Friday, January 28, 2011

Jared Loughner hearings headed to Tucson: court (Reuters)

Jared Loughner hearings headed to Tucson: court (Reuters)

Jared Loughner hearings headed to Tucson: court (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:10 PM PST

Jared Lee Loughner in a photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Forensic Unit. REUTERS/FileReuters - Court proceedings against accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner are set to move to a U.S. federal court in Tucson, after the prosecution and defense reached agreement, court documents showed on Friday

Pentagon releases guidelines for repealing gay policy (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:31 PM PST

Reuters - New Pentagon rules allowing gays to serve openly in the military prohibit separate bathroom facilities based on sexual orientation and say that not all benefits will be extended to same sex dependents.

New York City may have to lay off 15,000 teachers: mayor (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:32 PM PST

Fifth grade children wave as a navy ship steams up the Hudson River for Fleet Week, May 25, 2005. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - New York City might have to lay off 15,000 teachers if the state, grappling with a $10 billion deficit, cuts the city's education budget by $1 billion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday.

The Role Model: What Obama Sees in Reagan (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST

Time.com - Barack Obama realized long ago that Ronald Reagan was a transformational President who reshaped the nation and its politics. Now Obama is fashioning his own presidency to follow the Gipper's playbook

Obama's SOTU Success: Making Democrats the Party of Optimism (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST

Time.com - In a deft State of the Union address, Obama turns the tables on the GOP, redefining his party and himself

Man who mailed white powder to Obama, others sentenced (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:33 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama waits to speak at the Families USA's 16th annual Health Action Conference at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington January 28, 2011. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - DENVER (Reuters) -- A mentally ill man who admitted mailing 13 letters filled with white powder to President Barack Obama, members of Congress and Argentine consulates in Los Angeles and New York was sentenced on Friday to six years in federal prison.

NASA marks 25th anniversary of Challenger accident (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:25 PM PST

June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Dick Scobee, commander of space shuttle Challenger, speaks in front of the Space Mirror Memorial during a remembrance ceremony to mark the 25th Anniversary of space shuttle Challenger at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. On the memorial behind her are the names of the astronauts that perished in Challenger. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Hundreds gathered at NASA's launch site Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, receiving words of hope from the widow of the space shuttle's commander.

LA chief apologizes for dragnet in shooting hoax (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan., 19, 2011, a group of police officers search the perimeter of El Camino Real High School in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles school police officer who said a man shot him near the San Fernando Valley high school last week was arrested Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, on suspicion of filing a false police report. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said there was no gunman or outstanding suspect and Officer Jeffrey Stenroos was in custody. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - A school police officer who triggered a massive manhunt by saying he had been shot in his bulletproof vest was regarded as a pariah Friday by authorities who deemed the shooting a hoax.

No bodies in kidnap suspect's car taken from canal (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:39 PM PST

Rescue workers pull up three cars from a canal in Patterson, Calif., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Divers began a daring effort Friday in frigid water to recover the car of a kidnapping suspect from a tunnel some 50 feet below the surface of a Central California canal. Earlier in the day, searchers discovered the Toyota Corolla belonging to Jose Rodriguez, who is suspected of kidnapping 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas on Jan. 18. It had not yet been determined if anyone was inside. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Authorities pulled a kidnapping suspect's car from the bottom of a frigid Central California canal Friday, but the bodies of the suspect and the missing 4-year-old boy were not inside.

Police: Wife of Army officer kills her 2 children (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST

AP - The wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer, police said Friday. Afterward, the woman told detectives she killed the teens for being "mouthy."

Obama tells Mubarak: Must take 'concrete steps' (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:58 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about Egypt in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Stepping up pressure on a stalwart but flawed Middle East ally, President Barack Obama said he personally told Egypt's Hosni Mubarak Friday night to take "concrete steps" to expand rights inside the Arab nation and refrain from violence against protesters flooding the streets of Cairo and other cities. The White House suggested U.S. aid could be at stake.

AP finds execution-drug shortage widespread in US (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:02 PM PST

AP - Most of the 35 states with capital punishment have run out of a key lethal injection drug or will soon, according to an Associated Press review. And in many places, switching to another drug could prove a difficult, drawn-out process, fraught with legal challenges from death row that could put executions on hold.

Relentless snow brings out the best in Easterners (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 07:52 AM PST

In this Jan. 27, 2011 photo, Lakeesha Paylor, left, who worked with Newark Mayor Cory Booker to dig cars out from under the snow, gets a hug from the mayor after he helped her dig her vehicle out, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - Between storms, a builder in Connecticut uses his skid loader to plow his neighbors' driveways. In Maryland, a good Samaritan hands out water and M&Ms to stranded drivers. The mayor of Philadelphia urges residents to "be kind" and help one another out — and they respond by doing just that.

Air Force chief gets prison over sexual advances (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, through the Dayton Daily News, shows Chief Master Sgt. William Gurney, a former top Air Force Materiel Command adviser at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. On Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, jurors at Scott Air Force Base near Mascoutah, Ill., are slated to begin deciding the case of Gurney who is accused of using sexual harassment in mistreating two subordinates, fondling one of those women and abusing his authority. The 27-year Air Force veteran pleaded guilty Monday, Jan. 24 to 13 counts, many involving alleged sexual misconduct with Air Force women. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force via Dayton Daily News, File)AP - A military jury on Friday sentenced a chief master sergeant of the Air Force to a year and eight months in prison and a dishonorable discharge for committing adultery with four married female subordinates and making unwanted sexual advances toward several others.

Lesbian teens sue Minn. school over pep fest (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:49 PM PST

AP - Two lesbian teens at Champlin Park High School have taken the state's largest school district to federal court because they want a judge to force the district to allow them to make a political statement by making a high-profile entrance to a pep fest as a couple on Monday.

Graphic video released in Detroit precinct attack (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:44 PM PST

In this undated booking photo released by the Dearborn Police Department, Lamar Deshea Moore is shown. Moore was fatally shot after wounding four officers at a Detroit police station Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 and had been the subject of a sexual assault investigation before the shooting, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Dearborn Police Department)AP - A graphic 68-second video released by Detroit police Friday shows a gunman striding into one of the city's precinct stations, spraying volleys from a shotgun at surprised officers before being fatally wounded within inches of three of his victims.

Officials say defense consultant died from assault (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:16 PM PST

AP - A federal defense consultant whose body was found in a Delaware landfill was assaulted and died of blunt force trauma, the state medical examiner's office said Friday.

Ohio's Kucinich settles olive-pit-in-sandwich suit (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:26 PM PST

AP - Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Friday that he settled a lawsuit filed against a Capitol Hill cafeteria over a split tooth he says he suffered when he bit into an olive pit in a sandwich wrap.

Internet cutoff fails to silence Egypt protests (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:21 PM PST

Injured anti-government activists are evacuated during clashes with the police in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a fourth day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - In its effort to silence protesters, Egypt took a step that's rare even among authoritarian governments: It cut off the Internet across the entire country.
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