Thursday, January 6, 2011

Packages detonate in two Maryland state buildings (Reuters)

Packages detonate in two Maryland state buildings (Reuters)

Packages detonate in two Maryland state buildings (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:18 PM PST

Law enforcement officials are pictured entering the Maryland Department of Transport headquarters in Hanover, Maryland, in this still image taken from a video released on January 6, 2011. REUTERS/WBAL-TV/HandoutReuters - Two packages detonated in the mailrooms of two Maryland state government buildings on Thursday, but no one was seriously injured, officials said.

Dulles International Airport terminal reopened after scare (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:54 PM PST

Police and fire vehicles sit outside of the Maryland Department of Transportation building after a package exploded earlier in the day, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, in Hanover, Md. Maryland officials say two employees opening mail at separate state office buildings had their fingers burned when they opened packages that emitted smoke and fire. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)Reuters - Part of the main terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., reopened on Thursday after police determined that a suspicious item found there was not a threat, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.

Ex-CIA officer charged with giving reporter secrets (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:27 PM PST

The logo of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - A former CIA officer was arrested on Thursday on charges of illegally disclosing national defense information about Iran to a New York Times reporter who wrote a book.

Where the Jobs Are: Finding the Right Spots in a Not So Great Recovery (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:25 AM PST

Time.com - It's true -- employment is finally growing again. But this won't be a recovery as you've known it. Here's a bird's-eye look at where the best new opportunities for work will be

Taking the House, Republicans to Probe Democrat Policies (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:25 AM PST

Time.com - Two months after a sweeping victory in the midterm elections, Republicans officially reclaim the House of Representatives on Wednesday

SEC says broker will pay $350,000 to Bronx nuns (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:24 PM PST

Reuters - A Long Island broker has agreed to pay $350,000 in a settlement to an order of mostly elderly nuns in the Bronx he was accused of fleecing, The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday.

Facebook apologizes to Iowa birth photographer (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST

Birth photographer Laura Eckert poses in her living room in Shueyville, Iowa on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, with one of the photos she had taken of her friend's baby's first moments. Facebook apologized to Eckert on Thursday, saying the company mistakenly disabled her account in December after saying pictures she posted did not comply with its policies prohibiting nudity. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)AP - Facebook apologized Thursday for disabling the account of an Iowa birth photographer who posted pictures the company initially deemed inappropriate, including shots of a friend and her newborn moments after birth that partially showed her friend's breasts, but not her nipples.

Oil findings boost chance of corp. criminal charge (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:17 PM PST

FILE - This April 21, 2010 file photo shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southeast tip of Louisiana. Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Months of investigation by a presidential commission and other panels reinforce the likelihood that companies involved in the Gulf oil spill will be slapped with criminal charges that could add tens of billions of dollars to the huge fines they already face, legal experts said Thursday.

Homeless Ohio man with velvety voice back with mom (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:26 PM PST

Ted Williams, a homeless man from Columbus, Ohio, whose deep, velvety voice and touching story prompted an outpouring of sympathy and job offers from across the country, is interviewed after his appearance on the NBC 'Today' television show, in New York, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A homeless man whose silky announcing voice has catapulted him to national fame reunited Thursday with his mother, recorded a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and agreed to do voiceover work for MSNBC.

Okla. execution is first of 2011 in US (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:03 PM PST

Attorney James T. Rowan unfurls a banner against the death penalty outside the governor's mansion in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Billy Don Alverson, 39, has been executed, Thursday, for the death of a Tulsa convenience store worker found brutally beaten with a baseball bat almost 16 years ago. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - An Oklahoma death row inmate convicted in the 1995 killing of a convenience store worker has been executed, marking the first execution in the U.S. this year.

Jackpot winner was 'pale, shaking' when he won (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:25 PM PST

Jim and Carolyn McCullar, of Ephrata, Wash., who bought one of the two winning Mega Millions lottery jackpot tickets, talk to reporters, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, in Olympia, Wash. The McCullars will split the $380 million prize with another person who has not yet come forward, who purchased a ticket in Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - No, Carolyn, it's not a heart attack. It's a fortune.

Gov.: Note in package complained about alert signs (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:04 PM PST

In this image provide by the Office of Gov. Martin O'Malley, the envelope, sealed in plastic, that was mailed to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, is seen. (AP Photo/Office of Gov. Martin O'Malley)AP - Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says a fiery package addressed to him contained a note that complained about alerts on state highway signs telling people to report suspicious activity if they see it.

Vang Pao, Hmong guerrilla leader, dies in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 07:04 PM PST

AP - Vang Pao, a revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War, has died. He was 81.

Police: Gunman suspended before school shooting (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:26 PM PST

An undated photo shows Millard South high school student Robert Butler Jr. Butler shot and wounded two adults, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, at the Millard South high school in Omaha, causing students to rush into a school kitchen to take cover before his body was found in a car about a mile away. (AP Photo/Courtesy photo via Lincoln Journal Star) EDITORIAL USE ONLY; MAGS OUT; NO SALES, TV OUT, OMAHA OUTAP - Hours before he opened fire on two principals at his high school, a Nebraska teenager calmly accepted a suspension for driving on an athletic field. He went home to speak with his father and some friends — all the while giving no hint of turning violent, police said Thursday.

Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:25 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden administers a ceremonial Senate oath during a mock swearing-in ceremony to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, left, accompanied by his wife Barbara Ann, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A senator's high-profile investigation of spending by televangelists wrapped up after more than three years Thursday with no penalties for the pastors who refused to cooperate and no definitive findings of wrongdoing.

3rd witness says frantic Jackson doc gathered meds (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:26 PM PST

LaToya Jackson arrives for the preliminary hearing for Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, charged in the death of the singer, at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, Jan 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Prosecutors called a third witness Thursday who described frantic efforts by the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death to gather medication from the floor of the bedroom where the singer died after receiving intravenous doses of a powerful anesthetic.

Kan. students who posted placenta photo reinstated (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:00 PM PST

AP - A suburban Kansas City college said Thursday that it would allow four nursing students booted out for posting photos of themselves with a human placenta on Facebook to return to school following a federal judge's ruling reinstating one of the students.
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