Texas beach residents prepare for rain, waves, possible floods (Reuters)

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• Texas beach residents prepare for rain, waves, possible floods (Reuters)
• California moves presidential primary to June (Reuters)
• Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted (Reuters)
• Woman's Pro-Gay Marriage Shirt Deemed Offensive at Dollywood (Time.com)
• It Just Doesn't Work: Why New Tech Products Are Increasingly Unsatisfying (Time.com)
• Montana defends curbs on prison inmate mail (Reuters)
• Investors pulling money out as deadline nears (AP)
• Tea party role in debt bill raises GOP eyebrows (AP)
• Ex-La. gov, 83, marries 32-year-old prison pen pal (AP)
• AWOL soldier defiantly shouts '09 suspect's name (AP)
• Tangled John Edwards cases prompt delay in trial (AP)
• Congressman wants to limit chopper traffic over LA (AP)
• Lottery ticket collectors eye keepsakes, not money (AP)
• New mileage standards aim for less fuel, pollution (AP)
• US weighing payment priorities if default comes (AP)
• Parks essay appears to discuss rape attempt (AP)
• Parched Texas welcomes tropical storm, wants more (AP)
• Judge: Time to unseal Nixon's Watergate testimony (AP)
• Amid bee die-off, healthy hives thrive in cities (AP)

Texas beach residents prepare for rain, waves, possible floods (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - Coastal Texas residents made final preparations on Friday for the arrival of Tropical Storm Don, expected to make landfall along the state's southernmost Gulf beaches during the night.

California moves presidential primary to June (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:18 PM PDT Reuters - California has moved its presidential primary to June, consolidating trips to the poll to save money in an election that most voters in the Democratic leaning state see as a foregone conclusion.

Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT Reuters - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs interrupted his Texas child sexual assault trial on Friday, shouting that his religious rights were being violated and warning the court it was stomping on "sacred ground".

Woman's Pro-Gay Marriage Shirt Deemed Offensive at Dollywood (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT Time.com - A woman says she was was asked to turn her T-shirt inside-out at a Tennessee theme park because its text, "Marriage Is So Gay," was considered potentially offensive to other patrons

It Just Doesn't Work: Why New Tech Products Are Increasingly Unsatisfying (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT Time.com - Bugs. Poor design decisions. Missing features. The quality control of the latest products -- even ones with plenty of promise -- is shoddier than ever

Montana defends curbs on prison inmate mail (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:27 PM PDT Reuters - Attorneys for Montana's prison system on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union claiming the state illegally imposed an "English-only" policy on inmates' mail.

Investors pulling money out as deadline nears (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT AP - Growing nervous as a possible government default draws ever closer, more and more ordinary investors are calling their brokers and moving their money out of stocks and mutual funds for fear of a plunge in the market next week.

Tea party role in debt bill raises GOP eyebrows (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT AP - House Republicans rode the tea party tiger to power last fall. Now it's turning on them, forcing party leaders to endure embarrassing delays and unwanted revisions to crucial debt-ceiling legislation.

Ex-La. gov, 83, marries 32-year-old prison pen pal (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT AP - Colorful former Gov. Edwin Edwards, who turns 84 next month, on Friday married a 32-year-old woman who befriended him during his federal prison sentence for bribery and extortion.

AWOL soldier defiantly shouts '09 suspect's name (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:27 PM PDT AP - Coolly defiant, Pfc. Naser Abdo shouted "Nidal Hasan Fort Hood 2009!" as he was led out of the courtroom Friday, an apparent homage to the suspect in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation. He condemned the attack less than a year ago, but is now accused of trying to repeat it.

Tangled John Edwards cases prompt delay in trial (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:45 PM PDT AP - Two legal cases involving former presidential candidate John Edwards are beginning to seem like different versions of the same play, with overlapping plots, characters and action — but running simultaneously on separate stages.

Congressman wants to limit chopper traffic over LA (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:44 PM PDT AP - It's a sound that can set windows to rattling, dogs to barking and babies to crying, and it's one that's instantly recognizable to pretty much anybody who lives or works in Los Angeles.

Lottery ticket collectors eye keepsakes, not money (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - Among the mountains of losing lottery tickets piled high in a hotel conference room, someone may yet hit a jackpot.

New mileage standards aim for less fuel, pollution (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:39 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and automakers ushered in what could be the largest cut in fuel consumption since the 1970s on Friday with a deal that would save drivers money at the pump and dramatically cut heat-trapping gases coming from tailpipes.

US weighing payment priorities if default comes (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:57 PM PDT AP - If the government can't pay all its bills come Wednesday, odds are it will pay bondholders. Social Security and Medicare recipients will be high on the must-pay list, too. Likely losers: federal workers in jobs deemed non-essential, private contractors and state and local governments.

Parks essay appears to discuss rape attempt (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:15 PM PDT AP - A first-person essay written by Rosa Parks presents a detailed and harrowing account of a young black housekeeper who is nearly raped by a white neighbor.

Parched Texas welcomes tropical storm, wants more (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:32 PM PDT AP - As Tropical Storm Don crawled through the Gulf of Mexico, South Texas braced for long-awaited rain and what some saw as a practice run for storms to come.

Judge: Time to unseal Nixon's Watergate testimony (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:42 AM PDT AP - Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to a grand jury about the Watergate break-in that drove him from office, a federal judge on Friday ordered the secret transcript made public.

Amid bee die-off, healthy hives thrive in cities (AP) Posted: 29 Jul 2011 07:39 AM PDT AP - Among the wildflowers and native grasses in the garden atop Chicago's City Hall stand two beehives where more than 100,000 bees come and go in patterns more graceful, but just as busy, as the traffic on the street 11 stories below.

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