Thursday, January 27, 2011

Northeast recovers from wet, heavy snowstorm (Reuters)

Northeast recovers from wet, heavy snowstorm (Reuters)

Northeast recovers from wet, heavy snowstorm (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:47 PM PST

Commuters are seen crossing Broadway in Midtown Manhattan during the morning commute in New York, January 27, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - The Northeast dug out of yet another winter storm on Thursday that pummeled the region with unexpectedly heavy snowfall, making January the snowiest month in New York in more than 85 years.

Illinois court says Emanuel can stay on Chicago ballot (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:22 PM PST

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel listens to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington June 23, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel can run for mayor of Chicago, the Illinois high court ruled unanimously on Thursday, overturning a lower court ruling earlier this week to exclude him.

Alaska promises release of Palin emails by May 31 (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST

Reuters - Alaska officials must release by the end of May an estimated 26,500 pages of emails exchanged between former Governor Sarah Palin and her aides, the state's attorney general has determined.

The Reagan Revelation (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST

Time.com - One hundred years after his birth and 30 years after he took office, his optimistic vision and complex conservatism inspire and haunt Republicans and Democrats alike

Fixing Teacher Tenure Without a Pass/Fail Grade (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:25 AM PST

Time.com - Death penalty cases can be resolved faster than teacher-misconduct cases. Why is it so hard to streamline the process?

Nerve agent mix-up prompts Utah base lockdown (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:16 PM PST

Reuters - A mix-up over a tiny vial of a deadly nerve agent led to the overnight lock-down of the Army's Dugway Proving Ground, a sprawling, remote base in Utah where the U.S. military conducts weapons tests, officials said on Thursday.

Report: Arizona fugitive planned suicide by bear (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:36 PM PST

In this Sept. 20, 2010 photo, convicted killer Tracy Province, center, is seen being escorted from a courthouse in Kingman, Ariz. Province, who had escaped from an Arizona prison, told a sheriff's detective his plan was to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him. (AP Photo/Naz Stobe Kirst)AP - A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture that he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the lam.

Solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar; gone now (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST

In this Jan. 2, 2011 photo provided by Nicholas Harrington, Julian Kolevris-Roots, 18, is shown sitting at a piano on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay. Harrington, a 16-year-old looking to boost his college application, says he is responsible for putting a grand piano on a Biscayne Bay sandbar. (AP Photo/Nicholas Harrington)AP - The rumors can stop swirling: The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year's revelers, then brought to its new home by a television designer's teenage son who said Thursday he hoped the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.

Challenger: A painful wound 25 years later (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 1986 file photo, the space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Bruce Weaver, File)AP - For many, no single word evokes as much pain. Challenger. A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 — a scant 73 seconds into flight, nine miles above the Atlantic for all to see — remains NASA's most visible failure.

Ind.'s Pence won't run for president, mum on gov. (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST

AP - U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, a former talk show host and one of the more outspoken conservatives in Congress, said Thursday he won't seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012 because he wants to focus on issues "closer to home" — a message some supporters are interpreting as his clearest sign yet that he'll run for Indiana governor.

Okla. official questions hiring pregnant woman (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:23 PM PST

AP - A member of Oklahoma's Board of Education drew heated reaction Thursday after saying a newly hired administrator would be "worthless" as a legislative liaison if she took immediate maternity leave.

Bulgarian gets 2 years for stealing dead boy's ID (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:18 PM PST

FILE - This is a May 17, 2010, file photo of Bulgarian-born Doitchin Krastev provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in Portland, Ore. Krastev is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 in federal court for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed in 1982 at age 3. (AP Photo/Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A Bulgarian man was sentenced Thursday to two years and a day in prison for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed at age 3.

Relative: Mexico violence worried slain missionary (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:43 PM PST

A pray card handed out by Sam and Nancy Davis, missionaries working in Mexico, is shown in Wesfield, Ind., Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Nancy Davis, 59, died in a South Texas hospital Wednesday about 90 minutes after her husband drove the couple's truck against traffic across the Pharr International Bridge after the couple were allegedly attacked by gunmen, according to a statement issued by the Pharr Police Department. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - A Texas couple who were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of Mexico's most violent areas had been delivering babies and doing missionary work in the country for three decades, and they had come to expect such confrontations, the couple's son said Thursday.

Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:28 PM PST

A flag pokes above the snow around mounds of covered grave markers in Veterans Memorial Field in East Hartford, Conn., after another winter storm, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Enough already.

Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:11 PM PST

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel smiles after being endorsed by U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley as he awaits a ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court regarding his residency which could remove him from the ballot in the upcoming mayoral election, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Illinois' highest court put Rahm Emanuel back in the race for Chicago mayor Thursday, three days after a lower court threw the former White House chief of staff off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a full year.

Potential scams top 7,000 in BP spill compensation (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:40 PM PST

Vietnamese American fisherman Ve Nguyen, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, before the Disaster Recovery subcommittee, of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, hearing on claims from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill . From left are, Gulf Coast Claims Facility Administrator Kenneth Feinberg; Craig Bennett, Director of the U.S. Coast Guard National Pollution Funds Center; and Nguyen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The $20 billion fund responsible for compensating victims of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has received more than 7,000 potentially fraudulent claims, many of which have been referred to the Justice Department for criminal investigations, the fund's administrator told a Senate panel on Thursday.

Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:23 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows the Jebel Faya rockshelter from above, looking north, showing eboulis blocks from roof collapse and the location of excavation trenches. Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than down the Nile, an international team of researchers says. (AP Photo/Science)AP - Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says.

First lady: Army health initiative may be a model (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:38 PM PST

First lady Michelle Obama sits with soldiers in training, Rudolph Buchanan of Illinois, left, and Kimberley Welsh of Vancouver, Canada, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)AP - First lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that the military's push to turn recruits into health-conscious warriors could be a model for making people across the U.S. more focused on fitness and nutrition.

NASA honors astronauts lost from Apollo, shuttles (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:01 PM PST

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator (NASA) Charles Bolden lays a wreath at a Challenger memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in commemoration of NASA's National Day of Remembrance. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - NASA paused Thursday to remember the 17 astronauts lost in the line of duty.

Century knocked off man's terror-support sentence (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:55 PM PST

An undated photo provided by the Mecklenburg County, N.C. Sheriff's Office shows Mohamad Hammoud. Federal Judge Graham Mullen on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, knocked more than 100 years off the sentence of Hammoud, the first man convicted under a key terror-fighting legal strategy. Mullen ruled that Mohamad Hammoud will spend another 20 years in prison for raising funds for the militant group Hezbollah. He was originally sentenced to 155 years in prison after he was found guilty of providing material support to a terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Mecklenburg County, N.C. Sheriff's Office)AP - In the shadow of 9/11, the 155-year sentence handed down to Hezbollah supporter Mohamad Hammoud was considered a milestone in the fight against terrorism and a strong warning to people who sent money to support militant groups.
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