Thursday, February 24, 2011

Wisconsin police sent to search for Democratic senators (Reuters)

Wisconsin police sent to search for Democratic senators (Reuters)

Wisconsin police sent to search for Democratic senators (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:42 PM PST

Reuters - Wisconsin Republicans dispatched police to the homes of absent Democratic senators on Thursday to try to round them up for a vote on a plan to strip public sector unions of most collective bargaining rights.

Saudi charged in U.S. bomb plot, Bush possible target (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:18 AM PST

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari in an undated photo. REUTERS/Lubbock County Sheriff's OfficeReuters - A 20-year-old Saudi student has been arrested in Texas in a bomb plot that may have targeted former President George W. Bush and nuclear plants, U.S. authorities said on Thursday.

"Pacman" Jones gets probation for Vegas brawl (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:26 PM PST

Reuters - Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam "Pacman" Jones was sentenced on Thursday to a year's probation for his role in a 2007 Las Vegas strip club brawl that left one man paralyzed from the waist down and two others wounded.

Beyond Wis. Union Debate: Five New Rules for Teachers (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:35 PM PST

Time.com - Teachers' unions are front and center in the debate that is happening in Wisconsin. But beyond the clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees' unions are policy issues that reformers, teachers' unions and analysts have been debating for years

Mrs. Smith Doesn't Go to Washington (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:35 PM PST

Time.com - Since the first woman was elected to Congress in 1917, there have only been 274 female representatives and senators

Indiana Democrats stay out of state to avoid vote (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:40 PM PST

Reuters - The Indiana House of Representatives is closed until Monday afternoon, while most House Democrats stay out of state to avoid voting on Republican-backed labor and education bills, officials said on Thursday.

Earliest human remains in US Arctic reported (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:23 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows a trench connecting both areas of the site in Alaska. Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a three-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. Today archaeologists are learning about the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers thank to that burial. (AP Photo/Ben A. Potter, Science)AP - Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Tenn. man indicted in fatal post office shooting (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:59 PM PST

FILE - This Feb. 17, 2011 file photo provided by the Tipton County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office shows Chastain Montgomery. Montgomery has been indicted in the fatal shooting of two post office workers in Henning, Tenn., during a robbery last year with his teenage son. The 18-year-old Montgomery Jr. was killed in a shootout with police on Feb. 14 after a police chase. (AP Photo/Tipton County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A sense of measured relief worked its way through this small town Thursday after a man was charged with shooting and killing two female postal workers, a crime that had sewn months of uncertainty and fear among locals.

Alaska lawmaker returns home after refusing search (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:19 PM PST

Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, answers questions from members of the press after disembarking the Alaska Ferry Matanuska, in Juneau, AK., Thursday, Feb. 24th, 2011. Cissna's four-day ordeal began when she refused to be patted down by TSA agents in the Seattle-Tacoma airport following a full body scan that detected her mastectomy, which the TSA agent felt necessitated the extra security precaution of a full body pat down, Cissna's second in three months. She refused, and took a ferry from Prince Rupert, British Columbia to Juneau to return to her legislative duties. Cisna vowed Thursday to fight for the rights of travelers who have been subjected to what she considers intrusive airport searches by federal airport screeners. (AP Photo/Chris Miller)AP - Determined to avoid a pat-down search to board her flight home, an Alaska state lawmaker took an unusual route: a roundabout four-day detour via rental car, a small plane, taxicab and a ferry.

Va. OKs bill to likely close most abortion clinics (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:11 PM PST

AP - Virginia took a big step Thursday toward eliminating most of the state's 21 abortion clinics, approving a bill that would likely make rules so strict the medical centers would be forced to close, Democrats and abortion rights supporters said.

Fire at Houston daycare center kills 3, injures 4 (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 06:26 PM PST

Emergency Personnel respond to the location where a fire broke out at a daycare center operated by Jessica Tata, killing three children and injuring four others Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A kitchen fire filled a home daycare center with smoke on Thursday, killing three children and injuring four others. Firefighters ran with babies and small children in their arms to nearby ambulances on the crowded street, a fire official said.

Wis. man gets life sentence in slayings of 7 women (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST

Tina Lewis, mother of Ouithreaun Stokes, who was one of seven victims of serial killer Walter Ellis, reacts in a courtroom Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, in Milwaukee. Ellis, who pleaded no contest last week to strangling seven women in Milwaukee over 21 years, was sentenced to prison for the rest of his life for the killings. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)AP - A Milwaukee man convicted of choking the life out of seven women during a 21-year killing spree was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison, and prosecutors said they may yet tie Walter E. Ellis to two or more unsolved slayings.

Throngs view space shuttle Discovery's last launch (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:58 PM PST

Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 24, 2011. Discovery carries a crew of six astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. REUTERS/Joe Skipper (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT SCI TECH)AP - Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey that marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.

Troopers sent to homes of some Wisconsin Democrats (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:40 PM PST

Opponents of the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers sleep on the floor of the rotunda at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at the start of the tenth day of protests at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to the doorsteps of some of the AWOL Democratic senators in hopes of finding at least one who would come back to allow a vote on a measure to curb the power of public-employee unions.

Indiana House adjourns amid GOP, Dems stalemate (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST

Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, speaks with union protestors outside the House chamber at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Bosma assured the members that the right to work bill is dead for the session. Democratic caucus members of the Indiana House left Tuesday to protest Republican legislative proposals. The House has adjourned until Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - With Democrats still in Illinois and neither party showing signs of compromise Thursday, the Republican leader of the Indiana House shut down the chamber and said it would remain closed until at least Monday.

Maryland Senate approves gay marriage rights (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 06:14 PM PST

Sen. Richard Madeleno, D-Montgomery County, and the Senate's only openly gay member, speaks behind John Astle, D-Anne Arundel Co., in support of the gay marriage bill on the State Senate floor Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)AP - Same-sex couples in Maryland would have the same full marriage rights as heterosexuals under a bill that cleared the Senate Thursday. If the House of Delegates approves it and the governor signs it, Maryland would be the sixth U.S. state to approve gay marriage.

Hawaii earthquake jolts Honolulu (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 06:38 PM PST

AP - A small earthquake hit Hawaii on Thursday, with a jolt felt across Honolulu.

Census: St. Louis population down 8 percent (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:24 PM PST

AP - St. Louis is losing residents, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, and the population decline goes deeper than being another blow to the proud city's image.

Police cleared of killing man who shot 2 officers (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:56 PM PST

AP - A wanted fugitive hiding in a cramped attic laid down on his stomach and appeared to surrender just before igniting a gunfight that left two St. Petersburg police officers dead last month, according to a report released Thursday by the region's chief prosecutor.

Genetic tests show fire ants in Asia came from US (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 11:08 AM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows colony-founding queen of the invasive fire ant species Solenopsis invicta. The queen's first brood includes worker larvae and pupae that, when they emerge as adults, will perform all tasks necessary for colony maintenance and growth. Since the 1930s fire ants have spread across much of the southern US, much to the discomfort to millions of Americans. Now it turns out the stinging invaders from South America are using US as a staging ground to invade China, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. (AP Photo/Kenneth G. Ross, Science)AP - Even as the United States battles the spread of fire ants within its borders, this country is serving as the jumping-off point for the pest to invade other nations.
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