Monday, October 31, 2011

13 dead, millions without power after rare storm (Reuters)

13 dead, millions without power after rare storm (Reuters)

13 dead, millions without power after rare storm (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:42 PM PDT

A large tree falls on top of a car after an early snowfall in Worcester, Massachusetts October 30, 2011. REUTERS/Adam HungerReuters - Devastation from a rare and deadly October snowstorm lingered in the Northeast where 1.6 million homes were still without power on Monday, schools were closed and downed trees and powerlines snarled traffic.

Arizona serial killer found guilty of nine murders (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Reuters - A former construction worker and convicted sexual predator was found guilty on Monday of nine murders in a crime spree that stunned the nation's sixth-largest city.

Arizona dismantles major drug network with Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:54 PM PDT

Guns and bundles of marijuana seized from the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel during Reuters - U.S. authorities have arrested more than 70 people in a series of Arizona narcotics raids, dismantling a major smuggling network linked to a Mexican drug cartel that generated nearly $2 billion in illicit proceeds, officials said on Monday.

How the St. Louis Cardinals Won a World Series Classic (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:35 AM PDT

Time.com - You won't find a more thrilling sporting event than St. Louis' 10-9 win over Texas in Game 6 of the World Series. Inside the game, its aftermath and a look ahead to a deciding Game 7

Girl Scouts of Colorado Flip-Flops on Allowing Boy to Join (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Seven-year-old Bobby Montoya likes to play with dolls and wear girls' clothes. But it's his "boy parts" that led a Colorado Girl Scouts leader to deny him entry to the group, despite the fact that he identifies as a girl

Boxing champion badly injured in New York car accident (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:51 PM PDT

Reuters - A 19-year-old U.S. amateur boxing champion was in critical condition on Monday, a day after he was injured in a multiple-car pile-up on a New York City expressway that killed his sister.

'Shrek' spinoff 'Puss in Boots' opens with $34M (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, Antonio Banderas arrives at the premiere of 'Puss In Boots,' at The Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles. “Puss in Boots” landed on all fours, opening with an estimated $34 million to lead the box office. The PG-rated movie scored with family audiences on the weekend before Halloween, and also drew a large Hispanic crowd which made up 35 percent of its audience. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, File)AP - "Puss in Boots" opened with a solid if not spectacular $34 million, which was still good enough for a Halloween weekend record.

For Obama, this G20 is more about Europe (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves as he arrives at the Victory Column in Berlin. In 2009 President Barack Obama went to London for his first summit of the world’s top 20 economies as a global rock star — the U.S. president who as a candidate could command giant crowds in Denver or Berlin. This week he arrives in Cannes, France, for another G-20 summit with his star status on the wane, more like a key player in the band instead of the conductor. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong/File)AP - Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to London for his first world economic summit as a global rock star — the U.S. president who as a candidate could command giant crowds at home in Denver or abroad in Berlin. This week he arrives in Cannes, France, for his fifth such summit no longer starring, just a key player in the band.

Tarmac nightmare shows delays are still a problem (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:15 PM PDT

AP - Being stuck for hours on a stuffy, stinky plane at the airport — every passenger's nightmare — was supposed to be a thing of the past, thanks to the government's threat of huge fines against the airlines. Well, dream on.

Obama in 'excellent health,' physician says (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:24 PM PDT

FILE -- In an Oct. 20, 2011 file photo President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama is directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages, an escalating problem that has placed patients at risk and raised the possibility of price gouging. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/file)AP - President Barack Obama is in excellent health and tobacco free, his doctor said Monday in the results of the president's second physical exam since taking office.

Storm makes Central Park a mess before NY Marathon (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:23 PM PDT

Trees that were damaged by a snowstorm, then trimmed, stand bare of branches at the edge of Central Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. The group that manages Central Park estimates that the New York City park may lose 1,000 trees due to the unprecedented weekend snowstorm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Workers cleaning up after a freak snowstorm raced Monday to clear fallen branches and splintered trees from paths and roads in Central Park in time for this weekend's New York City Marathon, which winds through the park.

