Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Alleged Tucson shooter ruled incompetent for trial (Reuters)

Alleged Tucson shooter ruled incompetent for trial (Reuters)

Alleged Tucson shooter ruled incompetent for trial (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Tuscon shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner is pictured in this undated booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service on February 22, 2011. REUTERS/U.S. Marshals Service/HandoutReuters - Shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner was dragged shouting from a courtroom on Wednesday before he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he killed six people and wounded Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Tornado death toll rises, no more survivors found (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Ken Haebaum stands in his mud-splattered kitchen after a tornado ripped through the Falcon Lake area of Piedmont, Oklahoma May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Bill WaughReuters - The death toll from a monster tornado that savaged Joplin, Missouri, rose to 125 on Wednesday and tornadoes overnight in nearby states caused at least 15 more deaths.

San Diego family left suicide notes in apparent drownings (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Police said on Wednesday they are investigating the apparent drowning deaths of a family of four in San Diego as a murder-suicide case after finding at least two suicide notes in their house.

Joplin Tornado Tragedy: Hole in the Heart of Missouri Town (Time.com)

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:30 AM PDT

Time.com - The devastated Missouri city continues to search its ruins for the living and dead even as new storm clouds gather

Harold Camping: Judgment Day Did Actually Happen Saturday (Time.com)

Posted: 25 May 2011 03:05 AM PDT

Time.com - After a few days of silence, Judgment Day-calculator Harold Camping figured out a way to spin his second failed prediction: it actually did happen, you just didn't see it

Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper gets life in prison (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2011 04:45 PM PDT

Elizabeth Smart talks to the media after Brian David Mitchell, a homeless street preacher, was found guilty of kidnapping then teenager Smart in June 2002, outside federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, in this December 10, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Michael Brandy/FilesReuters - The homeless street preacher convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison after Smart told him he would be held responsible for his actions "in this life or the next."

Dems rejoice over NY; will Medicare redo 2012? (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul, D-NY, pounds her fist while talking with supporters at a restaurant in Depew, N.Y., Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Hochul defeated Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin on Tuesday night, capturing 47 percent of the vote to 43 percent for Corwin, to win the seat vacated by Republican Chris Lee. A wealthy tea party candidate, Jack Davis, took 9 percent. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Jubilant Democrats demanded Republicans abandon their sweeping plans to remake Medicare on Wednesday after casting a House race in upstate New York as a referendum on the popular program and emerging victorious.

Soldier guilty of Iraq deaths in Ga. court martial (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT

AP - An Army sergeant was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of premeditated murder in the 2008 slayings of his squad leader and another U.S. soldier at a patrol base in Iraq, but he was spared the death penalty when the military jury didn't return a unanimous verdict.

Forecasts, TV and luck eased tornado risk in Okla. (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:36 PM PDT

People begin the cleanup process at a home destroyed by Tuesday's tornado, in Piedmont, Okla., Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Violent storms rumbled through the central U.S. on Wednesday, spawning tornadoes that turned homes into splintered wreckage, killing at least 14 people over two days and hampering rescue efforts in a city slammed by a massive twister days earlier. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)AP - When three tornadoes marched toward Oklahoma City and its suburbs, thousands of people in the path benefited from good forecasts, luck and live television to avoid the kind of catastrophe that befell Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo.

Joplin tornado death toll rises to 125 (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 05:19 PM PDT

Kenneth Thomas searches through toys kept at his house for his grand children in what used to be his living room Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in Joplin , Mo. Thomas' house and much of Joplin was destroyed after a massive tornado hit the area Sunday night. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Rescuers refused to be deterred from their efforts to find survivors beneath Joplin's jagged piles of tornado rubble, even as the death toll rose Wednesday to 125.

Former street preacher gets life in Smart case (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Elizabeth Smart, left, and her father Ed Smart talk to the media in front of the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in Salt Lake City. Smart's kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, was sentenced to life in prison. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP - Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Now 23, she stood tall in the courtroom — stoic, with an even voice and a strength Brian David Mitchell clearly lacked.

