 Luis Robles awakened to a leaky ceiling and floodwaters creeping into his front yard, one of many residents beset by heavy rains that closed highways and flooded parts of Houston and southwest Louisiana. Robles, who has lived in the southeast Houston home for 13 years, said the flooding was the worst since Tropical Storm Allison came ashore five years ago. "It's never gotten this high since," he said Monday. Josh Lichter, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Houston, said the rains were expected to move out of the Houston area by Wednesday. The National Weather Service blamed a slow-moving low pressure system for dumping up to 10.5 inches of rain in Harris County, especially in Robles' neighborhood, near the city's Hobby Airport. There were up to 500 calls for help, CBS News Kelly Cobiella reports. ...
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 Pakistani confesses, then is shot dead |
A Pakistan man killed his three young daughters Tuesday before confessing to police, prompting one officer to shoot him dead, an investigator said. Mohammed Ashraf, 38, used a knife to cut the throats of his daughters aged 3, 5 and 9 before dawn in the eastern city of Lahore, said senior police investigator Amir Zulifquar.Ashraf then went to a police station to report his crime, and was charged with murdering his daughters and placed in a cell."As I left the police station after questioning Mohammed Ashraf, one of my guards opened fire and killed him," Zulifquar said.The policeman who shot Ashraf was identified as Mohammed Nadeem and was taken into custody, Zulifquar said.Nadeem told investigators that he killed Ashraf to "eliminate an animal from society," according to Zulifquar....
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| Feds paid private brokers for phone records Web-based services racked up $30 million by sometimes violating laws |
Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans’ personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers.These brokers, many of whom advertise aggressively on the Internet, have gotten into customer accounts online, tricked phone companies into revealing information and even acknowledged that their practices violate laws, according to documents gathered by congressional investigators and provided to The Associated Press.The law enforcement agencies include offices in the Homeland Security Department and Justice Department — including the FBI and U.S. Marshal’s Service — and municipal police departments in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia and Utah. Experts believe hundreds of other departments frequently use such services....
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| Uncle of missing soldier reportedly killed in Iraq says U.S. didn't do enough to bring men home |
As the families of two missing soldiers waited to hear from the U.S. military Tuesday, the uncle of one lashed out at the government, saying it didn't do enough to bring the men home safe."Because the U.S. government did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid for it with his life," Ken MacKenzie, uncle of Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, told NBC's "Today" show.Earlier Tuesday, a senior Iraqi military official announced that the bodies of the two missing soldiers had been found.A U.S. military official said later that coalition forces had recovered what are believed to be the soldiers' remains, and Menchaca's family said they had been told that DNA testing was under way.Menchaca's mother, Maria Vasquez, was sobbing when she answered the door of her Brownsville, Texas, home....
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| North Korea asserts right to test missiles; Annan urges it to listen to what 'world is saying' |
North Korea asserted it has full autonomy to conduct missile tests, and that outsiders do not have the right to criticize its plans, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday.Before the latest statement, North Korea's apparent moves toward test launching a long-range ballistic missile already spiked tensions in the region and drew warnings of serious repercussions from the United States and others.In Paris, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said any North Korean missile test must draw "firm and just" international response. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged North Korean leaders for restraint."I hope that the leaders of North Korea will listen to and hear what the world is saying. We are all worried," said Annan, who was in Paris to attend the inauguration of a new museum....
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| Blast hit U.S.-led coalition convoy in Afghan south |
A roadside bomb hit a convoy of U.S.-led coalition troops on Tuesday in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, residents said. A spokesman for the coalition in the south confirmed that a blast struck a car in the convoy on the main road leading to the airport, just outside the Kandahar city, which is used by the coalition forces.The incident comes amid the bloodiest phase of insurgency led by Taliban guerillas since coalition troops overthrew the militants' government in 2001.The Islamist guerillas have stepped attacks in the south ahead of the NATO taking over from the U.S. forces and coalition troops have launched their biggest offensive in the region, since 2001 invasion, to crush the rebels and cut off their supply routes....
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