Thursday, October 28, 2010

San Diego policeman, 2 others dead after shootout (AP)

San Diego policeman, 2 others dead after shootout (AP)

San Diego policeman, 2 others dead after shootout (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:39 PM PDT

AP - A shootout at an apartment left a police officer and two other people dead Thursday, sending dozens of residents running from their homes, many in their pajamas.

Ninja ringleader convicted in Florida killing (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:43 PM PDT

FILE - These July 14, 2009, booking photos provided by the Escambia County Sheriff Department in Pensacola, Fla., show suspects in the home invasion and murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings who were found shot to death July 9, 2009. From top left: Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Sr., Wayne Thomas Coldiron, Gary Lamont Sumner, a juvenile whom police did not identify; Frederick Lee Thorton Jr., 19; and Donnie Ray Stallworth, 28, who was arrested in Alabama but lives in Florida.(AP Photo/Escambia Sheriff's Department, File)AP - Jurors have convicted a karate instructor of killing a wealthy Florida couple during a home invasion robbery while the couple's nine special-needs children cowered or slept nearby.

Psychiatrist, lawyer convicted in Smith drug case (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2009 photo, Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer and ex-boyfriend, Howard K. Stern leaves Los Angeles Superior Court after a hearing of the conspiracy trial of Howard K. Stern, Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich. A jury reached verdicts Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial in which the boyfriend-lawyer and two doctors of the former Playboy model were accused of providing her with excessive amounts of prescription drugs. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A boyfriend and two doctors who were part of Anna Nicole Smith's inner circle in her final days and were charged with enabling her prescription drug use were acquitted of most drug charges Thursday, but two were convicted of conspiring to use false names to get her prescriptions.

Kentucky's Rand Paul Tries to Survive a Rocky Campaign (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - A campaign altercation is the latest incident to mar what is turning out to be a tougher race for the Kentucky Senate than some Republicans had expected

Giants' Fan Recalls the Shaky '89 World Series (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:30 AM PDT

Time.com - A San Francisco Giants fan remembers the first time he saw his team in the World Series -- and the earthquake that came along with it

NJ governor shifting focus to state road projects (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:41 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in Trenton, N.J., as he announces that he's standing by his decision to kill the nation's biggest public works project, a train tunnel connecting New Jersey to New York City. Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party for his fearless budget-slashing, has argued that his cash-strapped state can't afford to pay for any overruns on the $9 billion-plus rail tunnel under the Hudson River. The state is on the hook for $2.7 billion plus overruns. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A day after Gov. Chris Christie killed the nation's largest public works project, an underwater rail tunnel linking New York City to its populous New Jersey suburbs, he said Thursday that it's time to focus on badly needed improvements to the state's roads and bridges.

Notre Dame investigates death at football practice (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:50 PM PDT

This photo provided on Thursday Oct. 28, 2010 by The Notre Dame Observer shows Declan Sullivan. Sullivan, a 20-year-old junior from Long Grove, Ill., died Wednesday at a South Bend, Ind. hospital after being transported from the LaBar practice complex where he was videotaping football practice when the tower he was in fell over. The National Weather Service said winds in the area were gusting to 51 mph at the time when the hydraulic scissor lift, which can be lowered or raised depending on needs, toppled. (AP Photo/The Notre Dame Observer) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALESAP - As the Notre Dame football team drilled on its practice field, Declan Sullivan stood high above the turf in a hydraulic lift, videotaping the session so players could get an aerial view of their performance.

Missing 10-year-old NC girl's father out of jail (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Hickory Police Department in Hickory, N.C., shows Adam Baker, the father of missing 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker. Adam Baker was being held Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 in a western North Carolina jail on $7,000 bond on charges unrelated to the disappearance of his daughter. Police in North Carolina say Baker has been arrested and charged with writing bad checks. (AP Photo/Hickory Police Department)AP - The father of a missing North Carolina girl is free after posting bond on charges unrelated to his daughter's disappearance.

Jury deadlocks in NY radio newsman's killing (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

AP - Jurors deadlocked Thursday in the murder trial of a teenager accused of stabbing a radio newsman he met through a Craigslist ad offering sex for money.