Jackson doc: No decision on whether he'll testify (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:11 PM PDT

Dr. Paul White, anesthesiologist and propofol expert, gives testimony during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)AP - With his trial nearing completion, the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death told a judge on Monday he had not yet decided about whether he will testify in his own defense.

Latest developments in the global Occupy protests (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:35 PM PDT

AP - Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:

Young drawn to hard, dangerous jobs at elevators (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Smoke continues to rise from the damaged Bartlett Grain Company elevator in Atchison, Kan. Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Six people were killed after a grain dust explosion rocked the facility Saturday night. The final three bodies were recovered Monday from the burnt wreckage of a Kansas grain elevator where a weekend explosion killed six people and injured two others, a company official said. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - The men killed in a grain elevator explosion in Kansas included an Iraq war veteran, an avid collector of model John Deere tractors who hoped to farm and a soon-to-be husband looking forward to a wedding only three weeks away.

Jury convicts Arizona man in Baseline Killer case (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:55 PM PDT

Mark Goudeau talks to one of his lawyers, Rodrick Carter, in court at the reading of the verdicts in his murder trial Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 in Phoenix. A jury found the former construction worker guilty of killing nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized the Phoenix area during the summer of 2006. (AP Photo/Jack Kurtz, Pool)AP - An Arizona jury on Monday found a former construction worker guilty of killing nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized the Phoenix area during the summer of 2006.

Pregnant mom says sandwich arrest was 'horrifying' (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:19 PM PDT

AP - Nicole Leszczynski couldn't imagine that two chicken salad sandwiches would land her and her husband in jail and her 2-year-old daughter in state custody. But it happened five days ago, when the 30-weeks-pregnant woman forgot to pay for her snack while grocery shopping.

Spying on spies: Chapman shops, contacts 'handler' (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:54 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO ADD DATE AND AFFILIATION OF MAN AT TABLE ** In this frame grab image from a surveillance video taken June 6, 2010, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), partially obscured by the source, and released by the FBI Monday, Oct. 21, 2011, Russian spy Anna Chapman, wearing sunglasses, meets with an undercover agent in a coffee shop in New York. The FBI has said Chapman used her laptop to transmit encrypted information from a coffee shop to a to a passing van. It is not clear whether this image shows Chapman engaged in the transmission of information, as the FBI alleges. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - Unaware the FBI has her under surveillance, Russian spy Anna Chapman buys leggings and tries on hats at Macy's. A few months later, cameras watch her in a New York coffee shop where she meets with someone she thinks is her Russian handler. It's really an undercover FBI agent.

Rare October snowstorm wreaks havoc in Northeast (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:39 PM PDT

Trees that were damaged by a snowstorm, then trimmed, stand bare of branches at the edge of Central Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. The group that manages Central Park estimates that the New York City park may lose 1,000 trees due to the unprecedented weekend snowstorm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Hundreds of thousands of people across the Northeast shivered at the prospect of days without heat or lights after a freak October snowstorm over the weekend, and many towns postponed trick-or-treating Monday in what seemed like a mean Halloween prank to some children.

Soldier admits taking war trophies, denies murder (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:28 PM PDT

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is shown in this courtroom sketch, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, during his court-martial for charges of killing three Afghan civilians. (AP Photo/Peter Millett)AP - An Army staff sergeant described by a comrade as "evil incarnate" cut fingers off the corpses of three Afghan civilians — but he had nothing to do with any plot to slaughter those unarmed men for sport, his lawyer said Monday.

October storm disrupts Halloween across Northeast (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:28 PM PDT

AP - Twelve-year-old McKenzie Gallasso was deciding between dressing as a witch or a werewolf when the phone rang Monday with bad news: Halloween had been canceled.
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