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Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 5:16 PM

Train Crash Triggers Highway Collapse in Missouri


Seven people were injured early Saturday morning in southeast Missouri, when two freight trains collided, taking out a highway overpass, NBC affiliate KSDK reported. Several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, which triggered the collapse of a highway overpass near Scott City, about 120 miles south of St. Louis. Two train conductors and five individuals in cars on the overpass were hospitalized with very minor injuries and later released. The crash ignited a fire when diesel fuel leaked from one of the train engines, Reuters reported. The National Transportation Safety Board said it had dispatched a team to investigate the train crash. The crash came just over a week after a commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another train and injuring more than 70 people. On Thursday evening, a truck crash caused the collapse of a bridge in Washington state, sending two cars plunging into the Skagit River. Three people were rescued. Get More at NBC News

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM

Three More Arrested in Killing of UK Soldier

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Heavy Rain Kills 2 in San Antonio, Nearly 100 Rescued

Two people are dead and nearly a hundred more have been rescued as heavy rain has pummeled San Antonio, Texas Saturday, causing flash flooding, NBC News reported. Weather Channel Meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said San Antonio received 12.16 inches of rain in 24 hours, just shy of the 24-hour record for the city of 13.35 inches in October 1998. A 29-year-old woman died after being swept away from the roof of her car. A man who had been trapped in his vehicle is unaccounted for. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove told NBC News that the majority of rescues were people trapped in their vehicles in low-lying areas of the city. Get More at NBC News

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 1:54 PM

French Soldier Stabbed on Paris Street

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM

Okla. Tornado 911 Calls Offer Glimpse Into Chaos


The emergency calls from Moore, Okla., reveal the confusion and fear of tornado victims in the minutes after the storm hit, including a chilling call from a daycare. "We've got a daycare full of babies," one caller said. "We got a daycare that just got cremated." The massive twister killed 24 people, including ten children, and funerals for some of those victims will continue this weekend. Meantime, the three high schools in Moore will hold graduations on Saturday, a chance for the community to come together and take their minds off the long cleanup and recovery process that awaits them. Get More at NBC News

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Hezbollah Admits It Has Joined Fight in Syria

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised speech Saturday that his group will stay in the Syrian civil war "to the end of the road" and help its ally President Bashar al-Assad win, The Associated Press reported. He said that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Islamists, which he argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel's interests in the region. The head of the Labansese militant Shi'ite Muslim group for the first time confirmed that his men were actively fighting in Syria, and said they had been there for several months. Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. Iran and now increasingly Hezbollah, Tehran's Lebanese proxy which was founded as a resistance movement to Israel, have come to Assad's aid. Get More at NBC News

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:32 PM

Military Shrinks in Size, Scope Under Obama

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Ton of Pot Found on Fishing Boat in L.A.

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM
 

Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that make our military strong.  

— President Barack Obama addressing the sexual assault crisis in the military in a speech directed to the graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Accidents Spotlight Nation’s Aging Infrastructure

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:11 PM

Runners, Victims Run Boston Marathon's Final Mile

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM

"Black Widow" Bombing Kills 1, Wounds 14 in Russia

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 4:18 PM

Jersey Shore Towns to Vacationers: We’re Still Here

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM

17 Children Dead in Pakistan School Bus Explosion

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 8:39 AM

N.J. Shore Town Destroyed by Sandy Confronts an Uncertain Future

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