Friday, October 29, 2010

Terror plot thwarted as US-bound explosives seized (AP)

Terror plot thwarted as US-bound explosives seized (AP)

Terror plot thwarted as US-bound explosives seized (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:52 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about the suspicious packages found on U.S. bound planes, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. The plot triggered worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new terror campaign.

Chicago Jewish groups on alert for odd packages (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Emergency personnel work near a grounded UPS cargo jet as the plane is searched by law enforcement officials at Philadelphia International Airport October 29, 2010. Two suspicious packages being flown from Yemen to the United States were found in Britain and Dubai on Friday after a tip prompted authorities to search cargo planes on both sides of the Atlantic. The packages spurred searches and investigations of jets arriving at New York's JFK Airport, Newark International Airport in New Jersey and the airport in Philadelphia. Authorities are investigating reports the parcels were bound for a synagogue and Jewish community center in Chicago. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW)AP - Leaders of Jewish institutions in Chicago put their staffs on alert Friday following the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages aboard cargo jets that contained explosives.

Workplace safety rules a part of ND death probe (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

In this Oct. 28, 2010, photo, a hydraulic scissor lift lies on its side near the Notre Dame football field in South Bend, Ind. Declan Sullivan, 20-year-old junior from Long Grove, Ill., died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in South Bend, Ind., after the tower he was in while videotaping football practice toppled as high wind gusts swept through Indiana. (AP Photo/The Notre Dame Observer, Sam Werner) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - State regulators are investigating whether the University of Notre Dame violated safety rules when it allowed a student to videotape football practice from a tall hydraulic lift that toppled in high winds, killing the young man.

School Diversity: The Problems with Economic Integration (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Education reform: despite its allure, the economic integration of schools is not a panacea

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

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:30 AM 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

APNewsBreak: Arrest in revenge beating of priest (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:28 PM PDT

** CORRECTS TO ADD ALLEGEDLY TO ABUSE ** In this photo provided by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office taken on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 in San Jose, Calif., shows booking photo of Will Lynch. Lynch who was allegedly abused by a Jesuit priest as a young child turned himself on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 on charges that he attacked the priest 35 years later in the retirement home where he now lives and almost killed him in a violent beating. (AP Photo/Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office) allegedlyAP - A man allegedly molested three decades ago by a priest was arrested Friday on charges that he lured the clergyman to the lobby of a Jesuit retirement home and beat him in front of shocked witnesses, authorities said.

Traditional NM tribe bans trick-or-treating (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:11 PM PDT

AP - Kids who have been eagerly awaiting a fun-filled night of trick-or-treating in this small Native American community will need to find a new way to spend Halloween.

Clinton denies asking Fla. Dem to drop Senate bid (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2010 file photo, Florida Democratic senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., left, listens to former President Bill Clinton address supporters during a campaign rally for Meek at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. Meek is denying reports that he agreed to drop out of the Florida Senate race under pressure from former President Clinton. Politico on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 reported that Clinton attempted to persuade Meek last week while campaigning with him in Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Friday denied reports — confirmed by his spokesman a day earlier — that he asked Democrat Kendrick Meek to drop out of the three-way Florida Senate race to clear the way for independent Gov. Charlie Crist.

Brother of Conn. triple killer: Don't kill self (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:39 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Steven Hayes. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)AP - Shortly after Steven Hayes was charged with killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their home in 2007, his brother called him a monster who could be hanged for his crimes.

Tapes recount drama of crash response (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:16 PM PDT

AP - Radio transmissions released by the Federal Aviation Administration show snippets of the frantic rescue efforts that unfolded after a floatplane slammed into a remote mountainside in southwest Alaska, killing former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others.

Police say gunman surrenders at Nevada Walmart (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:02 PM PDT

Police set up a command center outside the Fire creek Crossing Walmart in south Reno after reports of multiple shootings inside the store on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. A gunman allegedly shot three employees who have been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, police said. About 100 people in the store were safely evacuated, police said. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Tim Dunn)AP - A gunman who police said was about to be fired surrendered Friday after shooting three co-workers at a Walmart store in Nevada in a possible retaliation attack, authorities said.

