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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The remains of a U.S. Army sergeant, who died as a prisoner of war in Korea, returned to Los Angeles Friday morning. The signature pylons at Los Angeles International Airport were lit red, white and blue in honor of Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt, who died on March 27, 1951 while serving in the South Pacific during the Korean War. Gantt was deployed to Korea as a field medic and taken prisoner on Dec. 1, 1950 while defending his unit’s position, according to the USO. He was listed as missing in action/presumed dead for nearly 63...

KENNER, La. —A Louisiana homeowner watched in horror as city workers in Kenner, La. tore down the house she was rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina. “I'm going to wind up in the loony bin. I've tried for seven years to get back home. This is my home. This is my corner. I own this piece of property, and Kenner does this to me,” said home owner Reba Tullier. But the city of Kenner said it has a zero-tolerance policy on blighted homes. Tullier said she had finally lined up help to fix her house, but it was too late. “It's not...

he New York City Council approved legislation Thursday to ban the use of electronic cigarettes from indoor public spaces where smoking is already prohibited. Because many of the e-cigarettes are designed to look like cigarettes and be used just like them, they can lead to confusion or confrontation,” Quinn said

A staircase with spooks, a bathroom that goes Boo!, and sparkling finished hardwood floors – this Pennsylvania house has it all, almost. In the listing for his 1901 Victorian house at 1217 Marion St., Dunmore, Pa., Greg Leeson is asking for $144,000, but he adds that the house is "slightly haunted, nothing serious, though.” Here is what the prospective buyer will get for his money besides the four walls and roof: The sounds of phantom footsteps, a strange knocking, a "hardly noticeable" scream at 3:13 a.m. (once a week), and "the occasional ghastly visage lurking behind you in the bathroom...

Xavier McClinton, 47, was driving over the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge when witnesses say he grabbed his wife and attempted to throw her over the edge. Good Samaritans were able to save the woman but McClinton plunged 15 feet. He was rescued by the Coast Guard.

PITTSBURGH — The principal of a kindergarten through eighth-grade school in Pittsburgh said a mother snuck into the school Wednesday and instigated a fist fight among students. It was initially reported that the mother, later identified as Yvonne McMeans, was there for a parent-teacher conference; however the principal of Manchester K-8 told Channel 11 News that she actually snuck into the school through a back door with the help of her eighth-grade son. According to Principal Theresa Cherry, McMeans then proceeded to go to an upstairs portion of the school where her son began punching a classmate while being encouraged...

A former Lancaster high-school choir teacher has been charged with sending nude photos of herself to a 17-year-old male student. Kathleen M. Thomas, 26, pleaded not guilty in Fairfield County Municipal Court on Tuesday to disseminating matter harmful to juveniles and telecommunications harassment. Thomas was suspended with pay in October from Fisher Catholic High School after the principal relayed to police a parent’s report about cellphone “sexting” allegedly occurring between the teacher and one of her students. Thomas was fired from her teaching position on Dec. 9, Fisher Catholic Principal Sean Kenney said yesterday. Thomas, who lives in southeastern Columbus,...

HONOLULU (AP) — The pilot of the plane that crashed off Molokai said he broadcast a mayday call once he realized he wouldn't be able to sustain a glide long enough to reach land after his engine lost power. [....] However, NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss has said the agency is not preventing the county from releasing findings from Fuddy's autopsy, which was conducted Friday.

An escort who met with a client at a Rock Hill hotel wound up in jail after police discovered that she hid marijuana in her purse and cocaine inside a Bible Tuesday night, authorities say.At about 8:05 a.m., police were called to the Howard Johnson Inn on Riverview Road after Krissy Lynn Hawkins, 24, called complaining that her money was stolen and she was being harassed, according to a Rock Hill police report. Hawkins told police that she posted an ad on backpage.com, a free online classified ads service, under the “escorts” page. A 23-year-old Rock Hill man responded, and...

COLUMBIA, SC — Irmo bookie Brett Parker, his father Jack Parker and their gambling associate Douglas E. Taylor were sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Columbia for running an illegal sports betting business.Brett Parker received two years in federal prison, to be served if he ever gets out of state prison, where he is serving two life sentences without parole for killing his wife and gambling clerk.Jack Parker was given five months in a community confinement center or prison, plus three years of probation, with the first five months on home confinement and electronic monitoring. He also must pay a...

