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”

• DC Sniper Executed

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  The officials at the Greenville Correctional Center have just announced the execution of John Muhammed, the DC sniper. He was pronounced dead at 9:11pm EST. During 2002 Muhammed and his teenage accomplice terrorized the Washington DC area and murdered ten people. Although I am personally somewhat reticent about the ...
  6 hours ago

• Cuban man executed for Houston slaying

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A Cuban-born man identified as a leader of a Hispanic prison gang has been executed for the robbery-slaying of a Houston drug dealer more than 10 years ago.
  8 hours ago

• Kauffman again under consideration for induction into baseball Hall of Fame

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Former Royals owner Ewing Kauffman is again just one step away from a posthumous induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
  8 hours ago

• "NOT THIS YEAR?"

  
  Gretawire — Authority: 567
  Stunning statement from a Democratic Leader.....Senator Dick Durbin! See below the info from my FNC colleague Trish Turner...this is a FIRST.  No other Democratic Leader has said this before:From: Turner, TrishSubject: Durbin -- healthcare not likely THIS year "Our goal is to make sure it is out of the Senate this ...
  8 hours ago

• Authorities seize counterfeit merchandise at Duluth businesses

  
  Howie Blog — Authority: 143
  The Duluth Police Department, working with the Duluth office of the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), executed search warrants and made seizures during the past three weeks at three Duluth businesses that have been selling counterfeit merchandise to the public. On October 20 a search warrant was ...
  8 hours ago

• Breaking: Bear Stearn Fund Managers Not Guilty

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 450
  Graphic h/t Calculated Risk It was clear that they were putting lipstick on a pig, but under the law at the time, it was not outrageous enough to justify a conviction , it appears that hawking their funds while dissing it privately, along with also, in one case, selling those said funds like a maniac, aint enough ...
  8 hours ago

• DA: Sheriff cleared for comments in balloon case

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A district attorney in Colorado has decided no criminal charges are warranted against the sheriff who disclosed that child welfare workers were involved in the inquiry in the runaway balloon case.
  8 hours ago

• Obamas Fort Hood Speech

  
  U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum — Authority: 154
  Obamas Speech I thought the speech was very well done, somber yet powerful. What did you guys think of it?
  9 hours ago

• Samoan diplomat sues federal officials over arrest

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A Western Samoan diplomat has filed a federal lawsuit against immigration officials who charged him last year with falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and kept him in Missouri for more than three months.
  9 hours ago

• Saygus VPhone to bring video calls and a bit of chub to Android and Verizon

  
  Engadget — Authority: 879
  If you know that your personal happiness lies somewhere in the Verizon / Android abyss but neither the Droid nor the Droid Eris are hitting the spot, you might consider trying something completely out of left field. How "left field" are we talking here? Well, for starters, odds are good that youve never heard of a ...
  9 hours ago

• Saygus VPhone to bring video calls and a bit of chub to Android and Verizon

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
            If you know that your personal happiness lies somewhere in the Verizon / Android abyss but neither the Droid nor the Droid Eris are hitting the spot, you might consider trying something completely out of left field. How “left field” are we talking here? Read more here: Saygus VPhone to bring ...
  9 hours ago

• Saygus VPhone to bring video calls and a bit of chub to Android and Verizon

  
  Engadget Mobile — Authority: 750
  Filed under: Handsets , Verizon Wireless , EV-DO , Android If you know that your personal happiness lies somewhere in the Verizon / Android abyss but neither the Droid nor the Droid Eris are hitting the spot, you might consider trying something completely out of left field. How "left field" are we ...
  9 hours ago

• DOD worker assessed Fort Hood suspect months ago

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A Defense Department investigator on a terrorism task force looked into Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasans background months ago, officials said Tuesday - providing fresh evidence the military knew worrisome details about the Army psychiatrist before last weeks deadly rampage.
  9 hours ago

• Flyer: Beanie Sigel featuring 50 Cent – I Go Off

  
  DEF PEN RADIO 71.8 — Authority: 155
  Beans & 50 on a track together it’s a wrap for ya’ll Follow @defpenradio on Twitter For All The Breaking News, New Music Leaks, & More!!!!
  9 hours ago

• 2nd fire at historic Vt. general store ruled arson

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  It was a heartwarming story: A 200-year-old general store suffers a fire, the owner cant afford to rebuild it and the towns historical society steps in to buy the building, hoping to make it the commercial and social hub of town once again.
  9 hours ago

• Paranormal investigators denied access to Spring Arbor Township cemetery

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 820
  There will be no township-sanctioned "Ghostbusters" probe at the old Crouch Cemetery later this month. Monday night the Spring Arbor Township Board denied a Tekonsha mans request to spend the night of Nov. 21-22 in the cemetery doing a paranormal...
  9 hours ago

• This Just In

  
  Photos From Haninge — Authority: 127
  One month ago I showed you a photo of a burning car . Since then there has been a few similar incidents. Just a couple of days after that first fire, another car was stolen, dumped and torched on the same place. That is, just outside my bedroom window (first photo). And just like the first time, the fire fighters ...
  9 hours ago

• Committee calls downtown arena proposal viable but says more study needed

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 820
  A committee appointed to vet a proposal to build an arena in downtown Kalamazoo called it "a viable project" but said more work needs to be done before a tax question can be put to voters.
  9 hours ago

• Signs of violence surround Atchison County disappearance

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  The search continued today for a woman police believe was taken by force from her rural Atchison County home. Police believe Patricia Kimmi, 58, was taken from her home near Horton sometime Friday evening.
  9 hours ago

• Saygus VPhone to bring video calls and a bit of chub to Android and Verizon

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 163
  If you know that your personal happiness lies somewhere in the Verizon / Android abyss but neither the Droid nor the Droid Eris are hitting the spot, you might consider trying something completely out of left field. How "left field" are we talking here? Well, for starters, odds are good that youve never heard of a ...
  10 hours ago

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