Friday, March 25, 2011

Huckabee leads Republicans for president: poll (Reuters)

Huckabee leads Republicans for president: poll (Reuters)

Huckabee leads Republicans for president: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Mike Huckabee holds a small lead in the field of potential Republican presidential candidates, while Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin have slipped, according to a Gallup Poll released on Friday.

Wisconsin Republicans say anti-union law in effect (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Wisconsin State Governor Scott Walker signs the ceremonial bill, following an elimination of almost all collective bargaining for most public workers by the Republican controlled House and Senate, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Darren HauckReuters - Wisconsin Republicans said on Friday a measure stripping state public employees of most collective bargaining rights was now in effect after it was published by a legislative agency despite a judge's order against publication.

Student shot at Indiana middle school (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:44 PM PDT

Reuters - A student who had been suspended from an Indiana middle school earlier this week was in custody after allegedly shooting another student at the school on Friday, police said.

Freedom Is Too Good for Hinckley (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Thirty years after he shot my father Ronald Reagan, he spends one-third of the year as a (mostly) free man

Two Denver policemen fired over beating of gay man (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Two Denver police officers were fired on Friday for the 2009 beating of a gay man, captured on a surveillance camera, and then lying about the incident.

Napolitano: US border towns with Mexico are safe (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:01 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Thursday that security on the southern U.S. border "is better now than it ever has been" and that violence from neighboring Mexico hasn't spilled over in a serious way.

Jesuits settle NW abuse claims for $166 million (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:32 PM PDT

AP - In one of the largest settlements in the Catholic church's sweeping sex abuse scandal, an order of priests agreed Friday to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native Americans and Alaska Natives who were abused at the order's schools around the Pacific Northwest.

Trial can go forward in Philly church abuse case (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 02:50 PM PDT

AP - The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia faces the prospect of a hard-fought criminal trial over its handling of the priest-abuse scandal after a judge on Friday upheld child-endangerment charges against a high-ranking church official.

States look overseas for scarce execution drug (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, have switched to pentobarbital for lethal-injection. Other states are worried that switching could prove a drawn-out legal and regulatory process that could put more executions on hold. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - Prison officials around the country have been going to extraordinary — and in at least one case, legally questionable — lengths to obtain a scarce lethal-injection drug, securing it from middlemen in Britain and a manufacturer in India and borrowing it from other states to keep their executions on track, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Mich. man linked to explosive will get mental exam (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:53 PM PDT

In this March 25, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, Gary Mikulich, 42, is shown in Marquette, Mich. Mikulich, who is accused of placing an explosive outside a federal building in Detroit, has made strange complaints about the FBI, referred to himself as the president and blamed something called the 'card system' for deaths in his northern Michigan community, authorities said. Mikulich has been charged with trying to use an explosive to damage the McNamara Federal Building and was scheduled to appear in court Friday, March 25, 2011, a day after his arrest about 500 miles from Detroit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The case has embarrassed the government because the explosive — inside a metal cash box that was in a tool bag — sat inside a building that houses the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, immigration court and other agencies for 20 days before authorities did anything with it. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - A man accused of placing an explosive outside a federal building in Detroit that sat unexamined inside for nearly three weeks will undergo a mental exam after declaring in court Friday that he was a former president and the governor of California.

Police question teen about Indiana school shooting (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:50 PM PDT

Police guard the front of the West Middle School in Martinsville, Ind., Friday, March 25, 2011. A teenage boy was shot at a central Indiana middle school shortly before classes began Friday and a fellow student is in custody, state police said. Sgt. Curt Durnil said the victim and a 15-year-old suspect are both students at Martinsville West Middle School where the shooting took place. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Dustin Tatum was leaving his middle school cafeteria Friday when he heard a loud bang, then chaos ensued as a teacher rushed him and several fellow students into a classroom, locked the door, turned off the lights and ordered everyone to hit the floor.

Wisconsin union law published despite court order (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2011, file photo Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks to the media at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Seeking a counter to the thousands of protesters opposed to his plans to eliminate union bargaining rights for state workers, Walker found it in his email: The majority of notes, Scott Walker said, urged him to “stay firm, to stay strong, to stand with the taxpayers.' But what the new Republican governor didn’t say is that for close to a week, his inbox had been home to overwhelming opposition that ran roughly 2-to-1 against his plans. It was only in the moments just before he discussed the emails for the first time, and hours after a group of desperate Democrats fled the state to stop a vote they knew they would lose, that the tide had turned in his favor. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)AP - Wisconsin officials couldn't agree Friday about whether an explosive law taking away nearly all public worker collective bargaining rights was about to take effect after a nonpartisan legislative bureau published it despite a court order blocking implementation.

NJ, home to oldest US nuke plant, reviewing safety (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:20 PM PDT

AP - New Jersey, the most densely populated state and home to the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, created a task force Friday to review safety and emergency response plans at nuclear plants in light of the disaster unfolding in Japan.

Police: Dog defecating in yard leads to shooting (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT

AP - An argument between two armed neighbors over a dog and its feces escalated to a shootout in rural Mississippi, sending one neighbor to the hospital with injuries from shotgun pellets and the other neighbor to jail.

Baby Jessica turns 25, gains access to trust fund (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 02:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this October 1987 file photo, a rescue worker carries 18-month-old Jessica McClure to safety in Midland, Texas, after being trapped for 58 hours after she plunged 22 feet into an abandoned water well. Now married with two children, Jessica McClure Morales turns 25 on March 26 and gains access to a trust fund of up to $800,000, the result of donations from thousands of sympathetic strangers across the globe glued to the television for the 58 hours until she was freed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)AP - Baby Jessica is all grown up. She's Momma Jessica now.

NYC marks 100th anniversary of deadly factory fire (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:08 PM PDT

People stand near a wreath that was placed for the centennial commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire that killed 146 people near the building that housed the former factory on Friday, March 25, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - The centennial commemoration of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire became a rally for organized labor Friday, as hundreds marched and vowed to resist efforts to weaken unions in state capitals across the country. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer drew loud cheers when he pledged to fight "right wing ideologues" trying to curb worker protections.

Barbour defends use of state plane for DC events (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2011, file photo Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Barbour is defending his use of a state airplane to travel to Washington for a political event and state-related business saying Friday, March 25, 2011 he hasn't used the plane more than his predecessors. Time Magazine reported Barbour billed taxpayers $7,020 to fly himself, his wife and three aides to Washington, where Barbour spoke before the Conservative Political Action Conference. Barbour says he also had state business there. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Friday defended his use of a state jet to fly to political events and conduct state business in Washington, saying he hadn't used the plane more than previous governors.

Calif. judge: Brain-damaged mom can see triplets (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 06:32 PM PDT

This courtroom display shows Abbie Dorn of Myrtle Beach, S.C., who was paralyzed by a series of medical errors as she was giving birth to triplets in June 2006 in a Los Angeles hospital, after closing arguments in a hearing to determine child visitation rights for Abbie Dorn, Thursday March 24, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - A judge on Friday issued a temporary ruling allowing visitation with 4-year-old triplets to a mother so badly brain damaged by medical errors during childbirth that she can no longer walk, talk or eat.
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