KVUE - News - National http://www.kvue.com/news/national RSS Feed for KVUE - News - National en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 03:07:17 GMT Fire Marshal's Office: Panel had blast site access http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208596201.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others. Conn. bill gives families say over Newtown records http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208588881.html HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly released. Suit filed over Conn. gun law passed after Newtown http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208588561.html HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of Connecticut organizations that support gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing the state's new gun control law violates their constitutional rights. Vt gov signs novel law against false patent claims http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208580401.html MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's governor has signed the first-in-the-nation law aimed at protecting companies from so-called patent trolling — the practice of making deceptive claims of patent infringement in the hopes of collecting licensing or settlement money. Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208586001.html MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Two 19-year-old Oklahoma men who took cover in a cellar during a deadly tornado were able to use their cellphones to get video of the twister as it passed over the home. More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208572481.html NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (AP) — A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving about 50 middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. Report: Crisis stoking anti-migrant bias in Europe http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208577121.html NEW YORK (AP) — A top human rights group warned Wednesday that the plight of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and economic hardship is worsening in Europe as financial turmoil and austerity stokes bias against foreigners. Surgeons remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208576541.html CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself. Photographer and forester Wayne Miller dies at 94 http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208576501.html ORINDA, Calif. (AP) — Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday at his home of six decades in Orinda, Calif. He was 94. Okla. medical examiner identifies tornado victims http://www.kvue.com/news/national/208505181.html OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified all 24 victims of Monday's tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area.