Ohio McDonald's gives voting advice in paychecks (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:50 PM PDT

AP - An undetermined number of McDonald's employees at a northeastern Ohio franchise received handbills in their most recent paychecks suggesting they vote for three Republican candidates.

Hollywood doctors face fallout from Smith case (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:42 PM PDT

Dr. Sandeep Kapoor leaves court after he was acquitted on all charges in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - In hospitals, medical offices and pharmacies, Anna Nicole Smith was routinely registered under pseudonyms to protect her privacy.

Teen testifies about abuse at Calif. torture trial (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:57 PM PDT

Kyle Ramirez, 18, is escorted by deputies from a San Joaquin County courtroom where he testified in the trial of Anthony Waiters, for the allegedly abduction and false imprisonment of Ramirez, when he was 16-year-old teen, in Stockton, Calif., Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Ramirez took the witness stand to describe the abuses he said he suffered at the hands of Waiters. Waiters, 31, is one fo four accused of torturing Ramirez and holding him captive in a Tracy, Calif., home for more than a year. Waters has pleaded not guilty to aggravated mayhem, torture, kidnapping and false imprisonment charges involving the teen.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A teenage boy who stumbled into a Northern California health club nearly two years ago almost naked with a chain shackled to his ankle testified Friday that a neighbor cut him with a knife, lit his pants on fire and beat him unconscious with a boxing glove.

Mo. man charged with shooting 4 people, killing 3 (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:05 PM PDT

This image provided by Missouri police shows a booking photo of Joshua William Maylee, 23, who was captured as a suspect Thursday Oct. 28, 2010 in a deadly shooting in central Missouri. Maylee was taken into custody about 1:30 p.m. after approaching a residence on foot in Cooper County, several dozen miles west of where the shootings occurred, said Sgt. Robert Bruchsaler of the Mid-Missouri Major Case Squad. (AP Photo/Missouri Police)AP - In the hours before police say he killed three people and wounded another, Joshua Maylee met with an attorney — he was facing a felony theft charge — and passed much of the day at his grandfather's home.

Person of interest held in Ill. student's death (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:26 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., shows student Antinette 'Toni' Keller, 18, of Plainfield, Ill., who disappeared Oct. 14, 2010, after saying she was going to walk toward a park in DeKalb. (AP Photo/Northern Illinois University)AP - The family of a freshman art student at Northern Illinois University expressed relief on Friday that a person of interest was being held in the investigation of her death — though details are scant about the identity or current location of the detainee.

Pa. collar bomb victim's brother: Trial a 'circus' (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:34 PM PDT

AP - A trial examining the death of a pizza delivery driver who was killed in a collar-bomb bank robbery plot is a "circus show" that will bring the family no justice, the dead man's brother said Friday.

2 wildfires prompt evacuations in Boulder, Colo. (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:54 PM PDT

A firefighting aircraft drops slurry on a wildfire in the foothills west of Boulder, Colo., on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010.(AP Photo/ Ed Andrieski)AP - Two wildfires burning in Colorado on Friday prompted the evacuations of the homes of 1,700 people as well as more in neighboring foothills where dozens of houses were burned in a blaze last month.

Plane with cargo from Yemen lands in NY, searched (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Cargo containers stand behind a security fence after they were searched by British police at the East Midlands airport, in Derby, England, about two hours north of London, Friday Oct. 29, 2010. A foreign intelligence service is thought to have alerted authorities to the possible terrorist threat in U.S., and Britain to investigate packages shipped from Yemen to Chicago religious sites, although no explosives have yet been found. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)AP - A commercial passenger jet carrying cargo from Yemen landed in New York under military fighter jet escort and its cargo was searched Friday, as parcels in transit across the globe were scrutinized after authorities overseas found two explosive packages from Yemen bound for Chicago.
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