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Texas sees power outages in brutal heat wave The National Weather Service chief calls it a heat wave more intense than any he can recall. It's particularly bad in Texas, where high electricity use triggered power outages Thursday. Polygamist leader guilty in child-rape case A jury on Thursday convicted polygamist church leader Warren Jeffs of sexually assaulting two girls he had taken as "spiritual wives." Va. Tech lockdown lifted; no gunman found Virginia Tech officials lift a campus lockdown after a police search for a man with a gun supposedly seen by three  juveniles turned up empty. Army soldiers to get deployment relief NBC News has learned that the Army is going to announce that most combat deployments will decrease from one year to nine months total time on the ground in the war zone. Schools dispute pits 'haves' against 'have-nots' InMemphis, there's a heated debate about the fairness of merging two districts with different levels of academic achievement. Msnbc.com's Miranda Leitsinger reports. Buddhists liberate 534 lobsters near Boston Instead of plunging headfirst to their death in a pot of boiling water, 534 live lobsters escaped the dinner plate and belly flopped to freedom into the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean. US: High odds for above-average hurricane year The probability of an above average Atlantic hurricane season is even greater than three months ago, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday. Judge allows US man to sue Rumsfeld over torture A judge is allowing an Army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld personally for damages. Eruption warning raised for Alaskan volcano A lava dome atop the massive Cleveland Volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has gotten larger in the past week, and officials keeping an eye on the restive mountain have raised eruption threat levels. Jaywalking mom: New trial ‘a risk I’m willing to take’ Raquel Nelson, who potentially faced more prison time for jaywalking than the man convicted for the hit-and-run accident that killed her 4-year-old son, revealed on TODAY Thursday that she has decided to accept the unusual option of a new trial. Teen buried in sand: ‘I thought I was going to die’ Matt Mina, 17, was trying to build a tunnel on a California beach when he became trapped under 6 feet of sand. It took 30 minutes for frantic rescuers to dig him out. “I thought I was going to die,” he said Thursday. Slate humor: Cats of War Check out this collection of images from Slate, detailing the top-secret and very humorous Covert Anti-Terrorism Stealth program, also known as CATS. Concrete lab denies faking NYC test results A concrete-testing laboratory faked results for a LaGuardia Airport control tower, the new Yankee Stadium, the Lincoln Tunnel and more than a dozen other projects around the city, creating thousands of phony reports for tests designed to make sure concrete was strong enough, prosecutors said Thursday. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml

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