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Evacuations ordered over concerns at California dam system

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Kellyanne Conway apologized to Donald Trump after Ivanka clothing line comments

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These women dream of working for the NFL

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DNA saves dog from death penalty

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2 men in Michigan charged with breach of peace

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DNA saves a dog from death penalty.

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At the Cincinnati zoo 3  endangered Malayan tiger cubs were born and are being cared for at the zoo's nursery after being rejected by their mother.

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Three endangered Malayan tiger cubs were born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and are now being cared for in the zoo's nursery after they were rejected by their mom.

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The Northeast is hunkering down for what could be the most significant storm of the season, which is forecast to dump a foot of snow and bring blizzard conditions in some areas Thursday.

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Mr. Kohl- President Trump’s immigration ban got its day in court. This has to do with the executive order that temporarily bans people from seven mostly-Muslim countries from entering the US.

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Spicer: Questioning raid insults fallen SEAL

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer outlined what he considered positive outcomes of the deadly raid in Yemen, saying anyone who questions its success owes an apology to Chief Petty Officer William "Ryan" Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in the raid.

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DNA saves dog from death penalty

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Apple is set to start making IPhones in India.

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The storm comes a day after much of the Northeast enjoyed a brief glimpse of spring, with temperatures hitting 60 degrees in some places.

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Avery Antill - At least 5 hurt in tightrope plunge at Florida circus

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She thought the pain in her skull was a headache. It was a live cockroach

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jeb was locked up in animal control when the judge's verdict came in: He would be put to death for killing a neighbor's dog. family used a forensic to save dog

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Jeb's owners, Penny and Kenneth Job of St. Clair, Michigan, couldn't believe that their sweet Jeb, the same gentle dog who helps Ken get up when he falls down, who lives peacefully with three other dogs, seven cats and a coopful of chickens, could ever harm another living being.

So the family used a forensic technique often used for human defendants to save their dog from death row last fall.

The perfect service dog

Jeb Stuart Job stands hip-high, with a muscular frame, big dark eyes and a long black snout. He's had a rough two years on this Earth.

In January 2016, when he wasn't quite a year old, he was found chained inside a shed in Detroit. His owner had died, and the rest of the family didn't want him.

Kandie Morrison, a volunteer with a dog rescue agency, got the call.

Once Morrison met Jeb, she thought he'd make the perfect service dog for her father; that's Kenneth Job.

Job, 79, an Air Force veteran who owned a drywall business, has a neurodegenerative disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth. He fell in love with the Belgian Malinois puppy. Dr. Karen Pidick, their veterinarian and neighbor in their rural Michigan town, trained Jeb to help Job stay steady on his shaky legs.

The family was a happy one until eight months later.

According to court testimony, on the morning of August 24, the Jobs' neighbor, Christopher Sawa, looked out his kitchen window and saw Jeb standing over the lifeless body of his own dog, Vlad.

Vlad weighed 14 pounds. Jeb weighed about 90 pounds.

Sawa ran out into his yard. He tried to give Vlad mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but it was too late. The tiny Pomeranian was dead.

Sawa called animal control and blamed Jeb. Animal control took the big dog into custody.

The trial of Jeb Stuart Job

On September 19, all parties gathered at district court in St. Clair County.

If Judge Michael Hulewicz deemed Jeb a "dangerous animal," the dog would be put to death.

Sawa, the Jobs' neighbor for more than 30 years, testified about finding Jeb standing over his dead Pomeranian.

"It was horrifying. It was terrifying," he said, according to transcripts. CNN contacted the Sawas, who declined to comment.

He said it wasn't the first time Jeb had scared him.

"I was afraid of the dog. The dog always barked," he said.

Now, his beloved Vlad was gone.

"We've never had any children," he testified. "The dog was like a child to us."

Job testified that Jeb had indeed gotten away from him that morning: He and the Jobs' other three dogs had run off in the opposite direction of the Sawa home, toward a house with a pond where they liked to swim.

The Jobs' attorney, Edward Marshall, pointed to a lack of physical evidence linking Jeb to Vlad's death and questioned whether another large animal had killed Vlad. After all, Pidick, the neighborhood vet, had testified that an unfriendly stray dog had been spotted in the neighborhood, and foxes were known to live in the surrounding woods.

In the end, the judge said Jeb met the legal definition of a dangerous animal, and he made what he said was a tough decision.

"I have no choice except to follow out the state law that the animal would be destroyed," Hulewicz said. "I don't like to do this. I don't like it at all."

A lifesaving procedure

That's when the Job family asked to have testing done to see whether Jeb's DNA matched the DNA in Vlad's wound. They said they hadn't asked for it sooner because they thought Vlad had been cremated and there would be no way to get his DNA.

But at the trial, it came out that Vlad's body was in a freezer.

The Jobs arranged to have swabs taken from Vlad's wound and the inside of Jeb's cheek. The samples were sent to the Maples Center for Forensic Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. The process cost $416, according to the Jobs.

On October 24, exactly two months after Jeb was taken into custody, AnnMarie Clark, a forensic DNA analyst at the center, sent in her findings: The DNA in the wound didn't match Jeb's DNA.

"Jeb is not the dog that killed (Vlad)," Clark wrote.

"We were relieved. We were absolutely relieved," said Penny Job, Ken's wife.

The DNA showed that another dog had killed Jeb, Clark told CNN -- but exactly who that dog is may forever be a mystery.

