Sunday, January 2, 2011

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST

FILE - In this April 15, 2010 file photo, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican agenda for the 112th Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than the lives of Americans in the next two years. Issa, the chief Republican investigator, is raring to get started. As the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he's been especially critical of what he calls waste in Obama’s economic stimulus spending. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.

Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:41 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.

Navy to investigate lewd videos shown on carrier (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:05 PM PST

In this frame grab taken from video obtained by the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors appears in one of a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches that were broadcast on the USS Enterprise via closed-circuit television. A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew the series of sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot reported in its Sunday editions that Capt. Owen Honors appeared in the videos in 2006 and 2007 while he was the USS Enterprise's second-ranking officer, and showed them across the ship on closed-circuit television. He took over as the ship's commander in May. (AP Photo/The Virginian Pilot) NO SALESAP - The Navy said Sunday it will investigate "clearly inappropriate" videos broadcast to the crew of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in which a top officer of the ship used gay slurs, mimicked masturbation and opened the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together.

Family says teen killed at Atlanta train station (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:33 PM PST

AP - Friends and family say a 14-year-old boy who went out for a midnight celebration was knifed to death at a downtown Atlanta train station after he was accosted by a man who accused him of stealing a cell phone.

Scents latest weapons in fight against sea lamprey (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:31 PM PST

In this photo taken July 16, 2010, a scientist with the Hammond Bay Biological Station near Huron Beach, Mich., holds a female sea lamprey. The lamprey uses its disk-shaped mouth and sharp teeth to fasten onto fish and suck out their bodily fluids. (AP Photo/John Flesher)AP - In the never-ending battle to prevent blood-sucking sea lamprey from wiping out some of the most popular fish species in the Great Lakes, biologists are developing new weapons that exploit three certainties in the eel-like parasites' lives: birth, sex and death.

Dead suspect in Ohio trailer park shootout is ID'd (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:43 PM PST

This photo provided by The Clark County Sheriff’s Office shows Michael Ferryman. The Clark County sheriff's office have identified Ferryman as the suspect in a shooting at the Enon Beach mobile-home park, about 50 miles west of Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, that left a sheriff's deputy and Ferryman dead. (AP Photo/Clark County Sheriff's Office)AP - Authorities on Sunday identified a man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and injuring a police officer in a gunbattle at a trailer park.

Universal Orlando ride evacuated after fire (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:12 PM PST

AP - An island ride at Universal Orlando Resort was evacuated Saturday after a fire engulfed a roof structure under which the ride carries visitors. No major injuries were reported.

1 week after blizzard, NYC garbage is piled high (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 03:41 PM PST

FILE- In this Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, people continue to dig out along 72nd Street in New York in the wake of a powerful East Coast blizzard that menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays and shutting down major airports and rail lines. The city has cleaned up from big storms before with ease, but this blizzard became unlike anything New Yorkers had seen in decades. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)AP - One week after a blizzard paralyzed the city, it's more than 6 feet deep in spots. Not the snow — the trash.

Reports of sea lion shootings on rise in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:46 AM PST

AP - The weak and woozy California sea lion found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach in December with buckshot embedded in its skull has become an all-too-common sight for wildlife officials.

DC-bound plane loses radio contact, pilot erred (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:07 PM PST

AP - A passenger plane briefly lost radio contact with air traffic controllers when the pilot turned to the wrong frequency as he approached Washington, leading to the scrambling of fighter jets and the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol, federal officials said Saturday.

More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Ark. (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:18 AM PST

AP - Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

No word from stuck NASA Mars rover Spirit (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:12 AM PST

AP - The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years and has been incommunicado since March.
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