Sunday, October 30, 2011

Insight: Firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare (Reuters)

Insight: Firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare (Reuters)

Insight: Firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:19 PM PDT

A pair of smokers stand outside of an office building in the Times Square region of New York April 1, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings.

Madoff wife, son say knew nothing of scheme: CBS (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Personal property of Bernard and Ruth Madoff is seen during a press preview of the auction items seized in New York and Florida by the United States Marshals Service, in New York November 13, 2009. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - The wife and son of financial swindler Bernard Madoff said in their first interview to be broadcast on Sunday that they knew nothing of his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme, but feel shame for his "unforgiveable" crime.

Parents Who Gave Children Nazi-Inspired Names Fighting to Regain Custody (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 09:05 PM PDT

Time.com - New Jersey parents who gave their children controversial names say that a court found them not guilty of child abuse, though they are still waiting for their kids to be returned

At Occupy Oakland, a Tense Standoff in the Park (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 09:05 PM PDT

Time.com - After a violent melee, the protest movement in Oakland has an anxious night waiting to see how police respond to the demonstrators' continued presence

Couple jailed, lose custody of daughter, over stolen sandwiches (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:56 PM PDT

Reuters - A pregnant woman and her husband were arrested for allegedly stealing two sandwiches at a supermarket in Honolulu, resulting in their 3-year-old daughter being put into state care for 18 hours, officials said on Saturday.

In Tenn. and NY, locals thwart protesters' removal (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Occupy Nashville protesters join hands on the Legislative Plaza on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. Participants in the economic protest returned to the Legislative Plaza after arrests were made the two previous nights. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - Tennessee's governor and his administration have twice sent state troopers to handcuff and haul away Occupy Nashville protesters camped out just steps away from the Capitol. And twice, a relatively obscure local official refused to throw them in jail.

Reformed skinhead endures agony to remove tattoos (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 02:29 PM PDT

This combination of eight photos provided by Bill Brummel Productions shows the progress of tattoo removal treatments for former skinhead Bryon Widner. For 16 years, Widner was a glowering, swaggering, menacing vessel of savagery - an 'enforcer' for some of America’s most notorious and violent racist skinhead groups. Though his beliefs had changed, leaving the old life would not be easy when it was all he had known - and when his face remained a billboard of hate. (AP Photo/Duke Tribble, Courtesy of MSNBC and Bill Brummel Productions)AP - Julie Widner was terrified — afraid her husband would do something reckless, even disfigure himself.

Settlement reached in anthrax death lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 02:20 PM PDT

AP - The widow of a Florida tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailings has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the U.S. government.

Waivers spell likely end for tutoring program (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:49 AM PDT

In this Oct. 18, 2011 photo, Matthew Mohs and Sherry Carlstrom, director and assistant director, respectively, who oversee federal Title 1 spending in St. Paul public schools, pose with flyers outlining free tutoring programs in the district, in St. Paul, Minn. Mohs has been critical of the effectiveness of the tutors. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Dozens of states intend to apply for waivers that would free their schools from a federal requirement that they set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year for after-school tutoring, a program many researchers say has been ineffective.

Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:39 PM PDT

In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, Richard Muller, left, and his daughter, Elizabeth Muller, right, pose with a map from their study on climate at their home in Berkeley, Calif. A new study of Earth’s temperatures going back more than 200 years finds the same old story: It’s gotten hotter in the last 60 years. What’s different is the scientist behind the latest study, Richard Muller. The California physicist was doubtful of what climate scientists have been saying - until he did his own research, partly funded by climate change skeptics. Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and executive director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study, ran the study. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

October snow tricks Northeast, leaves 3M powerless (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:10 PM PDT

A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - When winter's white mixes with autumn's orange and gold, nature gets ugly.

Search suspended after Kansas grain elevator blast (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:42 PM PDT

Smoking rubble sits atop the Bartlett Grain Company in Atchison, Kan. Sunday morning Oct. 30, 2011, after an explosion at the grain elevator the night before. Crews temporarily suspended their search for three people missing since the explosion that killed three workers and left two critically injured with severe burns. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Todd Weddle)AP - Crews suspended their search Sunday for three people missing after a thunderous explosion at a Kansas grain elevator killed three workers and hospitalized two others with severe burns.

