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Northeast's 'Snowpocalypse': Some Snow, No Apocalypse (Newser Nine at Nine)

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Northeast's 'Snowpocalypse': Some Snow, No Apocalypse

(Newser) - The warnings were dire , but at least so far, the Northeast's "historic and catastrophic" blizzard pretty much fizzled. The National Weather Service canceled a blizzard warning for New York City, noting that "much less snow" than expected will hit the city, the New York Times reports, and... More »

The Feds Are Probably Tracking Your Car

(Newser) - Attention highway drivers: Smile, the DEA is watching. The feds are making use of license-plate reading technology to run a database that tracks millions of cars in real time around the US, report the Wall Street Journal and the ACLU . The agency makes use of its own readers on major... More »

Patriots Staffer Took Footballs Into Restroom: Reports

(Newser) - Reports are offering a potentially significant new development in DeflateGate : A Patriots locker room attendant was spotted in surveillance video taking 24 balls into a stadium bathroom. Half those balls were for the Patriots, the other half for the Colts, Pro Football Talk reports, citing an NFL source. That video,... More »

Denver Cops Shoot, Kill Teen Girl in Stolen Car

(Newser) - Several dozen people with candles and protest signs gathered last night near an alley where Denver police officers fatally shot a 16-year-old girl, recalling her bright smile and demanding answers about the deadly encounter. Police shot the teenager early yesterday after they say she struck and injured an officer with... More »

Gay Lawmaker to Critics: I'll Tell About Your Affair

(Newser) - If criticism of gay marriage in Alabama quiets down a bit, this might be why: A gay state lawmaker says she will expose "hypocrites" who talk about family values but don't live up to them, reports the TimesDaily . With the state poised to become the latest to allow... More »

Lance Armstrong: In 1995, 'I'd Probably Do It Again'

(Newser) - If he was racing today, Lance Armstrong wouldn't dope, he tells the BBC , "because I don't think you have to." But if you were to put him in a time machine and take him "back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive," he says,... More »

KFC's New Double Down Is a Dog

(Newser) - Almost half a decade after it gave the world the Double Down , KFC has unveiled another sandwich that could give health advocates coronaries. Take a hot dog, slather it with cheese, put it in a bun-sized piece of fried chicken, and you have the Double Down Dog—which has now... More »

Koch Network to Spend $900M, Same as Big Parties

(Newser) - $889 million could buy a good-sized private island or several fighter jets, but can it buy an American election? The billionaire Koch brothers appear to believe so. The brothers and a network of hundreds of other wealthy right-wing donors announced the mammoth spending target at a meeting of the Freedom... More »

Bodies Found in Search for Craiglist Car Buyers

(Newser) - A tragic end to the search for Bud and June Runion : Bodies believed to be the missing couple have been found along with their SUV, police in Georgia say. The couple had traveled around 200 miles to buy a 1966 Ford Mustang from somebody who answered their Craiglist ad, but... More »