Firefighters clear more brush in Los Alamos lab (Reuters)

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• Firefighters clear more brush in Los Alamos lab (Reuters)
• Alleged serial killer grabbed woman's throat, dragged her (Reuters)
• Casey Anthony will not testify in murder trial (Reuters)
• Animal Cruelty: Could a Barbaric Pig-Handling Video Hurt Major Grocery Chains? (Time.com)
• Los Alamos Wildfire Threat: More New Mexico Weather Agony (Time.com)
• Family of U.S. soldier held by Taliban marks two years (Reuters)
• Prison escape plot timed to guard's lunch break (AP)
• Can I come? Final shuttle crew besieged for favors (AP)
• Crews battle NM fire, which pushes into canyon (AP)
• Feds shutter bus company in fatal Pa. crash (AP)
• AP source: Ex-IMF leader to get bail eased in NYC (AP)
• Minn. braces for government shutdown over taxes (AP)
• Anthony doesn't take the stand as defense rests (AP)
• Judge backs scientists on polar bears (AP)
• Crack offenders eligible for early release (AP)
• Mass. judge says Bulger can get public defender (AP)
• RI governor called out on defying custody pact (AP)
• Kan. Planned Parenthood receives abortion license (AP)
• Might schedule change have deterred escape plot? (AP)
• Charge upped for Texas man accused of ditching son (AP)

Firefighters clear more brush in Los Alamos lab (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:52 PM PDT Reuters - Firefighters inside a nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico scrambled on Thursday to clear brush from around barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste stored a few miles from the edge of monster blaze roaring through surrounding forests.

Alleged serial killer grabbed woman's throat, dragged her (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT Reuters - A woman who said she survived an attack by alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell testified on Thursday that he wished her a "Merry Christmas" and then grabbed her by the throat and dragged her up the driveway to his house.

Casey Anthony will not testify in murder trial (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:07 PM PDT Reuters - Accused child killer Casey Anthony told a judge on Thursday that she would not testify at her murder trial, and the defense team rested its case after two weeks of trying to refute the prosecution.

Animal Cruelty: Could a Barbaric Pig-Handling Video Hurt Major Grocery Chains? (Time.com) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:10 PM PDT Time.com - An undercover investigation raises new questions about animal cruelty

Los Alamos Wildfire Threat: More New Mexico Weather Agony (Time.com) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:10 PM PDT Time.com - New Mexico has been ravaged by extreme weather. And now comes the specter of nuclear contamination (though precautions against that are in place -- sort of)

Family of U.S. soldier held by Taliban marks two years (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:24 PM PDT Reuters - The parents of a U.S. soldier being held by the Taliban marked their son's two years in captivity on Thursday by saying they intended to bring him home "with honor."

Prison escape plot timed to guard's lunch break (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:25 PM PDT AP - Following the strangling of an officer at the state prison in Monroe this year, national correctional experts made a simple suggestion for improving safety at Washington's prisons: Eliminate meal breaks for corrections officers.

Can I come? Final shuttle crew besieged for favors (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT AP - The four astronauts assigned to NASA's last space shuttle flight can't seem to escape all the fuss and hubbub.

Crews battle NM fire, which pushes into canyon (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT AP - Firefighters were confident Thursday they had stopped the advance of a wildfire that headed toward the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the nearby town that now sits empty for the second time in 11 years, even as they battled the blaze that crept into a canyon that descends into the town and parts of the lab.

Feds shutter bus company in fatal Pa. crash (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:38 PM PDT AP - Federal transportation officials Thursday shut down a bus company involved in a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after finding the two drivers involved never took required drug tests and falsified records.

AP source: Ex-IMF leader to get bail eased in NYC (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT AP - Former International Monetary Fund Leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have his pricey bail substantially reduced in his sexual assault case because of issues with his accuser's credibility, a person familiar with the case said Thursday.

Minn. braces for government shutdown over taxes (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:24 PM PDT AP - In an echo of the debate unfolding in Washington, Minnesota hurtled toward a midnight government shutdown Thursday in a dispute over taxes and spending that could force thousands of layoffs, bring road projects to a standstill and close state parks just ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.

Anthony doesn't take the stand as defense rests (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT AP - Casey Anthony's defense team rested its case Thursday in her high-profile murder trial without her testimony and some experts believe the strategy raised more questions than answers to support her claim that her 2-year daughter died in a tragic accident.

Judge backs scientists on polar bears (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:27 PM PDT AP - A federal judge on Thursday backed a finding by government scientists that global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.

Crack offenders eligible for early release (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:43 PM PDT AP - As many as 12,000 people in federal prison for crack-related crimes can get their sentences reduced as a result of a new law that brought the penalties for the drug more closely in line with those for powdered cocaine, a government commission decided Thursday.

Mass. judge says Bulger can get public defender (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - Former reputed mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who escaped prosecution for 16 years until he was apprehended last week in California with more than $800,000 in cash, was given a taxpayer-funded attorney Thursday after a judge concluded that he is unable to pay for his own lawyer.

RI governor called out on defying custody pact (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:33 PM PDT AP - A federal judge ordered Rhode Island officials Thursday to hand a suspect in a fatal robbery over to federal authorities after the governor, a death penalty opponent, refused to do so because the man could face execution if convicted.

Kan. Planned Parenthood receives abortion license (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - Kansas avoided becoming the first state in the country without an abortion provider by granting Planned Parenthood a license Thursday to continue performing abortions under new regulations being challenged in federal court.

Might schedule change have deterred escape plot? (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:30 PM PDT AP - Following the strangling of an officer at the state prison in Monroe this year, national correctional experts made a simple suggestion for improving safety at Washington's prisons: Eliminate meal breaks for corrections officers.

Charge upped for Texas man accused of ditching son (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:24 PM PDT AP - A father accused of abandoning his 4-year-old son along a rural West Texas highway in the middle of the night was charged Thursday with attempted capital murder, prosecutors said.

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