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Super Bowl Outage Blamed On Electrical Relay Device (VIDEO)

Source: CNN The cause of Sunday’s power outage at the Super Bowl in New Orleans has been traced to an electrical relay device, Entergy New Orleans Inc. announced Friday. The device has been removed from service and replacement equipment is being evaluated, the company said in a news release. The 35-minute electrical outage at the [...]

LISTEN: Roland Martin Talks With Wesley Lowery About The Latest Developments In The Manhunt For Christopher Dorner

Roland Martin talks with journalist Wesley Lowery about the latest on the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.

Whopping Winter Storm Nearly In Sandy’s Path (VIDEO)

Source: Ben Brumfield / CNN A potentially historic winter storm was closing in on New England on Friday with tens of millions of people in its sights. The storm has canceled thousands of flights and could bring 2 feet of snow to cities like Boston. The icy rage will commence Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service [...]

Cardiss Collins dead: First African-American Woman To Represent Illinois In Congress Dies At 81

Source: AP / The Huffington Post CHICAGO — Cardiss Collins, the first African-American woman to represent Illinois in Congress, died of complications from pneumonia at a Virginia hospital, according to a family friend. Mel Blackwell said this week that Collins died Sunday evening at a hospital in Alexandria, Va., after suffering a stroke and spending [...]

NBC 5 CHICAGO: First Lady Michelle Obama To Attend Hadiya Pendleton Funeral

View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Source: Lisa Balde / NBC 5 Chicago First Lady Michelle Obama plans to attend the funeral of a 15-year-old girl gunned down last week in Chicago, a White House source said. The first lady will travel to Chicago on Saturday and attend the funeral for Hadiya Pendleton at Calahan Funeral Home, [...]

‘Manifesto’ Of Ex-Cop Christopher Dorner: ‘Mission To Kill’

Source: TurnTo23.com / KERO, Bakersfield LOS ANGELES – As the desperate manhunt continues for a former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner , agencies are looking at the Internet posting Dorner made before a shooting spree in Southern California. Read the full manifesto here -http://media.turnto23.com/pdf/2013/Fe... Mobile users – http://bit.ly/YdnMo1 Here are some excerpts: The Violence of action [...]

Christopher Dorner Manhunt: Former LAPD Officer Attempted To Flee Country Before Allegedly Shooting Cops

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Source: David Wright, Kevin Dolak, Josh Haskell / ABC News The fired ex-California cop who set off a region-wide manhunt after allegedly shooting three police officers this morning — one fatally — had initially gone to a yacht club near San Diego where police say he attempted to [...]

LIVE VIDEO: Panetta, Dempsey Testify At Senate Hearing On Benghazi

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the DOD’s response to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Robin Roberts To Return To ‘Good Morning America’ Feb. 20

Source: ABC News Robin Roberts will return to the “Good Morning America” anchor desk on Wednesday, Feb. 20, five months to the day since she underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat myelodysplastic syndrome or MDS, a rare blood disorder. “What a difference a year makes,” said Roberts, who began feeling the symptoms of her illness about [...]

L.A. Police Look For Ex-Cop Suspected In Shootings

Source: Paul Vercammen and Michael Pearson / CNN Los Angeles — A former Los Angeles cop who had allegedly warned he would target law enforcement in retribution for being fired is now suspected of shooting three officers early Thursday, killing one, authorities said. The shootings — which come a day after Irvine, California, police named Christopher Jordan Dorner [...]