Saturday, June 4, 2011

Hair in Casey Anthony's trunk may be Caylee's: expert (Reuters)

Hair in Casey Anthony's trunk may be Caylee's: expert (Reuters)

Hair in Casey Anthony's trunk may be Caylee's: expert (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Cindy and George Anthony, parents of Casey Anthony, leave the courtroom with Judge Belvin Perry (R) following at the Orange County Courthouse during the second day of their daughter's first-degree murder trial, in Orlando, Florida, May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Joe Burbank/PoolReuters - A single 9-inch-long brown hair found in the car trunk of accused child killer Casey Anthony could have been ripped from the dead body of her 2-year old daughter, an FBI expert testified on Saturday.

"Miracle on the Hudson" plane departs for museum (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:28 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Airways airplane that made a splash-landing dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson" more than two years ago began a road trip on Saturday to Charlotte, North Carolina, its original, and final, destination.

Rising Missouri River forces more evacuations (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:29 PM PDT

Reuters - Evacuations grew from North Dakota through Nebraska along the Missouri River on Saturday as officials accelerated water releases from near capacity reservoirs swelled by heavy rains and a melting snowpack.

Say Goodbye to Those Annoying 'Clamshell' Plastic Containers (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Well, this is a slight upside to the bad economy. The rising petroleum price could get rid of a minor health hazard: the clamshell or oyster packaging -- those plastic covers that are just impossible to take apart

U.S. says worried by cyber-attacks; committed to Asia (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:17 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States is seriously concerned about cyber-attacks and is prepared to use force against those it considers acts of war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a security meeting in Asia on Saturday.

Moderation wanes as Kan. governor gets fast start (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT

FILE In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, center, is followed out of the camber by Senators Janis Lee, Democrat from Kensington, left, and Carolyn McGinn, Republican from Sedgwick, after Brownback's State of the State address in Topeka, Kan. In a mere five months, Brownback and likeminded lawmakers have recast the social and fiscal landscape of Kansas and made the state a laboratory of conservative ideas. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)AP - For decades in Kansas, a delicate political balance kept the state on a moderate path even as other states in the region turned to the right. Conservatives could cut taxes in flush times. But Democrats and centrist Republicans still freed up money for highways and schools, and a loose coalition worked out compromises.

NM boy, 9, becomes youngest to fly balloon solo (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2011 file photo, Bobby Bradley holds the crown line of his new ultra-light hot air balloon as he watches it inflate at a launch site near Tome, N.M. At 9, Bobby will be the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in an ultra-light balloon when he lifts off from a patch of desert in central New Mexico on June 4. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)AP - Nine-year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat.

RFK's fellow victim changes life, lives of others (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT

Paul Schrade poses in the Paul Schrade Library at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, Friday, May 20, 2011, which is built on the former site of the Ambassador Hotel where Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles. Schrade was struck in the head in the shooting. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Paul Schrade easily recites the details of the last day of his life before he was shot in the head alongside his friend, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He knows it all by heart, every step he took, every sight and sound as if it was yesterday.

NJ fun park reopens day after Ferris wheel death (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:20 PM PDT

AP - A Jersey shore boardwalk amusement park that closed after an 11-year-old girl tumbled from a moving Ferris wheel to her death reopened Saturday while investigators tried to figure out what caused her fall.

Human toll of deadly tornado cuts deep in Joplin (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 11:03 AM PDT

FILE This undated family photo shows Will Norton. Norton was killed during the Joplin tornado when it pulled him out through his SUV’s sunroof as he drove home from his high school graduation. (AP Photo/Family Photo, File)AP - They were regular churchgoers, devoted parents, seniors in their retirement years and children with untold promise.

Pitfalls abound for prosecutors in Edwards case (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Former presidential candidate John Edwards looks at his daughter Cate, right, after making a statement to the media following a court appearance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, June 3, 2011. A grand jury indicted the two-time presidential candidate on Friday, accusing him of trying to protect his political ambitions by soliciting and secretly spending more than $925,000 to hide his mistress and their baby from the public. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Two crucial witnesses are dead. Another is 100 years old. A fourth was recently held in contempt of court. The daring indictment of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards has pitfalls at every turn for federal prosecutors, adding strain to a Justice Department section still trying to recover after botching its last major political case.

