Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Record-breaking river flooding swamps New Jersey (Reuters)

Record-breaking river flooding swamps New Jersey (Reuters)

Record-breaking river flooding swamps New Jersey (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:22 PM PDT

Flood waters remain several feet deep in Wayne, New Jersey August 30, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - Swollen rivers submerged stretches of northern New Jersey on Tuesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, damaging homes, flooding roads and stranding residents, hundreds of thousands of whom had no power.

Polygamist leader sedated, responsive in hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:19 PM PDT

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, is pictured in this Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison mug shot, released to Reuters August 10,2011. REUTERS/Texas Department of Criminal Justice/HandoutReuters - Jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, serving a life sentence for raping two child brides, was under sedation but still conscious in a Texas hospital on Tuesday, prison officials said.

Is Drug Testing Welfare Applicants Unconstitutional? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Drug-testing the poor is becoming an increasingly popular idea. But not only does it not save money, it's likely to be unconstitutional

Hurricane Irene Leaves Spared New Yorkers Underwhelmed (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Time.com - The morning after the storm, the best description of New Yorkers was "underwhelmed"

Oklahoma City fire sends horses, people fleeing (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Reuters - A wildfire in a wooded area of Oklahoma City forced hundreds of homes to be evacuated on Tuesday, destroying two and causing panicked horse owners to let their livestock loose, residents and a fire official said.

Gay war veteran testifies on White House protest (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, Lt. Dan Choi, center, stands with other protesters after handcuffing themselves to the fence outside the White House in Washington. a trial is beginning for Choi, an openly gay Iraq war veteran who protested the military's 'don't ask, don't tell'policy by handcuffing himself to a White House fence. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - A gay former Army officer arrested outside the White House for protesting the government's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military testified at his trial Tuesday that he was proud and willing to go to jail.

Judge strikes down key parts of Texas sonogram law (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:42 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked key provisions of Texas' new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling the measure violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients.

Jeffs moved to prison hospital; condition improved (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:39 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011 file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas. Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges, a prison official said Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. The 55-year-old was convicted earlier this month on charges that he sexually assaulted underage followers he took as spiritual brides. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)AP - The condition of convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was upgraded from critical to serious following his move Tuesday to a Texas prison hospital for additional treatment after he became sick while fasting, a state corrections official said.

New Orleans emergency because of marsh fire (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:52 PM PDT

Jasmine Groves covers her face and eyes as she crosses Poydras St., amidst thick smoke from a burning marsh fire nearby, in downtown New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Easterly winds kept a pall of smoke from the fire over the New Orleans area for the third straight day, and the National Weather Service issued a smoke alert for seven parishes. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Tuesday he spotted a second marsh fire during a flight over one that has hazed the metro area with smoke for three days, and it was so close to a highway that he declared an emergency, allowing him to call out the Louisiana National Guard to help.

AP Exclusive: Up to $60B in war funds said wasted (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:22 PM PDT

AP - As much as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, an independent panel investigating U.S. wartime spending estimates.

Obama looks to spur private sector hiring (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:17 PM PDT

President Barack Obama announces his selection of Alan Krueger as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Limited in his ability to create jobs through direct spending, President Barack Obama is considering measures to encourage the private sector to free up its cash reserves and hire more workers to ease the nation's unemployment crush.

Special Forces impersonator in Md. gets 21 months (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:33 PM PDT

AP - For years, William Hillar's tales about his exploits as an Army Green Beret and a puffed up resume helped him land jobs teaching counterterrorism and drug and human trafficking interdiction, but the scheme has now earned him 21 months in federal prison.

Helicopters rush food, water to cut-off Vt. towns (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:05 PM PDT

Residents stand in line outside a grocery store on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011 in Rochester, Vt. The town has been completely cut off since Tropical Storm Irene hit. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - National Guard helicopters rushed food and water Tuesday to a dozen cut-off Vermont towns after the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene washed out roads and bridges in a deluge that took many people in the landlocked New England state by surprise.

Stranded Vt wedding guests airlifted by helicopter (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT

This Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 photo provided by Shawn Kodes shows Marc and Janina Leibowitz after their wedding at Riverside Farm in Pittsfield, Vt. The couple remain stranded with 60 of their wedding guests in Pittsfield Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, after Tropical Storm Irene washed away bridges and their main road out on Sunday. (AP Photo/Shawn Kodes)AP - At least a dozen wedding guests were airlifted by helicopter from a Vermont town of Pittsfield on Tuesday where they had been stranded since Tropical Storm Irene hit two days earlier, turning rivers into roiling flood waters that washed away the only road leading out of town.

Arizona man describes shears impaling eye socket (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:04 PM PDT

In this image provided by the University Medical Center in Tucson, a CT scan shows a pair of pruning shears embedded in the head of an 86-year-old Green Valley, Ariz., man before it was removed by Medical Center surgeons in Tucson on July 30, 2011. Leroy Luetscher was accidentally impaled through his eye socket after falling on the shears while working in his yard, the handle penetrating his eye socket and reaching down into his neck. He is expected to make a full recovery. (AP Photo/University Medical Center,Tucson, Arizona)AP - An 86-year-old Arizona man had just finished trimming plants in his backyard when he fell face-first into his pruning shears, sending one of the handles through his right eye socket and halfway into his head.

Minn. dad who abandoned son arrested in California (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:06 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Aug. 30, 2011, by the Dakota County Sheriff's Department in Hastings, Minn., shows Steven Cross, 60, of Lakeville, Minn. Cross, who is accused of abandoning his 11-year-old son because his Minnesota home was in foreclosure, was arrested Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in Cambria, Calif., a small coastal town in central California. (AP Photo/Dakota County Sheriff's Department)AP - A Minnesota father accused of abandoning his 11-year-old son after their home went into foreclosure seemed depressed and desperate for work when he applied for a job, so the owners of a coastal California deli hired him to make sandwiches.

APNewsBreak: Wikileaks says site is under attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:52 PM PDT

AP - The Wikileaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack.

Blast at Wyo. oil production site kills 3 workers (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:27 PM PDT

AP - Authorities won't be able positively to identify the three workers killed in an oilfield explosion in eastern Wyoming until autopsies are performed on them, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Battle over disaster aid brewing in Congress (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama listens to an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. He is joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, left, and FEMA director Craig Fugate, right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A political battle between the tea party-driven House and the Democratic-controlled Senate is threatening to slow money to the government's main disaster aid account, which is so low that new rebuilding projects have been put on hold to help victims of Hurricane Irene and future disasters.
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