Breaking News

"Breaking News" is a term used in journalism that implies a recent and typically sudden news development. A story that is designated “breaking news” interrupts normal radio, television, and sometimes Internet broadcasting or publishing with a live report on a significant incident.

Historical events such as the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the stock market crash of 1929, the assassinations or assassination attempts on U.S. and world leaders, have all been considered breaking news. Other events that are not tragedies or disasters have also broken regular programming such as news in space exploration (the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969), certain sporting events, and the outcome of the O.J. Simpson double murder trial.

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• Alicia Keys – Stolen Moments

  
  DEF PEN RADIO 71.8 — Authority: 451
  “Stolen Moments” is not really a new song because Miss Alicia Keys performed this song on her “Unplugged” album but here you get the studio version! LISTEN/DOWNLOAD:  Alicia Keys – Stolen Moments What do you think? iWontSTFU
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• FULTON COUNTY JAILER CHARGED WITH EXCESSIVE FORCE

  
  Rome News by Watson — Authority: 116
  December 11, 2009 ATLANTA, GA –DENITA RENAE SHAW, 41, of Smyrna, Georgia, a former Fulton County Sheriff’s Detention Officer, was arraigned today on a felony charge of violating civil rights by using excessive force against an inmate at the Fulton County Jail. SHAW was arraigned before United States Magistrate ...
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• 12/11/09 – Tony Alamo’s Enforcer, John Kolbek, On The Run – America’s Most Wanted

  
  Tony Alamo News — Authority: 131
  America’s Most Wanted December 11, 2009 Tony Alamo’s Enforcer On The Run Cops: Fugitive Beat Followers For Slip-Ups While Tony Alamo might be in jail for transporting minors over state lines for sex, another dangerous member of his church is still on the run. Cops say John Kolbek helped keep the Alamo ...
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• Tiger, leaving Golf?

  
  LUKE IS BACK — Authority: 141
  NL- Newest breaking news is that Elin has told Tiger that his family needs to come first. Tiger may be taking a break from Golf and working on his home life. Rumors are rampant that Tiger has offered Elin money to stay with him. Guess he is used to "paying for it"From ...
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• Largest Recovery of Money for Hazardous Waste Clean Up Ever

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 435
  Largest Environmental Bankruptcy in U.S. History Will Result in Payment of $1.79 Billion Towards Environmental Cleanup & Restoration-As a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and...
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• Google Web Toolkit Announces New Features

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 435
  - Yesterday Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the newest version of Google Web Toolkit, an open source development toolkit used by thousands of developers around the world for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. The drastic improvements in browser speed and...
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• House Votes to Tighten Regulation of Financial System - NYTimes.com

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 152
  House Votes to Tighten Regulation of Financial System - NYTimes.com thankfully, the CFPA survives, but they voted down cramdown on mortgages in bankruptcy , and voted for the contemptible Melissa Beans contemptible preemption language , which allows the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, to strike down ...
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• Mike Cinqmars, Freestyle Motocross pioneer dies

  
  Brokencountry.com — Authority: 131
  Mike Cinqmars — a pioneer in the world of freestyle motocross racing — has died, this according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner’s Department. The coroner received his body at midnight last night and the autopsy is scheduled for next week. The cause of death is currently unknown.Mike was 31 years ...
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• Court affirms convictions in Topeka activists death

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  TOPEKA | The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a homeless man accused of killing a Topeka activist who tried to persuade him to contact his family.
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• Missouris 2 ski areas open Saturday

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  Two ski areas are set to open Saturday on both sides of Missouri.
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• SMSD Superintendent: Stabbing A Reminder To ‘Be On Guard’

  
  FortBendNow.com — Authority: 515
  Stafford Municipal School District Superintendent Principal H.D. Chambers says the stabbing this morning at Stafford High School serves “as a reminder for all school districts to continuously be on guard for incidents such as this.”   The stabbing occurred around 8:20 a.m., during class change, when two ...
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• For 1 student, a long path to college degree

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  She looked like a good bet to beat the odds, but her first try at college, nearly 20 years ago, came up short.
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• Mass. woman, 98, indicted in roommates death

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  A 98-year-old woman has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge that accuses her of strangling her 100-year-old roommate in a Massachusetts nursing home.
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• Path to college degree can be long, winding

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  Theres no such thing as a typical college student these days. Nearly a third of undergraduate college students are 25 or older. About 70 percent have at least one characteristic that makes them "non-traditional" to government statisticians, such as part-time enrollment, caring for dependents, or working full-time ...
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• Overland Park bigamist gets probation

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  For months, Charles L. Clemens dared to have two wives in different apartments at the same Overland Park complex. Then the two women found out – wife of 22 years and wife of about six months – and both quickly left him.
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• Obama wishes Jews worldwide a Happy Hanukkah

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  President Barack Obama says Hanukkahs lessons should inspire everyone to be thankful for what they have.
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• HAND-PICKED BY MANDELA, FREEMAN GIVES “INVICTUS” GRAVITAS

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 576
  In the new CLINT EASTWOOD directed film, INVICTUS, MORGAN FREEMAN plays NELSON MANDELA who, in 1995, enlisted the help of a rugby team to reunite an apartheid-torn South Africa. At the recent press conference for the film, FREEMAN talked about how it was MANDELA, himself, who chose him for the role. Listen in below: ...
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• The Nine Surges of Obama’s War

  
  TruthNews.us — Authority: 141
  Tom Engelhardt Campaign For Liberty Fri day, Dec 11th, 2009 In his Afghan “surge” speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new “way forward in Afghanistan.” He spoke of the “additional 30,000 U.S. troops” he was sending into that country over ...
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• Google under attack after CEO’s anti-privacy remarks

  
  TruthNews.us — Authority: 141
  Daniel Tencer Raw Story Fri day, Dec 11th, 2009 “The innocent have nothing to fear.” That seems to be more or less the position of Google CEO Eric Schmidt when it comes to online privacy, and Schmidt’s comments to that effect have set off a firestorm of controversy over the web company’s commitment to its ...
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• Tenn. demonstrates trend of looser guns laws

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 821
  Its been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
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