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”

• Drivers will see first highway ramp meters tonight

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Ramp meters are almost here, Kansas City. Highway crews today took the wrapping off traffic signals posted on the entrance ramps to Interstate 435 between Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park and the Grandview Triangle.
  4 hours ago

• Women face tough choices on abortion coverage

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Millions of American women will face tough choices about abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law, both sides in the abortion debate agree.
  4 hours ago

• Police: Renter not a suspect in bodies found case

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A lawyer for a man who rents an Oklahoma City house where four bodies were found says his client was home when the people were killed, but escaped.
  4 hours ago

• Animal house of horrors is uncovered outside NYC

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Authorities are trying to determine whether any of the 20 dead dogs found buried in a New York womans backyard might have been pets stolen from neighbors.
  4 hours ago

• Plea deal reached in Fla. Alzheimers killing case

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  The lawyer for a South Florida man charged with murder for allegedly dragging his dementia-plagued father into the ocean says his client has reached a plea deal.
  4 hours ago

• Aloha High flu vaccine clinic cancelled

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  A flu vaccine clinic for the H1N1 virus previously scheduled for this Saturday at Aloha High School has been cancelled by the Washington County Public Health Department. The cancellation is due to the vaccine coming much more slowly than...
  4 hours ago

• Lawyer: Colorado balloon boy s parents to plead guilty

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  Richard Heene will plead guilty in the alleged Oct. 15 hoax to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, his attorney David Lane said. Mayumi Heene -- a Japanese citizen who could have been deported if convicted of more serious charges -- will plead guilty to false reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor, he ...
  5 hours ago

• John King to be replacing Dobbs show on CNN

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  CNNs president said Thursday that veteran reporter John King will move into the 7 p.m. EST slot thats been vacated by Lou Dobbs. King will host a show about politics beginning early next year.
  5 hours ago

• Medford mom says sunglasses saved sons eye

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a former Marine, stopped by to visit Kevin Gallo at the military hospital in Balad on Wednesday during his visit to Iraq.
  5 hours ago

• Ex-Pa. House speaker among 10 charged in probe

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A former Pennsylvania House Speaker is among 10 people connected to the House Republican caucus who are being charged in a new phase of a legislative corruption probe.
  5 hours ago

• Soap Opera Stars At The 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade!

  
  SoapOperaFan.com — Authority: 148
  The 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade will include Daytime soap opera stars! Presented by Coca-Cola, on Sunday November 29, at 6:00 PM, everyone will gather in Hollywood, California for the Hollywood Christmas Parade, which will be taped that night then aired nationally, twice, for a special Primetime event on ...
  5 hours ago

• Obama orders intel review on Fort Hood shooting

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  President Barack Obama has ordered a review of all intelligence related to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.
  5 hours ago

• Five in family arraigned in Lafayette County child sex case

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A father and his four middle-aged sons shuffled across a Lafayette courtroom floor this morning to hear charges read against them — a string of incestuous outrages allegedly committed decades ago against children of their family.
  6 hours ago

• Newborn orca spotted in Salish Sea waters

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  Another baby killer whale was reported last month in L pod. With this months newborn, that bring the total population of three orca pods to 87 in the Salish Sea waters of Washington and British Columbia.
  6 hours ago

• Army: Fort Hood suspect charged with murder

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  The Army psychiatrist suspected in a deadly rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has been charged in a military court with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
  6 hours ago

• Christmas tree goes up in NYs Rockefeller Center

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  New York Citys Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is almost ready for the holidays.
  6 hours ago

• Gates inspects new armored trucks for Afghan war

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates says armored transport trucks that protect soldiers from roadside bombs are worth every dime spent on them.
  6 hours ago

• Todays headlines: D.C. sniper reward came from Oregon-native; Lake Stevens man, a Cosmo pinup; Obama touches down in Alaska

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  View full size View full sizeFor todays selection of Northwest Headlines, lets focus on three things, shall we? Money, then sexy pictures, and finally, a powerful visitor.Money, as always, comes first. So we turn to The Seattle Times for the...
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• 5 charged in child sex abuse case appear in court

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Five family members charged in a child sex abuse case in western Missouri made their first court appearance Thursday while crews resumed scouring property where some of the abuse allegedly occurred years ago.
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• CIA said to have won turf war against intel chief

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  The CIA has won a monthslong turf battle over its boss, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, assuring the primacy of CIA personnel over U.S. intelligence operations around the world.
  6 hours ago

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