Friday, June 24, 2011

New York Senate set to approve gay marriage (Reuters)

New York Senate set to approve gay marriage (Reuters)

New York Senate set to approve gay marriage (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:13 PM PDT

Reuters - New York Republican Senator Stephen Saland said he would support a bill to legalize gay marriage, giving the measure enough support to pass when the vote occurs later on Friday.

Judge blocks parts of Indiana immigration law (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Reuters - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked parts of an Indiana immigration law cracking down on illegal immigrants in the state.

Nuclear agency head to visit flooded Nebraska reactors (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:14 PM PDT

An aerial view of flood waters surrounding the Cooper Nuclear Power Plant near Brownville, Nebraska June 24, 2011. The Missouri River, swollen by heavy rains and melting snow, has been flooding areas from Montana through Missouri. REUTERS/Lane HickenbottomReuters - The chair of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will arrive in Nebraska Sunday to monitor preparations against Missouri River flooding at two Nebraska nuclear power plants, officials said Friday.

Libya Conundrum: Congress to Hold Two Votes on the Conflict (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Time.com - The House of Representatives on Friday is expected to hold two votes on U.S. action in Libya. One will fail and one will pass

Casey Anthony murder trial nearing an end (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:57 PM PDT

An image projected on a courtroom monitor shows Cindy Anthony with her granddaughter Caylee, which was submitted as evidence in the Casey Anthony trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/PoolReuters - The end is in sight for the weeks-long first-degree murder trial of Casey Anthony, the young hard-partying Florida mother who garnered national attention in 2008 when she falsely claimed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny.

Water filling 2,500 homes in Minot as river rises (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:23 PM PDT

The head of a lawn deer remains above the flood waters from the Souris River in an evacuated western neighborhood of Minot, N.D. Friday, June 24, 2011. About one-fourth of the city's 40,000 residents have evacuated their homes. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The Souris River's full weight hit Minot on Friday, swamping an estimated 2,500 homes as it soared nearly 4 feet in less than a day and overwhelmed the city's levees. City officials said they expected as many as 4,500 homes to be severely damaged by the time the river peaks Saturday.

Obama steps into high-stakes debt-limit talks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:19 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Monday, June 13, 2011 file photo, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., meets with reporters in his office at the Capitol in Washington where he praised Vice President Joe Biden for his shepherding of the bi-partisan Congressional panel working to solve the debt crisis. Cantor, who has been participating in bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden, pulled out today citing an impasse over taxes that required intervention by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Struggling to break a perilous deadlock, President Barack Obama took direct control Friday of national debt-limit negotiations with both Republicans and Democrats. With the White House warning the nation's economic stability is at stake, it's one of the most severe tests yet of Obama's presidency.

Semi collides with Ill. to Calif. Amtrak, 2 killed (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:30 PM PDT

AP - A semitrailer plowed into an Amtrak passenger train Friday in rural Nevada, killing the truck driver and at least one person on the train and injuring about 20 others who escaped the fiery crash, authorities said.

Wis. pastor accepts price for conducting gay union (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Rev. Amy DeLong sits at her home, in Osceola, Wis. The Methodist pastor on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, was found guilty in a church trial of marrying a lesbian couple in 2009. The jury found the 44-year-old not guilty of a second charge of being a 'self-avowed practicing homosexual.' (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs, File)AP - A gay Methodist pastor who was suspended for officiating at a same-sex union said Friday that her church trial this week was a positive experience, and that her jurors were deft in balancing the need for justice with the church's longstanding message of inclusion.

NY votes lining up for legalizing gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Supporters of same sex marriage celebrate that the Senate members will vote on legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, during a session of the New York State Senate at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)AP - Another undecided New York senator says he will vote for gay marriage, adding momentum to the state's effort to become the sixth in the nation to legalize same-sex unions.

Charged wife: No murder plan in NY pharmacy holdup (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Melinda Brady, wife of David Laffer, who is accused of killing four people in a pharmacy robbery is led into Suffolk County District Court on Friday, June 24, 2011, in Central Islip, New York. Brady was arraigned on charges of robbery and obstructing governmental administration in connection with the Father's Day shootings at Haven Drugs in Medford, on Long Island.(AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)AP - A woman whose husband is accused of gunning down four people in a pharmacy store holdup for painkillers pleaded not guilty Friday to charges she drove the getaway car, while funeral services were held for the youngest and oldest victims of the Father's Day massacre.

Mob boss brought back to Boston; will he sing? (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:26 PM PDT

This booking photograph, obtained by WBUR 90.9 - NPR Radio Boston, shows Boston mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger. Bulger, the FBI's most-wanted man and a feared underworld figure linked to 19 murders, was captured Wednesday in Santa Monica, California after one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history. (AP Photo/WBUR 90.9) MANDATORY CREDIT: WBUR 90.9AP - James "Whitey" Bulger's capture could cause a world of trouble inside the FBI.

Parole for ex-Detroit mayor as federal case looms (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2010 file photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens to Judge David Groner sentence him to one-and-a-half to five years in prison for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction. Prisons spokesman Russ Marlan says the Michigan parole board voted, Friday, June 24, 2011 to release Kilpatrick. Marlan said Friday that Kilpatrick will be released no earlier than July 24, after more than a year in custody for violating probation in a criminal case that forced him out of office in 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from state prison in late July, a decision that gives him plenty of time to prepare for a federal corruption trial that could land him back behind bars for years.

Ind. move to cut Planned Parenthood funds blocked (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:56 PM PDT

AP - The state of Indiana is not allowed to cut off most of Planned Parenthood's state and federal public funding solely because the organization also provides abortions, a federal judge said Friday in blocking part of the state's tough new abortion law.

Authorities: Live bullets fired at Old West show (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 06:03 PM PDT

AP - One of the participants in a mock Old West gun battle in South Dakota fired live ammunition instead of using blanks, wounding three tourists, authorities announced Friday.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2005 file photo, UPS delivery man Chris Carhart of South Boston, wheels packages past a store window featuring clocks at Quincy Market in Boston. Our power supply has been so precise we've set our clocks by it — but time is running out on that idea. A yearlong experiment with the electric grid may make plug-in clocks and devices like coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast.

APNewsBreak: Kan. abortion clinic denied license (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT

AP - A Kansas City area clinic has been denied a state license that would allow it to continue performing abortions and will probably close, the clinic's attorney said Friday.

Billy the Kid tintype up for auction in Denver (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:22 PM PDT

This photograph provided by Old West Show and Auction shows a photograph of a tintype of Billy the Kid taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, N.M. It shows the outlaw standing with his hand resting on a Winchester rifle on one side and a Colt revolver holstered on his right side. The tintype is to be auctioned in Denver on Saturday night and expected to bring between $300,000 to $400,000. (AP Photo/Old West Show and Auction)AP - The iconic portrait of Billy the Kid that led to the mistaken belief that the outlaw was a southpaw is going up for sale this weekend.

SC police: Baby died from morphine in breast milk (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:49 PM PDT

AP - A 6-week-old baby in South Carolina died after she received lethal doses of the painkiller morphine through her mother's breast milk, authorities said Friday.

New details emerge on Calif. pipeline's prior leak (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:05 PM PDT

AP - A California utility under fire for a deadly pipeline explosion has revealed that its employees dispute key information the company gave federal investigators about past problems on the gas line that ruptured.
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