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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Breaking News”

• Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leavs painful wake

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.
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• Oregon Lottery addicted to big losses of gambling addicts

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  More than half the money the lottery collects from video gambling -- about $375 million last year -- comes from a small number of Oregonians, many with big gambling problems.
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• Woman widowed by cop husbands suicide sues NYPD

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios.
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• Pasco "cougar" probably just a dog or house cat

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  Officials have not been able to find any physical evidence of a cougar in the area.
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• THE INFLUENCE GAME: Abortion rights groups rebound

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits.
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• WITH FERGIE AND JANUARY JONES, IT COULD BE A NIGHT OF SURPRISES ON SNL

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 578
    Watch for any number of surprises on tonight’s installment of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. MAD MEN star JANUARY JONES is the host and the musical guests are BLACK EYED PEAS. Given that JONES is on a critically acclaimed show and the currently playing PIRATE RADIO and that FERGIE and hubby JOSH DUHAMEL are all over the ...
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• 2012 already? GOP wannabes jockeying early

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the recession.
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• State police searching for missing California man

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  Troopers gave no reason for man to be missing
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• Ford: union concerns resolved at Kansas City plant

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Ford Motor Co. said Saturday union concerns over working conditions at its Kansas City Assembly plant have been resolved. But a union officer said members were moving ahead with a planned strike authorization vote.
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• Damage estimate at Marysville School tops $4 million

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  Fire officials still dont know what cause blaze
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• Brandon Vera: ‘I made too much money and I started listening to the hype’

  
  Five Ounces of Pain — Authority: 584
  Once viewed as one of the most lethal rising talents in all of mixed martial arts, laying waste to fighters like Assuerio Silva and former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir in spectacular fashion, Brandon Vera seemed to lose something vital right around October of 2007. Whether it was the dedication, motivation, or ...
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• In Asia, Obama pushing arms control with Russians

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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• Disney World takes steps to fight swine flu

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  How about some hand sanitizer before greeting Mickey Mouse?
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• BREAKING NEWS: Train Vs. Car Crash In Johnson County MO

  
  Capt. Spaulding's World — Authority: 142
  T here are reported "two" persons injured after a train struck a car in southwestern JoCoMO around 10:27 am Saturday morning . The incident was dispatched to "Southwest 200 Road just west outside Kingsville" MO and report is the 2 injured are males- one of them "16-years" of age- neither patient ...
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• William Jefferson, ex-Louisiana Democrat congressman gets 13 years for corruption

  
  Brokencountry.com — Authority: 430
  Gee,  a black congressman from Louisiana corrupt and taking bribes?   No way!   He was framed.   Wasn’t this the same guy that was trying to get the military to fly him to his house in a helicopter a day or two after hurricane Katrina to “retrieve some important papers?”    I remember this fool.   ...
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• FOR PENELOPE CRUZ, EXPLORING THE MUSICAL GENRE WAS EXHAUSTING

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 578
  We caught up with the always delightful PENELOPE CRUZ a couple of days ago in Beverly Hills to talk about her two upcoming films, BROKEN EMBRACES and the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical NINE (itself an adaptation of FEDERICO FELLINI’S classic film “8 1/2″). CRUZ tells us she enjoyed exploring ...
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• FACT CHECK: Palins book goes rogue on some facts

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, Sarah Palin depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayers dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
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• UFC 105 LIVE Results & Updates

  
  Five Ounces of Pain — Authority: 584
  FiveOuncesofPain.com will be here live from the start to the finish of UFC 105 to bring all of you the latest live breaking fight results and updates, straight from the UK.Headlining the card will be a light-heavyweight showdown between Randy Couture and Brandon Vera, with other notable match-ups like Mike Swick vs. ...
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• Authorities: 3 dead in helicopter crash near Reno

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Authorities in Lassen County, Calif., say a medical helicopter has crashed near the Nevada-California state line north of Reno, killing three crew members aboard.
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• Jeremy Swan Broke the World Record

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 593
  In a quick follow up to Lucinda Michele’s post about local tattoo artist Jeremy Swan who was going to attempt to break the world record by completing more than 801 tattoos in 24 hours… He did it . Quick matchbook math on that says he did one tattoo every 1.6 minutes to pull that off. Which seems about ...
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