Publication: WVPE 88.1

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Meet London's Master Architects In Jell-0

Banana-flavored vapors? A pineapple island?These may sound like the makings of a Roald Dahl children's book (he of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame). But at London's Kew Gardens, visitors can now immerse themselves in such fantastic-sounding experiences ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Harry Parr, Jell-O, Gelatin, London

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Sole Survivor: Iraq Rescue Mission Ended In Tragedy

Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, 29, is an Iraq war veteran â€” the only post-9/11 Marine to lose every other member of his 12-man squad. It happened in August 2005, when Williams and his 11 teammates were sent on a rescue mission in Barwanah, Iraq."That morning, ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Iraq, War in Iraq, Lima (Peru)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

There's No Place For Sex Assaults In Military, Obama Says

Saying that "those who commit sexual assaults are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that make our military strong," President Obama on Friday urged Naval Academy graduates to help bring an end to a disturbing series of ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Barack Obama, Sex, Assault, Sexual Assault

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

KING-TV

'White Flash And Cold Water' After Bridge Collapse In Wash.

Miracle is the word that comes to Dan Sligh's mind after he and his wife Sally survived a plunge off a highway bridge in Washington State Thursday evening.Sligh tells The Seattle Timesthat they were driving on Interstate-5 near Mount Vernon, Wash., around ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Seattle, KING-TV, Washington State Department of Transportation, Mount Vernon (Washington, United States)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Wal-Mart Stores Inc

Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season

Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer travel season, and it's particularly important for the resort communities along the Jersey Shore still suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy.In the popular tourist spot Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Ed Johnson, Asbury Park, Hurricane Sandy, Wal-Mart Stores Inc

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Trent Franks

Abortion Opponents Try to Spin Murder Case Into Legislation

As predicted, abortion opponents on Capitol Hill are wasting no time in their efforts to turn publicity over the recent murder conviction of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell to their legislative advantage.Their latest goal: A federal ban on most abortions ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 23 2013]

Entities: Abortion, Trent Franks, Kermit Gosnell, Jerrold Nadler, Supreme Court

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Bashar al-Assad

Assad Regime Agrees To Attend Peace Conference, Russia Says

Representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime have agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference aimed at ending more than two years of brutal warfare in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday.But NPR's Corey Flintoff reports ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Russia, Corey Flintoff, Bashar al-Assad, Alexander Lukashevich

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

China's Air Pollution: Is The Government Willing To Act?

Denise Mauzerall arrived in Beijing this year at a time that was both horrifying and illuminating. The capital was facing some of its worst pollution in recent memory and Mauzerall, a Princeton environmental engineering professor, was passing through ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Air Pollution, China, Beijing

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Military Moms: A Bond Borne From Shared Loss

In 1991, Kentucky residents Sally Edwards and Lue Hutchinson had sons serving in the Gulf War. Sally Edwards' son, Jack, was a Marine captain. Lue's son, Tom Butts, was a staff sergeant in the Army. The two men never knew each other, but today, their ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

Entities: Sally Edwards, Military/Armed Forces, Gulf War

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

After The Storm: Students Gather For One More School Day

Under cloudy skies and through intermittent showers, 4-year-old Kamrin Ramirez holds in her little hands two cards, one addressed to Ms. Patterson, the other for Ms. Johnson, her two preschool teachers at Plaza Towers Elementary school in Moore, Okla ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 23 2013]

Entities: Amber Hill Inc, Tornado, Jordan

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Black Caucus Leader: We Disagree With Presidents, Even Obama

During his time as the first black president in the White House, President Obama has occasionally been criticized by a group he once belonged to as a U.S. senator, the Congressional Black Caucus, for not doing more to ameliorate the difficult lives of ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 23 2013]

Entities: Marcia Fudge, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Immigration

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Health Officials Decry Texas' Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions

The state of Texas is turning down billions of federal dollars that would have paid for health care coverage for 1.5 million poor Texans.By refusing to participate in Medicaid expansion, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, the state will leave on ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 23 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Texas Republican Party, Health Care, Rick Perry, Obamacare

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"Worldwide, there are about 30, 000 different kinds of plants that we can eat" says Angela McFarlane, Kew's director of public engagement and learning...

Meet London's Master Architects In Jell-0 [Published WVPE 88.1 - 6 hours ago]

There was his own grief to deal with, too. "I am most proud of not blowing my head off by now," Williams says. "It's just a whole lot easier if you're dead. But that shouldn't be your tribute to your dead friends. When they're looking down on you, they don't want you to be living in the moment that killed them. You made it. You got home. You should honor their memory by living the life that they didn't get to live."

Sole Survivor: Iraq Rescue Mission Ended In Tragedy [Published WVPE 88.1 - 6 hours ago]

...Tourists like Nada Benkabbou and her friends barely seemed to notice the construction taking place around them. "This is like the favorite place to go, and I just thought I'd come visit, to see how it's doing" Benkabbou says

Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

"Our nation needs them now more than ever," Obama said of those values. "We need your honor â€” that inner compass that guides you not when the path is easy and obvious, but when it's hard and uncertain."

There's No Place For Sex Assaults In Military, Obama Says [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 24 2013]

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