Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Monster storm carves path across United States (Reuters)

Monster storm carves path across United States (Reuters)

Monster storm carves path across United States (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:34 PM PST

A hotel employee shovels snow from a street in front of a hotel housing news media after a storm front moved through Dallas, Texas, February 1, 2011. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - A monster winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine laid down a sheet of ice on the Plains and lower Midwest on Tuesday, turning to snow as it crept north, and forecasters said the worst was yet to come.

Airlines cancel flights as winter storm bears down (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:29 PM PST

A Dallas police officer removes snow from his car after a storm front moved through Dallas, Texas, February 1, 2011. REUTERS/Jeff HaynesReuters - Airlines canceled thousands of flights on Tuesday ahead of a blizzard that has promised near-record snowfall in the U.S. Plains and the central Midwest.

U.S. pilots new airport scans after privacy concerns (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:12 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. aviation security authorities on Tuesday unveiled a new pilot program aimed at quelling an uproar about full-body scanners used to screen air travelers -- the new software will no longer produce an image of the actual person.

Michael Vick: Eagles QB's Journey from Prison to the Pro Bowl (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST

Time.com - He was once an imprisoned pariah. Now, after an MVP-caliber season, he's playing in the Pro Bowl. What lessons has Michael Vick taught us?

Fred Korematsu Day: California Honors a Civil Rights Hero (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST

Time.com - On Sunday, California will mark the civil rights efforts and legal struggle of Fred Korematsu, who fought for the rights of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II

U.S. security on Canada border lacking: watchdog (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:39 PM PST

Reuters - Fewer than one in every 100 miles of the U.S. border with Canada is adequately secured, a government watchdog agency said on Tuesday.

'Jihad Jane' terror suspect pleads guilty in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 08:03 PM PST

FILE - This June 26, 1997 file booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, shows Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose who called herself 'Jihad Jane' online pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to her role in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had offended Muslims. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail, File)AP - A suburban woman who was the live-in caretaker for her boyfriend's elderly father calmly told a U.S. judge Tuesday that she had worked feverishly online under the name "Jihad Jane" to support Islamic terrorists and moved overseas to further her plan to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims.

DHS pilot charged with lying to investigators (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:20 PM PST

AP - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent appeared in a Maine courtroom on Tuesday to hear charges alleging he lied to investigators over his role in a 2005 incident along Texas' border with Mexico in which a would-be illegal immigrant drowned.

Police: Tampa mom covered children's dead bodies (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:24 PM PST

AP - A suburban Tampa mother covered the bodies of her two teenage children with blankets after shooting them in the head, then went to the back porch where police found her unconscious in a blood-soaked robe the next morning, according to a court document made public Tuesday.

NY juvenile worker gets prison for molesting girls (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:47 PM PST

AP - A former juvenile justice worker convicted of taking sexual advantage of underage girls he was supervising at a courthouse was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison, with a judge saying he exploited his job to prey on vulnerable victims.

Colossal storm roars through nation's heartland (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:31 PM PST

Mike Gould scrapes ice from his windows as he prepares to drive after leaving work early during an ice storm in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - A winter weather colossus roared into the nation's heartland Tuesday, laying down a paralyzing punch of dangerous ice and whiteout snow that served notice from Texas to Maine that the storm billed as the worst in decades could live up to the hype.

Small-town paper links ex-Klansman to 1964 killing (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 02:07 PM PST

In this 1950's photograph provided by William Brown through The Concordia Sentinel shows Frank Morris, fourth from right wearing a visor, and his employees standing before his shoe repair shop in Ferriday, La. Morris was a successful shoe repairman and part-time gospel radio host in Ferriday who was died as a result of injuries caused in a deliberately set fire Dec. 10, 1964 that destroyed his shop while he was still inside. Morris' death is one of more than 100 unsolved civil rights cases the FBI reopened in recent years. (AP Photo/William Brown Archives via the Concordia Sentinel)AP - Arthur Leonard Spencer says sure, he made some mistakes back when he was a "snot-nose kid," like joining the Ku Klux Klan. But murder?

