Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Levee detonation lowers river, triggers new lawsuit (Reuters)

Levee detonation lowers river, triggers new lawsuit (Reuters)

Levee detonation lowers river, triggers new lawsuit (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:40 PM PDT

A truck drives through floodwaters in an area intentionally flooded by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Charleston, Missouri, May 3, 2011. The controversial effort to protect river towns in Illinois and Kentucky from rising floodwaters by blowing open a levee and flooding more than 100,000 acres of Missouri farmland appeared to be slowly working on Tuesday. REUTERS/James KelleherReuters - The effort to protect river towns in Illinois and Kentucky from rising floodwaters by blowing open a levee and inundating more than 100,000 acres of Missouri farmland appeared to be slowly working on Tuesday.

After deadly twisters, towns cope with multiple funerals (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Mourners gathered at a church on Tuesday to say goodbye to a victim of last week's storms, another sad scene being repeated hundreds of times across the Southern states ravaged by deadly twisters.

L.A. Chabad House suspect indicted on federal charges (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - A homeless man accused of using an improvised projectile to damage a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, prosecutors said.

CIA Chief Breaks Silence: U.S. Ruled Out Involving Pakistan in bin Laden Raid Early On (Time.com)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The CIA ruled out participating with its nominal South Asian ally early on because "it was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission"

With bin Laden Dead, Teacher Shaves for First Time Since Sept. 11, 2001 (Time.com)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Razors never looked so good as they did on Monday for Garry Weddle, a middle school teacher in Ephrata, Wash.

Officials face big visa overstay record backlog (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. authorities are facing a huge backlog of records involving people who have stayed in the United States after their visas expired, according to a report released on Tuesday, revealing that a security gap has not been fixed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

6 La. Scouts rescued from Ark. wilderness area (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Gene Josey, right, hugs his son Boy Scout Caleb Stutes, 14, after the boy and other scouts were rescued from a camping trip near Langley, Ark., Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The boys and two adult leaders had been missing since Sunday, when rising water cut off their exit from the Albert Pike Recreation Area. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - In the same remote valley where 20 people died in a flash flood last summer, six Louisiana Boy Scouts trapped by a rising river built a campfire and ate jambalaya and grits, confident rescuers would eventually arrive.

White House: US determined to destroy al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:37 AM PDT

AP - White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says U.S officials hope to build on the killing of Osama bin Laden to destroy the al-Qaida terrorist organization.

Missouri levee blast eases threat to Illinois town (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:25 PM PDT

Part of the 130,000 acres of farmland flooded by an intentional break in the Birds Point levee is seen Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Mississippi County, Mo. Army Corps of Engineers' blew a two-mile hole into the levee in southeast Missouri to take pressure off the rising Mississippi and Ohio rivers and try to protect nearby Cairo, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland Tuesday, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois town being menaced by the Mississippi River.

Lawyers say focus on race infected Arpaio's sweeps (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

AP - Records show top deputies in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office circulated offensive jokes about Mexicans at a time when the department faces a lawsuit alleging officers in Arizona's Maricopa County routinely racially profile immigrants during traffic stops.

Officials try to ID body in home of 1959 Playmate (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:54 PM PDT

Neighbor Dan Fugardi stands by the home of former Playboy playmate and B-movie actress Yvette Vickers, in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Fugardi learned that his neighbor's badly decomposing body had been inside the home for several months to a year. Fugardi occasionally had helped Vicker's move her trash can. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - There were few signs that anything was amiss at 1950s-era Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers' one-bedroom house in Beverly Hills. Lights were left on. A telephone book that had been delivered and sat in front of her house eventually disappeared. And neighbors recalled that she loved to travel to Las Vegas.

NYC taxis to get suburban look, Japanese nameplate (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:31 PM PDT

This photo provided by Nissan, Tuesday May 3, 2011, shows a Nissan NV200 that was selected by New York City to supply the taxi fleet for the next 10 years. The Japanese automaker beat out Ford Motor Co. and Karsan USA in a contest for the rights to anchor the fleet. The anchor of the city's current fleet of more than 13,200 taxis is Ford's Crown Victoria, which was recently discontinued. (AP Photo/Nissan)AP - It looks like something you'd see on a suburban cul-de-sac, not inching through Times Square. A boxy minivan made by Nissan will be the next iconic yellow cab in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.

APNewsBreak: VA to expand caregivers program (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:08 PM PDT

AP - The Veterans Affairs Department reversed course Tuesday and said it will make sure more caregivers of severely disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veterans can receive the support they need to help their wounded relatives.

Phone call by Kuwaiti courier led to bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:57 AM PDT

This Monday, May 2, 2011 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows the compound, center, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden lived. Bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was tracked down and shot to death at the compound by an elite team of U.S. forces, ending an unrelenting manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP Photo/GeoEye)AP - When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.

Holocaust Museum to digitize vast archive for web (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:33 PM PDT

This handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, taken earlier this year outside of Philadelphia, shows Sol Finkelstein, 85 of Vineland, N.J., and his son, Joseph Finkelstein of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. They are holding the first photograph Sol Finkelstein has seen of his father, Jakob Finkelstein, since the two were separated in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. With help from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, they learned that Jakob Finkelstein had survived until the camp was liberated, and they found his burial spot in Austria. (AP Photo/Miriam Lomaskin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)AP - Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein's father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration Camp in Austria.

Judge awards $1.9M to family of boy killed by bear (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:13 PM PDT

AP - A Utah federal judge on Tuesday awarded nearly $2 million to the family of an 11-year-old boy killed by a bear at a campsite in 2007.

'Closure': Americans find comfort in clear ending (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this 1998 file photo, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, holds a press conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan)AP - To surf American airwaves, to read American comments on the Internet by the thousands, to walk American streets on the day after Osama bin Laden's astonishing demise meant you'd almost certainly hear some variation of a single telling word: "closure."

BP agrees to $25M penalty for 2006 Alaska spills (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:36 PM PDT

AP - BP's subsidiary in Alaska will pay a $25 million civil penalty under a settlement announced Tuesday that comes five years after more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from company pipelines on the North Slope.

US holds photos of slain bin Laden, weighs release (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was confronted by U.S. commandos at his Pakistani hideout, the White House said Tuesday as new details emerged about the audacious raid that killed the world's most wanted terrorist. The White House said it was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed but that the photos were "gruesome" and could be inflammatory.
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