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Mo. Police Chief: Dead Teen Drew Gun First (Newser Nine at Nine)

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Mo. Police Chief: Dead Teen Drew Gun First

(Newser) - "Bad choices were made," said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar in a morning press conference following last night's police shooting of a teen in Berkeley, Mo., a town bordering Ferguson. "This individual could have complied, he could have ran away, he could have dropped... More »

Prosecutors Want 'Nut Rage' Exec Arrested

(Newser) - Despite her tears and public apologies, former Korean Air exec Cho Hyun-ah is facing criminal charges from South Korean prosecutors over her meltdown on a Dec. 5 flight out of New York, the BBC reports. According to a government investigation, Cho (also known as Heather Cho) became enraged when a... More »

ISIS Downs Warplane in Syria, Captures Pilot

(Newser) - A warplane in the US-led coalition that is bombing ISIS in Syria went down near Raqqa today, the AP reports, and Jordan is confirming ISIS claims that one of its pilots has been captured by the militants. The pro-ISIS Raqqa Media Center published photos to Facebook showing a bleeding man... More »

Police Officer Kills Teen 2 Miles From Ferguson

(Newser) - The town of Berkeley, Mo., is roughly 2 miles from Ferguson and today finds itself dealing with some Ferguson-like protests after a police officer shot and killed a black teen who was allegedly armed last night. Per a statement posted to Facebook by St. Louis County Police, the officer, doing... More »

Divers: We've Got 'Holy Grail' of Shipwrecks

(Newser) - There are thousands of shipwrecks at the bottom of the Great Lakes but one of the very first to go down has been one of the hardest to find. The Griffin, built by French explorer Robert de la Salle, went down in Lake Michigan in 1679 and divers Kevin Dykstra... More »

Merry Troopers Eschew Tickets, Hand Out $100 Bills

(Newser) - Being pulled over by a state trooper and asked if you feel lucky might sound like the start of an unpleasant encounter but for 10 motorists in West Virginia, it really was their lucky day. Instead of a ticket, the drivers were handed a $100 bill as part of a... More »

George HW Bush Hospitalized

(Newser) - Former President George HW Bush has been hospitalized after experiencing shortness of breath. He was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital last night as a precaution and the 90-year-old "will be held for observation, again as a precaution," a spokesman says. Bush spent nearly two months in... More »

ISIS Captives 'Shattered' by Rape, Slavery, Torture

(Newser) - Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Yazidi women captured by ISIS have been subjected to horrifyingly brutal and degrading treatment from their captors, according to a hard-hitting new Amnesty International report. The victims "have had their lives shattered by the horrors of sexual violence and sexual slavery," says an Amnesty... More »

Circus 'Pandas' Were Really Painted Dogs

(Newser) - With more paint and a couple of horses, they could have had zebras, too: A pair of chow chow puppies dyed black and white looked enough like pandas to fool visitors to a traveling circus near Milan, officials in Italy say. Forestry officials—who investigate many animal cases in Italy—... More »