Wednesday, August 3, 2011

South Plains break heat records, Midwest cold front due (Reuters)

South Plains break heat records, Midwest cold front due (Reuters)

South Plains break heat records, Midwest cold front due (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:15 PM PDT

Tamika Davis wipes her face while waiting for a bus in Dallas, Texas, August 1, 2011. REUTERS/Tim SharpReuters - Oppressive heat and record temperatures baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday with the mercury soaring to a blistering 115 degrees in one Arkansas town, breaking a record set in the 19th century.

Judge puts probation for Casey Anthony on hold (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:09 PM PDT

Casey Anthony and her lawyer Jose Baez (R) leave the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/PoolReuters - A judge ruled on Wednesday that Casey Anthony, the Florida mother acquitted of murdering her toddler, will not be required to report to an Orlando probation office on Thursday as ordered by a different judge.

Judge refuses to restore wolf protections (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:19 PM PDT

A gray wolf and its nursing pups are pictured in Yellowstone National Park in this undated photograph obtained on May 4, 2011. REUTERS/National Park Service/HandoutReuters - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to restore Endangered Species Act safeguards to some 1,500 gray wolves in Montana and Idaho that were removed from protection by an unprecedented act of Congress.

Republicans' Debt-Ceiling-Deal Agenda: Defund the EPA (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Hidden inside the debt negotiations, Republicans saw an opportunity to cut funding to the country's environmental agencies. It isn't the first time

Gabrielle Giffords Offers Momentary Reprieve from Washington Shrillness (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Giffords' appearance marked a happy moment at the end of a bitter debate. But her presence also put Washington's recent ugliness in perspective

Oregon Representative Wu resigns in wake of controversy (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Oregon Democratic Congressman David Wu, accused of an unwanted sexual encounter with a campaign donor's 18-year-old daughter, gave notice of his resignation late on Wednesday.

Ala. lab lost key evidence in praying mom's case (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:03 PM PDT

In this July 21, 2011 photo, the grave of 17-year-old Jesse Lynn Burdette is shown in a cemetery in Auburn, Ala. The teenager's mother, Kay Burdette, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in his death after admitting she prayed for his healing rather than taking him to a doctor. The case was complicated by the state's loss of a key piece of evidence from the autopsy. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP - When Kay Burdette's 17-year-old son became sick with flu-like symptoms, the faithful mother chose the same prescription she has used for years: prayer.

Chief: Suspect in SD police shootout dies (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:16 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Rapid City Police Department, Rapid City, S.D., shows Officer James Ryan McCandless. McCandless, 28, was killed and two other police officers were seriously wounded after a shootout with a man during a routine traffic stop at a Rapid City intersection, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rapid City Police Department)AP - A man suspected of killing a South Dakota police officer and wounding two others during a gun battle died Wednesday at a hospital, the police chief said.

Classmate charged in Georgia law grad's killing (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:06 PM PDT

AP - A 25-year-old Georgia law school graduate has been accused of killing a classmate who was discovered dismembered outside the apartment building where they lived.

Polygamist leader Jeffs slows sex abuse trial (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, arrives at the Tom Green County Courthouse escorted by a law enforcement officer Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. Jeffs, 55, is accused of sexually assaulting two girls he took as brides during so-called 'spiritual marriages.' (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs gave a delayed opening statement about religious persecution Wednesday and dramatically slowed down his trial, where he is defending himself on charges of sexually abusing underage girls.

New HIV infections in US hold steady at 50,000 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:32 PM PDT

AP - The number of Americans newly infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report released Wednesday.

Earth's two moons? It's not lunacy, but new theory (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:11 PM PDT

This diagram provided by Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz via Nature shows a simulation of four stages of a collision between the Moon and a companion moon, four percent of the lunar mass, about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon, until it made the fatal mistake of smacking its big sister, some astronomers now theorize. For awhile when the Earth was young, it had a big moon, the one you see now, and a smaller 'companion moon' orbiting above. Then one day that smaller moon collided into the bigger one in what astronomers are calling the 'big splat.' (AP Photo/Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz via Nature)AP - In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat."

Okla. woman claims famed hijacker is her uncle (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:16 PM PDT

Marla Cooper holds a photograph of her late uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper during an interview in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Cooper said she believes that her late uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted away with $200,000 ransom into a rainy night over the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - When an FBI agent pleaded several years ago for help finding notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, he wondered, off-handedly, if someone's "odd uncle" might be their guy.

Wyoming, feds announce plan for delisting wolves (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:40 PM PDT

AP - Wyoming ranchers and hunters fed up with wolves attacking livestock and other wildlife would be able to shoot the predators on sight in most of the state under a tentative agreement state and federal officials announced Wednesday.

Cargill recalling 36M pounds of ground turkey (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:45 PM PDT

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks to the International Association for Food Protection Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in Milwaukee. Afterward, he told The Associated Press that the government hopes to find the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey 'very, very' soon. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others.

Anthony won't have to return to Florida on Thurs. (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 7, 2011 photo, Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla. Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez says bringing Anthony back to Florida from an undisclosed location would just add to what he called the “circus-like atmosphere” around her case. Anthony has disappeared from public view since her acquittal last month on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. A judge this week ordered Anthony to come back to Orlando to serve probation for check fraud that she plead guilty to in an earlier case. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)AP - Casey Anthony can continue her undercover life for now, after a judge ruled Wednesday she does not have to immediately return to Florida to start serving her probation for check fraud.

Police: Md psychiatrist, son die in murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:04 PM PDT

AP - A psychiatrist specializing in women's health shot and killed her 13-year-old son at their home in suburban Washington, and fatally shot herself, police said Wednesday.

Dad: 'Shock' over son who died after arrest (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 04:21 PM PDT

Ron Thomas, the father of victim, Kelly Thomas, stands next to a memorial for his son on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at the Fullerton Transportation Center in Fullerton, Calif. The parents of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man have demanded the release of a 911 tape and possible surveillance video from a California city, hoping the material will shed more light on what led to a physical altercation last month between police officers and their son, who later died. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The 37-year-old schizophrenic man who died after a violent police confrontation that was caught on a bystander's cell phone was loved and cared for by his family but chose to live on the streets, his father said Wednesday.

Spacewalking astronauts release mini-satellite (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:31 PM PDT

This picture provided by NASA of the International Space Station was photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis as the orbiting complex and the shuttle performed their relative separation in the early hours of July 19, 2011. Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev are scheduled to venture outside the Pirs airlock at 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 to begin the six-hour excursion to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deploy an amateur radio micro-satellite. (AP Photo/NASA )AP - Spacewalking astronauts released a ham radio satellite outside the International Space Station on Wednesday despite a missing antenna that will hamper operations.
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