Saturday, April 30, 2011

Obama ramps up recovery help for tornado-hit South (Reuters)

Obama ramps up recovery help for tornado-hit South (Reuters)

Obama ramps up recovery help for tornado-hit South (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:45 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. government ramped up efforts on Saturday to help thousands of homeless victims of the country's second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak, which killed at least 350 people.

Storm cellar saves Alabama couple, as neighbors perish (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Travis Roberts invited his neighbors into the storm cellar he built for $600, but they figured they would ride out the twister bearing down on them.

U.S. government moves closer to blowing up levee (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. government agency took a step closer to blowing up a Mississippi River levee to control flooding on Saturday after a court decision cleared the way for it to proceed.

Traveling Man: Brian Williams Explains Why He Ditched The Royal Wedding (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:15 PM PDT

Time.com - While it may seem like everyone is breathlessly watching the Royal Wedding with all its pomp and fanfare, elsewhere in the world real news is taking place

Alabama Tornadoes: An Eyewitness Account from Tuscaloosa (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:15 PM PDT

Time.com - An enormous tornado barreled through the Alabama city, wreaking enormous damage and killing at least 36 people

Jerry Brown has cancerous growth removed from nose (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 06:00 PM PDT

Reuters - California Governor Jerry Brown had surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his nose, his office said on Saturday.

Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon parents of twins (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:21 PM PDT

FILE - In a March 7, 2010 file photo, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Carey gave birth to twins, a baby girl and boy, Saturday morning April 30, 2011 at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles. Carey's representative, Cindi Berger, confirmed the births to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon celebrated their third anniversary with another milestone — becoming parents to a baby girl and boy.

Obama keeps up push to end gas, oil tax breaks (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2011 file photo, gas prices above five dollars a gallon are seen on a sign at a gas station in Washington. Americans are down in the dumps. Even though the economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, unemployment remains near 9 percent. Gasoline prices have shot up to about $4 a gallon (almost a dollar a liter). That's about a third more than than just six months ago. It's pinching already tight household budgets. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - President Barack Obama says oil companies are profiting from rising pump prices and he wants Congress to end $4 billion in annual tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.

Obama, Trump together for correspondents' dinner (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 06:36 PM PDT

Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive for the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday, April 30, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama is shifting from consoler to comic for his appearance before a mix of politicians, celebrities and journalists at Washington's premier black-tie dinner.

NFL star helps NY boy after mom's suicide plunge (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:50 PM PDT

AP - NFL linebacker Ray Lewis and former cornerback Reggie Howard are helping a 10-year-old New York boy whose mother drowned herself and three children by driving a van into the Hudson River.

Fashion firms rush to copy the royal gown (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:58 PM PDT

AP - Seconds after Kate Middleton emerged from her car outside Westminster Abbey in a ball gown with lace sleeves, designers around the U.S., glued to their TV sets, were sketching her look, setting in motion a mad rush for mass-produced versions that are expected to be in stores as early as late June.

1 year after Times Square scare, concerns endure (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:37 AM PDT

In an April 27, 2011 photo, Duane Jackson, one of the first people to alert police officers to a suspicious vehicle that contained a crude bomb in New York's Times Square, May, 1, 2010, works at his stand. One year after a militant Pakistani immigrant spread a wave of fear by driving a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, tourists and even the street vendor who alerted police to the smoking vehicle still flock to 'The Crossroads of the World' as if it never happened. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - One year after a militant from Connecticut spread panic by driving a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, tourists and even the street vendor who alerted police to the smoking vehicle still descend on "The Crossroads of the World" as if it never happened.

Court won't block plan to blast Missouri levee (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 05:54 PM PDT

In this photo taken from video, large hail stones are seen on the ground as a thunderstorm passes through Poplar Bluff, Mo., Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Powerful storms continue to push through the nation's midsection raising river levels to dangerous heights. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)AP - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inched closer Saturday to blowing a hole in a Mississippi River levee to try to keep flood waters out of a small Illinois town after a federal appeals court declined to stop the move.

Suspect in quadruple slaying dies in Ohio shootout (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 06:27 PM PDT

AP - A man killed in a shootout Saturday in central Ohio that left four people wounded, including three police officers, was suspected in the slayings of four people whose bodies were found about 90 miles away at a house along a rural state highway, authorities said.

In twister's path, a struggle for survival (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 04:15 PM PDT

Tornado survivor Jonathan Ford saves what he can from his home Friday, April 29, 2011 after it was destroyed by a powerful tornado in Pleasant Grove, Ala. Ford stayed under the staircase to save his dog. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - All morning at work, the boss' wife stared at the storm alerts flashing across the television screen and fretted. By 2:30 p.m., when they closed the restoration shop early and sent employees home, Jonathan Ford paid little mind to the sunshine overhead.

Palin raises profile; 2012 plans unclear (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. It̢۪s been a sliding spring for Sarah Palin. She's kept an uncharacteristically low profile. Her support among Republicans has shrunk. And there's no evidence that she's anywhere close to announcing whether she will run for president. But it's clear she still wants to be part of the conversation (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner, File)AP - Sarah Palin's support among Republicans has shrunk and there's no evidence she's close to saying whether she will run for president in 2012.

NASA to know Sunday whether shuttle can fly Monday (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 02:32 PM PDT

Visitors at the Kennedy Space Center take photos and get a close view of space shuttle Endeavour on Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, April 30, 2011. Yesterdays' launch attempt was scrubbed due to technical problems.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Engineers should know Sunday whether Endeavour's six-man crew and their families — including wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — need to stick around for a Monday launch attempt or come back sometime around Mother's Day.

Labor Dept. honors Memphis sanitation workers (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:06 PM PDT

AP - Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Friday honored the 1,300 black workers who took part in the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968, taking a swipe at governors who are trying to curtail public union employees' benefits.
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