Dogs have no rights

Jeb was allowed to go home the following week, after his owners signed an agreement promising that they would make sure Jeb wouldn't leave the yard unleashed and that they would maintain a secure fence to keep their animals in the yard.

The Jobs say Jeb came home a very different dog.

They say that during his nine weeks in animal control, he went from 90 to 75 pounds, and he became scared and skittish.

"The dog was thin and sick," Penny Job said. "And he lost all his social skills. He was afraid to go outside."

Jeb's weight wasn't taken when he entered and left animal control, said Steve Campau, a spokesman for the St. Clair County sheriff's office, which oversees animal control.

"We fed him a meal day," Campau said. "Maybe he was overfed at home."

Campau also said some behavior changes are to be expected after an animal is released from spending nine weeks of spending 23 hours a day in a kennel that's 6 feet long by 3½ feet wide.

"Veterinarians say after a dog is in a kennel environment for an extended period of time, there's certainly going to be an adjustment period when the dog gets out," Campau said.

Even now, more than three months after his return home, Jeb is still scared of strange men, his owners say.

Still bitter that their innocent dog was nearly put to death, Jeb's owners wonder why they had to come up with the idea of DNA analysis. Why didn't the court do it before condemning Jeb to death? After all, that kind of testing is often done with human defendants.

The answer is simple, according to David Favre, a professor at Michigan State University College of Law and editor in chief of the Animal Legal and Historical Center.

Humans accused of a crime have rights under criminal due process.

"In a criminal prosecution, where you're putting a person in jail, we have the highest level of protection," Favre said.

It's a different story with dogs.

"Dogs have no rights. They're property," Favre said.

He wonders whether courts should reconsider and make DNA analysis a regular part of the process when a dog's life hangs in the balance.

"It's an easy thing to do. We just haven't thought of it in this context," he said.

He applauds the Jobs for saving their pet.

"Now people will realize they can do this, that it's a tool," he said. "They used a very creative defense."

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Jeb's owners, Penny and Kenneth Job of St. Clair, Michigan, couldn't believe that their sweet Jeb, the same gentle dog who helps Ken get up when he falls down, who lives peacefully with three other dogs, seven cats and a coopful of chickens, could ever harm another living being.

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Winter Weather Grounds, Delays Thousands of Flights Across US

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At least 5 hurt in tightrope plunge at Florida circus

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After 5 teens defaced a old school building with swastikas and the phase "white power",they were sentenced to reading books and watching films to expand their worldviews. 1 book per month for the next 12 months.

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Judge Avelina Jacob, of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, handed down the sentence earlier this month. It requires the teens to read one book per month for the next 12 months from a list including titles like Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Alex Rueda said.

The boys, all age 16 or 17, were sentenced for destruction of private property and unlawful entry after they vandalized the Ashburn Colored School on September 30, said Rueda, who recommended the sentence to the judge.

The Ashburn Colored School was established in 1892 to provide local African-American children who belonged to an adjacent church an education, said Deep Sran, the founder of Loudoun School for the Gifted, which owns the property the Ashburn Colored School is on.

As part of the sentence, the teens must write a report on the book they have selected each month, Rueda said. In place of this requirement, Rueda said the boys may choose to watch and review a movie, also from a designated list, which includes "Schindler's List" and "12 Years a Slave."

The judge also ordered the boys to attend the United States Holocaust and the American History Museums and write a research paper on the message their vandalalsm sent to the African-American community.

Rueda said the sentence was inspired by her late mother, a former librarian, who said, "There's so many things that I've learned about war and about discrimination from books."

Reuda said she hopes the teens will learn, too. "They need to open their eyes to what awful things people have done in the world in the names of gender, race and religion. Books are the best way to combat that."

Christopher Day, the defense attorney for two of the boys involved in the incident, supported the sentence.

"The boys really had no idea what they were doing. They were just being pranksters and so I think in that regard this punishment is very appropriate," Day said. "It will sensitize them to what they did and how it could - while they thought it was a stupid prank -- could have a very different impact on people."

CNN could not immediately identify the defense attorneys for the other teens, who were not identified because of their age.

Sran said he also supports the inclusion of education in the sentence.

"It's the right outcome to require the students to understand the consequences of their actions and why it created outrage in the local community."

Max Blau contributed to this report.

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The most expensive cup of coffee will cost you $18 at Extraction Lab in New York city.

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Posted: Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:20 AM EST Updated: Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:22 AM EST

NEW YORK (WABC/CNN) -- The most expensive cup of coffee in the United States can now be found in New York City, and one cup will cost you $18.

Extraction Lab, a new cafe in Sunset Park, has earned the distinction of having the priciest java in the country.

Their Ethiopian Arabica coffee is grown in Panama and made in one of two $7,000 coffee makers called the Steampunk.

Owner of the new java joint, Thomas Perez, said it's not about having the most expensive coffee. It's more about the experience.

"For the people who really want to go wild and try something special, we have that special coffee, it's amazing," said Perez.

Extraction lab takes the title of most expensive coffee in the U.S. from the previous holder San Francisco's Blue Bottle. It sells a cup of coffee for 16-dollars.
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Mr. Kohl- President Trump’s immigration ban got its day in court. This has to do with the executive order that temporarily bans people from seven mostly-Muslim countries from entering the US.

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Mr. Kohl- President Trump’s immigration ban got its day in court. This has to do with the executive order that temporarily bans people from seven mostly-Muslim countries from entering the US.