Wednesday, December 29, 2010

American Airlines jet goes off runway in Wyoming (AP)

American Airlines jet goes off runway in Wyoming (AP)

American Airlines jet goes off runway in Wyoming (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST

AP - An American Airlines jet went past the end of a snowy runway while landing at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Airport on Wednesday, but no one was injured and the plane was not damaged, officials said.

NJ gov, NYC mayor feel the heat after the blizzard (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:20 PM PST

People walk past an MTA bus stuck in the middle of Stillwell Ave. in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - With many streets still unplowed, New Yorkers are griping that their billionaire mayor is out of touch and has failed at the basic task of keeping the city running, while New Jersey's governor is taking heat for vacationing at Disney World during the crisis.

Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:57 PM PST

This is a Aug. 21, 2010 photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections of Jamie Scott who along with her sister Gladys Scott had their life sentences for robbery suspended by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. The two women were convicted in 1994 for their roles in an armed robbery that netted $11. Barbour said he asked the Mississippi Parole Board to review the case and said the board agreed with his decision to indefinitely suspend the sentences of Gladys and Jamie Scott. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department Of Corrections)AP - For 16 years, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott have shared a life behind bars for their part in an $11 armed robbery. To share freedom, they must also share a kidney.

New Orleans' Restaurants Move to Reinvent Local Cuisine (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:05 AM PST

Time.com - A number of new restaurants are cooking up a smarter, cleaner, more exciting kind of New Orleanian food -- still rich in butter and Creole flavors, still deeply traditional, but with a new-school bent

Q&A: Author Dominic Tierney on U.S. Military Goals (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:50 AM PST

Time.com - Dominic Tierney, author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War, sees the two parallel modes in the American experience of war that have lingered since the Civil War

Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010 file photo, Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell delivers remarks at Values Voter Summit in Washington. Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of O'Donnell to determine if she broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation to determine whether failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Feud over former Venezuelan president's body ends (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST

Cecilia Victoria Perez, left, and Maria Francia Perez, fourth from left, daughters of former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez, stand with Cecilia Matos, third from left, Perez' longtime mistress and secretary, as they arrive for a funeral mass for Perez at the St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Miami, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. Perez died Saturday at age 88. At right is Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - Capping a series of events straight out of a telenovela, the mistress of charismatic and controversial former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez agreed Wednesday to honor his estranged wife's wishes and allow his body to be buried in his homeland.

Nevada's Wild West spirit snubs legal marijuana (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, empty bottles for cola containing THC, known as consumables, are pictured in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Nevada is known for letting just about anything slide, whether it's booze, bets or brothels. But even here there are limits.

AP Enterprise: Few sites redeveloped after mining (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:39 AM PST

AP - A short drive up a side road through dense Appalachian forest ends at a vast, flat clearing where a mountaintop used to be.

California woman arrested in insider trade scheme (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:37 PM PST

AP - A California woman who tipped off two portfolio managers about the unannounced earnings of technology companies is the latest person arrested in a federal crackdown on consultants and others who specialize in feeding inside information to hedge funds, federal authorities announced Wednesday.

Body pulled from explosion rubble near Detroit (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:32 PM PST

A firefighter surveys the damage after an apparent gas explosion at William C. Franks Furniture store on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 in Wayne, Mich. Wayne City Manager John Zech says owner Paul Franks is in critical condition in the burn unit of the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)AP - Workers pulled a man's body from the wreckage of a furniture store leveled by a suspected natural gas explosion on Wednesday and were still looking for a missing woman, Wayne City Manager John Zech said.

ME: Designer was strangled, held underwater in tub (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST

AP - A swimsuit designer found dead in an overflowing bathtub in a chic Manhattan hotel was strangled and drowned, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Tragedy and a dream reunite ex-basketball buddies (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST

In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, former NBA basketball player Mike Williams attends his physical therapy session at Glencrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Chicago. After a near fatal shooting last year that left him mostly paralyzed from the waist down, Williams is teaming up with a Chicago doctor in hopes of being outfitted with robot-like legs that used to be the stuff of science fiction, but now are being made by a handful of biotech companies. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - A Chicago doctor is teaming up with a paralyzed ex-pro basketball player who dreams of ditching his wheelchair and walking again. With cutting-edge bionic legs entering the high-tech medical device market, his goal may be within reach.

Bellagio nixing $25,000 chip after casino heist (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 06:21 PM PST

A view of the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada December 14, 2010. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are looking for an armed man who made off on a motorcycle with about $1.5 million worth of gambling chips from the Bellagio in an early morning robbery on Tuesday. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP - Las Vegas casino bosses are serving notice to the bandit who made off with $1.5 million in chips from the Bellagio: Try to redeem those worth $25,000 soon or they'll become worthless.

Oops! Mich. repeals penalties for some drug crimes (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:31 PM PST

AP - Possessing drugs such as synthetic marijuana and an Ecstasy-like substance called BZP won't result in jail time or fines in Michigan because lawmakers accidentally repealed the penalties for those crimes.

Judge strikes down NYC's gruesome tobacco ads (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:39 PM PST

AP - The city's campaign to scare smokers with grotesque images of decaying teeth or a diseased lung wherever tobacco products are sold was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who concluded that only the federal government can dictate warnings that must accompany the promotion of cigarettes.

Texting trolley driver admits guilt in Mass. crash (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:03 PM PST

Aiden Quinn, a former Boston subway driver who authorities say was texting his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the rear of another one, injuring more than 60 people, stands in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. Quinn changed his plea Wednesday to guilty. He had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge, gross negligence by a person in control of a common carrier. (AP Photo/Suzanne Kreiter, Pool)AP - A subway driver who authorities say was texting his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the back of another one near an underground station, injuring more than 60 people, pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to probation.

Americans turn to technology to control impulses (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST

This screenshot courtesy of Cuttlefish Industries shows the 'Don't Dial!' app. A handful of new apps, like 'Don't Dial!,' can cut off your access to phone numbers for up to 24 hours. (AP Photo/Cuttlefish Industries) NO SALESAP - Dan Nainan can't trust himself to work at his computer without clicking on distractions, so he uses an Internet-blocking program to shut down his Web access twice a day.

Braun jabs at Emanuel for needing Clinton's help (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:43 PM PST

Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun responds to a question during a news conference Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010, in Chicago. Braun says Bill Clinton's decision to campaign for Rahm Emanuel amounts to an outsider helping an outsider in the Chicago mayoral race. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun said Wednesday that Bill Clinton's decision to campaign for former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the Chicago mayoral race simply amounts to an outsider helping an outsider.
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