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New York City's Fleet Week may not be cancelled this year but it will be significantly scaled back because of sequestrian. It was first thought that the annual melee would not take place after the $85billion across-the-board budget cuts which arrived in February. A Navy official confirmed that it will happen on a much smaller scale: 'It's not going to look like anything we've seen in the past. We are not going to be able to support it like we have in the past.' Tradition: Sailors stand on the deck of the USS Iwo Jima as it passes by the Statue of Liberty to kick off Fleet Week in New York in 2011 Celebration: Sailors line the mast of the tall ship ARC Gloria, training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy, as it passes the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor while arriving for the 25th annual Fleet Week last year The annual celebration, in which recently deployed ships dock at major cities for a week, usually draws hundre

One of the country’s most senior doctors who raised the alarm over high death rates at a children’s cardiac unit is ‘considering his position’ after being asked to resign by the NHS medical director. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has called for Prof Sir Roger Boyle,  the former heart tsar, to step  down over his claims that he  would still not want his daughter  to receive treatment at Leeds General Infirmary – even though  it has reopened following a Government review. The call for his resignation came despite Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt insisting that a new ‘friends and family test’ is a crucial way to determine whether services are safe to use. Prof Boyle, director of the National Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research (NICOR), which oversees NHS mortality data, argued on Friday that the death rates at Leeds were still ‘on the edge of acceptability’ and that he would not send his children there. ‘I would go somewhere else,’ Prof Boyle said. ‘I would go to Newcastl

A golfer in Long Island has been charged after he yelled racial slurs at two other players and attacked one with a golf club on Tuesday. Grant Smith, who is white, had his meltdown on the White Course at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York. According to reports, he approached two black men, 66 and 65, and demanded that he be allowed to play through. Enlarge   Grant Smith has been charged after he yelled racial slurs at two other players and attacked one with a golf club on Tuesday Smith, 48, allegedly kept shouting at the men, telling them they didn't have any golf etiquette. ‘I said, “if you were courteous, I would have allowed you to go through, but after this, no,'" one told NBC4 , asking that his name be withheld.   More... Record-breaking 14-year-old golfer's Masters dream continues after harsh slow play penalty nearly dashed his hopes Tiger Woods told to 'man up' and quit Masters after 'admitting' to illegal

Rescuers scrambled late Saturday to find a missing snowshoer after a pair of spring avalanches struck separate groups in the mountains east of Seattle, the authorities said. Three people were initially reported missing, but officials said late Saturday that only one man is now unaccounted for following the twin avalanches. One avalanche, at Granite Mountain, carried three snowshoers more than 1,200 feet, said Sgt. Katie Larson of the King County Sheriff's Office. Slide: A man with King County Search and Rescue runs toward scene of avalanche at exit 47 along I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass "One of the climbers tells me that they had no warning," she told KOMO-TV. "The avalanche, at this point, from what he's describing, is 30 feet wide, eight feet deep and about a quarter-mile long." Two men emerged from the snow, but their friend, described as a 60-year-old man, was still missing Saturday evening. Northwest Weather and Avalanche program

Authorities investigating the death of a Texas district attorney arrested a former justice of the peace and charged him on Saturday with making a 'terroristic threat' after searching his home. Eric Williams, 46, was admitted to the Kaufman County Jail early Saturday morning, jail records show. Bond was set at $1 million for the terroristic threat charge and at $1 million each for two charges of insufficient bond. Officials have not named Williams as a suspect in the March 30 shooting deaths of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, or in the late January death of assistant DA Mark Hasse, who was fatally shot as he was leaving work in Kaufman, about 30 miles southeast of Dallas. But federal and local authorities searched Williams' home Friday as part of an investigation into the McLellands' deaths. The district attorney's office prosecuted Williams, and he was convicted in March 2012 of burglary of a building and theft by

The mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shooting used the opportunity to fill in for President Barack Obama during the weekly radio and Internet address to make a personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence. 'Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief,' said Francine Wheeler, choking back tears in the address broadcast Saturday. 'Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.' Ben Wheeler was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.  Sandy Hook mother's heartbreaking plea for gun control in the US Francine Wheeler was the first person to deliver the address other than Obama or Vice President Joe Biden since the two took office in 2009. Her husband, David Wheeler, sat silently next to her as she made the recording in the White House Library. Bo

Firefighters and emergency crews are at a loss to explain what made at least 16 adults fall ill at a children's store in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the Buy Buy Baby store at 4650 Southwest Loop 820 in Fort Worth twice on Saturday. The patients reported feeling dizzy, headaches and vomiting. Firefighters and emergency crews are at a loss to explain what made at least 16 adults fall ill at Buy Buy Baby The Fort Worth fire department said that when the initial call came in, two employees complained they weren't feeling well and one became nauseous. The scene was cleared and business resumed. Then, about an hour later, the number who had fallen ill had risen. The store was cleared and fans were brought in to clear the air inside the facility.   More... Horror as man is set on fire inside his SUV by homeless man after he refused to give him money A fire department spokesman said carbon monoxide had