Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Death toll from Joplin tornado is 134, officials say (Reuters)

Death toll from Joplin tornado is 134, officials say (Reuters)

Death toll from Joplin tornado is 134, officials say (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:22 PM PDT

Hugh Hills salvages items from the upper level of his house which was destroyed in the May 22 tornado in Joplin May 31, 2011. Missouri officials on Tuesday reduced the number of missing people from last week's devastating Joplin tornado to 10, a third of the previous day's count. The tornado that hit May 22 was rated an EF-5, or the strongest possible, and was rated the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1947. REUTERS/Sarah ConardReuters - Missouri officials on Wednesday announced that 134 people died in the May 22 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri.

At least four dead in Massachusetts storms (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:48 PM PDT

Reuters - At least four people were killed when storms and tornadoes tore through heavily populated western and central Massachusetts on Wednesday, causing widespread damage across some 19 communities, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said.

Man kills himself in San Francisco Bay as police watch (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:25 PM PDT

Reuters - Officials in the town of Alameda, California, are revising rescue procedures after the suicide of a man who waded into the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay and succumbed to hypothermia as firefighters and police watched from shore.

Stopping the Government from Reading Your E-Mail (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Time.com - With the courts still debating whether the Fourth Amendment requires the government to get a warrant before obtaining an individual's emails, one Senator is trying to write new privacy protections into law

Major Booty Found: Blackbeard's Anchor Recovered from Ocean (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Davy Jones' Locker is slowly letting out its secrets. Starting with a 3,000-pound anchor

Casey Anthony told police toddler was kidnapped (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Casey Anthony cries at the start of the third day of her first degree murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/PoolReuters - In a calm, confident voice, accused child killer Casey Anthony told investigators on July 16, 2008 that her 2-year-old daughter Caylee had been kidnapped by her nanny, according to a taped statement played Wednesday for jurors.

Iconic Bosnian teen hurt in war reflects on Mladic (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT

Sead Bekric holds a copy of the Newsweek Magazine, cover featuring him as a boy in the hospital, at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla., Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Bekric was airlifted from war torn Bosnia to the U.S., where he received medical treatment and later became a citizen. Bekric was blinded in 1993 by Serbian artillery fire in Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)AP - Sead Bekric was just 14 when he was hit and blinded by artillery fire on a schoolyard nearly 20 years ago during the Bosnian war. The graphic photo of his bloody, maimed face helped introduce the world to the atrocities that have been blamed on former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.

Nerves fray as Blago addresses 'golden' quote (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich addresses the media accompanied by his wife Patti, at federal court after opening arguments in his second corruption trial in Chicago. Blagojevich is set to return to the witness stand for a third day Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at his political corruption retrial, which is now heading into its fifth week of testimony. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Calling it "that phrase heard around the world," former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich attempted Wednesday to address the most infamous of his comments on FBI wiretap recordings in his corruption trial — but fumbled his way through the explanation.

Smoking gun elusive in deadly E. coli outbreak (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:23 PM PDT

Employees of Czech center of national reference laboratories prepare samples of vegetables for molecular testing on EHEC bacteria (bacterium Escherichia coli.) in Brno June 1, 2011. Samples of vegetables imported from various countries are tested for E.Coli at the laboratory. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLICAGRICULTURE DRINK TECH - Tags: AGRICULTURE HEALTH SCI TECH FOOD)AP - European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. It's a sad fact of life in food poisoning cases: There often is no smoking gun.

AZ turns away application for marijuana dispensary (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:06 PM PDT

AP - Acting in sync with Gov. Jan Brewer's wishes, Arizona's top health official refused Wednesday to accept an application from prospective operators of a medical marijuana dispensary, setting the stage for a possible legal challenge to push for full implementation of a voter-approved law.

DOT gave unsafe bus operator extra time to appeal (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:10 PM PDT

Rescue personnel work on a bus that overturned Tuesday, May 31, 2011, in Bowling Green, Va. The commercial tour bus went off Interstate 95 in Virginia and flipped on its roof before dawn Tuesday, killing four people and injuring many more, state police said. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - An East Coast discount bus service was near to being shut down by federal transportation authorities before a weekend crash in Virginia killed four people, but it was still operating because it received a 10-day extension to file its appeal, federal transportation authorities said Wednesday.

