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Making Coke at Home? Keurig Introduces ‘Kold’ Machine

keurigNEW YORK (AP) — Making a glass of Coke at home will soon be possible, if you don’t mind paying more than $300 for a machine that sits on your kitchen countertop. Plus an extra dollar or so per drink.

Keurig says it will start selling a machine Tuesday that makes single servings of cold drinks including Coke, Sprite and flavored seltzer. The machine is similar to Keurig’s brewers, which let people make cups of coffee and tea by inserting a pod into the machine and pressing a button.

Coca-Cola is betting big on Keurig Kold, too; the company owns a minority stake in Keurig Green Mountain.

Keurig CEO Brian Kelley says the machine is a way for people to have a variety of drinks at their disposal, without the cans and bottles.

Man Charged with Assaulting Autistic Boy, Pulling Teeth Out

child-abuseNORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man has been charged with assaulting a 4-year-old boy with autism, including pulling three of his teeth out, while baby-sitting him last summer.

Authorities in Montgomery County said 27-year-old Nicholas Kernechel of East Greenville was charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and related offenses.

Authorities said the child’s mother brought him to Upper Perkiomen police in July along with a plastic bag containing the three “bloody but intact” teeth.

They said Kernechel hit the boy, identified only as “JN,” and took the teeth out.

Defense attorney Patrick McMenamin Jr. on Monday called the child’s injuries “an unfortunate accident” that occurred when he slipped as Kernechel was helping him out of bed to use the bathroom.

Gene Test Finds Which Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo

Medical-Chart(AP)–A new study finds that many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy without hurting their odds of beating the disease. The study shows the value of using a gene-activity test to gauge each patient’s risk.

The test accurately identified a group of women whose cancers are so likely to respond to hormone therapy that adding chemo would do little if any good. In the study, women who skipped chemo based on their gene test scores had less than a 1 percent chance of cancer recurring far away, such as the liver or lungs, within the next five years.

Results were published online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at a European cancer conference.

Apple Sells 13 Million New iPhones in 3 Days

AppleNEW YORK (AP) — Apple says it sold 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus phones in the three days since its iPhone launch, topping last year’s early sales mark.

Apple sold 10 million IPhone 6 and 6 Plus models during their first weekend last year. This year’s results include sales in China which was included in the initial launch for the first time.

Apple said previously that preorders were so strong that it expected to surpass last year’s record.

The new models have more memory and faster processors, along with a new 12 mega-pixel camera and starts at $649. Apple and wireless service providers are also offering leasing and monthly installment plans.

Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. says the phones will be available in 40 additional countries beginning Oct. 9 including Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Taiwan.

Police: Teen Rides Bike to Hospital After Being Shot

police-lights-redSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the leg rode his bicycle to a central New York hospital for help.

Syracuse police who were responding to a call of shots fired arrived at the scene Saturday night and learned that the victim had already gone to nearby Upstate University Hospital for treatment.

Police say the boy had been in a crowd on a street corner when an unidentified man fired a handgun into the crowd. They say the boy suffered a minor gunshot wound to his leg. The gunman fled.

Police say he was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt that covered his face. No other description was available.

Woman Leaps from Moving Car After Spotting Spider, Causing Crash

Brown_spiderSYRACUSE, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana woman who jumped from her moving car after discovering a spider on her shoulder, leading to a crash that injured her 9-year-old son, likely won’t face charges.

Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Chad Hill says Angela Kipp was backing the car out of her driveway in Syracuse on Friday afternoon when she saw the spider and leaped out while the car was in reverse.

Her son in the back seat climbed into the driver’s seat and tried to step on the brake. He instead hit the gas pedal, sending the vehicle into a school bus. He was taken to a hospital with minor head injuries. No children were on the bus. Its driver wasn’t injured.

Hill said Monday that Kipp likely won’t be charged.

Ohio Mom Accused of Decapitating Baby Found Competent for Trial

judgeshipCINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio woman accused of decapitating her 3-month-old daughter has been found competent to stand trial.

Twenty-year-old Deasia (dee-AY’-shuh) Watkins was ordered to a psychiatric center for treatment and evaluation in April. The judge has since found her competent to stand trial on an aggravated murder charge in the March death of Jayniah Watkins.

Watkins pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. She is scheduled for an October hearing where a trial date could be set.

Watkins’ attorney, Norman Aubin, said Thursday he believes her competency has been restored. But he says mental illness prevented her from understanding her actions at the time of the slaying.

Police found Jayniah decapitated in the home of an aunt who was temporarily caring for her. They found Watkins in bed, covered with blood.

Hawaii Under Tsunami Watch After 8.3-Magnitude Chile Quake

pacific-tsunami-warning-cenHONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is under a tsunami watch after an 8.3-magtidue earthquake off the coast of northern Chile.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued the watch, saying a tsunami may have been generated by Wednesday’s earthquake.

If there is a tsunami, the center estimates that the first wave would arrive about 3 a.m. Thursday.

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency says officials are standing by, awaiting updates from the warning center.

The powerful earthquake shook Chile’s capital, causing buildings to sway and people to take refuge in the streets. There were no immediate reports on any injuries or damage.

Teen Struck by Train North of DC Was Taking Photos on Tracks

ambulance-lightsBOYDS, Md. (AP) — Friends and family say a Maryland teen struck and killed by an Amtrak train was taking photographs with his girlfriend and her sister.

Sixteen-year-old John Martin DeReggi Jr. and his girlfriend were being photographed by her twin sister at a picturesque spot in Boyds, a town about 20 miles north of the nation’s capital, on Monday afternoon. But they say when the train came through, the girls went in one direction and DeReggi tried to go in the other, but he didn’t get out of the way in time.

Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke says detectives are still going through witness statements, but they don’t believe anyone pushed DeReggi, that he wanted to be hit or that the train operator did anything wrong.

At Ground Zero, 9/11 Anniversary Now Public and Private

september-11NEW YORK (AP) — After years as a private commemoration, the anniversary of Sept. 11 at ground zero now also has become an occasion for public reflection on the site of the terror attacks.

An estimated 20,000 people flocked to the memorial plaza on the evening of Sept. 11 last year. That was the first year the public was able to visit on the anniversary.

Now, the plaza will open at 3 p.m., three hours earlier, after Friday’s 14th anniversary ceremony.

In the morning, victims’ families will gather for a reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror strike.

Observances are planned around the country, including at the two other places where hijacked planes crashed on Sept. 11, 2001 — at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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