Sunday, August 1, 2010

Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good (AP)

Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good (AP)

Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 01:52 PM PDT

In this July 28, 2010 satellite image provided by NASA, oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is visible on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.

Blagojevich die-hards the kind he'd want on jury (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:00 AM PDT

FILE - This July 21, 2010 file photo shows former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich posing for a picture with Mohammed Ahmed of Wood Dale, Ill. upon his arrival at the federal building in Chicago, as the defense phase of his federal corruption trial begins. While many came to revile or laugh at Illinois' disgraced former governor during his seven-week corruption trial, a small but dedicated band of supporters gathered at the courthouse to cheer him. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - One woman clapped the instant she saw Rod Blagojevich emerge from a courthouse elevator. An elderly woman, in tears, handed him a piece of candy in court and said she'd pray for him. On the sidewalk outside court, another person once held a placard that read, "Rod's not cuckoo, Rod's not guilty."

After 378 years, NH family farm goes up for sale (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 12:25 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday July 29, 2010 Lucy, left, and Will Tuttle pose in a corn field at the family farm in Dover, N.H. Long regarded as the country's oldest family-run farm, the Tuttle farm is up for sale. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm.

EPA notes improvements at Michigan oil spill site (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 05:51 PM PDT

Booms are seen floating on the Kalamazoo river, after an oil pipeline, owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, leaked an estimated 820,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo river in Western Michigan near Marshall July 30, 2010. REUTES/Rebecca CookAP - A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday that significant improvement had been made at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river, but the agency cautioned that it will take months to complete the cleanup.

Inmate who said he'd kill more linked to 2nd death (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo provided by Ernie Benko, death row inmate Robert Gleason meets with his defense team in the Wise County courthouse in Wise, Va. Gleason, who warned prosecutors he would kill again if not given the death penalty for strangling his former cellmate, is connected with the death of another inmate, authorities said. Gleason is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 31 for killing his former cellmate at Wallens Ridge State Prison last year. He fired his attorneys and pleaded guilty in May, telling prosecutors that if they didn't go through with seeking the death penalty in his case that he would kill again. Wise County Commonwealth's Attorney Ron Elkins confirmed that Robert Gleason Jr. was 'involved' in the death of 26-year-old Aaron Alexander Cooper, who was killed Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in the recreation yard for inmates housed in segregation at the maximum security Red Onion State Prison in southwestern Virginia. (AP Photo/Ernie Benko, File) NO SALESAP - A Virginia inmate who warned prosecutors he would kill again if not given the death penalty for strangling his cellmate was involved in the death of another inmate, authorities said.

Grizzly cubs from deadly mauling were malnourished (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT

This image provided by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department on Friday July 30, 2010, shows a captured grizzly sow believed to be responsible for the mauling death of one camper and injuring two others near Yellowstone National Park in Montana. The fate of the bear will be determined after DNA tests confirm whether it was responsible for the attacks. (AP Photo/Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department)AP - Three grizzly bear cubs whose mother killed one person and mauled two others in a late-night attack at a Montana campground were malnourished and still in their winter coats.

Space station cooling system suddenly shuts down (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 01:44 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 19. 2010 file photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with Earth's horizon as a backdrop. Several power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling loops aboard the space station was shut down Saturday, July 31, 2010. A module that pumps ammonia coolant to prevent equipment from overheating was still shut down early Sunday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - Half of the International Space Station's cooling system suddenly shut down during the weekend, forcing the astronauts to power down equipment and face the likelihood of urgent spacewalking repairs.

Twitter down for hours of 'planned maintenance' (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 04:13 AM PDT

This screen shot taken from the microblogging site Twitter.com early Sunday morning Aug. 1, 2010 shows the Twitter page that greeted users announcing Twitter being down for planned maintenance. According to Twitter the maintenance is scheduled between 2 a.m. 7 a.m. EDT Sunday. As such in that time some users will not be able to access Twitter. (AP photo)AP - The microblogging site Twitter Inc. was out of commission for a couple of hours early Sunday for some of the roughly 100 million users around the world.

1 more of 4 killed in Lake Michigan crash found (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 08:57 AM PDT

AP - The body of a doctor killed when a medical flight crashed into Lake Michigan last month has been found, but the search continues for the plane's co-pilot, authorities said Sunday.

NBA Rookie of the Year going 120-130 mph on video (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:37 PM PDT

In this image from video provided by the California Highway Patrol Sacremento Kings player Tyreke Evans is arrested Monday May 31, 2010 after being stopped at gunpoiint. CHP officers say he was driving 120 to 130 miles per hour. Attorneys say he pleaded no contest to reckless driving, was sentenced to 80 hours of community service, ordered to take part in teen driving programs and lost his license for 30 days. (AP Photo/California Highway Patrol via APTN)AP - The basketball court isn't the only place where Sacramento Kings player Tyreke Evans apparently likes to move fast.

Coast Guard allows toxic chemical use on Gulf oil (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:05 PM PDT

Oil containment boom is seen with fresh oil near Comfort Island, in Yscloskey, La. Saturday, July 31, 2010. On shore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on each other to finally plug up the environmental disaster. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said Saturday after examining BP and government documents.
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