Monday, February 28, 2011

Governor gives Wisconsin Democrats an ultimatum (Reuters)

Governor gives Wisconsin Democrats an ultimatum (Reuters)

Governor gives Wisconsin Democrats an ultimatum (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:41 PM PST

Reuters - Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Monday gave absent Democratic lawmakers an ultimatum to return to Wisconsin within 24 hours and vote on a proposal to reduce the power of public sector unions or the state would miss out on a debt restructuring.

Buxom actress Jane Russell dead at 89 (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:09 PM PST

Legendary film star Jane Russell poses as she arrives at the David Gest gala titled 'THE Party' in Beverly Hills October 17, 2005. REUTERS/Fred ProuserReuters - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" movie star Jane Russell, who became a controversial Hollywood sex symbol, died on Monday at the age of 89, her family said.

Texas fires scorch homes, threaten to spread (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 01:14 PM PST

Reuters - Calmer winds on Monday allowed an airborne assault on West Texas wildfires that destroyed dozens of homes and a dog kennel and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate.

The Science of Women and Cats: The Bond Is Real (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - The kittehs love us back! A new study demolishes the stereotype of cats as cold, aloof animals that want only food from their owners.

The Budget Showdown: A Temporary Reprieve (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - At the end of this week, hundreds of thousands of workers will be furloughed, agencies shuttered and new government benefits suspended if Congress doesn't act to reopen cash flow to the federal infrastructure

Bernie Madoff learns in therapy he's "a good person" (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:45 PM PST

Reuters - Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff says he is undergoing weekly psychiatric therapy sessions in prison, where he has learned he is a "good person" despite swindling investors out of billions of dollars.

Lawyer: Couple confessed in Jaycee Dugard kidnap (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:19 PM PST

AP - A Northern California couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years have given full confessions to authorities, a defense lawyer said Monday.

Wis. gov. to outline ultimate intentions in budget (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST

On his third straight night of sleeping at the Capitol, Xavier Leplae of Milwaukee gets in a read at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have been sleeping at the Capitol since Feb. 15th. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers represents just one piece of his vision for the state's future. Now he's ready to reveal the rest.

Buckles, last WWI doughboy, dies at 110 in W.Va. (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:39 PM PST

FILE -- In a May 26, 2008 file photo Frank Buckles receives an American flag during Memorial Day activities at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo. Biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement that Frank Woodruff Buckles died early Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 of natural causes in his home in Charles Town, W.Va. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - He didn't seek the spotlight, but when Frank Buckles outlived every other American who'd served in World War I, he became what his biographer called "the humble patriot" and final torchbearer for the memory of that fading conflict.

Pa. woman gets life plus 30 in collar bomb death (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 12:01 PM PST

AP - A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison for a bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a bomb locked around his neck — even though both she and the victim's family claim that she's innocent and that the real killers went free.

Trial begins for man who thwarted oil-gas auction (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:01 PM PST

Tim DeChristopher waves to supporters at the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Salt Lake City. DeChristopher faces trial this week on charges that he thwarted a 2008 oil-and-gas lease auction to bring attention to climate change. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP - Hundreds of activists marched to the federal courthouse Monday to support a man who became an environmental folk hero by faking the purchase of $1.7 million of federal oil-and-gas drilling leases in an act of civil disobedience.

'Men' crew to be paid; Sheen calls it 'a start' (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:26 PM PST

In this photo provided by ABC News, Andrea Canning interviews actor Charlie Sheen Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, in Los Angeles for a Special Edition of 20/20 to be aired Tuesday. Sheen told Canning he is 100 percent clean and plans to show up for work despite CBS's pulling the plug on this season's production of 'Two and a Half Men.' (AP Photo/ABC News)AP - Warner Bros. Television agreed Monday to pay the crew of "Two and a Half Men" for half of the eight episodes of TV's top-rated comedy that were canceled by producers upset about the off-screen antics of star Charlie Sheen.

Authorities: Man persuaded moms to abuse kids (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:39 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Marshals Service, Steven Demink, 41, of Redford Township, Mich., is shown. Demink appeared in federal court in Detroit, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 to enter his plea on six charges related to the sexual exploitation of children. Seven charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Demink posed as a psychologist and persuaded mothers across the country to sexually assault their children as a form of therapy, then send him the images of the attacks, authorities said Monday. Demink faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in June. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - A Michigan man built an online profile posing as a good-looking single dad and caring psychologist and persuaded mothers across the country to sexually assault their children as a form of therapy, then send him the images of the attacks, authorities said Monday.

US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:11 AM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2011, plaintiff Abdullah al-Kidd, right, and his attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Director of the Immigrants' Rights Project, Lee Gelernt, talk about a Supreme Court lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, during an interview with the Associated Press in Los Angeles. Abdullah al-Kidd, 37, a former University of Idaho football player, was arrested in 2003 on a material witness warrant. Ashcroft was serving then as attorney general under President George W. Bush and helped write the Patriot Act. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking.

Robotics shutdown briefly strands astronaut (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:39 PM PST

This image taken from video by NASA television shows astronaut Stephen Bowen during a spacewalk, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A robotic system shutdown interrupted Monday's spacewalk outside the International Space Station, leaving an astronaut stuck with an 800-pound pump in his hands for nearly a half-hour.

Stunned Texans survey homes destroyed by wildfires (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:48 PM PST

Fire officials check smoldering hot spots and check damage in Lake Tanglewood, a small community southeast of Amarillo, Texas, where several homes were destroyed by wildfires are seen Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Firefighters have contained wind-driven wildfires that burned about 121,000 acres in West Texas and the Panhandle, but there is a danger of blazes breaking out in the south. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney)AP - Stunned and weary residents of a Texas Panhandle town were allowed to return to what was left of homes on Monday, a day after fleeing one of several wind-driven wildfires that scorched some 190 square miles in the state.

ATF: Gun in US agent's death traced to Texas man (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:36 PM PST

AP - Three people suspected of smuggling guns to Mexico were arrested in a Dallas suburb on Monday after federal investigators traced the gun used in the killing of a U.S. agent in Mexico to one of them, officials said.

Roads flooded, power out in parts of Midwest (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST

AP - Storms with heavy rain, high winds and hail flooded homes and roads Monday and knocked out power in parts of the Midwest, where at least six people were injured and three tornadoes touched down in Indiana. Three homes in Kentucky were destroyed by a tornado.

Tiny spy planes could mimic birds, insects (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:19 PM PST

Matt Keennon, program director at AeroVironment, demonstrates a tiny, drone aircraft known as the 'nano-hummingbird,' during a briefing at the company's facility in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. With a 6.5-inch wing span, the remote-controlled hummingbird plane weighs less than an AA battery and can fly at speeds of up to 11 mph, propelled only by the flapping of its two wings. It can climb and descend vertically, fly sideways, forward and backward, as well as rotate clockwise and counterclockwise, and hover. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - You'll never look at hummingbirds the same again.

Doctor goes on trial in Ohio painkiller OD deaths (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:17 PM PST

AP - Federal prosecutors say Dr. Paul Volkman was part of a scheme that illegally distributed millions of highly addictive pain pills that may have led to a dozen deaths. The doctor says he is innocent and was vigilant about conducting drug tests to make sure patients weren't abusing substances.
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