder-convict-mistakenly-released-chicago-18371906
(CNN) -- A convicted murderer was on the loose Friday morning after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago. Steven Robbins, 44, convicted of a 2002 murder in Indianapolis, was freed Tuesday because of an error by Chicago court and security ...
Senate passes debt ceiling, no-budget no-pay bill
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/senate-passes-debt-ceiling-no-budget-no-pay-bill-87018.html
With little fanfare Thursday, the Senate agreed to suspend the nation's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling until May 19, postponing the specter of default that threatened the nation as early as February.
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