Former IMF chief moves to new housing in NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is lead from 71 Broadway in Manhattan's financial district where the former International Monetary Fund leader was staying following his release on bail, Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn moved Wednesday from a temporary space in a high-rise to a plush, four-bedroom brick town house in Manhattan where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial in his attempted rape case, officials said.

Man charged in NH church rape case testifies (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Pastor Charles 'Chuck' Phelps testifies during the trial of Ernest Willis at the Merrimack Superior Court Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in Concord, N.H. Willis is accused of raping and impregnating a 15-year-old fellow church member in 1997. (AP Photo/Alexander Cohn, Pool)AP - A New Hampshire man accused of raping and impregnating his children's 15-year-old baby sitter in 1997 took the stand in his defense Wednesday, acknowledging he fathered her baby but saying he did not force himself on her.

NASA spacecraft will pluck samples from asteroid (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 04:31 PM PDT

This artist's image provided by NASA shows the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx that NASA plans to launch in 2016, sending it to an asteroid to bring back samples to Earth. The space agency said Wednesday May 25, 2011 that the unmanned craft won't land on the asteroid. But it will get close enough to extend a robotic arm and pluck samples from the surface. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A NASA spacecraft will reach out and touch an asteroid and send pieces back to Earth, the space agency announced Wednesday.

AP source: Edwards could be indicted within days (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 03:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2010 file photo, Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is seen in Raleigh, N.C. A person familiar with a federal investigation into Edwards' political dealings says prosecutors have completed their probe of the two-time presidential candidate and could indict him within days. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, File)AP - The Justice Department plans to bring criminal charges against John Edwards after a two-year investigation into whether the former presidential candidate illegally used money from some of his political backers to cover up his extramarital affair, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday.

Judge: Ariz. shooting suspect mentally incompetent (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 04:47 PM PDT

Defendant Jared Loughner sits with his head in his hands during a competency hearing in federal court Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. as shown in this artists' rendering. Loughner is charged with shooting U.S. Rep. Garbrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. and 18 others and was deemed by a federal judge today to be incompetent to stand trial at this time. (AP Photo/Bill Robles)AP - The man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly rampage lowered his head to within inches of the courtroom table Wednesday. When he lifted it, he began yelling, angry and loud.

Poison claims by man accused of killing daughter (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:27 PM PDT

AP - A father charged with killing his 10-year-old daughter whose body was found in his truck covered in chemicals told authorities the girl tried to poison him by putting baby oil in his soda, according to court documents released late Wednesday.

Polar bear cub was reviewed for return to Arctic (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 05:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 1, 2011 file photo provided by the Alaska Zoo, an orphaned polar bear cub rescued last week at an Alaska oil field is carried by Alaska Zoo director Pat Lampi at the zoo in Anchorage, Alaska. The cub is thriving at the Alaska Zoo but federal wildlife officials said Wednesday, May 25, 2011, they briefly considered trying to reunite the wild tyke with its mother after the adult bear was spotted on sea ice of the state's northern coast. (AP Photo/Alaska Zoo, John Gomes, File)AP - A rescued polar bear cub is thriving at the Alaska Zoo but federal wildlife officials said Wednesday they briefly considered trying to reunite the wild tyke with its mother after the adult bear was spotted on sea ice of the state's northern coast.

After Emanuel's cameo, Blago plans to take stand (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the Federal Court building for his federal corruption trial Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Chicago. U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are expected to to testify as defense witnesses. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - On just his 10th day in office, Chicago's new mayor found himself on the witness stand in the federal corruption trial of a former governor, testifying just after a congressman who talked about money and political deals.

Disaster onslaught: Relief groups scramble to cope (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 02:08 PM PDT

AP - Confronted with an unprecedented string of tornadoes, floods and wildfires, the American Red Cross and other relief groups are scrambling to raise money fast enough to meet the demand for help.
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