Saturday, September 3, 2011

New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Lee (Reuters)

New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Lee (Reuters)

New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Lee (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Brian Stanford walks his dog on the beach in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as Tropical Storm Lee slowly makes landfall September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Dan AndersonReuters - New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina six years ago, faced a new threat on Saturday from Tropical Storm Lee, which was set to challenge the city's flood defenses with an onslaught of heavy rain.

Labor Day crowds pack Jersey shore after Irene (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Beaches and the boardwalk were packed with Labor Day weekend visitors here on Saturday in the wake of a hurricane that many said left barely a trace of damage.

Lee causes thousands of power outages in Louisiana (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Reuters - Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power early on Saturday for more than 38,000 customers, primarily in the New Orleans area, said a utility company that provides power for most of Louisiana.

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

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 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"

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

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 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

Vermont presses post-Irene recovery, braces for more flooding (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:57 PM PDT

Jennifer Herzig works to clean up the shop First Stop Convenience and Repair owned by herself and her husband in Jacksonville, Vermont August 29, 2011, one day after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - A week after Tropical Storm Irene washed out scores of roads across southern and central Vermont, state officials on Saturday worked to restore more routes and worried about forecasts for more heavy rain.

Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2011 file picture, a line of severe storms crosses the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tenn., passing by the Memphis Pyramid. The dark formation was reported a few minutes earlier as a tornado in West Memphis, Ark. Nature is pummeling the United States in 2011 with extremes. There have been more than 700 U.S. disaster and weather deaths. What's happening, say experts, is mostly random chance or the bad luck of getting the wrong roll of the dice. However, there is something more to it, many of them say. Man-made global warming is loading the dice to increase our odds of getting the bad roll. (AP Photo/Lance Murphey, File)AP - Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.

A feared mass killer, Irene got victims one by one (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:17 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Garofano family, Michael Joseph Garofano, right, poses with his wife, Sally. The body of 55-year-old Michael Joseph Garofano was recovered Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, downstream from the inlet to the Rutland, Vt., city water system. The elder Garofano, a supervisor at the Rutland water plant, and his son are believed to have been swept away Sunday by raging floodwaters spawned by Tropical Storm Irene, while checking on the inlet. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Garofano family)AP - In Ayden, N.C., a man dies in his recliner, riding out Hurricane Irene at home because he didn't want to leave his Chihuahua at home alone.

Parental dilemma: Whether to spy on their kids (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:54 PM PDT

This Aug. 23, 2011 photo provided by the family shows Lenore Skenazy, center, outside her apartment building in the Queens borough of New York with her sons Izzy, 13, left, and Morry, 15. Skenazy wrote a book called 'Free Range Kids: How To Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry).' She contends that many marketers exploit parents' ingrained worries about their children's safety. 'The idea is that the only good parent is a parent who is somehow watching over their child 24/7,' she said. (AP Photo/Joe Kolman)AP - In the 21st century, parenthood and paranoia often walk hand in hand.

Obama appeals for transportation bill passage (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama gestures after delivering a statement in the White House Rose Garden where in he urged Congress to pass a federal highway bill. In his weekly radio Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, Obama called on Congress to pass a transportation bill to ensure funding for roads and construction jobs, saying time is running out and 'political posturing' may stand in the way. 'There's no reason to put more jobs at risk in an industry that has been one of the hardest-hit in this recession,' he said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - President Barack Obama is appealing to Congress to pass a transportation bill that would put money in the pipeline for roads and construction jobs, arguing that it's an economic imperative.

Tropical Storm Lee weakens just off Louisiana (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Beachgoers run for shelter as the rain starts pouring down Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 in Dauphin Island, Ala. As Tropical Storm Lee continues advancing toward the Louisiana coast, the storm dumps sporadic heavy rain along the coasts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water was lapping at the front doors of some homes.

Feds warn of small airplane terror threats (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:07 PM PDT

AP - The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Strauss-Kahn believed to be on Paris-bound plane (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:32 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, leaves his rented town home on Franklin Street in the Tribeca section of downtown Manhattan, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, in New York. Strauss-Kahn was believed to be heading to his native France on Saturday, leaving the United States behind after the collapse of a sensational sexual assault case that cost him his job and possibly his French presidential ambitions. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn was believed to be heading to his native France on Saturday, leaving the United States behind after the collapse of a sensational sexual assault case that cost him his job and possibly his French presidential ambitions.

Man gets life in prison for nursing home slayings (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Robert Stewart showed the same lack of emotion when a jury found him guilty of murder Saturday as witnesses say he displayed when he gunned down eight people at a North Carolina nursing home during one of the worst massacres in state history.

PROMISES, PROMISES: US safer, but not safe enough (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 22, 2004 file photo, a patron of the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Springfield, Ill., reads a copy of the 'The 9/11 Commission Report.' We are safer, but not safe enough. In the decade since the 9/11 attacks, the government has taken giant steps to protect the nation from terrorists, spending eye-popping sums to smarten up the federal bureaucracy, hunt down enemies, strengthen airline security, secure U.S. borders, reshape America's image and more. But the effort remains a work in progress, and in some cases a work stalled. The bipartisan 9/11 Commission in 2004 laid out a 585-page road map to create an America that is 'safer, stronger, wiser.' Many of the commission's recommendations are now reality. But in some cases, results haven't lived up to expectations. And other proposals still are just that, ideas awaiting action. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - We are safer, but not safe enough.

Vermont State Fair muted amid Irene's aftermath (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:36 PM PDT

AP - The scene on the midway at the Vermont State Fair on Saturday was much like it's always been. Carnival game barkers called out for customers to try their luck, the smell of french fries wafted over the grounds and 4-H children groomed their dairy cows in the barns.

Massive NM fire somehow missed pot plant operation (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT

In this Thursday Sept.1, 2011 photo released by the National Park Service marijuana seized after an early morning raid of a remote area of the Bandelier National Monument, N.M is seen. This summer's Las Conchas fire in New Mexico scorched tribal lands, threatened one of the nation's premier nuclear facilities and pushed bears into nearby cities. But it somehow spared more than 9,000 marijuana plants in a remote area of Bandelier National Monument. (AP Photo/National Park Service)AP - This summer's Las Conchas fire in New Mexico scorched tribal lands, threatened one of the nation's premier nuclear facilities and pushed bears into nearby cities. But it somehow spared more than 9,000 marijuana plants in a remote area of Bandelier National Monument.

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:25 PM PDT

In this Aug. 23, 2011 photo, sophomore Lenny Thelusma, 16, checks out his new iPad as his mother, Tara Killion, looks on at Burlington High School in Burlington, Mass. Burlington is giving iPads this year to every one of its 1,000-plus high school students. Some classes will still have textbooks, but the majority of work and lessons will be on the iPads. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.

Calif gay history referendum faces uphill battle (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:09 PM PDT

In a Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 photo, Rev. Kevin Kinder and his wife Quilla sing during a prayer meeting at Southern Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. At churches, shopping centers, schools, and local Tea Party meetings in California, fired-up volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation’s first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights milestones in school lessons. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - At churches, shopping centers, schools, and local tea party meetings in California, fired-up volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights' milestones in school lessons.
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