Monday, January 3, 2011

Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll (Reuters)

Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll (Reuters)

Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:59 AM PST

Reuters - Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.

Brown serves up hot dogs, austerity for California (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:36 PM PST

Reuters - Jerry Brown was sworn in as California's governor on Monday, returning to a job he held nearly three decades ago, and pledged a "tough budget" to turn around one of the most financially strapped U.S. states.

New year, old worry for state budgets (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:07 PM PST

Reuters - Legislators in U.S. states who are returning to work this month or entering office for the first time expect to spend much of the new year pinching pennies.

Snooki's New Year's Stunt Banished to Jersey (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:20 AM PST

Time.com - What would New Year's Eve be like without dropping a Jersey Shore star from great heights? Luckily, we don't have to know.

Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 10:20 AM PST

Time.com - She claims the issue was not confusion over the law, but a vindictive Vice President Joe Biden, who beat O'Donnell by nearly 30 percentage points in the 2008 elections.

Special Report: California or bust (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:48 PM PST

South Whittier School District Superintendent Erich Kwek, Ed. D., and consultant Eric Hall (R) speak to a reporter in Kwek's office in a former classroom at Telechron Elementary School in Whittier, California, December 6, 2010. The public schools are a sign of the grim position the Golden State finds itself in as a new governor takes office -- self-proclaimed skinflint Jerry Brown, a Democrat with a long history in California politics. Photo taken December 6, 2010. To match Special Report CALIFORNIA/POLITICS REUTERS/David McNew (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)Reuters - Erich Kwek's new office is awash in sunlight and impeccably ordered, with enough space for a desk, small sitting area and a conference table. If you didn't know better, you might mistake it for a corner office at a successful corporation.

Jerry Brown returns to lead a troubled California (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST

Gov. Jerry Brown gestures as he addresses the audience after he was sworn-in as the 39th Governor of California during ceremonies in Sacramento, Calif. Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California's 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the one he led then.

Body of Ill. mom who vanished after crash found (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:12 PM PST

AP - Searchers on Monday found the body of a mother of four who vanished after an early December car crash that killed her husband, solving a mystery that began with the discovery of her slipper in the snow and footprints leading away from the car.

Ohio boy, 10, faces charge in mom's fatal shooting (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:03 PM PST

A ten-year old boy sits with leg irons in a courtroom during his court appearance Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, in Millersburg, Ohio. The boy has been charged as a juvenile with murder in the fatal shooting of his mother after authorities said he told a neighbor about the killing. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - A 10-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with murder in the fatal shooting of his mother after authorities said he told a neighbor about the killing.

Murder charge for songwriter's son in NY tub death (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:09 PM PST

AP - An Academy Award-winning songwriter's son has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his swimsuit designer girlfriend, who was found in a posh hotel bathtub, according to court records that show the upgraded charges.

Racy videos raise questions about Navy culture (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST

In this frame grab taken from video provided to 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 - Raunchy comedy videos made by a high-ranking Navy commander and shown to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago have suddenly proved an embarrassment to the Pentagon that could blight the officer's career.

DNA clears Texas man who spent 30 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by The Innocence Project shows Cornelius Dupree Jr., right, and his wife Selma Perkins Dupree. Dupree, who made parole six months ago, was declared innocent Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 of a rape and robbery that put him in prison for 30 years, more than any other DNA exoneree in Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy of The Innocence Project, ho)AP - Prosecutors declared a Texas man innocent Monday of a rape and robbery that put him in prison for 30 years, more than any other DNA exoneree in Texas. DNA test results that came back barely a week after Cornelius Dupree Jr. was paroled in July excluded him as the person who attacked a Dallas woman in 1979, prosecutors said Monday. Dupree was just 20 when he was sentenced to 75 years in prison in 1980.

Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:53 PM PST

In this Dec. 15, 2010 photo, the Neshaminy Creek is shown after sunset in Chalfont Pa. The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep. Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush. There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

4 and 20 blackbirds, and 3,000, dead in the sky (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:52 PM PST

A worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark. on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 as more can be seen on the street behind him. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday more than 1,000 dead black birds fell from the sky in Beebe. The agency said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins) RETRANSMISSION FOR LARGER FILEAP - New Year's revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds.

Body of US military expert found in Del. landfill (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:50 PM PST

This undated family photo released via the Newark Police Department shows John P. Wheeler III. Wheeler's body was discovered Dec. 31, 2010 as a waste management truck emptied its contents at the Wilmington, Del.-area landfill. His death has been ruled a homicide. (AP Photo/Newark Police) NO SALESAP - The body of a military expert who served in three Republican administrations was found dumped in a landfill and investigators said Monday they were trying to retrace his steps in the days leading up to his death.

NYC trash pickup resumes, a week after blizzard (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:25 PM PST

For the first time since a Christmas weekend blizzard that dumped 20 inches of snow on New York City, sanitation workers pick up garbage in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - City workers turned their attention to clearing mounting piles of garbage on Monday, while the head of the Sanitation Department defended its performance in the snowstorm that brought much of New York to a standstill.

Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost from J&J (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:31 PM PST

Nano technologist Mehmet Toner, Ph.D., talks about his team's announcement of their development of a new blood test so sensitive it can spot a singe cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones during a media availability in Boston, Monday afternoon, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 11:15 AM PST

Graphic shows the relationship between habits and decision makingAP - Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break — they get wired into our brains.

End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 07:01 AM PST

In this Dec. 17, 2010 photo in Raleigh, N.C., Allison Warden poses with her car showing a message about the rapture. Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a website, We Can Know. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.

Judge will rule if doc is tried in Jackson's death (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:49 PM PST

FILE - In this April 5, 2010, file photo Dr. Conrad Murray appears at a procedural hearing in Los Angeles. Murray goes before a court this week, his reputation in tatters and his future on the line as he faces a preliminary hearing charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. AP Photo/David McNew, Pool, File)AP - A doctor who had been hired for a dream job as Michael Jackson's highly paid private physician now has his reputation in tatters and his future on the line as he faces a preliminary hearing to decide if he will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Jackson.
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