http://www.localnews8.com/-/308798/14412870/-/fylns8z/-/index.html en-US © 2011 Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Home Home en-US © 2011 Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. http://www.localnews8.com/news/Afghanistan-suspends-security-talks-with-U-S/-/308662/20626124/-/maw3jy/-/index.html Afghanistan's president shelved talks Wednesday with the United States over keeping troops there past next year amid friction over planned U.S. peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar. Hamid Karzai, who has previously expressed frustration about being l... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:41 GMT 20626124 2013-06-19T11:56:41Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/was-twa-flight-800-crash-accidental/-/308662/20625818/-/w97cwu/-/index.html Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:55:07 GMT 20625818 2013-06-19T11:55:07Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Ohio-day-care-accused-of-drugging-children/-/308662/20625436/-/7wccbmz/-/index.html Getting children to take a nap can be hard. Getting them to eat pancakes is not nearly as difficult. Police in Westerville, Ohio, say a 37-year-old mother operating a day care out of her home hit upon a plan -- she allegedly crushed medications that cause drowsiness and put them in the pancakes. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:51:36 GMT 20625436 2013-06-19T11:51:36Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Blaze-blamed-on-campfire-roars-near-Yosemite/-/308662/20625936/-/62y3imz/-/index.html A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners -- but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:47:53 GMT 20625936 2013-06-19T11:47:53Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/politics/house-passes-lateterm-abortion-ban/-/308336/20621934/-/35luad/-/index.html The House of Representatives Tuesday passed a GOP-sponsored bill banning so- called "late term abortions" -- procedures for women who are beyond 20 weeks into their pregnancy. The vote was 228-196, mostly along party lines. The bill's sponsor, Republi... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:40 GMT 20621934 2013-06-19T11:27:40Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/BuzzFeed-reporter-Hastings-dead-at-33/-/308662/20622988/-/fin6rsz/-/index.html Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:20 GMT 20622988 2013-06-19T11:27:20Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/money/Business-majors-most-likely-to-be-underemployed-report-finds/-/461672/20626578/-/m93iti/-/index.html What you major in can mean the difference between making an annual salary or making Frappucinnos post-graduation, according to a recent report. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:21:31 GMT 20626578 2013-06-19T11:21:31Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/money/student-i-will-graduate-with-100000-in-loans/-/461672/20626572/-/rk3f2n/-/index.html When Kelly Mears graduates from Union College in the summer of 2015, she will have $100,000 in student loans. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:21:26 GMT 20626572 2013-06-19T11:21:26Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Koch-s-tombstone-with-wrong-date-corrected/-/308662/20615896/-/11ibi60z/-/index.html Former New York Mayor Ed Koch has been dead for more than four months, but a mistake on his tombstone likely would have amused him. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:42 GMT 20615896 2013-06-19T11:09:42Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Man-pleads-not-guilty-to-naked-subway-attacks/-/308662/20626026/-/ewgybj/-/index.html The 24-year-old man accused of attacking commuters while naked at a San Francisco subway station proclaimed he is not guilty Tuesday. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:01:41 GMT 20626026 2013-06-19T11:01:41Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/money/Google-files-First-Amendment-court-case-against-NSA-surveillance-secrecy/-/461672/20620088/-/vjcp7ez/-/index.html Google filed a court petition Tuesday demanding it be allowed to share information about government surveillance programs with the public. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:55:00 GMT 20620088 2013-06-19T10:55:00Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/money/Professors-teach-into-their-golden-years/-/461672/20599500/-/xbq6v7/-/index.html While most people dream of the day they can retire, many college professors plan to put it off or work until their final years. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:53:42 GMT 20599500 2013-06-19T10:53:42Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/politics/Obama-to-call-for-cut-in-nuclear-warheads/-/308336/20625790/-/v4hkpgz/-/index.html President Barack Obama will ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads by about one-third, a senior administration official said. Obama will announce the goal during a speech Wednesday in Berlin -- a cit... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:16 GMT 20625790 2013-06-19T10:51:16Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/politics/CNN-Economy-Poll-Are-you-better-or-worse-off-than-last-year/-/308336/20626590/-/7h3ltmz/-/index.html Call it a mixed bag. They're still a minority, but an increasing number of Americans say economic conditions right now are good, according to a new national poll. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:08 GMT 20626590 2013-06-19T10:51:08Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Report-Hoffa-hit-with-shovel-buried-alive/-/308662/20625492/-/33tvvgz/-/index.html A second day of digging in a Detroit field yielded no sign of the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Undeterred, authorities will resume their hunt Wednesday morning. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:13:00 GMT 20625492 2013-06-19T10:13:00Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/money/lone-signal-aims-to-send-hello-tweets-to-extraterrestrials/-/461672/20601718/-/ukr58q/-/index.html Would you pay 25 cents to send a tweet to space on the odd chance that an alien might read it? The founders of Lone Signal hope so. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:26:02 GMT 20601718 2013-06-19T09:26:02Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/technology/How-to-hide-your-data-from-Web-snoops/-/4887744/20620060/-/qw43ruz/-/index.html Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:24:26 GMT 20620060 2013-06-19T09:24:26Z http://www.localnews8.com/lifestyle/entertainment/Bieber-in-accident-involving-pedestrian/-/307766/20611372/-/98a8nez/-/index.html It's that combination again: Justin Bieber, an automobile, and a mishap. The singer-heartthrob was reportedly involved in an accident in Los Angeles on Monday night involving a pedestrian. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:16:28 GMT 20611372 2013-06-19T09:16:28Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/politics/Whistle-blower-says-he-was-targeted-by-IRS/-/308336/20624450/-/tffhw1z/-/index.html P. Jeffrey Black bumped up against his bosses in the Federal Air Marshal Service, eventually becoming a whistle-blower and testifying to a closed-door congressional hearing before his retirement in 2010. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:14:22 GMT 20624450 2013-06-19T09:14:22Z http://www.localnews8.com/news/Ex-mobster-tells-of-Bulger-gang-s-killings/-/308662/20622904/-/emojcgz/-/index.html With words as ammunition, a defense lawyer fired a machine gun burst of questions at the government's star witness Tuesday in the federal murder trial of reputed Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:08:23 GMT 20622904 2013-06-19T09:08:23Z