U.S. files new charges against September 11 accused (Reuters)

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• U.S. files new charges against September 11 accused (Reuters)
• Martin Luther King's daughter leaves Atlanta megachurch (Reuters)
• Farm Camps Offer a Down-to-Earth Respite from Technology (Time.com)
• What Does Jared Loughner's Competency Hearing Mean? Three Experts Weigh In (Time.com)
• Former Conn. man sentenced to 45 years in child pornography case (Reuters)
• Police intensify search for Calif. nursing student (AP)
• Pony Express re-enactment postponed due to virus (AP)
• New policy after crews watch man die in SF Bay (AP)
• Blagojevich: He didn't want cash for Senate seat (AP)
• Defense: Mumbai attacks witness lied to FBI, judge (AP)
• Staff safety pressed after 2nd attack at NYC hotel (AP)
• 9 days after tornado, rebuilding begins in Joplin (AP)
• Obama to award Medal of Honor to Army sergeant (AP)
• Levees going up to protect South Dakota cities (AP)
• One shuttle leaving orbit, another en route to pad (AP)
• Republicans question healthier eating proposals (AP)
• Bus co. in Va. fatal crash had fatigue violations (AP)
• Rwanda genocide suspect convicted of lying to US (AP)
• Predicting 2011 hurricane season could be tough (AP)

U.S. files new charges against September 11 accused (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. military prosecutors have filed new charges against the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four alleged co-conspirators held at the Guantanamo detention camp.

Martin Luther King's daughter leaves Atlanta megachurch (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT Reuters - Bernice King, the daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has left a suburban Atlanta megachurch that has been at the center of a recent sex controversy, and plans to start her own ministry.

Farm Camps Offer a Down-to-Earth Respite from Technology (Time.com) Posted: 31 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT Time.com - Parents clamor to send children to the lowly farm camps, with tilling the earth now seen as a wholesome and character-building respite from video games and texting

What Does Jared Loughner's Competency Hearing Mean? Three Experts Weigh In (Time.com) Posted: 30 May 2011 05:55 AM PDT Time.com - At a competency hearing Wednesday afternoon, a federal judge ruled Jared Loughner, the suspect in a January 8 shooting massacre in Tuscon that left six dead and 14 wounded, incompetent to stand trial

Former Conn. man sentenced to 45 years in child pornography case (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 06:21 PM PDT Reuters - A former Connecticut man was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 years in prison followed by a life term of parole for making and distributing child pornography during his abuse of an eight-year old girl several years ago.

Police intensify search for Calif. nursing student (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT AP - Police kept searching Tuesday for a missing Northern California nursing student whose distraught family posted a $20,000 reward after she disappeared during a break from a clinical rotation.

Pony Express re-enactment postponed due to virus (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night could keep Pony Express riders from their appointed rounds, so the story goes. But a deadly horse virus is another matter.

New policy after crews watch man die in SF Bay (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT AP - A 50-year-old man waded into the San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. A Coast Guard boat couldn't get into the shallow water, and fire crews said they couldn't rescue him because of a policy that strictly forbade such attempts.

Blagojevich: He didn't want cash for Senate seat (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 05:43 PM PDT AP - Addressing the most explosive charge against him, ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told jurors Tuesday that he never sought to sell President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat, but that he kicked around all kinds of ideas — "good ones, bad ones, stupid ones" — over whom to appoint to the position.

Defense: Mumbai attacks witness lied to FBI, judge (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:18 PM PDT AP - An admitted American terrorist who is the government's top witness in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks repeatedly lied to the FBI, a judge and even his wife as he cooperated in a plea deal to save his own life, defense attorneys said Tuesday.

Staff safety pressed after 2nd attack at NYC hotel (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 05:37 PM PDT AP - As a former chairman of a major Egyptian bank awaited his first court appearance Tuesday on charges he sexually assaulted a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, an industry official said more needed to be done to protect hotel workers.

9 days after tornado, rebuilding begins in Joplin (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT AP - Electrical crews hoisted power poles, small businesses opened in tents and residents snatched up construction supplies as rebuilding got underway nine days after a tornado tore through southwest Missouri. "We are open. Pray for Joplin," read a sign Tuesday outside a pharmacy offering customers free water, coffee and diabetic meters.

Obama to award Medal of Honor to Army sergeant (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 06:34 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to a Washington state-based Army sergeant who lost his hand in Afghanistan when he tried to toss an enemy grenade away from himself and two colleagues.

Levees going up to protect South Dakota cities (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:12 PM PDT AP - Crews raced approaching floodwaters Tuesday to complete emergency levees aimed at protecting South Dakota's capital city and two other towns as the swollen Missouri River rolled downstream from the Northern Plains. Meanwhile, the mayor of Minot, N.D., ordered a quarter of the city's residents to evacuate areas along the flooding Souris River.

One shuttle leaving orbit, another en route to pad (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 06:05 PM PDT AP - Endeavour and its crew of six zoomed toward a middle-of-the-night landing to bring NASA's second-to last shuttle flight to a close, as Atlantis slowly made its way to the launch pad Tuesday night for the grand finale in just five weeks.

Republicans question healthier eating proposals (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 07:23 PM PDT AP - House Republicans are pushing back against Obama administration efforts to promote healthier lunches, saying the Agriculture Department should rewrite rules it issued in January meant to make school meals healthier. They say the new rules are too costly.

Bus co. in Va. fatal crash had fatigue violations (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 05:57 PM PDT AP - A bus operated by a discount company with a particularly poor record of fatigued driving overturned on a Virginia highway before dawn Tuesday, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others.

Rwanda genocide suspect convicted of lying to US (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - A federal jury convicted an 84-year-old Kansas man on Tuesday of lying on his immigration forms about his whereabouts during the Rwanda genocide, but it did not find that the government proved its case that he took part in the mass killings.

Predicting 2011 hurricane season could be tough (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 12:24 PM PDT AP - The tough task of guessing what hurricane season will look like could be even more difficult this year for forecasters, who won't be able to rely on the relatively predictable forces known as El Nino and La Nina.

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