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GOP's Chances of Taking Senate: More Than 70% (Newser Nine at Nine)

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GOP's Chances of Taking Senate: More Than 70%

(Newser) - It's Election Day, and Democrats' chances of retaining control of the Senate look pretty slim, according to election models at the Washington Post , the New York Times , and FiveThirtyEight, which put the chances of a GOP victory at 96%, 73%, and 76%, respectively. The Post notes that all three... More »

Mom: I Threw My 6-Year-Old Son Off Bridge

(Newser) - A 6-year-old boy was found floating near a marina in Newport, Ore., just a short time after a woman made a 911 call saying she had thrown her son off the Yaquina Bay Bridge, the AP reports. Police have arrested 34-year-old Jillian McCabe and charged her with aggravated murder, murder,... More »

Mexico Busts Fugitive Mayor Blamed in Students' Disappearance

(Newser) - Federal police have arrested Jose Luis Abarca, the fugitive Mexican mayor who, with his wife, has been called the "probable masterminds" behind the disappearance of 43 student protesters in his city, the BBC reports. The Iguala mayor and wife Maria de los Angeles Pined were busted in an apartment... More »

Man Killed in Freak Tape-Measure Accident

(Newser) - It was the tragically wrong place at the wrong time for 58-year-old construction worker Gary Anderson yesterday morning, when he pulled up to a 50-story apartment building under construction in Jersey City, NJ, to deliver sheetrock. He parked, poked his head into a vehicle to talk to someone, and then... More »

Branson: I'll Still Be on Virgin's First Space Flight

(Newser) - The crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on Friday has unsurprisingly failed to deter Richard Branson: He'll still be on his company's first flight to space, he tells CNN. "There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn'... More »

$2B in Lottery Winnings Unclaimed Last Year

(Newser) - Who buys lottery tickets and then doesn't bother to check if they won? A huge number of Americans, according to the creator of a new app that lets people know if they have winning tickets. LottoLotto creator Brett Jacobson tells CNN that he filed public-records requests around the country... More »

Air Force Fires 2 More Nuke Commanders

(Newser) - The Air Force fired two more nuclear commanders yesterday and disciplined a third—fresh evidence of leadership lapses in a nuclear missile corps that has suffered a rash of recent setbacks, including the firing last year of its top commander for being a "drunken boor." The most senior... More »

'American Psycho' Banker's Trades Were Being Probed

(Newser) - Was Rurik Jutting a white-collar criminal before he was accused of two grisly murders in Hong Kong? The British investment banker was part of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch unit involved in "tax-minimization" trades that were being investigated by prosecutors, regulators, and the bank itself, sources tell the... More »

Halloween Hit-and-Run Suspect Has DUI Record

(Newser) - The man accused of killing three 13-year-old girls in a Halloween hit-and-run should never have been behind the wheel. Court records show that Jaquinn Bell, who had his two teenage children in the car at the time of the incident, was driving on a suspended license and has violated probation... More »