Sunday, August 29, 2010

NYC mosque debate will shape American Islam (AP)

NYC mosque debate will shape American Islam (AP)

NYC mosque debate will shape American Islam (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:28 AM PDT

Imam Abdallah Adhani, center, leaves a proposed site for an Islamic cultural center to speak to reporters after a Friday prayer service followed by his media adviser Tara Bohen, right, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 in New York. The NYPD set up barrier tape in front of the building to contain members of the media. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Adnan Zulfiqar, a graduate student, former U.S. Senate aide and American-born son of Pakistani immigrants, will soon give the first khutbah, or sermon, of the fall semester at the University of Pennsylvania. His topic has presented itself in the daily headlines and blog posts over the disputed mosque near ground zero.

Arizona police say gunman kills 5, then self (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Lake Havasu City Police Department Brian Diez, 26 of Havasu, Ariz. Police say Diez killed five people after entering a home in the Arizona community and started shooting, and then fled with his two children. Diez on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 was found dead in California of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the two young children were safe with relatives. (AP Photo/Lake Havasu City Police Department)AP - A gunman entered a western Arizona home and fatally shot five people, including the mother of his two children and her boyfriend, before fleeing with the kids to Southern California where he killed himself, police said Sunday.

Obama commits to revival of Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:58 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first landy Michelle Obama walk through a rainy Columbia Parc Development in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Five years after Hurricane Katrina's wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause.

2 police officers fatally shot in Alaska village (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:19 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Hoonah Police Dept. shows officer Tony Wallace. Bob Prunella, acting city administrator for the village of Hoonah, says Wallace and fellow officer Matt Tokuoka died after a shooting late Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. He said he doesn't know what led to the shooting. (AP Photo/Hoonah Police Deparment)AP - A standoff was under way Sunday in a tiny southeast Alaska village after a man fatally shot two of the village's four full-time police officers the night before, then barricaded himself in his home, local officials said.

Shootings leaves Mormon official, suspect dead (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:49 PM PDT

AP - A Mormon church official was shot dead between services on Sunday, and less than an hour later, the man suspected of the crime also died after a shoot-out with police.

Vicious, feared attack leaves Pa. inmate comatose (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:21 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Lackawanna County Prison located in Scranton Pa., Nicholas Pinto is shown. Pinto was assaulted at the prison on Aug. 8, 2010 and left in a coma. (AP Photo/Lackawanna County Prison)AP - If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions.

Beetle Bailey nears retirement age but stays put (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 12:39 PM PDT

In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, Mort Walker, the artist and author of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, stands in his studio as figurines of his most famous characters rest on his desk in Stamford, Conn. Beetle Bailey will have a 60th anniversary on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Beetle Bailey is slouching toward retirement age, but the lazy Army private won't be getting rest anytime soon from his tour of duty on newspaper comics pages.

Surf lessons open new vistas for disabled kids (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:26 PM PDT

Meghan Fink, 14, rides a wave while Will Skudin shouts instruction and encouragement from the back of the board in Long Beach, NY, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Fink is a camper at Camp Abilities, a sports camp for visually impaired or blind children. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The lesson begins on the beach with a youngster lying on a surfboard more than twice her size. After some brief orientation, the child, joined by a world-class surfing coach, is soon paddling about 30 yards into the ocean.

2 governors, 2 crooks. What's wrong with Illinois? (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal building as the jury continues to deliberate in his federal corruption trial in Chicago. Blagojevich and before him former Illinois Gov. George Ryan have been convicted on criminal charges. Is there something about Illinois that encourages governors to go bad? Or is it just coincidence that two in a row have ended up as felons? (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Two Illinois governors from two different parties, two generations, two regions of the state. Both convicted of felonies.

Fire at proposed Tenn. mosque site probed by feds (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:20 PM PDT

AP - Supporters from across the country have called to give encouragement to a suburban Nashville mosque where a fire was the latest setback for a planned new building, officials said Sunday.

Former AP reporter, features writer Loh dies at 79 (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:36 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 1989 file photo, Jules Loh is seen in New York. Loh, an Associated Press reporter who covered the civil rights revolution, the space program and other major stories before carving out a second career roaming the United States in search of the odd, the offbeat and the extraordinary, died early Sunday Aug. 29, 2010 at home in Tappan, N.Y., according to his daughter Eileen. He was 79. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - For most of his four decades as a reporter, Jules Edward Loh traveled the United States, reaching every state and using his honeyed Georgia accent to charm his way into the hearts, minds and lives of Americans, famous and obscure.

First family ends Martha's Vineyard vacation (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:17 AM PDT

President Barack Obama walks with daughter Malia and first lady Michelle Obama walks with Sasha to board Air Force One at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station in Bourne, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, after a family vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama has wrapped up his vacation on Martha's Vineyard and is heading for New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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