Mosque plot suspect planted bomb in airport in '85 (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:33 PM PST

In a booking photo provided by the Dearborn, Mich., police department, Roger Stockham is shown. Stockham, of Imperial Beach, Calif, was arrested on Jan. 24, 2011 outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn, Mich. Stockham was arraigned Wednesday on charges of making a false report or threat of terrorism and possessing explosives with an unlawful intent. (AP Photo/Dearborn Police, HO)AP - A California man accused of threatening to blow up a popular Detroit-area mosque has had several violent, unpredictable run-ins with the law dating back to the 1970s, including one in which he kidnapped his son from a foster home and crashed a plane while trying to get away.

Study finds red light cameras cut fatal crashes (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 08:50 AM PST

AP - Red light cameras are helping drivers remember that red means stop and are saving lives, according to a new study out Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

TSA tests new body scanning system in Las Vegas (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:02 PM PST

Transportation Security Administration supervisor Nick Fox, right, demonstrates new software being tested with advanced imaging technology at McCarran International Airport Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Las Vegas. TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird says the software unveiled Tuesday lets passengers see what its security screeners see, and it uses a more generic image. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Federal aviation officials are giving airport scanners another try. This time, they are not looking as closely under traveler's clothes. The Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday began testing a new, more modest body scanning system at three airports. They hope it will assuage critics' concerns that the nearly 500 full-body scanners at 78 airports reveal too much.

Sheriff: Kidnapped boy, 4, found dead in CA canal (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:32 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Patterson, Calif., police, shows four-year-old Juliani Cardenas. Authorities said Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, they found the body of Cardenas in a Central California canal, two weeks after he was kidnapped from his home. A water department worker spotted Juliani Cardenas' body floating in the Delta-Mendota Canal, said Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson. The body was found about 30 miles downstream from where a vehicle belonging to the man suspected of kidnapping Juliani was recovered last week. (AP Photo/Patterson Police via the San Francisco Chronicle, File)AP - Authorities said Tuesday they found the body of a 4-year-old boy in a Central California canal, capping the search for the child who was kidnapped from his home two weeks ago.

Space shuttle Discovery fixed, back on launch pad (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:18 AM PST

Space shuttle Discovery slowly makes it's way to Launch Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. The move takes approximately 7 hours. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Space shuttle Discovery is back on the launch pad following unprecedented repairs for its final voyage.

A Super Bowl shiver hits Texas (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:09 PM PST

Jesse Wild clears snow off a stage set outside Cowboys Stadium in preparation for NFL football Super Bowl XLV Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - One Pittsburgh safety kept interrupting reporters' questions about the Super Bowl to complain it was too chilly. A Green Bay receiver bragged that the snow outside made the Packers "the home team."

Can anything end this 'Groundhog Day' of a winter? (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:08 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, Hartford Police Officer Claudette Kosinski, right, and Joe Little of CT Transit shovel under the wheels of a bus stuck in downtown Hartford, Conn., during a snowstorm. In the Northeast, people are once again reaching for shovels, cities are preparing fleets of snow plows and parents are fretting over a new round of school cancellations as another strong winter storm sweeps in. By now, some winter-weary residents are at last perfecting their pre-storm preparations, not putting much stock in whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow Wednesday morning, Feb. 2 at Gobblers Knob. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)AP - "You want a prediction about the weather? You're asking the wrong Phil," Bill Murray's character says in the movie "Groundhog Day." He continues, "I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."

Husband says Zsa Zsa Gabor is ill after surgery (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:21 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 15, 1986 file photo shows actress Zsa Zsa Gabor on her wedding day in Los Angeles. Zsa Zsa Gabor's says the actress has been taken back to a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 because she started spitting up blood and mucous (AP Photo/File)AP - Zsa Zsa Gabor has a high fever, fluid in her lungs, an infection that developed after her recent leg amputation, and hasn't recognized anyone since the surgery, leading doctors to say she probably suffered a stroke, her husband said Tuesday.
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