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UK Mirror: The phallus-shaped building also has a rather apt motto: "Rising Up" [...] But it's not ...

About 13 percent of America's 70,000 metric tons of the radioactive waste generated by nuclear plants in the United States is stashed in pools of water or in special casks at the atomic plants in Illinois where the waste was produced, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a Washington-based industry group -- the most of any state. Risk is minimal, but storage would be better in Yucca mountain [...] “There is no question that Illinois generally and Chicago specifically would see a high volume of [nuclear waste] traffic if the nation opts for centralized interim storage facilities. We’re not merely at risk, we’re the bullseye.”  -- Dave Kraft, Executive Director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago A June 2012 study [ PDF ] by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory using spatial modeling suggests that northern Illinois would be among the top possibilities [...] NUCLEAR SAFETY (420 ILCS 20/) Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act [...]

Joshua Smith, a former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center research assistant, has been charged with theft of more than 500 bottles of the anesthetic and club drug ketamine [...] Joshua Smith arraigned in Brighton District Court Tuesday on 18 counts of larceny of a drug [...]

Second murder of teacher by a student this week ... Philip Chism, 14, pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder of Danvers, Mass. school teacher Colleen Ritzer, and was held without bail as his defense attorney argued for the proceedings to be closed and her client to be allowed to stay hidden because of his age [...] Chism's defense attorney, Denise Regan, who declined to comment outside court, wanted Philip Chism tried as a juvenile [...]

The U.S. individual health insurance market currently totals about 19 million people. Obama administration's regulations on grandfathering existing plans are so stringent, that about 85% of those, 16 million, are not grandfathered and must comply with Obamacare at their next renewal. “Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you.” -- President Barack Obama at rally in July 2009  According to Kaiser Health news, hundreds of thousands of Americans have already received cancellation notices from the few insurance companies that they surveyed. Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state [...] The Affordable Healthcare Act requires that most people have health insurance by Jan. 1, 2014 or face a penalty, but the Administration may postpone when those penalties will go into effect. The potential extension comes as the federal health exchanges are under fire for ongoing t...

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before congress next week, with accusations of failure following three years in development [...] Skepticism about 500 million lines of code needing repair [...]

Reggie Jackson gets down the court and beats Enes Kanter for the flush and-one. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.

The 57th BFI London Film Festival has been a vintage year, full of star-studded galas, brilliant British movies and hidden gems from across the globe. Alfred Joyner, film reviewer for IBTimes UK, lists the highlights from this year's festival.

Acknowledging major flaws with the online exchanges, President Barack Obama is vowing that problems that have plagued the roll-out of his health plan will be fixed. Sarah Bailey of Progressive Community Health Centers in Milwaukee explains that customer service reps in the phone banks have been feeling the heat of customer complaints.

President Barack Obama turned around to make sure Karmel Allison was alright after she appeared to be feeling faint. Obama: "I got you, you're ok.  This is what happens when I talk too long," Obama joked, as Allison was helped away by others nearby   [...] The near fainting occurred near the end of the event, as Obama told the story of a self-employed Pennsylvania man named John who had written the president about the Affordable Care Act. "Yes, the website really stank during the first week," the letter read in part [...]

Two people are dead and two boys are critically injured in an on campus school shooting outside at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada Monday morning. Washoe County School District spokesman Charles Rahn reported that students at Sparks Middle School and Agnes Risley Elementary School were evacuated to Sparks High School   [...] TIMELINE ... Sparks City Manager Shaun Carey reports that the shooter is dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound  [...] Sparks (population 90,264) is located just east of Reno  [...]

Police responded about 1:30 a.m. Saturday to Stelton Lanes on Stelton Road, Piscataway to a report of a fight in progress and found about 250 people “involved in a series of fistfights in the parking lot and inside the bowling alley  [...] The fight involved about 250 people who were attending a party (family photo of victim)   [...]

A woman was critically injured and her dog was killed while walking in the 8700 block of South Cregier Avenue Friday, October 18, 2013 at about 6:30 p.m. Dog in custody of Commission on Animal Care and Control ... VIDEO  [...] LIVE TRAFFIC MAP ... http://goo.gl/maps/oC7bv

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police detectives discovered seven hidden cameras in vending machines of at least four stations of the Long Island Rail Road -- found at Bayside, Great Neck, Merillon Ave and Greenvale Stations  [...]

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, along with the U.S. Marshall's Service arrested escaped inmates Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both 34, at Coconut Grove Motor Inn at 9725 Front Beach Road, Panama City around 6:40 p.m. on October 19, 2013 without incident. Both escaped from Franklin Correctional Institution -- one in September, and one in October  [...] About 20 members of the law enforcement task force assigned to capture the prisoners surrounded the Coconut Grove Motor Inn motel room, instructing Jenkins and Walker via loud speaker to come out. About a minute later, both men exited the room with their hands in the air  [...] Within days of walking out of Franklin Correctional Institution with bogus paperwork, Walker and Jenkins — each serving a life term for murder — traveled about 300 miles to a jail in Orlando, Florida and registered as felons. They signed paperwork and were fingerprinted and even photographed before walking out of the jail...