Saturday, March 26, 2011

Winter weather to make weekend comeback in some states (Reuters)

Winter weather to make weekend comeback in some states (Reuters)

Winter weather to make weekend comeback in some states (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:54 AM 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 - Cold weather, snow, and severe storms were expected over the weekend in several parts of the country, weather forecasters said on Saturday.

Fresh controversy in Wisconsin union bill fight (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Opponents of a bill stripping Wisconsin public employees of most of their collective bargaining rights rallied at the state Capitol on Saturday, the day after a state agency published the measure despite an order barring such a move.

Police shoot driver after chase on Bronx expressway (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Police shot dead a driver on a congested Bronx expressway on Saturday, after he crashed into several vehicles and tried to run down officers as they approached his car, authorities said.

Why One Innovator is Leaving the Public Sector (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 12:15 AM PDT

Time.com - The resignation of a school administrator in New York City who most readers have probably never heard of vividly illustrates that disconnect

Bill Clinton on Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Time.com - The former President pays tribute to a man who had "the stamina, steel andjudgment to accomplish things that were truly extraordinary"

Winning $312 million lottery ticket sold in NY state (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:59 AM PDT

Reuters - The winning lottery ticket for an estimated $312 million jackpot was purchased in New York state, lottery operator Mega Millions said in a statement.

Tsunami threat could catch Northwest off guard (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:04 AM PDT

This Wednesday March 16, 2011 photo shows a tsunami evacuation sign in Cannon Beach, Ore. When the big one hits the Pacific Northwest, the best place to escape the wall of water moving at jetliner speed from 50 miles off the coast may be a City Hall on stilts. Once the ground finishes two to four minutes of lurching and shaking, residents and tourist in Cannon beach would flock to the refuge on concrete columns 14 feet above the waves racing beneath. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - When the big one hits the Pacific Northwest, the best place to escape the wall of water moving at jetliner speed from 50 miles off the coast may be a City Hall on stilts.

Mega Millions ticket worth $319M sold in New York (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Coulson's News, where a Mega Millions lottery jackpot ticket worth $319 million was sold, is seen in Albany, N.Y., on Saturday, March 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Just down the hill from where New York's leaders are wrestling with a $10 billion deficit, a tiny variety store in downtown Albany was abuzz Saturday with talk of a financial windfall.

GOP presidential hopefuls hammer health care (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Former CEO of Godfather's Pizza Herman Cain speaks during the Conservative Principles Conference hosted by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, Saturday, March 26, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A handful of high-profile Republicans who may be eyeing the White House told hundreds of conservative activists Saturday that most Americans agree with their values, and insisted that opposition to the president's health care overhaul could help the GOP make historic gains in 2012.

Maine outdoes Pa. with massive whoopie pie (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Amy Bouchard, owner of Wicked Whoopies, fourth from right, gets help putting the 180 pound devils food cake top on the 1000 plus pounds Whoopie Pie at the Maine Mall in South Portland, Maine on Saturday, March 26, 2011. Competing with Pennsylvania's 250-pound pie, Maine is looking to make the Whoopie Pie the state's official treat. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - They've made whoopie in Maine. A big whoopie pie.

First female VP candidate Ferraro dies at 75 (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - This Friday, May 4, 2007 picture shows former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during a news conference before a fundraising lunch hosted by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., in Chicago. The first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket has died. Geraldine Ferraro was 75. A family friend said Ferraro, who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1998, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at Massachusetts General Hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Geraldine Ferraro was a relatively obscure congresswoman from the New York City borough of Queens in 1984 when she was tapped by Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale to join his ticket.

'Brain waste' thwarts immigrants' career dreams (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 10:22 AM PDT

In this March 9, 2011 photo, Maria Montenegro, originally from Colombia, poses for a picture in New York. As a family practitioner Montenegro estimates she saw thousands of patients after finishing medical school in Bogota. Obstetrics, pediatrics, emergency medicine, even surgery - she did it all. But since coming to the United States she's had to work as a sales clerk, babysitter, medical assistant - and that last one definitely rubbed raw at times. “I know I was working in my field,” the 34-year-old Queens resident said. “But that is medical assistant. I’m a doctor.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - After finishing medical school in Bogota, Colombia, Maria Anjelica Montenegro did it all — obstetrics, pediatrics, emergency medicine, even surgery. By her estimate, she worked with thousands of patients.

