Sunday, March 27, 2011

Storms pelt Southeast with large hail for second day (Reuters)

Storms pelt Southeast with large hail for second day (Reuters)

Storms pelt Southeast with large hail for second day (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:18 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 02:00 a.m. EDT shows clouds develop across most of the Central US. A low pressure system makes its way eastward and off the Rocky Mountains, kicking up rain and snow showers once it reaches the Northern and Central Plains. Cold temperatures in the extreme North will allow for snow showers to develop throughout the day. Meanwhile, a weak ridge of high pressure moves over the East Coast, allowing for mostly sunny skies with warm and dry conditions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)Reuters - Severe thunderstorms storms that raked the Southeast with scattered tornadoes, large hail and high winds on Saturday reemerged across the region on Sunday after an overnight lull, meteorologists said.

Harry & David preparing to file for Chapter 11: report (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 07:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Harry & David Holdings Inc, the mail-order food company known for its fruit baskets and Moose Munch snacks, is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.

Four Indiana teens die in crash after spring break (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 07:07 PM PDT

Reuters - Five people were killed, including four Indiana high school seniors returning from spring break, when a minivan plowed head on into the students' car on a rain-soaked highway in Alabama, authorities said on Sunday.

Davenport building flood wall, but is it too late? (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:49 AM PDT

AP - The Mississippi River city long pilloried for refusing to build a flood wall is finally getting one to safeguard its water supply, but delays mean the structure will not be in place for possible flooding this spring.

Letters: Courthouse gunman angry at justice system (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, Brian Nichols sits with members of his defense team as the sentencing phase of his trial continues at the Atlanta Municipal Court Building in downtown Atlanta. Georgia prosecutors have decided against charging four people connected to a bizarre plot to break Nichols out of jail. (AP Photo/Kimberly Smith, Pool, File)AP - The Atlanta courthouse gunman said in letters that he escaped from guards and then killed four people in a shooting rampage to fight back against what he believed was a racist justice system, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Burt's Bees founder wants to donate national park (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PDT

In this Jan 28, 2011 photo, Wassataquoik Stream flows through Township 3, Range 8, Maine, on land owned by environmentalist Roxanne Quimby. Quimby, the founder of Burts Bees, wants to donate 70,000 acres to the federal government with the aim of creating a Maine Woods National Park, (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods — and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.

New site lets employers put health care out to bid (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:42 AM PDT

AP - Self-insured businesses looking to cut out the middleman when it comes to health care have a new way to solicit bids directly from doctors or hospitals.

Radiation in Mass. rainwater likely from Japan (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:27 PM PDT

AP - Health officials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has registered very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged earlier this month by an earthquake and tsunami.

I-95 cameras snap speeders, spark controversy (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT

In this March 8, 2011 photo, a sign warns motorists on Interstate 95 in Ridgeland, S.C., about a speed camera system in use on the expressway in the town limits. The cameras in Ridgeland have spotted thousands of speeding motorists and won accolades from highway safety advocates. But they've also attracted opposition from state lawmakers and sparked a federal court challenge. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)AP - As Interstate 95 sweeps past this small town along South Carolina's coastal plain, motorists encounter cameras that catch speeding cars, the only such devices on the open interstate for almost 2,000 miles from Canada to Miami.

Harry Coover, creator of Super Glue, dies at 94 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, Harry W. Coover, who invented cyanoacrylate glue, commonly known as Super Glue, for Eastman Chemical Co., is shown at a ceremony for recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors, at the White House in Washington. Coover died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. on Saturday, March 26, 2011. He was 94. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94.

What is hell? Book stirs debate about afterlife (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken March 17, 2011, Rev. Chad Holtz poses for a photo in Durham, N.C. Holtz was fired from his position as pastor from a church in Henderson, N.C. after posting on his Facebook page a defense of a forthcoming book by megachurch pastor Rob Bell, in which Bell challenges millions of Christians’ understanding of the afterlife. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - What does hell mean to you? Is it an endless nightmare for sinners and unsaved souls, as mainstream Christianity has taught for centuries? Or is hell here on Earth, in the distractions, addictions and emptiness of daily life?

Thousands attend funeral for slain Ga. officer (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PDT

Melissa Christian looks on after a memorial service for her husband Athens-Clarke County senior police officer Elmer 'Buddy' Christian on Sunday, March 27, 2011 in Athens, Ga. Hundreds turned out for the funeral of a slain Georgia police officer whose killing prompted a days-long manhunt for a suspect who surrendered live television. WSB-TV reports that an honor guard lined the streets of Athens on Sunday as the body of Officer Christian was escorted to the city's Classic Center. Police say 33-year-old Jamie Hood fatally shot Christian on Tuesday, when he also shot and seriously wounded Officer Tony Howard. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Thousands of people mourned a slain Georgia police officer whose killing led to a days-long manhunt for a suspect who surrendered live television.

Explosive device in newspaper injures Calif. man (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:41 PM PDT

AP - A Northern California man who went outside to retrieve a newspaper from his driveway Sunday morning was injured when a device hidden inside the paper exploded, authorities said.

Wiretaps captivate NY insider trading trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:44 AM PDT

Billionaire co- founder of Galleon Group Raj Rajaratnam exits Manhattan federal court with attorney John Dowd, left, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in New York. Testimony from government witness Rajiv Goel was heard today in the insider trading trial of Rajaratnam. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Jurors at a closely watched federal trial are learning that the high-stakes world of hedge funds sometimes sounded like this:

What is hell to you? Fire below or right here? (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:20 PM PDT

AP - What does hell mean to you? Ask almost any Christian and each answer will be a little bit different from the last.

For those with autism, documentary offers new hope (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:48 AM PDT

In a March 23, 2011 photo, Larry Bissonnette, 53, of Milton, right, and Tracy Thresher, 43, of Barre Town, are seen in Montpelier, Vt. The two, who suffer from autism and don’t speak, have become globe-trotting ambassadors with a message. ’’We are simply intelligence, shown in a different way,’’ says Thresher. Soon, their remarkable advocacy work will have a new audience: ’’Wretches and Jabberers,’’ a new documentary following them as travel around the world, opens next week in AMC theaters in 40 cities. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - When Tracy Thresher has something to say, he uses his right index finger — and a special computer that gives voice to what he types. Hunched over the device, he begins.

NY marks 100th anniversary of 1911 Capitol fire (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:46 AM PDT

In this Feb. 24, 2011 photo, Paul Mercer, a librarian at the New York State Library in Albany, N.Y., shows a photo of the fire at the Capitol in 1911. New York is marking this week's 100th anniversary of the Capitol fire with an exhibit, a new documentary film, a newly published book and public lectures by state librarians and historians.(AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of fuel among towering shelves jammed with books and cabinets filled with hundreds of thousands of documents, many of them centuries old.
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