Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Ski lift accident in Maine sends 8 to hospital (AP)

Ski lift accident in Maine sends 8 to hospital (AP)


Ski lift accident in Maine sends 8 to hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 07:12 PM PST

This photo provided by Al Noyes shows skiers and lift chairs on the slope, lower right, after a lift derailed on the state's tallest ski mountain at the Sugarloaf resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Al Noyes) NO SALESAP - A 35-year-old chair lift due to be replaced failed Tuesday in high winds at a Maine resort, sending skiers — some of them children — plummeting into ungroomed snow far below that fell with the Northeast's recent blizzard and softened the landing. At least eight were injured.


NY struggles to dig out; passengers still stranded (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:55 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 - Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded for up to 10 hours on the tarmac at overworked Kennedy Airport. Ambulances struggled to get patients through unplowed streets. City buses sat abandoned in the snow.


Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:34 PM PST

President Barack Obama poses for photographs with members of the military during Christmas dinner at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. The first family is in Hawaii for the holidays. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere.


Interview with 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Producer Lee Mendelson (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 01:10 AM PST

Time.com - Interview with 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Producer Lee Mendelson

Obama's Lame-Duck Comeback: Hello, Bipartisanship (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - Just over a year ago, Saturday Night Live lampooned President Obama for his record, or lack thereof

8 killed in fire in abandoned New Orleans building (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST

Bodies are removed from a fatal fire in an abandoned warehouse in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Authorities say the blaze killed eight homeless people who were burning wood in a barrel to stay warm during the freezing night. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The deadliest city blaze in decades killed eight homeless squatters who were burning debris in an abandoned warehouse to stay warm Tuesday, authorities said.


Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. chill (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:34 PM PST

Manatees congregate in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Overnight temperatures in South Florida were in the 30s.  (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - People aren't the only ones in Florida who don't like cold weather. Manatees — those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails — are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. On Tuesday, more than 300 manatees floated in the outflow of Tampa Electric's Big Bend Power Station.


Police force crash in Las Vegas Strip car chase (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:54 PM PST

AP - A 20-year-old man who called 911 to report that he was drunk led police in a bizarre car chase early Tuesday that ended when he crashed on the Las Vegas Strip.

Rep Davis to Clinton: Stay out of Chicago politics (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2010 file photo, U.S. Rep Danny Davis, center, along with his wife Vera, announces his candidacy for mayor of Chicago. Davis issued a news release Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010, saying he wants former President Bill Clinton to stay out of the Chicago mayor's race and not campaign for Davis' rival Rahm Emanuel. Davis warned Clinton that he could jeopardize his 'long and fruitful relationship' with African Americans by choosing Emanuel. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)AP - Congressman Danny Davis has a message for former President Bill Clinton: Don't take sides in the Chicago mayor's race — or else.


Police fatalities jump 37 percent in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:30 PM PST

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, Marines salute Saloma Bejar and Mariam Bejar, the mother and wife of fallen officer Javier Bejar, after presenting the ceremonial flag at cemetery services in Reedley, Calif. Cluster killings of more than one officer helped make 2010 a particularly dangerous year for police officers. Some 160 officers died in the line of duty, a 37 percent jump from the same period in 2009 when 117 officers were killed, according to statistics compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit that tracks police deaths. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)AP - Two officers in a remote Alaska town were ambushed as they chatted on a street. A California officer and deputy were killed by an arson suspect with a high-powered rifle as they tried to serve a warrant. Two other officers doing anti-drug work were gunned down by men along a busy Arkansas highway.


New laws may not be on the books for very long (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST

FILE - In this March 16, 2008, file photo, paparazzi Craig Williams, of Hollywood.TV, is seen through the side mirror during a stake out near Britney Spears' house in Los Angeles. Under a new law that will take effect this year paparazzi caught driving recklessly while chasing celebrities can be charged with a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,500 fine.  Previously they could only be charged with an infraction. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)AP - Revamped gun measures and tougher rules for payday lenders are among the laws set to take effect around the country on Jan. 1. But some of them may not be on the books for long.


Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:34 PM PST

Immacula Antenor holds a photo her son, Jonas Antenor Tuesday Dec. 28, 2010 in Miami. Jonas Angtenor, 17, was one of five teens found dead Monday at the Presidente Hotel in Hialeah, Fla. The teens were attending a birhtday party where it appears that a vehicle was left running in a garage under their hotel room. Investigators said Tuesday that the men likely died from carbon monoxide. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)AP - Five young men who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Florida motel room were constant companions who acted like brothers and even went shoe shopping together before Christmas so they all would have the same pair, relatives said Tuesday.


Flights make it to NYC, but are stranded on tarmac (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while a British Airways airplane sits motionless on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Passengers on two Cathay Pacific flights and a British Airways flight spent hours on the tarmac Monday after landing because there were no gates available for them. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)AP - For some airline passengers who were finally able to make it to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a blizzard shut the region down, the travel nightmare started once they landed.


Police: Arizona strip club shooter fired at random (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:30 PM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, 28-year-old Gavin MacFarlane of Scottsdale is shown. MacFarlane is accused of shooting people at random at a west Phoenix strip club, killing two people and injuring three others.  He remains jailed. (AP Photo/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)AP - A man accused of opening fire in a Phoenix strip club, killing two people and injuring three others, told police that he had planned the crime and chose the victims at random, according to a court document released Tuesday.


Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:44 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 15, 2010, the Fayette Power Project is shown in Ellinger, Texas. Some environmentalists, ranchers and scientists believe the cause of trees dying in the area is sulfur dioxide emissions from the nearby Fayette Power Project, a coal-fired power plant. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - Along a stretch of Highway 21, in a pastoral, hilly region of Texas, is a vegetative wasteland. Trees are barren, or covered in gray, dying foliage and peeling bark. Fallen, dead limbs litter the ground where pecan growers and ranchers have watched trees die slow, agonizing deaths.


Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST

In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, former President Jimmy Carter, left, holds a juvenile green sea turtle next to his wife Rosalynn Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010, at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla. Carter and his family toured the facility as a facet of their vacation in the Florida Keys. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman) NO SALESAP - Jimmy Carter has helped release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle during a family vacation in the Florida Keys.


After holiday spree, doubts about economy linger (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2010 file photo, Chris Palmer, of Topsham, Maine, has his arms full carrying his 10-month-old son, Jameson, and some last-minute Christmas gifts he bought at L.L. Bean, in Freeport, Maine. A new survey shows consumer confidence dipped in December, even after other reports suggest people increased their holiday spending at the biggest rate in four years.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)AP - Holiday spending surged this year, but Americans still have their doubts about the economy.


E-mails, letters favor pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:40 PM PST

AP - More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson's office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico's most famous Old West outlaws.

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