Thursday, February 10, 2011

Arizona sues government on Mexico border security (Reuters)

Arizona sues government on Mexico border security (Reuters)

Arizona sues government on Mexico border security (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:29 PM PST

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announces plans Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 outside the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in Phoenix to counter sue the federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws.(AP Photo/Matt York)Reuters - Arizona on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that Washington has failed to secure the state's porous border with Mexico.

Chipotle "navigating" through immigrant worker woes (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:55 PM PST

Reuters - Fast-growing burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc said on Thursday it was too early to tell if it would change its hiring practices after a federal immigration crackdown forced it to fire hundreds of employees in Minnesota.

California court rules against Williams-Sonoma (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:21 PM PST

Reuters - Retail stores may not ask a customer to provide a zip code in the course of a credit card transaction, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

High-Speed Rail: Obama Pledges $53 Billion for Upgrades (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:50 PM PST

Time.com - After slow-playing his hand for two years, the President raises the stakes on one of his signature initiatives

Can Orrin Hatch Tame the Tea Party? (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:25 AM PST

Time.com - If the Tea Party hasn't embraced Orrin Hatch, their frostiness toward his candidacy has thawed considerably

U.S. proposes letting Idaho kill scores of wolves (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:07 PM PST

Reuters - Federal wildlife officials have proposed letting Idaho kill scores of wolves in what would be largest government-sanctioned wolf culling in the state since the animals were reintroduced to the northern Rockies 15 years ago.

Lawyers seek to bar Tucson suspect's photo release (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:49 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 8, 2011 file photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office shows Jared Loughner. Defense lawyers asked a judge to prohibit the U.S. Marshals Service from releasing a mug shot of the suspect in the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and 18 other victims, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A mug shot of Loughner was publicly released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office two days after his arrest. Thursday's request by Loughner's attorneys didn't specify whether the mug shot they are trying to keep from being released is a different image. (AP Photo/Pima County Sheriff's Dept. via The Arizona Republic, File)AP - Defense lawyers asked a judge Thursday to prohibit the U.S. Marshals Service from releasing a mug shot of the suspect in the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and 18 other victims.

NC bank standoff ends; police kill armed suspect (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 06:15 PM PST

A hostage is led from a Wachovia Bank in Cary, N.C., where an armed man took four people hostage Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Television footage shows the subject was shot as he exited the bank with a hostage. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A teenager who detained several people inside a suburban bank Thursday emerged from the building holding a gun to the head of one of his captives and was shot dead by police after three hours of tense negotiations helped by a hidden hostage who was feeding authorities information.

Webb's exit sets off a Democratic scramble in Va (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 04:40 PM PST

AP - U.S. Sen. Jim Webb's decision not to seek re-election means Virginia Democrats must either persuade former Gov. Tim Kaine to run in 2012 or likely field someone who has never won a statewide race.

Closings completed in border group leader's trial (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST

AP - Attorneys finished closing arguments Thursday in the murder case against an anti-illegal immigrant group leader who is accused of gunning down a 9-year-old girl and her father in what prosecutors say was an attempt to steal drug money to fund border operations.

Philly DA charges priests, teacher with assault (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:35 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Monsignor William Lynn is shown. Lynn, the former secretary of clergy under Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, is charged with felony endangerment according to a grand jury report released Thursday Feb, 10, 2011. Prosecutors say Lynn transferred abusive priests to new parishes with schools and youth groups without warning parish officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office)AP - Two Roman Catholic priests, a former priest and a Catholic school teacher were charged Thursday with raping young boys, while a former high-ranking church official was accused of transferring problem priests to new parishes without warning anyone of prior sex-abuse complaints.

Natural gas explosion in Pa. kills 5 people (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST

** CORRECTS DATE TO FEB. 9 ** In this Feb. 9, 2011 photo, emergency crews respond to a massive explosion in a residential neighborhood of downtown Allentown, Pa. The natural gas explosion in Allentown killed at least one person, leveled two houses, spawned fires that burned for more than seven hours and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people. At least five others were unaccounted for Thursday. (AP Photo/Express-Times, Chris Post) NO SALESAP - The body of the fifth victim of a gas explosion in the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown has been found.

Calif. court: Merchants can't ask patrons for ZIPs (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:17 PM PST

AP - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that merchants can no longer ask for the ZIP codes of customers who make purchases with credit cards because such requests violate a state consumer-protection law.

Police hold off arrest in Calif. schoolgirl death (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:33 PM PST

AP - Because of conflicting witness accounts, police are holding off charges against the driver of a pickup truck who ran a stop sign and plowed into a group of California junior high school girls, killing one and injuring four others.

Test gets almost 1 in 5 syphilis cases wrong (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 02:04 PM PST

AP - Hundreds of people may have been told they tested positive for syphilis when they didn't actually have the disease, health officials say.

No charges in death of brewery heir's girlfriend (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 04:02 PM PST

FILE - This undated Jan. 4, 2011, file photo provided by a family friend shows former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV, right, and his girlfriend Adrienne Martin. Martin died Dec. 19, 2010 at Busch's home after accidentally overdosing on the painkiller oxycodone, the St. Louis County medical examiner said Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Family photo via St. Louis Post-Dispatch) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT; NO SALESAP - The death of a 27-year-old model found in the home of Anheuser-Busch heir August Busch IV has kept much of St. Louis spellbound for nearly two months, but prosecutors put speculation to rest Thursday, saying no criminal charges would be filed against Busch in his girlfriend's accidental overdose death.

Kin of famous Lucy had feet like modern people (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST

This undated handout combination photo provided by the journal Science shows four images of the fourth metatarsal, a long bone in the foot that shows Austraopithecus afarensis had an arched foot, indicating it was fully adapted to life on the ground rather than in the trees. Lucy's feet were made for walking. That's the word from a team of researchers that has gotten the first look at a foot bone from an human relative that lived three million or more years ago. (AP Photo/Science)AP - Lucy's feet were made for walking.

Revived, then reviled: Ky. lets community hunt elk (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 01:29 PM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, photo, Lisa Hoskins looks at the female elk her father Franklin, left, killed during a special hunt of the animals in the area. The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission agreed to allow residents of the community to shoot elk on their own property in a special hunt. Wildlife managers began bringing elk into the state in 1997 from several western states in what was heralded as an important ecology and tourism program. A group of about 1,500 elk released into 14 counties has grown to more than 10,000. (AP Photo)AP - Bringing the majestic elk back to the Appalachian hills and hollows where they once roamed has become a nightmare.

US ambassador to UN hosts town hall at Twitter HQ (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:21 PM PST

Ambassador Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the UN, speaks at the Twitter office in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo)AP - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations held a global town hall meeting from Twitter headquarters Thursday morning where she cited the enormous impact of social media in the recent unrest in Egypt and elsewhere.

Cuban official describes bombings at US trial (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 01:59 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, Luis Posada Carriles talks to a reporter in Miami. Posada, 82, is accused of lying under oath to federal officials during immigration hearings in El Paso and faces 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)AP - A politically charged perjury case against an ex-CIA agent and anti-communist militant ground to a halt Thursday, after the defense accused a key witness from Cuba of being an undercover counter-intelligence agent and said prosecutors have been deliberately slow to turn over documents that could exonerate its client.
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