<p>ANDERSON, SC (FOX Carolina) - The Anderson County Coroner's Office said that they believe a body discovered underneath a mobile home Tuesday could be a woman missing for two years.</p> <p>Frankie Eugenia Black was last seen in July 2011 and was reported missing in February 2012, according to a missing persons report from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.</p>

New video of Hawaii sea plane crash

A blind man and his guide dog tumbled onto the track at a Harlem subway station on Tuesday and narrowly escaped being crushed by an express train, witnesses and officials said. The man, whom the authorities identified as Cecil Williams, 60, of Brooklyn, maneuvered himself into the trench between the rails, and the approaching train passed over him and his dog, Orlando. Mr. Williams suffered several cuts but was expected to recover, and Orlando, an 11-year-old black Labrador, did not appear seriously injured, officials and witnesses said. Mr. Williams was on the northbound side of the 125th Street station at...

Hot Sauce and Panko, the five-table wing emporium in the Central Richmond that has already won hearts and minds with its bulgogi, honey salty crispy pepper, and hot chili crunch wings, has released a new product: fried ramen wings with pour-on sauce. Anyone familiar with this impish Korean joint is probably delighted that they've gotten in on the ramen-derivative craze. See Also: Four Bowls of Soup to Keep You Warm and Toasty This Fall Xi An Gourmet Brings a Hard-to-Find Regional Chinese Cuisine to the Richmond At six pieces for $6.99, it's incrementally more expensive than the typical HS&P offering,...

In what he claims is a first-ever trip to 200mph by a tuned C7, JH “tests” the Ez-Tag system by blowing past it at more than double the already-enthusiastic 80mph toll-road speed limit. Interestingly enough, the factory speedometer in the LCD display appears to be dead-on accurate. “The road is smooth as silk, easy-breezy,” Hennessey indicates, in a phrase that will no doubt launch at least a dozen imitators.

A small Missouri town was sued on Monday by a homeless couple who are accusing it of violating their constitutional rights by forcing them to leave because they stood on a street corner holding a sign seeking assistance. Brandalyn Orchard and Edward Gillespie, who were holding a sign that read "Traveling. Anything helps. God Bless," obeyed police who ordered them to leave Miner, Missouri, on September 26, according to the federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on the couple's behalf. Officers, who showed them copies of ordinances against vagrancy, begging and loitering, told the couple they would...

Pittsburgh’s mayor-elect Bill Peduto traveled to Washington D.C. last week and Channel 11 News has learned he had an interesting request for the president. Peduto was one of 16 newly-elected mayors to meet with President Barack Obama on Friday. The president discussed city challenges and job creation with the group. But Peduto said he also asked the president for the scaffolding around the Washington monument. “The president asked, ‘why would you want it?’ I think he thought I was going to scrap it and make some money. I said, ‘no, what I would like to do is make it so...

METAIRIE, La. -- 'Tis the season for Santa mall portraits and kids riding a toy train around a massive holiday display inside Lakeside Shopping Center. However, the designer is once again ruffling feathers. The Gretna-based firm made light of Hurricane Katrina and now it's setting its sights on the Affordable Health Care Act. At first glance the candy canes, whistling children's train and snow-covered Christmas display appears harmless. Until you look twice. "Oh my goodness. I'm lost for words basically," said New Orleans resident Tamany Diaz. "People need to see that," said Metairie resident Joe Duhon. Whether you agree with...

INDIANAPOLIS - 'Tis the season for crime and violence. Two more shootings this weekend left two people, including a 15-year-old boy, dead. But unfortunately, the violence doesn't surprise some. It's another deadly trend going in the wrong direction. This weekend's violence started Friday night with the shooting of Michael Boyd, who was 23. It happened following a disturbance at a Shell gas station on the city's northeaRev. Charles Harrison, leader of the Ten Point Coalition, says December is typically a violent month because even criminals are trying to collect money to provide Christmas for their families.st side. After getting shot,...

Petaluma police Monday were investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the railroad tracks and a homeless center, the third apparent transient found dead since August. The man’s name hadn’t been determined. It appeared he was in his late 50s, Lt. Tim Lyons said. There was no apparent trauma to the body. Several people reported the discovery of the man’s body at about 2:15 p.m. Sunday near Caulfield Lane and Hopper Street. The location is just yards away from Committee on the Shelterless, the nonprofit homeless services center and shelter. Police detectives conducted an extensive search...