4 reported dead after tornadoes in Mass. (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:29 PM PDT

In this photo provided by John Garvey, a tornado moves through Springfield, Mass., Wednesday, June 1, 2011. An apparent tornado struck downtown Springfield, Mass., one of the state's largest cities, scattering debris, toppling trees, and frightening workers and residents. (AP Photo/John Garvey)AP - At least two tornadoes swept through western and central Massachusetts Wednesday, sending debris slamming into buildings and killing four people, Massachusetts' governor said.

NJ gov. takes state helicopter to son's ballgame (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:41 PM PDT

In this May 31, 2011 photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, exits a state helicopter to attend his son's high school baseball game in Montvale, N.J. State police say it costs $2,500 an hour to fly a state helicopter, but that flying Christie to his son's high school baseball game didn’t cost taxpayers anything extra. (AP Photo/PATCH.com, Christopher Costa) MANDATORY CREDITAP - New Jersey's pugnacious, budget-cutting Gov. Chris Christie — widely mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president — is catching grief for taking a state helicopter to his son's high school baseball game and refusing to reimburse the state for the costs.

Tenn. passes Web entertainment theft bill (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:43 PM PDT

AP - State lawmakers in country music's capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's login — even with permission — to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody.

NYC mobster Vinny Gorgeous avoids death sentence (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photograph released in New York by the United States Attorney's Office, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, is reputed mobster Vincent Basciano. (AP Photo/United States Attorney's Office, File)AP - A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family.

Photos from stolen laptop lead to man's arrest (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:04 PM PDT

In this image provided by Joshua Kaufman, a man later identified as Muthanna Aldebashi is seen via a webcam on a laptop owned by Kaufman. Kaufman, of Oakland, Calif., says he retrieved the laptop Wednesday, June 1, 2011, a day after police arrested the 27-year-old man in the photographs. Muthanna Aldebashi is being held on a charge of suspicion of possessing stolen property. Kaufman says a burglar broke into his apartment March 21 and stole the laptop. He says he activated theft-tracking software that tracked its location and took screenshots and photographs of its user. (AP Photo/Joshua Kaufman)AP - The images began arriving in Joshua Kaufman's inbox. The grainy photos are low-lit and intimate: a man curled up on a couch, sound asleep; the same man propped up against pillows on a bed, shirtless.

Fingerprints in terror case unchecked for months (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:57 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, an Iraqi living as a refugee in Bowling Green, Ky., is shown. Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, another Iraqi refugee, tried to send sniper rifles, Stinger missiles and money to al-Qaida operatives in their home country, and both boasted of using improvised explosives against American troops there before moving to the U.S., according to court documents unsealed Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The men were arrested after an investigation that began months after they arrived in the U.S. in 2009. Neither is charged with plotting attacks within the United States, and authorities said their weapons and money didn't make it to Iraq because of a tightly controlled undercover investigation. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service via The Courier-Journal)AP - While an Iraqi refugee spent two years in the U.S. plotting to help al-Qaida attack American soldiers in Iraq, court documents say, federal authorities unknowingly had evidence that already linked him a roadside bomb in his home country in 2005.

41 advance to semifinals at National Spelling Bee (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT

Snigdha Nandipati, 13, from San Diego, Calif., spells out her word on her hand as she concentrates during round two of the National Spelling Bee, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Joanna Ye was honored with a "Joanna Ye Day" in her hometown after she made the finals in last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. She then took five months to go through every word in the unabridged dictionary and was feeling relaxed about her return appearance this year.

Rising Missouri River sends South Dakotans packing (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:33 PM PDT

In this photo provided by Mercy Air Care-Sioux City, sand bag barriers around homes can be seen from the air in the Dakota Dunes, S.D., area as the Missouri River continues to rise, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Mercy Air Care-Sioux City, Jerry Mennenga)AP - Dump trucks and moving vans crowded the streets of Dakota Dunes on Wednesday, hauling in dirt to build up miles of levees protecting the small southeast South Dakota town and carrying away belongings for hundreds of residents leaving before what could be a prolonged summer of Missouri River flooding.
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