| Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot: spokesman Dec 31st 2012, 01:21  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago," spokesman Philippe Reines said in a statement. ...
|  | Nine killed, more than 20 hurt in Oregon bus crash: state police Dec 31st 2012, 01:05  PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and at least 20 others injured on Sunday when a charter bus headed to Canada from Las Vegas skidded off an icy highway and crashed down an embankment in northeastern Oregon. The Oregon State Police said a preliminary investigation showed the charter bus, carrying about 40 people en route to Vancouver, British Columbia, "lost control on the snow/ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84" near Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment of around 200 feet. ...
| | Parking dispute may have led to Maine shooting deaths: police Dec 31st 2012, 00:11 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A dispute between neighbors over street parking may have led to the shooting deaths of two Maine teenagers, authorities said on Sunday after charging a 74-year-old man with murder in connection with the incident. Derrick Thompson, 19, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, 18, were killed on Saturday night in their apartment inside a two-unit home in Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles southwest of Portland, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, 44, who reported the shootings to authorities shortly after 7 p.m. ... | | Five killed, 20 injured in Oregon bus crash: state police Dec 30th 2012, 23:59 PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Five people were killed and some 20 others injured on Sunday when a charter bus skidded off an icy highway near Pendleton, Oregon, police said. The Oregon State Police said a preliminary investigation showed the charter bus, carrying about 40 people, "lost control on the snow/ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84" near Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment of around 200 feet. People trained in rope rescue were needed to bring victims back up to the highway, police said. ... | | Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois Dec 30th 2012, 23:43  (Reuters) - President Obama is endorsing a proposal by the Illinois legislature to legalize gay marriage, a White House spokesman told Reuters on Sunday. It's an unusual move by a president - most of whom rarely weigh in on state legislative matters. Obama served in the Illinois state senate. Obama, who said earlier this year that he supports same-sex marriage, believes "it's wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships and want to marry, from doing so," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye. ...
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