Saturday, June 25, 2011

Flooding submerges parts of North Dakota city (Reuters)

Flooding submerges parts of North Dakota city (Reuters)


Flooding submerges parts of North Dakota city (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

A neighbourhood is submerged in flood waters in Minot, North Dakota June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Allen FredricksonReuters - The swollen Souris River whose waters deluged North Dakota's fourth-largest city of Minot, was expected to crest early on Sunday, with storms threatening to complicate efforts to contain the biggest flood in area history.


Minot residents riding out flood's hardships (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 04:11 PM PDT

Reuters - The world seemed to disappear before the eyes of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Theron Griffin, who stood guard on Saturday as the swelling brown waters of the Souris River consumed this North Dakota city.

Kansas town rises green from tornado rubble (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:48 PM PDT

Reuters - When community leaders in tornado-ravaged places such as Joplin, Mo., consider the future, they look to Greensburg, Kansas.

Is Google Hiding Its Gay Pride Support With a Disappearing Doodle? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Until now, it seemed Google could doodle no wrong. Now, some critics contend Google's hidden rainbow illustration casts a cloud over Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

Whitey Bulger's Life on the Lam: Rage and Dementia? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Neighors and acquaintances of the fugitive and his longtime companion spill the beans on their underground life

Levee breach in Iowa along Missouri River prompts evacuations (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Reuters - A levee breach on Saturday near Missouri Valley, Iowa flooded farmland and threatened to impact U.S. Highway 30, which connects Iowa and Nebraska over the Missouri River, officials said.

Ind. basketball standout survives 2nd plane crash (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 06:05 PM PDT

AP - A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life.

AP-GfK Poll: People divided on looming debt crisis (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 1, 2011 file photo, House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. listens outside the White House in Washington.  It might be time for another midnight ride by Paul Revere, this time warning 'the creditors are coming.'  Americans seem not to have awakened to the fast-looming debt crisis that could summon a new recession, imperil their stock market investments and shatter faith in the world's most powerful economy. Those are among the implications, both sudden and long-lasting, expected to unfold if the U.S. defaults on debt payments for the first time in history. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - It might be time for another midnight ride by Paul Revere, this time warning "the creditors are coming."


Wedding plans bloom as NY legalizes gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 02:31 PM PDT

A reveler waves a gay pride flag in front of the historic gay bar The Stonewall on June 24, in New York City. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill legalizing gay marriage, delivering a powerful victory for gay rights advocates in one of the most populous and influential states of the union.(AFP/Getty Images/Spencer Platt)AP - As the news flashed around the globe that New York state had legalized gay marriage, New York fashion designer Malcolm Harris didn't waste any time. He dashed off a Twitter message to his boyfriend of nine years: "`Will you marry me?"


Pa. man found guilty of killing 3 Pittsburgh cops (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 06:55 PM PDT

AP - A man described by prosecutors as a malcontent weapons enthusiast and expert marksman was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and 25 lesser counts in the 2009 killings of three Pittsburgh police officers who responded to his mother's 911 call about their escalating argument over his puppies, which had urinated on the floor

Conservatives limit consumer, rights lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2001 file photo, demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington to protest the court's Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action lawsuit decision .  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - The Supreme Court's conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation's largest businesses in the two most far-reaching rulings of the term the justices are wrapping up on Monday.


Tornadoes, floods deliver blow to state budgets (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 01:03 PM PDT

FILE In this May 21, 2011 photo, floodwaters surround this home in Vicksburg, Miss.  The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets. The storms could force new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster aid.  (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets, potentially forcing new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster aid.


Analysis: No turning back for Obama on Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama greets members of the military before boarding Air Force One at the 171st Air Refueling Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard Base in Coraopolis, Pa., Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - We're getting out.


Biden warns GOP on debt ceiling talks (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 06:43 PM PDT

Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod, right, introduces U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy annual fundraising event on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in Chicago. Gov. Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were among the 900 people who attended a fundraiser. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday the Obama administration wouldn't let middle class Americans "carry the whole burden" to break a deadlock over the national debt limit, warning that the Republican approach would only benefit the wealthy.


Alaska pride parade canceled after fatal crash (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 04:02 PM PDT

Floats intended to be driven in the annual gay pride parade in Anchorage, Alaska, sit idle in a city park on Saturday, June 25, 2011. The parade was canceled Saturday morning after a vehicle in the parade struck and killed a person. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - A gay pride parade in downtown Anchorage on Saturday was canceled after a convertible carrying the grand marshal fatally struck a man, authorities said.


AP Enterprise: Pharmacy robberies sweeping US (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 12:02 PM PDT

FILE In this file photo of June 22, 2011, people bring flowers to Haven Drugs pharmacy where four people were shot and killed during a botched weekend painkiller robbery in Medford, N.Y. A wave of pharmacy robberies is sweeping across the United States as desperate addicts and ruthless dealers turn to violence to feed the nationĂ¢€™s growing hunger for narcotic painkillers.  (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)AP - A wave of pharmacy robberies is sweeping the United States as desperate addicts and ruthless dealers turn to violence to feed the nation's growing hunger for narcotic painkillers.


Mobster's run almost textbook case of evasion (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 01:12 PM PDT

The name of 'Gasko' is seen on an apartment directory, where fugitive crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger and his longtime companion Catherine Greig lived using the alias, in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, June 23, 2011. Bulger spent almost all of his 16 years on the lam in the same Santa Monica apartment complex, paying his rent in cash every month while he and his girlfriend hid from one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history, the property managers said Thursday. The Boston mob boss was captured Wednesday near Los Angeles after 16 years on the run.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger did almost everything right in evading capture for 16 years.


Obama pitches plan to promote high-tech innovation (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 03:17 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama says technological innovations can help create jobs and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing.


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