Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Woman pleads not guilty in Wash. in acid hoax case (AP)

Woman pleads not guilty in Wash. in acid hoax case (AP)

Woman pleads not guilty in Wash. in acid hoax case (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT

Bethany Storro who falsely claimed a stranger threw acid in her face, walks to her court appearance in Vancouver, Wash., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Her face red and blotchy, the woman who splashed acid in her face in what was a bizarre hoax made a brief court appearance Wednesday and was ordered by a judge to live in a mental health facility while she awaits trial.

Driver dead, dozen hurt in bus plunge outside DC (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT

This image taken from video provided by WJLA shows a bus after crashing along I-270 in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Maryland State Police say the commuter bus plunged off a highway outside the nation's capital. (AP Photo/WJLA)AP - A commuter bus plunged off a highway Wednesday outside the nation's capital, killing the driver and injuring at least a dozen, including children, authorities said.

NJ student secretly taped having sex kills himself (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:37 PM PDT

AP - A college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet.

Police: Man who shot 2 officers at hospital dies (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:31 PM PDT

This undated arrest photo provided by the Burt County Sheriff's office, shows Jeffrey Layten, who was involved in a shooting with police officers at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Two officers were injured and Layten died shortly after 2 p.m. at Creighton University Medical Center. (AP Photo/Burt County Sheriff Dept.)AP - A 39-year-old man who led police on a high-speed car chase early Wednesday opened fire hours later at an Omaha hospital, grazing two police officers before they gunned him down, authorities said.

Record number of children die in hot cars in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:03 PM PDT

AP - This year of record temperatures has also led a record number of children dying in hot vehicles, according to a group that tracks such deaths.

Palin gets protective order over alleged threats (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2010 file photo, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appears as the featured speaker at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affair's annual Liberty Gala at the Convention Center in Tulsa, Okla. The former vice-presidential candidate was in the ABC ballroom Monday, Sept. 27, 2010 to cheer on her daughter Bristol, who is a contestant on ABC's 'Dancing With the Stars.' (AP Photo/Brandi Simons, File)AP - Sarah Palin has been granted a restraining order against a Pennsylvania man accused of stalking and threatening her.

Pastor accuser: Sex encounters on church grounds (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT

Bishop Eddie Long speaks Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church near Atlanta. Long, the famed pastor of a Georgia megachurch said Sunday that he will fight allegations that he lured young men into sexual relationships, stressing that he'd be back to lead the church the next week. (AP Photo/John Amis, Pool)AP - One of four men accusing megachurch Bishop Eddie Long of coercing them into inappropriate sexual relationships said in a TV interview that aired Wednesday that he and the pastor would have encounters before and after worship services on church grounds.

Viral infection likely led to Carter stomach upset (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:11 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 - A viral infection is the likely cause of the stomach distress that sent former President Jimmy Carter to a Cleveland hospital after a flight from Atlanta, medical staff said Wednesday.

Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT

This undated handout artist rendering provided by Lynette Cook, National Science Foundation, shows a new planet, right. Astronomers have found a planet that is in the Goldilocks zone — just right for life. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too far from its sun, not too close. And it is near Earth — relatively speaking, at 120 trillion miles. It also makes scientists think that these examples of habitable planets are far more common than they thought. (AP Photo/Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)AP - Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.

Calif execution try collapses after court setbacks (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 2007 file photo released by the California Department of Corrections is condemned inmate Albert Greenwood Brown. A federal judge on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 blocked what would have been California's first execution in nearly five years, giving the death row inmate who was two days from receiving a lethal injection a reprieve that could last months. Brown wass scheduled to die at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Thursday for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)AP - California's first execution attempt in nearly five years collapsed Wednesday amid two adverse court rulings in as many days and an impending shortage of drugs that made the lethal injection of a convicted rapist-murderer impossible.

Government: Times Square bomber plotted 2nd attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:36 PM PDT

AP - The man who planted a car bomb in Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and that he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks after the first, prosecutors said Wednesday, quoting the former financial analyst in a video where he said he'd hoped "to join my brothers in jihad" ever since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Judge dismisses some charges in Anna Nicole case (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2006 file photo, Anna Nicole Smith, leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - LOS ANGELES AP) — The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case acquitted her boyfriend-lawyer Howard Stern on Wednesday of two charges of obtaining drugs for her by fraud and deceit including use of false names.

SD GOP Sen. Thune looking at 2012 presidential run (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:48 PM PDT

AP - Republican Sen. John Thune, who has spent the summer traversing the country, talking policy and raising millions of dollars for a re-election bid that has no opponent, acknowledged Wednesday that he's considered running for president in 2012.

Marijuana tracking on the way in Colo. (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:00 PM PDT

AP - Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to deter people from buying vast amounts of pot and selling it on the black market.

Terror plot in Europe prompted drone strikes (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT

A police car is parked in front of the Eiffel Tower after its evacuation following a bomb alert in Paris on September 28. Western intelligence agencies have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by extremists based in Pakistan, security sources and media reports said Wednesday.(AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)AP - Police increased their guard around Buckingham Palace and other landmarks Wednesday as security officials monitored what they described as a fledgling terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other attacks on Britain, France or Germany.

New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:29 PM PDT

AP - A new study from Sweden is stirring fresh debate over whether women in their 40s should get mammograms. It suggests that the breast cancer screening test can lower the risk of dying of the disease by 26 percent or more in this age group.

Charges dropped against widow in attorney's death (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:09 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors who received an unexpected autopsy result dropped a murder charge Wednesday against a woman who had been accused of killing her ailing husband as a result of a botched at-home medical procedure.

Gunfire at UT highlights colleges' response (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Police block of the University of Texas campus where a gunman opened fire then killed himself inside a library, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 in Austin. The UT clock tower is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Yet another campus shooting, this one at the University of Texas in Austin, provided a terrifying test of how colleges respond at a time when universities nationwide have bolstered efforts to prevent bloodshed and respond decisively.

Real estate agent slaying suspect arrested in NC (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:43 PM PDT

Photo of a house where the body of Andrew VonStein was found early Tuesday morning is shown Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, in Kent, Ohio. Authorities say two real estate agents were killed and another was robbed in the past week in northeast Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - A suspect in the fatal shooting of an Ohio real estate agent whose body was found in a vacant home he was trying to sell was arrested in North Carolina after a weeklong manhunt.
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