Thursday, September 1, 2011

9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk: study (Reuters)

9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk: study (Reuters)

9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk: study (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:52 PM PDT

Firefighters and other dignitaries, including Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano (4th L), 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels (5th L) and Mayor Michael Bloomberg (6th L), watch as the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Ladder Company 3 fire truck, which was partially destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, is lowered into an opening in the World Trade Center site below ground level, where it will become part of the permanent installation exhibit in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Seth Wenig/PoolReuters - Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Hurricane Katia weakens to a storm, may restrengthen: NHC (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:56 PM PDT

Reuters - Katia, a Category 1 Hurricane, has weakened to a tropical storm but some restrengthening was forecast during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report on Thursday.

Reinforcements, weather aid firefighters in Oklahoma and Texas (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Reuters - A wildfire burned for a third day in a wooded 18-square-mile area of Oklahoma's capital on Thursday and has consumed at least 25 homes, including rambling mansions with horse facilities.

Why Texas' Drought May Have Global Effects (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Soaring temperatures have kept the Lone Star State dry as a bone and ensure the drought will have a huge, negative economic impact on the U.S. and the world

National Guard Airlifts Aid to Flood-Stricken Vermont (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

Time.com - National Guard helicopters flew over Vermont on Tuesday to airlift food, water and supplies to besieged towns that are isolated and trapped due to washed out bridges and highways

Appeals court asked to vacate "Don't Ask" judgment (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment declaring "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" unconstitutional now that the ban on openly gay men and women in the military is about to be repealed.

After Irene: When will the power come back on? (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Washington Electric Cooperative linemen Kyle Harper, right, and Rich Hallstrom ride ATVs to check on power lines on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 in Roxbury, Vt. With hundreds of roads impassable, utilities are using all means to restore power to victims of Tropical Storm Irene, but the scope of the devastation means it will be some time before everyone has their power back. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Cold showers. Meals in the dark. Refrigerators full of spoiled food. No TV. No Internet. Up and down the East Coast, patience is wearing thin among the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for the electricity to come back on after Hurricane Irene knocked out the power last weekend.

Lawyer: TI moved elsewhere from Ga. halfway house (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:43 PM PDT

AP - A lawyer for rapper T.I. says the Grammy-winning artist has been moved by the Federal Bureau of Prisons from an Atlanta halfway house to another location.

Grandpa charged with forcing Grand Canyon hikes (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:08 PM PDT

AP - An Indiana man forced his three young grandsons to hike 18 miles in triple-digit heat at the Grand Canyon and denied them food and water, authorities said.

Man doesn't see himself as hero after jeep rescue (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:44 PM PDT

AP - A man who leaped into an out-of-control Jeep as it weaved down a busy west Georgia parkway doesn't consider himself a hero after saving the driver, who had suffered a seizure.

White House requests $5.2B in new disaster funds (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:39 PM PDT

Homes, businesses, even a church are flooded Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, near the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J., as the effects of Hurricane Irene continue to leave areas of northern New Jersey flooded. Flooding continues to hamper recovery efforts from Hurricane Irene in northern new Jersey while residents can begin seeking aid under a disaster declaration signed by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - The White House told Congress on Thursday there's a need for more than $5 billion in additional disaster relief money, not even counting the billions that probably will be called for to help East Coast states hit by Hurricane Irene.

Tropical warnings for Gulf, heavy rain expected (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT

This satellite image provided by NOAA and taken Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, shows Tropical Storm Katia. Hurricane Katia is continuing its trek across the Atlantic Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, with little change in strength. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says some strengthening is expected and Katia could become a major hurricane by the weekend.(AP Photo/NOAA)AP - A slow-moving tropical system packing walloping rains is slogging its way to the Gulf coast, which could be drenched with up to 20 inches, leading Louisiana's governor to declare a state of emergency Thursday because of the threat of flash flooding.

Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:57 PM PDT

In this July 27, 2011 aerial file photo, construction continues at the World Trade Center in New York. One World Trade Center, left, rises above the lower Manhattan skyline followed by Four World Trade Center, lower right, with the square outlines of the almost-completed September 11 Memorial at lower center. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.

Dusty legacy of 9/11 still a medical mystery (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. A decade’s worth of study has answered only a handful of questions about the hundreds of health conditions believed to be related to the tons of gray dust that fell on the city when the trade center collapsed, from post-traumatic stress disorder, asthma and respiratory illness to vitamin deficiencies, strange rashes and cancer. .(AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)AP - Like a lot of New Yorkers who spent time near the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center, Lorraine Ashman needs to take a deep breath before listing all the health problems that have afflicted her over the past decade.

4.2-magnitude quake rumbles across Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:53 PM PDT

AP - A magnitude-4.2 earthquake and aftershocks rattled nerves across the Los Angeles region Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Group says it hacked Texas law enforcement sites (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:39 PM PDT

AP - The group known as Anonymous on Thursday appeared to briefly take over the website of a Texas police chiefs organization and claimed to have hacked into the email accounts of more than two dozen law enforcement agencies or officials in the state.

Mistrial declared in CA gay student killing trial (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:48 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of California teen who shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab class as stunned classmates looked on.

Police: Ore. inmate plotted death of abuse victim (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:22 PM PDT

This 2011 photo provided by the Lane County Jail in Eugene, Ore., shows Jared Anthony Bernal, 24, who faces charges he tried to arrange for the murder of a 10-year-old girl so she could not testify against him at his trial on charges he sexually abused her. (AP Photo/Lane County Jail)AP - An Oregon man hoped to get out of jail by having a 10-year-old girl killed before she could testify in court that he sexually assaulted her, authorities said.

AP IMPACT: Quakes pose greater risk to US reactors (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 18, 2011 file photo, a worker is seen in the area surrounding a tree farm in North Perry, Ohio, near the two cooling towers of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant looming in the background. The risk of an earthquake causing a severe accident at a nuclear power plant is up to 24 times greater than previously believed, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data, and the nation’s nuclear regulator believes that a quarter of reactors may need modifications to make them safer. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says more than two dozen plants in the eastern and central U.S. may need upgrades because they're more likely to get hit with an earthquake larger than the one their design was based on. It's a belated conclusion; for more than a decade, regulators ignored the evidence of increased quake risks. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation's nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America's reactors may need modifications to make them safer.
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