Monday, September 5, 2011

Two dead as wildfires scorch Texas, Perry back home (Reuters)

Two dead as wildfires scorch Texas, Perry back home (Reuters)

Two dead as wildfires scorch Texas, Perry back home (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:41 PM PDT

Flames engulf a road near Bastrop State Park as a wildfire burns out of control near Bastrop, Texas September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Mike StoneReuters - Sixty separate wildfires, whipped by winds as Tropical Storm Lee passed, burned across parched Texas on Monday, destroying hundreds of homes and leaving at least two people dead, authorities said.

Austin-area wildfire burns a record 476 homes in Texas (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:50 PM PDT

Ashes float through the air as a wildfire burns out of control near Bastrop, Texas September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Mike StoneReuters - A massive wildfire east of the Texas state capital of Austin has destroyed 476 homes since Sunday and is still burning out of control, state officials said on Monday.

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

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:00 AM 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"

Louisiana coastal towns struggle with storm flooding (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:25 AM PDT

Michael Enclude, 12, sits in a canoe in a flooded neighbourhood as Tropical Storm Lee slowly makes landfall in Lafitte, Louisiana, September 4, 2011. REUTERS/Dan AndersonReuters - Louisiana Gulf Coast towns and inland waterways struggled with flooding on Monday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee continued to test flood barriers but the city of New Orleans remained in fairly good shape.

White House: Irene's federal cost $1.5 billion (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:29 PM PDT

AP - The White House estimated on Monday that Hurricane Irene will cost federal taxpayers $1.5 billion in disaster relief, further ballooning a government account that was already the focus of fresh partisan friction between President Barack Obama and Congress.

Time for flu shots, and some may get a tiny needle (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:22 AM PDT

In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, people pass below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which is above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - It's flu vaccine time again — and some lucky shot-seekers will find that the needle has shrunk.

Congress returns amid sour mood over slow economy (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 photo, Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed on the 'Fox & Friends' television program, about his book 'in My Time,' in New York. Cheney's autobiography presents a robust defense of his push for the U.S. invasion of Iraq without critically examining two issues central to America's near-failure in the war: the Bush administration's decision to disband the country's army and banish all members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Still bruised by the summer battle over the debt ceiling, Congress reconvenes this week for what could be an equally painful confrontation over how to put Americans back to work.

US Chamber spells out its own job agenda (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:09 PM PDT

AP - Putting a business imprint on the debate over jobs, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday issued an open letter to Congress and to the White House calling for a series of measures designed to increase employment, including greater oil drilling, quicker road and bridge construction and temporary corporate tax breaks.

Obama says GOP must back US first, create jobs (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:26 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama waves upon returning to the White House in Washington, September 5, 2011, after speaking to workers at a Labor Day event in Detroit, Michigan. REUTERS/Chris Kleponis (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country's interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. "Show us what you've got," he said.

Lee's remnants spawn Ga. twisters, drown Miss. man (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:42 PM PDT

The home of Bob Van Derwart is shown after a possible tornado moved through the area leaving a Pine tree in his home, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, near Woodstock, Ga. One person was injured in a possible tornado in Cherokee County as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee crossed the state Monday afternoon, authorities said. Lt. Jay Baker with the Cherokee County Sheriff's department said the storm toppled trees, snapped power lines and damaged homes near Woodstock. He said the victim was taken to the hospital but the person's condition was not known. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)AP - The slow-moving remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped rain across the South and whipped up twisters that damaged dozens of Georgia homes as the system pushed farther inland on Monday.

Hurricane Katia grows to Category 3 storm (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:45 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, Sept. 5, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows widespread clouds from the Northeast through the Southeast as a Tropical Depression spins about 55 mile southwest of McComb, Mississippi and a strong cold fronts approaches the Eastern Seaboard. Maximum sustained winds near 35 mph and higher gusts spread ample tropical moisture northward across the Central Gulf Coast, fueling more soaking rains and thunderstorms in parts of the Southeast. This moisture also interacts with the cold front in the East and fuels numerous band of showers and heavy rainfall along and ahead of the front from parts of the Northeast through the Eastern Valleys. Elsewhere, Category 2 Hurricane Katia is located about 385 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Katia is moving toward the northwest near 13 mph with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Hurricane Katia has grown to a Category 3 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean.

San Bruno scars remain for survivors, neighborhood (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT

In this Aug. 26, 2011 photo, Gilda Tarzia poses for photographs while being interviewed in front of the lot where her home was destroyed in San Bruno, Calif. Tarzia, who was close to retirement before the fire consumed everything she had, said she is still too traumatized to consider rebuilding in San Bruno. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - The young man staggered into his neighbor's driveway, his body still smoking from the explosion that mangled his torso and sparked a gas-fueled fireball rising fast above this San Francisco suburb.

Winter threatens repairs of Irene-damaged roads (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:39 PM PDT

In this Sept. 2, 2011 photo, a front loader passes a sink hole in a Millburn, N.J. intersection. Officials say it could take months just to make basic repairs due to damage caused by Hurricane Irene. Many permanent fixes will have to wait until the spring. (AP Photo/Chris Hawley)AP - Northeastern states struggling to rebuild hundreds of roads and dozens of bridges in the wake of Hurricane Irene are facing another natural threat: winter.

Patched-up schools to open after flooding in Minot (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:33 PM PDT

In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, Ramstad Middle School Principal Jim Tschetter gives tours to students at temporary classrooms outside the city auditorium in Minot, N.D. Minot schools open their doors on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, a week behind schedule after the worst flooding in the city's history. The Souris River waters that pushed 11,000 people from their homes and damaged hundreds of businesses also took a heavy toll on schools in the state's fourth-largest city. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)AP - In his first year as superintendent of Minot's public schools, Mark Vollmer is stepping into a mess: Record flooding wrecked six of his schools, forcing the district to delay the start of the year and many of his students and teachers haven't yet returned to their homes.

ESSAY: Post-9/11 'new normal' looks much like old (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2010 file photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walks down the aisle of charter jet for deportation in the air between Chicago and Harlingen, Texas. 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/LM Otero, File)AP - In the crucible of Sept. 11, no one could imagine things would ever be the same again.

A decade later, schools find lessons in 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:43 AM PDT

AP - It was about three years ago, the first time Jerry Swiatek got to the 9/11 portion of his social studies class and had some freshmen say they'd never seen footage of planes flying into the World Trade Center.

St. Pete making progress with legions of homeless (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:55 AM PDT

In this Aug. 12, 2011 photo, Robert Marbut, of Texas, poses for a photo inside of the Pinellas Safe Harbor in Clearwater, Fla., a 500-bed shelter for homeless people in the county. The shelter is being funded by the Pinellas County Sheriff's office. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Four years ago, St. Petersburg's struggles with some of the most rampant homelessness in the country reached a crescendo when police officers with box cutters slashed up a makeshift tent city near downtown. The raid become a national public-relations disaster and didn't make a dent in the growing crowd of people living on the city's streets.

Factory-like mills feed ravenous NYC heroin market (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:43 AM PDT

This April 2011 photo provided by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York shows the exterior of a home in Fort Lee, N.J., where heroin was packaged. Narcotics investigators who shut down the heroin mill earlier this year and others like it say they represent the new, more serene face of the still-thriving heroin trade in the New York City area, for decades the drug’s national epicenter. (AP Photo/Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York)AP - In many ways, the reputed drug dealers on Grandview Place were good neighbors.
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