Friday, September 2, 2011

Milestone Moments: Remembering 9/11 (Reuters)

Milestone Moments: Remembering 9/11 (Reuters)

Milestone Moments: Remembering 9/11 (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:57 AM PDT

A mural honoring victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in the Queens borough of New York August 1, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Current weather forecasts for New York are for a possible rainy start to the 9/11 weekend.

Six years after Katrina, New Orleans braces for storm (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:35 PM PDT

A low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico, now Tropical Storm Lee, in a satellite image taken September 1, 2011. REUTERS/NOAAAReuters - Almost exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans and produced one of the worst disasters in the nation's history, residents are again bracing for a storm lumbering north in the Gulf of Mexico.

Alabama coast braces for heavy rain from Tropical Storm Lee (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:38 PM PDT

Reuters - People along the Alabama coast braced for up to 20 inches of rain that Tropical Storm Lee could bring their way over the Labor Day holiday weekend, but their spirits on Friday seemed impervious to the predicted soaking.

Maya Angelou: MLK Memorial Quote 'Makes Him Seem Like an Egotist' (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Poet and author Maya Angelou is irked by an inscription on the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial that she believes "minimizes the man"

Ex-employee sues Borders over mass layoffs (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:33 PM PDT

A woman shops inside a Borders bookstore in New York, July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - A Borders Group Inc unit failed to give its workers proper notice of mass layoffs when it announced plan to liquidate in July, a new lawsuit alleges.

Vet: Honor WWII survivors now, while they're alive (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 05:49 PM PDT

World War II veterans listen during a ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, marking the 66th anniversary of the end of the war. The battleship has been moored in Pearl Harbor for the past decade. It overlooks the spot where the USS Arizona sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)AP - A Marine who fought in the Battle of Okinawa urged Americans on Friday to honor those who served in World War II now, while veterans from that conflict are still alive.

Cops put squeeze on alleged python biter in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT

This photo provided by the City of Sacramento Animal Care Services shows a python is seen drinking water, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 in Sacramento, Calif. Police say the snake underwent emergency surgery after David Senk, 54, allegedly bit the creature twice. The python was turned over to the city's Animal Care Services, where it was recovering after losing a couple ribs. (AP photo/City of Sacramento Animal Care Services, Gina Knepp)AP - A snake bite in a north Sacramento neighborhood left the victim seriously hurt, but the injured party isn't whom you'd expect.

Court upholds SD mother-fetus relationship law (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:39 PM PDT

AP - South Dakota can require doctors to tell women who seek abortions that they have an "existing relationship" with their fetus that is protected by law and that they can't be forced to undergo the procedure, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Rain-packed Tropical Storm Lee forms off Louisiana (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Robert Gibbs, from Newton, Miss., keeps his footing as he is hit by a wave in the surf Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, in Dauphin Island, Ala. Forecasters have issued tropical storm warnings for the U.S. Gulf coast from Mississippi to Texas as a depression has organized in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, G.M. Andrews) NO SALES; MAGS OUTAP - A large storm system churning in the Gulf Of Mexico grew Friday into Tropical Storm Lee, beginning a Labor Day weekend-long assault that could bring up to 20 inches of rain in some spots from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

Quake risk to reactors greater than thought (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:37 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.

Irene's flooding threatens Vermont's leaf season (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 05:46 PM PDT

Scott Burton tries to move mud off the golf course at the Woodstock Inn resort on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, in Woodstock, Vt. The flood damage in New England is all but certain to hurt the region's vital leaf-peeping season, when tourists come to see the spectacular autumn colors, pick apples, sleep under a down comforter at a historic inn or go to a craft fair. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - The flood damage in New England is all but certain to hurt Vermont's vital leaf-peeping season, when thousands of tourists come to see the autumn colors, pick apples, visit craft fairs and, at the end of the day, go to sleep under a down comforter at a historic inn.

Judge rejects Roger Clemens' bid to avoid retrial (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 14, 2011 file photo, former Major League baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington. Clemens is heading back to court to find out whether he'll face a second trial on charges he lied about using performance-enhancing drugs. A hearing is being held Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 in Washington federal court over Clemens' motion to dismiss felony charges against him after a mistrial seven weeks ago. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A federal judge ruled Friday that Roger Clemens must face another trial on charges of lying about drug use, although the judge criticized prosecutors' mishandling of evidence during a July mistrial and questioned the fairness of making the former star pitcher pay to defend himself twice.

Jeff Bezos' spaceship fails during test flight (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 04:47 PM PDT

AP - An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.

Obama yields on smog rule in face of GOP demands (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leaves the White House, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, to board Marine One, en route to Camp David. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama on Friday scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional Republicans who complained the rule would kill jobs in America's ailing economy.

Jury caught up in circumstances of gay teen death (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 05:46 PM PDT

Defense attorney Scott Wippert right, hugs private investigator, Kathryn Lestelle outside court where a mistrial was declared in a gay student murder trial, Thursday Sept. 1, 2011 in Chatsworth, Calif. A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of California teen, Brandon McInerney, who shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab class as stunned classmates looked on. Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision on the degree of McInerney's guilt for killing 15-year-old Larry King.(AP Photo/Thomas Watkins)AP - There was no question Brandon McInerney shot a gay middle school classmate in a computer lab, but deciding what crime he committed proved impossible this week for a jury inundated with factors to consider.

DNA led to suicide ruling in Calif. mansion death (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Dr. Jonathan Lucas, of the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office, talks about his department's finding at a news conference held at the San Diego County Sheriff's department Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 in San Diego. Behind him are photos of Rebecca Zahau, left, and Max Shacknai. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Footprints on a dusty balcony and DNA on a knife, rope and bedposts helped investigators conclude that the death of a woman found hanging naked with her wrists and ankles bound at a historic California mansion was a suicide, authorities said Friday.

Newark airport unveils new body scan technology (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:48 PM PDT

AP - Newark Liberty International Airport became the first New York-area airport to install body scanning technology that will replace a system that was harshly criticized for invading travelers' privacy by displaying naked images.

AP Interview: NYPD boss expands counterterror role (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, right, speaks with members of the media prior to a tour of the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center, in New York. Kelly is credited with shaping the NYPDís counterterrorism effort, assigning 1,000 officers to counterterrorism duties daily and pioneering a program to send officers overseas to report on how other cities deal with terrorism. At center is NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism Richard Daddario, and NYPD Director of Counterterrorism policy and Planning Jessica Tisch is at left. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sits at the head of a conference table in a top-floor office that looks like a cross between a Fortune 500 boardroom and a Best Buy sales floor. He's calling up security-camera feeds that appear on wall-to-wall flat screens.
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