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Grass Fire Burns More Than 140 Acres In Benicia
BENICIA (CBS SF) — A grass fire burning in an open space area in Benicia that grew to 142 acres Tuesday is now 80 percent contained, fire officials said. Crews responded to reports of a fire near an industrial park in the 4500 block of California Court around 2:20 p.m., according to a Benicia fire dispatcher. The fire, which is burning near Lake Herman Road about a mile west of ...
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5 Things Learned In Game 3 Of Stanley Cup Finals
BOSTON (AP) - Five things learned in the Boston Bruins’ win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night: ___ SUPAH TUUKKA: Tuukka Rask is proving the Bruins right for putting their faith in him. Rask watched the Bruins’ entire 2011 Stanley Cup run from the bench while Tim Thomas led Boston to the NHL title, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in the ...
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Outside View America strikes out
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often for politically expedient reasons. Strike 2 is the failure to address the question of "what next?" once crucial foreign or national security policy ...
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Calif.-based burger chain Johnny Rockets sold
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -; Johnny Rockets, the Southern California-based burger chain with 1950s flair, has been sold to a private equity firm that targets underperforming and specialty ...
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Boy 6 dies after dog attack at N. Calif. home
UNION CITY, Calif. -; A 6-year-old San Francisco Bay Area boy died after he was attacked by a dog that belongs to his uncle, who is a police officer, authorities and a family spokesman said ...
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Sports Briefing | Tennis American Upsets Top Seed at Eastbourne
Jamie Hampton, an American qualifier, upset top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, 7-6 (2), 6-2, in the first round at Eastbourne, England. ...
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Feds say Calif. hospice owes $112M for fake claims
Pacurar said internal audits had found that the organization sometimes requested, and received, Medicare's $172-per-day hospice reimbursement for patients who did not meet the government's technical requirement that hospice patients have six months or less to ...
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Wall Street opens higher boosted by New York manufacturing data
U.S. stocks opened broadly higher Monday, as investors awaited Wednesdays Fed policy meeting, with increasing confidence that the Fed wont start tapering in super-easy ...
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Wall Street close in green ahead of the Feds meeting tomorrow
U.S. stocks closed higher Tuesday after U.S. housing starts and consumer inflation rose below estimates last month as investors await the end of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting ...
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EU shares rose ahead of the Federal Reserve decision
The European Union saw its market opening and closing the day in green to actually rebound from their longest streak of weekly losses in 14 months as investors awaited this week’s Federal Reserve meeting for signs on the pace of stimulus ...
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Govt report Smooth launch unsure for health law
WASHINGTON - There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.But in a report to be released Wednesday, the congressional Government Accountability Office also sees positive signs as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for new health insurance markets ...
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McCaskill endorses Hillary Clinton presidential effort
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, on Tuesday announced her backing of Ready for Hillary, a group encouraging the former secretary of state to run for president in ...
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KC terrorist supported plan to bomb New York Stock Exchange FBI tells Congress
Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s ...
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Cummings releases the IRS transcript
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings did what Republican Chair Darrell Issa refused to do - he released the full transcript of the committee's six-hour interview with an IRS manager in Cincinnati where Tea Party applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status were processed. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses with former Oversight Committee staff director Julian Epstein and ...
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Gitmo vs. food stamps GOP hypocrisy exposed
MSNBC's Alex Wagner digs into why House Republicans are okay with paying $900k per year for every GITMO prisoner, but want to cut food stamp funding for the poor. One Congressman justifies it by citing the ...
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NSA director Surveillance stopped 50 terrorist plots
The head of the NSA has now testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the NSA surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. But have we learned anything new? Last Word guest host Alex Wagner is joined by MSNBC's Ari ...
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Will Boehner risk speakership on bill
House Speaker John Boehner says he won't bring the immigration bill to the floor without majority Republican support. MSNBC's Alex Wagner, E.J. Dionne, and Joy Reid discuss how Speaker Boehner will handle his Republican ...
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House passes most restrictive abortion bill in 10 years
Despite no chance of the bill becoming law, House Republicans pushed through a bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. MSNBC's Alex Wagner gets the reaction of Dr. Willie Parker who performs second-term abortions, and discusses the chipping away of Roe v. Wade in the states with Planned Parenthood's Cecile ...
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Call him what you like but dont mess with American Samoa
Rachel Maddow reports on the quiet dignity of Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, of American Samoa, who ignored the ridiculous mispronunciation of his name in an introduction by Rep. Kerry Bentivolio but made sure Bentivolio and everyone in the room was clear on "American ...
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Sister Helen Prejean on her influential activism against the death penalty
Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of "Dead Man Walking," talks with Rachel Maddow on the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Dead Man Walking" about the impact of the book and movie, the "weird relationship" Americans have with the death penalty, and the challenge of getting people to a point of reflection on complicated ...
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Plan presented to wrest control of ATF director from gun lobby
Rachel Maddow reports on a proposal by Senator Dick Durban that would move the ATF under the FBI to undo a tactic devised by NRA-beholden Republicans to hold up the appointment of any leader to the ...
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GOP brings anti-science perspectives to war on women
Adele Stan, senior Washington correspondent for RH Reality Check, talks with Rachel Maddow about the extreme and sometimes bizarre Republican perspectives on the reproductive rights of American women and they influence they're having on actual legislative policy ...
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Massachusetts police search NFL players home in homicide probe report
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez talks on a phone during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis January 31, ...
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Empire State Building gets left-field $2 billion offer to sell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City real estate company offered to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, a written offer showed, significantly below the skyscraper's appraisal price and about three weeks after investors in the iconic building approved a plan to take the tower public in a real-estate investment ...
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California senators want more information on oil well acid jobs
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking ...
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