Police: Abducted Mich. girl's death was homicide (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:49 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Michigan State Police Department shows Taylor E. Manley. Authorities say they are investigating the deaths of a 38-year-old Michigan man Raymond R. Bush and 15-year-old Manley he's suspected of abducting as a possible murder-suicide. (AP Photo/Michigan State Police)AP - Taylor Manley should have been home when her father returned from his job on the overnight shift at an auto supply plant.

Police capture man wanted in fatal Mo. shootings (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:23 PM PDT

This photo provided Oct. 27, 2010, by the Callaway County Sheriff's Office shows Joshua Maylee, who authorities in central Missouri consider a person of interest in the shooting deaths of three people. (AP Photo/Callaway County Sheriff's Office)AP - A man already facing theft charges was captured Thursday as a suspect in a series of fatal central Missouri shootings that had prompted police to warn anyone associated with him to flee the area.

Original rules of basketball go to auction Dec. 10 (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:20 PM PDT

One of two pages used by James Naismith to write the first basketball rules is shown during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. The two pages will be auctioned off Dec. 10 and are expected to go for millions of dollars with the proceeds to go to a charity that promotes sportsmanship. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - It's been nearly 119 years since James Naismith wrote down 13 rules for a new game he devised as a way to give youths at a Springfield, Mass., YMCA an athletic activity to keep them busy in the winter.

Gay rights backers demand school official's ouster (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT

AP - More than two dozen protesters rallied outside of a high school Thursday to call for the resignation of a school board member who posted on Facebook that he thinks gay youths should kill themselves.

New claims made against Toyota in defects case (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Toyota Motor Corp. bought back cars from drivers who reported sudden acceleration defects, but the company didn't tell federal regulators about the problem, according to court documents filed in the sprawling litigation against the automaker.

Feds: Pa. collar bomb defendant's words show guilt (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:18 PM PDT

AP - The defendant's own words are some of the best evidence that she was "up to her eyeballs" in a bizarre plot that ended in the death of a pizza deliveryman after he robbed a bank with a bomb strapped to his neck, a federal prosecutor told jurors in his closing argument Thursday.

Witness: NH man 'euphoric' over deadly attack (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

Steven Spader listens to the hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, New Hampshire Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Spader's homicide trial gets underway Monday. Spader is facing life in prison without parole for allegedly killing Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon on Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Himsel, Pool)AP - A New Hampshire teenager charged in a deadly home invasion testified Thursday he heard the victims' screams and pleas before two of his partners started hacking at the mother and daughter.

AP survey: Only slight economic gains seen in 2011 (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, a line of job applicants snakes through a rope-line to attend the CUNY Big Apple Job Fair, in New York. In the previous survey in July, the economists predicted unemployment of 8.7 percent at the end of next year. In the survey before that, they foresaw 8.4 percent. Some now think unemployment won't drop to a historically normal 5.5 percent to 6 percent until at least 2018 — several years later than envisioned earlier.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - The new Congress that begins in January will confront an economy and a job market that will improve only slightly next year, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists that found them gloomier than they were three months ago.

Lawmakers probe street harassment of NYC women (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Women walk past a group of construction workers gathered on the street during their lunch break Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010, in New York. Although these men did not harass any of the passersby, a New York City Council committee heard testimony Thursday from women who said men regularly follow them, yell at them and make them feel unsafe and uncomfortable. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. Now lawmakers are examining whether to do something to discourage it.

Wild storm leaves behind 1 death, damage, injuries (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:32 AM PDT

A motorist drives through snow and ice on Main Avenue in Bismarck, N.D. Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Travel was difficult across much of North Dakota, with visibility reduced by blowing snow and roadways covered by ice, snow and slush. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme)AP - People from the Dakotas to North Carolina were dealing with the aftermath of a massive storm that roared across the country, unleashing dozens of tornadoes, rain, flooding and eventually snow to some places, leaving behind plenty of destruction and one death in Michigan.

College tuition costs climbing again this fall (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:38 AM PDT

Law students take part in Boston College's Law School graduation ceremonies in 2009. A desperate US student who is up to his eyeballs in debt, about to become a father and has little hope of finding a job when he graduates next year, has offered to quit law school in exchange for a full tuition refund.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Darren McCollester)AP - College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education more affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports issued Thursday.
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