| Armstrong finally confesses to doping Jan 18th 2013, 02:35  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong finally admitted on Thursday that he used performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. As expected, he confessed to cheating in the first part of a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that was recorded three days earlier at his hometown of Austin, Texas. "Yes," he replied when asked directly whether he used performance enhancing drugs. He also said "yes" to a series of questions about whether he used specific drugs, including erythropoietin and blood doping. (Reporting by Julian Linden; editing by Peter Rutherford)
|  | Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey goes on air Jan 18th 2013, 02:11  (Reuters) - The much anticipated airing of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey began broadcast at 9 p.m. ET (0200 GMT) on the talk show host's cable network OWN. In the two-part interview, also being streamed live online to a global audience, cancer survivor Armstrong is expected to confess to using performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won the Tour de France seven times. Armstrong's world began to crumble in October last year when the U.S. ...
| | Gun found in seven-year-old's backpack at New York City school Jan 18th 2013, 01:54 (Reuters) - A handgun was found in the backpack of a 7-year-old boy at a New York City public elementary school on Thursday, triggering a brief lockdown amid heightened concern about gun violence in U.S. schools, officials said. New York City Police Department spokesman John Grimpel said authorities are investigating how the unloaded .22-caliber handgun ended up in the child's backpack. Police also found an ammunition clip and a flare gun in the bag belonging to the second-grade student, Grimpel said. ... | | Parents petition for control of failing Los Angeles school Jan 18th 2013, 00:48 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Parents seeking to take control of a failing Los Angeles elementary school delivered hundreds of petitions to the nation's second-largest school system on Thursday, invoking the California's controversial "parent trigger" law to force change. Parents representing 68 percent of the school's students signed on to the petition, well over the 50 percent level required to set in motion a process that could ultimately see the 24th Street Elementary School turned into a privately managed charter, organizers of the effort said. ... | | Colorado movie theater where massacre occurred set to reopen Jan 17th 2013, 23:08  DENVER (Reuters) - The Aurora, Colorado, movie theater where 12 people were killed in a shooting rampage at a Batman film last July was set to reopen on Thursday evening with a private "night of remembrance" for survivors and others connected to the tragedy. The owners of the theater, Cinemark USA, offered victims or their relatives free passes to a movie later on Thursday after the event and invited them to view the revamped theater where the massacre occurred. ...
| | Florida imam accused of aiding Pakistani Taliban is acquitted Jan 17th 2013, 23:06 MIAMI (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday threw out charges against one of two South Florida imams accused of funneling more than $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, citing a lack of evidence. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola issued a seven-page order acquitting Izhar Khan, a 26-year-old imam at a mosque in Margate, Florida. "The Court finds that no rational trier of fact could find all the essential elements of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt," Scola wrote. ... | |
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