Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Police, activists prepare days ahead of Ariz. law (AP)

Police, activists prepare days ahead of Ariz. law (AP)

Police, activists prepare days ahead of Ariz. law (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Salvador Reza speaks outside Phoenix City Hall Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in Phoenix. Community members from the Puente Movement were petitioning the city to not enforce Arizona's immigration bill, SB 1070, which takes effect Thursday, July 29. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - The sheriff of Arizona's most populous county is making room in a vast outdoor jail and determined to round up illegal immigrants to fill it. Police from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Grand Canyon are getting last-minute training. And protests and marches are planned throughout Phoenix.

BP hopes to turn page with new CEO, leaner company (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:54 PM PDT

Members of the British Petroleum executive, from left, outgoing CEO Tony Hayward, Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, and incoming CEO Bob Dudley, pose for the media outside their global headquarters in London, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The company announced that Hayward, BP's much-criticized CEO will be replaced by American Robert Dudley on Oct. 1, as it reported a record quarterly loss and set aside $32.2 billion to cover costs of the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP said the decision to replace Hayward, 53, with the company's first ever non-British chief executive was made by mutual agreement. (AP Photo) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT**AP - Battered BP began reinventing itself in the shadow of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Tuesday, naming its first American CEO as it reported a record $17 billion quarterly loss. Its outgoing chief miffed the White House anew with his parting comments.

Adams heirs skeptical about lost negatives claim (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 2,1980 file photo showing late photographer, Ansel Adams posing in front of his photograph of one the views of Yosemite National Park titled 'Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927,' in his home in Carmel Highlands, Calif. A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in Fresno have been authenticated as the work of iconic photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. The negatives were bought 10 years ago at a garage sale in Fresno for $45. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,File)AP - A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 has been authenticated as the lost work of Ansel Adams and worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday, but the iconic photographer's representatives dismissed the claim as a fraud and said they're worthless.

Neb. city council votes to delay immigration law (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:44 PM PDT

Trucks drive past a patriotic mural in Fremont, Neb., Wednesday, July 21, 2010. The two lawsuits filed Wednesday against the city of Fremont for its ban on renting to, and hiring illegal immigrants, worried some in the community that it would only worsen tensions over the new ordinance. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, also known as MALDEF, filed lawsuits against Fremont, saying the voter-approved ordinance amounted to discrimination. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants was suspended Tuesday by the Fremont City Council, less than two days before it was set to take effect in the eastern Nebraska city.

Police: Ohio marriage counselor killed by husband (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:58 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Cleveland Police Dept. shows Maurice Lyons, arrested for Aggravated Murder and Domestic Violence in the homicide of his wife Tonya Hunter. He is currently being held in the Cleveland Division of Police Central Prison Unit pending charges, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Cleveland Police Dept. via The Plain Dealer)AP - After years as a successful couples counselor, Tonya Hunter was credited with saving many marriages from breaking up. But a week before her death, she didn't know where her own husband was.

Wildfire burns homes in rural Cal community (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:57 PM PDT

AP - About 30 to 40 homes have been lost to a wildfire about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, firefighters said Tuesday.

Feds: Fatal DC rail crash came from lax oversight (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:50 PM PDT

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Deborah Hersman presides at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A faulty electronic circuit that caused a deadly Metro crash last summer was symptomatic of an "anemic safety culture" at the D.C. area's transit agency, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

3 NJ teens charged with videotaped immigrant death (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:10 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Union County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey shows Nigel Dumas, of Morristown, N.J. Authorities have upgraded charges against three teenagers, including Dumas, charged in the beating death of a Summit man, prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow announced on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Union County Prosecutor's Office)AP - Dusk fell around Salvadoran immigrant Abelino Mazaniego as he sat on a bench on a promenade in an upscale New York suburb after finishing up his restaurant shift. As night encroached, so did a group of teenagers, including one with a cell phone videocamera at the ready.

Target Corp. defends Minn. political donation (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:12 PM PDT

In this photo taken July 24, 2010, Laura Hedlund, 48 of Eagan, protests in front of a Target store after Target donated money to a PAC that is supporting the Republican candidate in the governor’s race in Bloomington, Minn. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - Target Corp. on Tuesday defended the use of its new freedom to spend money on political campaigns as employees and gay organizations criticized a $150,000 donation that will help a Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate who opposes gay marriage.

Utah court reverses polygamist leader convictions (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 01:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2006 file photo, Warren Jeffs appears in a courtroom surrounded by guards in Las Vegas. The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 reversed the convictions of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, File)AP - The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the convictions of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial, saying a jury received incorrect instructions before considering his role in the 2001 nuptials of a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.

Texas man sentenced to 99 years in starvation case (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT

FILE -This July 20, 2009 file photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office shows Alfred Santiago, accused of locking his girlfriend's children in a hotel bathroom and starving them for up to nine months. Santiago's trial began in Dallas Wednesday July 21, 2010. He is charged with injury to a child and continuous sexual abuse.(AP Photo/Dallas County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A Dallas man convicted of starving three children locked in a hotel bathroom for nearly a year was sentenced to 99 years in prison Tuesday after jurors heard testimony that one child was suicidal and another preferred urinating in his hospital bed to entering a restroom.

Sen. Kerry to pay Mass. tax on yacht docked in RI (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:57 PM PDT

'Isabel,' the 76-foot yacht owned by Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, is undergoing repairs at the Hinckley shipyard in Portsmouth, R.I., Friday, July 23, 2010. Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Newport, R.I., allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to the cash-strapped Bay State. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Sen. John Kerry moved to end a controversy over his decision to base his new $7 million yacht in tax-free Rhode Island, informing the Massachusetts Department of Revenue on Tuesday that he would "promptly" pay taxes as if the vessel were docked in his home state.

Oil pipeline leak pollutes major Michigan river (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish.

Oakland gives final OK to large-scale pot farms (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

A marijuana plant is shown at Oaksterdam University, a trade school for the cannabis industry, in Oakland, California July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithAP - The City Council gave final approval Tuesday to a plan that makes Oakland the first city in the country to authorize large-scale industrial pot cultivation.

Gulf flow has stopped, but where's the oil? (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:29 PM PDT

A response vessel is seen along a line of emulsified oil between the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site and the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - In the nearly two weeks since a temporary cap stopped BP's gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, not much oil has been showing up on the surface of the water.

Feds seek records from '04 Armstrong doping case (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Lance Armstrong of the US looks back on the podium after the 20th and last stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 102.5 kilometers (63.7 miles) with start in Longjumeau and finish in Paris, France, Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)AP - Federal prosecutors investigating cheating in professional cycling have subpoenaed documents from a 2004 case in which a Texas company tried to prove Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs.

Barge hits well near Gulf, sends oil, gas spewing (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:02 PM PDT

Oil spews from a wellhead in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana after it was struck by a tugboat, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. A crew capable of capping the well is expected onsite later Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - A barge slammed into an abandoned well in a coastal inlet early Tuesday, sending a shower of water, natural gas and oil spewing about 100 feet into the air.

18 states, DC are education reform grant finalists (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:19 PM PDT

Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks about the federal 'Race to the Top' school reform grant competition, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)AP - Eighteen states and the District of Columbia were named finalists Tuesday in the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" school reform grant competition, giving them a chance to receive a share of $3.4 billion.
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