Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Michael Jackson images dominate opening of death trial (Reuters)

Michael Jackson images dominate opening of death trial (Reuters)

Michael Jackson images dominate opening of death trial (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:18 PM PDT

Demonstrators gather outside Los Angeles Superior Court during the opening day of Dr. Conrad Murray's trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson in Los Angeles, September 27, 2011. REUTERS/Danny MoloshokReuters - Images of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital and rehearsing the day before his death, along with recollections of the singer as a troubled "lost boy," made for a heart-wrenching opening on Tuesday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.

Listeria outbreak kills 13, infects 72: CDC (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT

Farm workers harvest cantaloupe in Somerton, Arizona, June 7, 2006. REUTERS/STR NewReuters - A listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes from Colorado has infected 72 people in the United States and killed 13, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

Judge asked to order more drugs for shooting suspect Loughner (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Prosecutors urged a federal judge on Tuesday to order the continued forced medication of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner over the objection of his attorneys.

Senate Strikes Deal to Avert Looming Government Shutdown -- for Now (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:40 PM PDT

Time.com - Stepping back from the brink, Senate leaders on Monday night struck a deal to avert a government shutdown, passing a measure that funds the government through mid-November

The Stress of Divorce, Writ on Women's Heads (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:40 PM PDT

Time.com - In men, baldness is due mostly to an unlucky roll of the genetic dice. But in women, hair loss appears to be linked much more strongly to lifestyle factors like stress

Health insurance premiums climb faster in 2011 (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Reuters - The cost of health insurance continues to climb for companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a pace triple that of 2010 and outpacing wage increases, according to a survey.

Lawyer: NYC parents feared foster care abuse (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:09 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Harrisburg Police Department, Shanel Nadal is seen. Eight children taken from a New York child welfare agency by their mother last week have been found in Pennsylvania, authorities say, and their parents are in custody. The New York Police Department says in a release that the children, who range in age from 11 months to 11 years old, are in good condition. Their parents, 28-year-old Shanel Nadal and 34-year-old Nephra Payne, are in custody in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Harrisburg Police Department)AP - A New York City couple took their eight children from foster care and went on the run because some of them were being abused, their lawyer said Tuesday.

Engineers prep inspection atop Washington Monument (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:55 PM PDT

Dave Megerle, a member of Wiss, Janney, Elstner, Associates (WJE) 'Difficult Access Team,' attaches ropes to the top of the Washington Monument, on the National Mall, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, from which four people will rappel down the sides to survey the extent of damage sustained to the monument from the Aug. 23 earthquake . (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Bad weather delayed the daredevil work of engineers who will rappel down the Washington Monument for a visual inspection, but tourists who ventured to the earthquake-damaged obelisk on Tuesday were nonetheless treated to a rare sight.

Jackson's voice echoes through Los Angeles court (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:26 PM PDT

Conrad Murray listens to the prosecution's opening arguments in his involuntary manslaughter trial at Superior Court, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - First, prosecutors showed a photo of Michael Jackson's pale and lifeless body lying on a gurney. Then, they played a recording of his voice, just weeks before his death.

Children placed with parents of missing Utah mom (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves a Pierce County courtroom, in Tacoma, Wash. Powell is the subject of a pornography and voyeurism investigation in Washington, a state assistant attorney said Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 in Pierce County Superior Court. Josh Powell denied the accusation that came during a hearing to determine who will take custody of his children. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - The children of a Utah woman who's been missing since late 2009 have been placed in the care of her parents.

Longtime fugitive US hijacker caught in Portugal (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT

This arrest photo taken Feb. 15, 1963 and provided by the New Jersey Department of Corrections shows George Wright while in custody for the 1962 murder of a gas station owner in Wall, N.J. Wright was arrested Sept. 26, 2011, by Portuguese authorities at the request of the U.S. government after more than 40 years as a fugitive, authorities said Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. The FBI says Wright, who escaped the Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, N.J., in 1970, became affiliated with the Black Liberation Army and in 1972 he and his associates hijacked a Delta flight from Detroit to Miami. After releasing the passengers in exchange for a $1 million ransom, the hijackers forced the plane to fly to Boston, then on to Algeria. (AP Photo)AP - A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in U.S. history was captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as a fugitive, authorities said Tuesday. After decades of stagnancy, there was a sudden break in the case when police matched his fingerprint to a resident ID card.

Congress dodges one crisis, now on to the next (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:34 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is joined by fellow Democrats Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., following the short term funding bill vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - One crisis averted, on to the next. The day after Congress managed to avoid a government shutdown — again — Republicans and Democrats stared ahead Tuesday at major fights over spending that underscore a deep divide that's sure to define the fast-approaching national elections.

Police ID Ind. shooting victims; killer at large (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:13 PM PDT

Trees and brush surround the mobile home of Roy Napier where four people were found dead in rural Franklin County near Laurel, Ind., Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. A fifth person was found dead across the street. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)AP - Investigators probing the fatal shootings of five people in rural southeastern Indiana said Tuesday that no suspects have been identified and that it appears the killer or killers wasn't among the dead.

Cell service arrives in NYC holdout — the subway (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:54 PM PDT

Gabriel Rivera received, then replied to, a text message at a subway station in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched cell phone service in six of its stations in Chelsea on Tuesday. The other 271 stations will get a signal during the next five years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - It was the one place that New Yorkers could go to get away from singing cellphones, beeping BlackBerries and torrents of tweets. And now it's disappearing.

Cantaloupe outbreak is deadliest in a decade (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

AP - Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade.

Census: 131,729 gay couples report they're married (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 21, 2011, file photo, Jim Fitzgerald, left, sits with his spouse Al Koski, right, outside their home in Bourne, Mass. Increasingly visible, the number of gay Americans telling the U.S. census they're living with same-sex partners nearly doubled in the past decade, to about 650,000 couples. And more than 130,000 recorded partners as husband or wife. The census figures were welcomed by many gay people. 'It makes me feel like I am part of this country,' said Koski, a retired Social Security claims representative from who married Fitzgerald in 2007 after they were together for more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - Increasingly visible, the number of gay Americans telling the U.S. census they're living with same-sex partners nearly doubled in the past decade, to about 650,000 couples. And more than 130,000 recorded partners as husband or wife.

Feds seek the continued medication of Loughner (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2011 photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office shows shooting suspect Jared Loughner. Loughner wants to appear at a court hearing next week in Arizona despite objections from his lawyers that traveling from a Missouri prison facility to their mentally ill client's hometown would be disruptive. Loughner has been at a prison facility in Springfield, Mo., since May 27 after he was found to be mentally unfit to stand trial. Experts have concluded Loughner suffers from schizophrenia and are trying to make him psychologically fit to trial. (AP Photo/Pima County Sheriff's Dept. via The Arizona Republic)AP - Prosecutors have again urged a judge to throw out a request by the Tucson shooting rampage suspect's lawyers to halt his forced medication.

Fla. welfare applicants less likely to use drugs (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:57 PM PDT

AP - Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian suggests that it's the people who came up with the law who should be submitting specimens.

US tells court bin Laden photos must stay secret (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:21 PM PDT

AP - Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents.

Researcher: Hope, famed Internet bear, is dead (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:39 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota black bear who became a worldwide star when her birth was broadcast over the Internet is presumed dead after a hunter came forward to report that he had shot the animal without knowing it was her, a researcher said Tuesday.
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