FAA orders new procedures for controllers (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:17 PM PDT

A passenger jet flies past the FAA control tower at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Thursday, March 24, 2011. A control tower supervisor who was unavailable to aid two airliners that landed at the airport this week has been suspended from his operational duties pending an investigation, the top U.S. aviation official said Thursday. (AP (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - The Federal Aviation Administration gave air traffic controllers new procedures Friday as officials try to contain the fallout from an incident earlier this week in which two airliners landed at Reagan National Airport without assistance because the lone controller on duty was asleep.

Ga. police probe circumstances of hostage-taking (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:33 PM PDT

This TV frame grab courtesy of WXIA-TV Atlanta shows suspect Jamie Hood, 33, third from right, as he emerged from an Athens apartment surrounded by several people whom police say he was holding captive Friday night March 25, 2011. Hood turned himself in after Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan went before TV cameras and promised that Hood wouldn't be hurt if he gave himself up unarmed and freed the hostages. Police had been searching for Hood since Tuesday, when Athens Clarke-County police officer Elmer 'Buddy' Christian was shot and killed while police say he attempted to apprehend Hood. Another officer, Tony Howard, was shot in the face and upper body, and is recovering from his wounds. (AP Photo/WXIA-TV - Tyson Paul)AP - Police said Saturday they are trying to determine how long a man charged in a police officer's slaying had been staying at an Athens apartment where he allegedly took nine hostages, and then agreed to surrender on the condition it was broadcast on live TV news.

Cuban doctors struggle to prove credentials in US (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 07:34 AM PDT

In this March 18, 2011 photo, Dr. Julio Cesar Alfonso, head of the South Florida group Solidarity Without Borders Inc., right, meets with Cuban doctors Roberto Carmona, left, and Laura Arias, center, in Hialeah, Fla. Carmona and a number of other Cuban physicians who defected while on overseas assignments have confronted a frustrating contradiction in American medicine: They were allowed into the U.S. because they are doctors. But, once here, they cannot treat patients because Cuba has refused to release or certify their academic records. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - Roberto Carmona sneaked away from his superiors disguised as a South African cowboy. While working in Namibia, the doctor donned boots and a big hat so he could slip out to the American Embassy, where he asked about qualifying for a special program for Cuban physicians that he hoped would let him defect to the U.S.

Neighborhood hit by mortgage crisis battles back (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 07:24 AM PDT

This Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 picture shows a discarded sofa in front of an abandoned house in the Windy Ridge subdivision of Charlotte, N.C. Many people sought the American Dream in starter homes here. But in this and a neighboring subdivision is a bitter lesson in how the mortgage disaster of the last few years came about, and the story of the gambles and errors that pushed the economy, and neighborhoods like this, over a cliff. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)AP - There's only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It's an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream.

Questions linger about Mo. hotel magnate's welfare (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PDT

In this photo taken March 15, 2011, a bust of John Q. Hammons sits outside the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame founded by Hammons in Springfield, Mo. The businessman and philanthropist locals simply call John Q. hasn't been seen for more than six months, shuttered away in a Springfield nursing home amid reports of deteriorating health. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tim Logan) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTAP - The view from the 22nd-floor dining club of Hammons Tower provides ample evidence of the cast-in-concrete legacy of the 92-year-old hotel magnate whose family name graces seemingly every sizable building in town.

Ousted principals quickly find new education jobs (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:23 AM PDT

In this Feb. 3, 2011 photo, former Red Lake High School principal Ev Arnold, right, talks with seniors Dan Perkins, left, and Tanner Glenn, center, to discuss Glenn's new class schedule in Red Lake, Minn. Arnold, who was dismissed as part of the federal School Improvement Grant program to reform the nation's worst schools, is now the turnaround officer at the high school. (AP Photo/Monte Draper)AP - After Red Lake High School was labeled one of Minnesota's worst schools, its board moved quickly to dismiss the principal. It didn't take long for Ev Arnold to land on his feet, though: The same district now pays him the identical salary to oversee the school's turnaround.

Gaps in US radiation monitoring system revealed (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:01 AM PDT

Eric Stevenson, Director of Technical Services for the Bay Area Quality Management District, opens a radiation sensing device Wednesday, March 23, 2011, in San Francisco. Federal officials had to scramble last week to make sure the first line of defense against radiation, a network of sensors perched on rooftops across the country, was up and running. Their quick work has revealed no worrisome spikes since the Japanese nuclear crisis began, but more than one-third of the stationary machines weren't working when the radiation began migrating over California last week, a finding that has raised questions about the little-known program that relies partly on volunteer help. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Parts of America's radiation alert network have been out of order during Japan's nuclear crisis, raising concerns among some lawmakers about whether the system could safeguard the country in a future disaster.
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