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”

• Disabled Oregon vets offered a free trip to the 2010 Paralympic Games in March

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Organizers hope to inspire other disabled Oregon vets with a trip to the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver B.C. A committee has begun accepting applications for the free trip March 11-13 for a veteran and a guest
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• Health insurer fined for mishandling claims

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Providence Health Plans was recently fined $30,000 by the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) for mishandling insurance claims.
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• Gresham boy, three adults injured in hit-and-run crash

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Alejandro Reyes Cruz, 30, of Gresham, his wife and his son were stopped at a red light near Southeast Stark and 181st Avenue a pickup truck slammed into the back of his car.
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• Startup: Vital signs of a young regional company

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Startup: This is just the tip of our growth
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• Dubai debt problems cast shadow over region

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  For years, Dubai seemed unstoppable, an oasis of excess boasting indoor ski slopes and manmade islands.
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• Tiger Woods Car Accident

  
  Celebrities Video Photos — Authority: 115
  Tiger Woods was injured in a car accident early Friday when his car struck a tree near his mansion in a gated waterfront community, authorities said. The golfer was alone in the one-car crash. The accident damaged his 2009 Cadillac Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). The collision was not hard enough for the vehicle’s ...
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• Hawkeyes Go 2-0 At Bucknell

  
  TWT Wrestling & MMA Social Network — Authority: 178
  The top-ranked University of Iowa wrestling team improved to 7-0 with wins over Bucknell (29-7) and Rutgers (33-9) Friday afternoon at Bucknells Sojka Pavilion in Lewisburg, PA. Continue reading " Hawkeyes Go 2-0 At Bucknell "
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• MAN DIES AFTER KING HIT IN NEWCASTLE

  
  NBN — Authority: 163
  A 32 year old man is dead, after being punched in the head and falling to the ground on a popular Newcastle cafe strip in the early hours of the morning. The man was walking with his older brother along Beaumont Street, Hamilton, at 3am when they were approached by a group of males. A fight broke out, with the 32 ...
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• Kearney beast Helias for Missouri Class 4 football championship

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 831
  ST. LOUIS | For the first time since 2003, Kearneys football team can call itself a state champion.
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• The current state of hip-hop?

  
  Not Never — Authority: 118
  Lupe Fiasco - Enemy Of The State: A Love Story The state of Hip Hop, actually music in general is pretty terrible. Even your favorite artist who Might have done something dope and got a (little / lot of) recognition, what are they doing now? Are they still evolving, growing, question the state of things? Much of ...
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• Pittsburg St. coach arrested on suspicion of DUI

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 831
  PITTSBURG, Kan. | Pittsburg State head football coach Chuck Broyles says hes "embarrassed" by his arrest on suspicion of misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol.
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• Hard-working Lake Oswego family hits easy street

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  "We are just the totally average family in Oregon living paycheck to paycheck," said Ellie Combs, mother of Joelle, 14, and Alyson, 10. "My husband works seven days a week in order for us to stay in this school district."
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• Bob Sheppard Puts Down The Mic For The Yankees

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 773
  "Now batting for the New York Yankees, number two, Derek Jeter, number two." These are the unforgettable words that stay in the minds of fans at Yankee Stadium. Those words have been spoken by nobody other than the Voice of God. Bob Sheppard has announced that he will not return to the microphone as the P.A. ...
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• Letter claims bad conditions at Topeka juvenile facility

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 831
  TOPEKA | State officials are investigating a Topeka juvenile detention facility after receiving an anonymous letter claiming boys are housed in "inhumane and immoral" conditions in a segregation unit.
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• Victory demo “crushing” for founder’s granddaughter

  
  The Hook News Blog — Authority: 508
  Downtown’s Victory Shoe Store, as Ethel Crowe remembers it from her childhood. HISTORIC PHOTO While the unceremonious demolition of the art-deco glass storefront of the old Victory Shoe Store on the Downtown Mall has angered city planners, preservationists, and fans of the classic storefront—and contributed ...
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• AP News in Brief

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 831
  Florida authorities: Tiger Woods injured in early morning car accident outside his mansion
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• Geek Love author fights off purse snatcher in Northwest Portland

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Noted Portland writer Katherine Dunn - author of Geek Love and many works on boxing - fights off a purse snatcher 40 years her junior.
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• Tiger Woods seriously injured in crash

  
  Brokencountry.com — Authority: 135
  Fox News Channel and CNN relayed the bulletin this afternoon: Tiger Woods, 33, was seriously injured in a car crash at 2:25 a.m. this morning at his Isleworth home.The extent of his injuries wasn’t clear, news channels explained. But he had been released from the hospital after being treated for facial injuries, ...
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• KC accident victim identified

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 831
  Kansas City police on Friday identified a woman killed after a Thanksgiving night crash on Interstate 435 as Karen Barchers. Barchers, 56, of Kansas City, was the sole occupant of a van that was eastbound on the Interstate when it left the road between Wornall and Holmes roads, hit a concrete sign pillar and rolled ...
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• ADAM SHANKMAN – MARC SHAIMAN IS PRIME CHOICE “OSCAR” TALENT

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 606
  Academy Awards Producer Adam Shankman, who also judges SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Tuesdays and Wednesdays 8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on FOX. ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Michael Williams/FOX Adam Shankman just keeps wowing us with his choices for the Academy Awards production team.  He just announced that ...
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