Ambitious Weiner sees media strategy backfire (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:26 PM PDT

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are pictured after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington in this photo taken Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - "Weiner Exposed." "Weiner's Pickle." "Battle of the Bulge." Those were some of the tabloid headlines lampooning Rep. Anthony Weiner as he struggled to explain how a photo of a man's crotch had been posted to his Twitter account.

San Diego drain is Mexican port of entry for a day (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Mexican border officials wait for crossers at a makeshift checkpoint at the end of a storm drain Saturday, June 4, 2011, seen from the San Diego side. In an action organizers called 'performance art,' about 80 people were allowed to cross from the United States into Mexico Saturday using culvert in a border canyon. The event, part of the Political Equator 3 conference, was made possible with the approval from both governments. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The tall concrete culvert at the bottom of Goat's Canyon was built as part of a drastic makeover that environmentalists long opposed, until Congress cleared the way for earthen berms that let Border Patrol agents drive straight across Tijuana River tributaries.

Crews try to protect Ariz. communities from fires (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:15 PM PDT

The smoke column off the Wallow fire towers over people going to the community meeting about the fire, Friday, June 3, 2011 in Springerville, Ariz. One of the largest wildfires in Arizona's history cast an orange glow over people fleeing their mountain homes as four cabins burned and smoke grayed the sky 200 miles away. Dozens of other fires blazed in several Western states. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Jack Kurtz) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP - Crews on Saturday worked to protect several small Arizona communities from two large wildfires by clearing away brush near homes and planning to set fires aimed at robbing the blazes of their fuel.

Historic flood begins to abate, but far from over (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:56 AM PDT

Water from the Mississippi River, left, is seen from the air as it is diverted through the floodgates of the Bonnet Carre Spillway towards Lake Pontchartrain (not pictured) in Norco, La., just upriver from New Orleans, Friday, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The Mississippi River flood of 2011 may seem like a thing of the past for people who fled rising waters that never came, yet the final toll is shrouded in murky water for thousands of people devastated as the flood made its way from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

AP Interview: Ex-IMF chief case spotlights NYC DA (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Dominique Strauss-Kahn had just been to court in the sexual assault case that made headlines around the world. Manhattan's district attorney stepped before the microphones with a message aimed directly at Europeans grappling with how the United States had treated the powerful French diplomat.

Forensic expert testifies in Anthony murder trial (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:23 PM PDT

Casey Anthony is shown in court during her trial at the Orange County Courthouse, Friday, June 3, 2011 in Orlando, Fla. Anthony, 25, is charged with killing her daughter Caylee in the summer of 2008. (AP Photo/Red Huber, Pool)AP - An FBI forensic expert testified Saturday in Casey Anthony's murder trial that a hair removed from the woman's car showed signs consistent with hair from a dead body. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Md. writer among journalists missing in Libya (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:48 AM PDT

Sharon VanDyke, mother of a missing journalist in Libya, Matthew VanDyke, in the photograph, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at her home in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, May 25, 2011.The 31-year-old Matthew VanDyke last spoke with his family March 12 before saying he was heading to the eastern oil town of Brega in Libya.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - As the uprisings of the "Arab Spring" began to unfold, writer Matthew VanDyke was at home in Baltimore, editing a book and film about his trips across the Middle East by motorcycle. An email from a friend in Libya convinced VanDyke dispatches from that country's war would make a perfect epilogue.

Plane that landed in Hudson heads to NC museum (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:46 AM PDT

US Airways jet, flight 1549, turns onto Broad Street in Newark, N.J. after leaving a warehouse in Harrison, N.J. Saturday, June 4, 2011. The plane that splash-landed in the Hudson River in 2009, making a national hero of pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, is being moved to an aviation museum in North Carolina, where it will be put on permanent display. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)AP - This time the river crossing was a lot slower, and a lot drier.
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