Obama promises help to rebuild tornado-hit South (Reuters)

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• Obama promises help to rebuild tornado-hit South (Reuters)
• Florida pastor cuts Michigan protest short (Reuters)
• Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up (Reuters)
• Democrats Mobilize on Ryan Plan as Republican Town Halls Simmer (Time.com)
• How the G-Man Got His Groove Back (Time.com)
• After brief respite, Texas wildfires kick up again (Reuters)
• Tornadoes suddenly stop life in small town South (AP)
• AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk (AP)
• Investigators suspect Utah doctor killed wife (AP)
• Americans wake before dawn to watch royal wedding (AP)
• GOP presidential hopefuls make case in NH (AP)
• KC university supports lecturer in video flap (AP)
• Even rescuers hobbled by worst twisters since 1932 (AP)
• NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5 (AP)
• Japan official: US tornadoes evoke quake damages (AP)
• Tornado survivors had minutes to seek refuge (AP)
• Obama says devastation unlike any he has ever seen (AP)
• NC judge orders documents released in Edwards case (AP)
• Maine official forced out for race, other remarks (AP)

Obama promises help to rebuild tornado-hit South (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama promised federal aid on Friday to the tornado-ravaged South, where deadly twisters have killed at least 339 people and caused billions of dollars in damage.

Florida pastor cuts Michigan protest short (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:25 PM PDT Reuters - A controversial Florida pastor banned last week from protesting at a Detroit-area mosque on Friday cut short a demonstration at a city hall largely drowned out by counter-protesters.

Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can blow up a Mississippi River levee, which would flood Missouri farmland but prevent the flooding of an Illinois town.

Democrats Mobilize on Ryan Plan as Republican Town Halls Simmer (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:55 PM PDT Time.com - The Easter recess hasn't been restful for Republican congressmen in swing districts

How the G-Man Got His Groove Back (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT Time.com - Inside Bob Mueller's 10-year campaign to fix the FBI

After brief respite, Texas wildfires kick up again (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - After a brief respite of cooler, calmer weather, the wildfires that have ravaged Texas kicked up again on Friday with flames shooting up to 30 feet in the air, officials said.

Tornadoes suddenly stop life in small town South (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:59 PM PDT AP - Lisa Chandler and her husband have been working nonstop since the deadly tornado outbreak, moving around the one generator powering their funeral home so they can get ready for services for six of the dead. Some are people they knew.

AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:41 PM PDT AP - The federal public defender's office in Cleveland filed a motion Friday asking to be re-appointed as co-counsel for alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, claiming the retired auto worker's trial in Germany has been tainted by a secret FBI report uncovered by The Associated Press.

Investigators suspect Utah doctor killed wife (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:05 PM PDT AP - When Dr. Martin MacNeill applied for a military identification card for a woman he called his wife, he listed April 14, 2007, as their wedding day — the very day his real wife was buried, and just three days after police say he killed her.

Americans wake before dawn to watch royal wedding (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT AP - With dining chairs forming makeshift pews and tacky "Royal Wedding" t-shirts in lieu of formalwear, Jen Barnette and five bleary-eyed friends settled in her living room before dawn on Friday to watch Britain's Prince William marry his longtime sweetheart, Kate Middleton.

GOP presidential hopefuls make case in NH (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:12 PM PDT AP - With Republican activists saying they finally feel the 2012 presidential contest is under way, five potential GOP candidates used one stage in New Hampshire Friday to chastise President Barack Obama and call for lower taxes and less regulation.

KC university supports lecturer in video flap (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - University of Missouri-Kansas City officials say they're standing behind a labor studies professor whose lecture comments about union agitation tactics have created an Internet stir among conservative commentators.

Even rescuers hobbled by worst twisters since 1932 (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:17 PM PDT AP - Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded Friday as they tried to emerge from the nation's deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.

NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5 (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:12 AM PDT AP - At least one of the massive tornadoes that killed hundreds across the South was a devastating EF-5 storm, and the National Weather Service expects to determine later Friday that "many more" also were the worst of the worst.

Japan official: US tornadoes evoke quake damages (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:35 PM PDT AP - Japan's foreign minister said Friday the tornado destruction that swiped the U.S. this week killing more than 300 people evoked the carnage of the earthquake that recently struck his own country.

Tornado survivors had minutes to seek refuge (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT AP - A Georgia salon owner and her two daughters — Sky and Stormy — climbed inside a tanning bed while a tornado ripped the roof off their business. A Virginia couple scrambled under their garage's wooden steps after a twister ripped off their home's roof. Mississippi mobile home park residents found shelter in a Baptist church, clinging to one another as the building disintegrated.

Obama says devastation unlike any he has ever seen (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:58 PM PDT AP - Expressing amazement at the destruction around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: "I've never seen devastation like this."

NC judge orders documents released in Edwards case (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT AP - Former presidential candidate John Edwards will again be asked a series of questions he earlier refused to answer under oath, this time with a judge on hand to immediately rule what's fair or foul in the privacy lawsuit filed by his mistress.

Maine official forced out for race, other remarks (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - A Maine cabinet member who was forced out after offending rural residents, African-Americans and Native Americans all in one day said Friday that some of the comments attributed to him were misconstrued and others he didn't even say.

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