Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Fed judge blocks Calif execution set for Thursday (AP)

Fed judge blocks Calif execution set for Thursday (AP)

Fed judge blocks Calif execution set for Thursday (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:10 PM PDT

Reporters tour the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. While court righting continues over resumption of California's death penalty, state prison officials conducted a media tour of their refurbished death chamber designed to meet legal requirements. The new facility cost $853,000 and the work was performed by the inmate ward labor program. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked what would have been California's first execution in nearly five years, giving a death row inmate two days away from receiving a lethal injection a reprieve likely to last months.

Carter sickened on plane, rests at Ohio hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:21 PM PDT

FILE - In an Aug. 31, 2010 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter leaves the State Department in Washington. An airport spokeswoman in Cleveland says former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a hospital overnight at his doctor's recommendation.

Gunman opens fire at UT in Austin, kills himself (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:00 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Colton Joshua Tooley is shown. Tooley, wearing a dark suit and a ski mask, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 opened fire with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else was hurt. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Public Safety)AP - A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else was hurt.

One of Bishop's accusers calls Long a 'predator' (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 06:53 PM PDT

AP - One of the young men accusing a megachurch pastor of coercing him into a sexual relationship told a TV interviewer he loved the pastor, but nevertheless called him a "predator."

Murder charges increasing in fatal DUI cases (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:35 PM PDT

AP - While rookie Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart was pitching six scoreless innings in the game of his career, Andrew Gallo spent hours bar-hopping and pounding down shots and beers with his stepbrother.

LA heat wave takes some sizzle out of Hollywood (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 06:21 PM PDT

ivan Hankammer, 4, joins other children in a water fountains at Virginia Avenue Park in Santa Monica, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. The fall heat wave pushed temperatures well over 100 degrees from Anaheim, home of Disneyland, to San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz and Salinas on the usually balmy Central Coast. Many records were set or tied. (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner)AP - It was so hot in Los Angeles on Tuesday that even Spider-Man took the day off.

Deaf Texan exonerated of child sex assault freed (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 05:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, deaf inmate Stephen Brodie uses sign language to answer a question through an interpreter during a jailhouse interview in Dallas. A judge has set aside the 1993 conviction of Brodie, who was sent to prison for raping a 5-year-old girl despite an absence of physical evidence linking him to the attack. The district attorney's office supported 39-year-old Stephen Brodie's claim of innocence during a court hearing in Dallas on Monday Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP - A deaf man exonerated of the rape of a 5-year-old suburban Dallas girl was released Tuesday after 17 years in prison, one day after a judge determined he was innocent.

Residents of Calif. long suspected corruption in city gov't (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:07 AM PDT

A woman aims a kick at an image of former City Manager Robert Rizzo, made during his arrest early Tuesday at his Huntington Beach home, as residents of the city of Bell, Calif., celebrate the arrest of current and former city officials on corruption charges, outside City Hall Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A few would-be whistleblowers suspected for years that the government in this working-class Los Angeles suburb was corrupt and that leaders were secretly paying themselves six-figure salaries.

LA teacher suicide sparks test-score pushback (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:04 AM PDT

AP - The Los Angeles Times should remove teacher performance ratings from its website after the apparent suicide of a teacher despondent over his score, the union representing Los Angeles school teachers said.

Obama endorses using fines for Gulf rehabilitation (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:19 PM PDT

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, tasked by President Barack Obama to develop a long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan in the wake of the BP oil spill, is interviewed by the Associated Press at the Pentagon, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Mabus will recommend paying for it with some of the billions in civil penalties that could be collected from companies responsible for the oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama endorsed a plan Wednesday to rehabilitate the Gulf of Mexico with some of the billions of dollars in water pollution fines expected from the companies responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Both sides rest cases in Conn. home invasion trial (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - This undated inmate file photo released in February 2010 by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Steven Hayes, accused of severely beating Dr. William Petit, Jr., and killing his wife and two daughters during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. on July 23, 2007. A trial for Hayes, one of two men charged with the crimes, continued on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction, File)AP - One of two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion told another inmate he killed the mother after being pressured to do so by the other suspect in the case, a prison officer testified Tuesday before both sides rested.

Pa. ex-pastor to stand trial in wife's '08 death (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:34 PM PDT

AP - A retired Pennsylvania pastor was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges he killed his wife and staged a car accident to cover it up, a case that has investigators re-examining his first wife's death.

Gallup: Depression up 25 percent on Gulf after oil (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 08:43 AM PDT

In this Sept. 15, 2010 photo, Margaret Carruth sits on the tailgate of her pickup truck going through belongings as she ponders her fate after attending a public hearing to listen concerning BP oil spill claims. Carruth is living in her pickup truck after losing her home in Orange Beach, Ala. after being unable to pay bills after the gulf oil spill. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Before the BP oil spill, the Gulf Coast was a place of abundant shrimping, tourist-filled beaches and a happy if humble lifestyle. Now, it's home to depression, worry and sadness for many.

Boston shooting kills 4, including toddler; 1 hurt (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:58 PM PDT

A pair of Boston police officers, walk towards the crime scene perimeter Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, following an early morning shooting in which five people including a toddler were shot in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - Police scoured Boston for clues and suspects Tuesday after four people, including a toddler, were fatally shot overnight in a brutal crime that carried tones of an execution and shook up an already troubled neighborhood.

Amtrak reveals vision for East high-speed rail (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:03 PM PDT

Gov. Edward Rendell, left, and Amtrak President Joseph Boardman are seen during a news conference at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Amtrak is unveiling a $117 billion plan it hopes will bring high-speed rail to the East Coast by 2040, drastically reducing travel times along the congested corridor. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Amtrak on Tuesday unveiled a $117 billion, 30-year vision for a high-speed rail line on the East Coast that would drastically reduce travel times along the congested corridor using trains traveling up to 220 miles per hour.

GOP hopes to win big in Obama's home state of Ill. (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:18 AM PDT

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, takes questions from the media after an appearance before the Civic Federation of Chicago's board of directors, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The state that launched Barack Obama toward the White House could deliver a painful rebuke in November by handing Democrats a series of major defeats, thanks to a combination of bad politics and bad luck.

Autopsy: Mich. atty. not slain; wife 'vindicated' (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:44 PM PDT

AP - A lawyer whose widow was charged with murdering him died of complications from an old wound — not homicide — authorities said Tuesday, a day after she was released from jail hours after missing the funeral.

Scientists use hovering zeppelin to film whales (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:53 PM PDT

The Zeppelin airship 'Eureka' casts a shadow as it flies near Everett, Wash., during a flight dedicated to whale research, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Pilot Katharine Board often sees pods of blue, gray and killer whales as she flies along the California coast. Compared to other pilots, however, she has a unique vantage point â€" low and slow â€" from the only operational zeppelin in the United States.

Mich. teen kills 448-pound black bear with arrow (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:06 PM PDT

In this Aug. 2010 photo provided by the Olmstead family, Jessica Olmstead, 17, of Battle Creek, Mich., is shown with the 448-pound black bear she killed in Oba, Ontario, Canada. Olmstead killed the bear with a Matthews Passion bow and arrow set, designed for women, from a little over 16 yards away. The black bear was the young hunter's first big game take and she currently holds the Pope and Young Bowhunting record for the trophy bear. (AP Photo/Olmstead Family photo)AP - A 17-year-old Michigan girl began her big game hunting career with a bang — or rather a whoosh — by killing a 448-pound black bear with a bow and arrow from 16 yards away.
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