Occupy protesters arrested in Texas, Oregon (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:10 PM PDT

A protester is forcibly removed from Jamison Park in Portland, Ore., early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. A large group marched from the downtown Occupy Portland camp in an attempt to occupy the park when police moved in with riot gear and horses to make approximately 30 arrests. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested Sunday in Texas, where they clashed with police over food tables, and in Oregon, where officers dragged them out of a park in an affluent neighborhood.

After attacks, a renewed focus on bear safety (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 05:40 PM PDT

In this undated image provided by the National Park Service, a grizzly bear sow and three cubs roam inside Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Wildlife agencies in the Northern Rockies go to lengths to warn people of the dangers of grizzly country — from signs advising hikers to carry mace-like bear spray, to radio ads that warn hunters to take care when stalking elk in bear habitat. (AP Photo/National Park Service)AP - Wildlife agencies in the Northern Rockies go to lengths to warn people of the dangers of grizzly country — from signs advising hikers to carry Mace-like bear spray to radio ads that warn hunters to take care when stalking elk in bear habitat.

FACT CHECK: GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:59 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor shows The Coffee Pot in Bedford, Pa. It’s an outrageous tale: The federal government spends one out of every $10 in transportation aid on wasteful projects such as refurbishing a coffee pot and constructing turtle tunnels. That’s what Republican lawmakers have said repeatedly in recent weeks. But are their charges true? Not exactly. Lawmakers have exaggerated and misrepresented some projects, and occasionally their facts have been flat wrong. (AP Photo/The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor)AP - It's an outrageous tale: The federal government spends one out of every $10 in transportation aid on wasteful projects such as refurbishing a giant roadside coffee pot and constructing turtle tunnels.

Hundreds of thousands at Cardinals parade, rally (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:59 PM PDT

World Series MVP David Freese rides in the back of a pickup truck during a victory parade in celebration of the Cardinals' 11th World Series victory, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers to win the series. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - A red sea of fans jammed downtown St. Louis Sunday to honor the World Series champion Cardinals and send a clear message to Albert Pujols: Please stay.

AP Enterprise: Brown estate was saddled by debt (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2005 file photo, James Brown performs on stage during the Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brown's charitable trust had withered to just $14,000 and his estate was saddled with more than $20 million in debt before a professional money manager was able to turn it around, according to an attorney, The Associated Press reports Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - James Brown's charitable trust had withered to just $14,000 and his estate was saddled with more than $20 million in debt before a professional money manager was able to turn it around, an attorney told The Associated Press.

Reports: Prosecutions going up for war zone crime (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2007 file photo, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen, center, flanked by then IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, left, and then Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington to announce the indictment of three former U.S. Army officers and two U.S. civilians as part of a bid-rigging scam that steered millions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction projects to a contractor in exchange for cash, luxury cars, jewelry and other pricey goods. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, the number of people indicted and convicted by the U.S. for bribery, theft and other reconstruction-related crimes in both countries is rapidly rising, according to two government reports released Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. 'This is a boom industry for us,' Bowen said in an interview. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)AP - A Marine in Iraq sent home $43,000 in stolen cash by hiding it in a footlocker among American flags. A soldier shipped thousands more concealed in a toy stuffed animal. An embassy employee tricked the State Department into wiring $240,000 into his foreign bank account.

NY sculptor seeks home for terror victims tribute (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:54 PM PDT

In this July 27, 2006 photo provided by Peter Lowenstein, several of the 76 statues that compose a massive sculpture entitled “Dark Elegy,” sit on display in Montauk, N.Y. Artist Suse Lowenstein created the work more than 15 years after her son, Alexander, was among the 270 people killed in the 1988 Libyan bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. (AP Photo/Peter Lowenstein)AP - After her son, Alexander, was killed along with 269 others in the 1988 Libyan bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, artist Suse Lowenstein spent the next 15 years capturing the anguish of women whose relatives died in the terrorist attack.
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