Thursday, September 22, 2011

Perry seeks distance from Romney in GOP debate (Reuters)

Perry seeks distance from Romney in GOP debate (Reuters)

Perry seeks distance from Romney in GOP debate (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:55 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican Rick Perry vowed to rebuild the U.S. economy the way he managed a Texas boom in a U.S. presidential debate on Thursday where he sought to put more distance between himself and rival Mitt Romney.

Alabama carries out third U.S. execution this week (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:56 PM PDT

Reuters - A man convicted of the 1994 execution-style shooting of a store clerk in Alabama was put to death on Thursday by lethal injection in the third U.S. execution carried out this week.

Jaycee Dugard sues U.S. over monitoring of her captor (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Jaycee Dugard is seen in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/via Child Quest/HandoutReuters - Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard on Thursday sued the federal government and accused it of failing to monitor the felon who grabbed her off a Northern California street as a child and held her for 18 years.

Troy Davis' Execution: Closure for Victim's Family? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Anneliese McPhail believes what so many others doubt: not only that Troy Davis did in fact murder her son Mark back in 1989, but that Davis' execution was a long-overdue punishment that will help bring peace to her and her family

Many in Joplin Ignored Tornado Sirens (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - "The vast majority" of residents in Joplin, Mo. ignored the initial warning siren for the May 22 tornado that killed 159 people and injured more than 1,000, according to a report released Tuesday

Lawyer details last hours of executed Georgia man (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Reverend Archie (last name not given) holds a sign protesting the execution of convicted killer Troy Davis in front of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison, where Davis is set to be executed by lethal injection, in Jackson, Georgia September 21, 2011. REUTERS/Tami ChappellReuters - Defense attorneys for executed Georgia inmate Troy Davis described on Thursday his final hours, a day after he died by lethal injection for murder amid claims that he may have been innocent.

Davis' backers seek next step after execution (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT

Minister Lynn Hopkins, left, comforts her partner Carolyn Bond after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis In Jackson, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. (AP/Photo Stephen Morton)AP - Minutes before he was put to death, Troy Davis asked his supporters to "continue to fight this fight" — but will they, and how?

2 NC men walk free after murder exoneration (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:25 PM PDT

AP - Two North Carolina men walked free Thursday when a panel of judges ruled they didn't kill a man during a home invasion despite their guilty pleas a decade earlier.

Alabama executes man who shot, killed store clerk (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:53 PM PDT

Death row inmate Derrick O'Neal Mason is seen in an undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections. Mason is set to be executed on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 at Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala. He was convicted tor the June 1993 slaying of a clerk at a Madison County convenience store. (AP Photo/Alabama Department of Corrections)AP - A man described by a police informant as trying to make a name for himself was executed Thursday evening for the 1994 shooting death of an Alabama store clerk during a robbery.

Idaho soldier pleads guilty in Afghan plot (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:39 PM PDT

AP - An Idaho soldier among five charged in the thrill-killings of Afghan civilians last year pleaded guilty to a murder charge Thursday, confessing in court that he fired a heavy machine gun at a startled, unarmed man from 15 feet away after a co-defendant tossed a grenade at him.

AP IMPACT: NYPD ethnic tracking included citizens (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2011, Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco, is interviewed as he cuts hair at his barber shop in the Astoria neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York. His shop had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moroccan population. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The grainy photographs could have come from any undercover police file: A man in jeans talking on his cell phone. Another in a windbreaker walking past people at a coffee shop. A car parked outside a grocery store.

Senate Democrats vow to reject clean energy cuts (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:27 PM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, after the House rejected a measure Wednesday providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to keep the government running through mid-November. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - With the economy sputtering, the warring factions of Congress headed toward gridlock late Thursday over the usually noncontroversial process of approving disaster aid or even keeping the government from shutting down.

Obama rolling back Bush-era education law (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:27 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 after returning from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spoke about jobs. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Obama administration is offering states a way around provisions of the once-heralded No Child Left Behind law, contending many elements of the Bush-era education initiative have become barriers to learning and that too many schools, even those showing modest progress, risk being labeled as failing.

$16 muffins? No, says Hilton (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:13 PM PDT

AP - The government did not pay $16 apiece for breakfast muffins at a Justice Department conference, no matter what the department's inspector general thinks.

Senate passes worker aid bill tied to trade deals (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:35 PM PDT

AP - Three free trade agreements that have spent years in political limbo could finally be on a path toward congressional action with a Senate vote Thursday to assure that American workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition can get retraining and aid.

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:19 PM PDT

This undated file photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, the world's largest physics lab, say they have clocked subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than light, a feat that, if true, would break a fundamental pillar of science, the idea that nothing is supposed to move faster than light, at least according to Einstein's special theory of relativity: The famous E (equals) mc2 equation. That stands for energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery. (AP Photo)AP - One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories.

Nurses at dozens of Calif. hospitals strike (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:18 PM PDT

Kaiser Permanente employees walkout to protest proposed benefit cuts and a lack of progress on contract talks outside the Kaiser Permanente hospital Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, in Los Angeles. About 2,500 employees: nurses, social workers and therapists walked the picket Wednesday as part of a larger three-day strike across California to protest Kaiser attempt to reduce their retirement benefits and health care coverage. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals on Thursday as part of a one-day strike over benefit cuts and other concessions sought by hospital management.

Local governments tap alcohol sales for revenue (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 4, 2011, a man is reflected in a convenience store window as he carries a case of beer out in Harrison, Ark., in Boone County. The county is one of many local governments across the South that have dumped their bans on the sale of alcohol in the hopes of tapping into booze as a new source of revenue. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)AP - Dee Gusewelle used to rail against the sale of alcohol, posting signs in her yard and encouraging neighbors and passersby to keep booze out of this patch of northern Arkansas.

Old NASA satellite to tumble to Earth on Friday (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image provided by NASA this is the STS-48 onboard photo of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in the grasp of the RMS (Remote Manipulator System) during deployment, from the shuttle in September 1991. NASA's old research satellite is expected to come crashing down through the atmosphere Friday afternoon, Sept. 23, 2011 Eastern Time. The spacecraft will not be passing over North America then, the space agency said in a statement Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - While North America appears to be off the hook, scientists are scrambling to pinpoint exactly where and when a dead NASA climate satellite will plummet back to Earth on Friday.

Texas prisons end special last meals in executions (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:47 PM PDT

AP - Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.
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