Monday, October 24, 2011

Police, Wall Street protesters fall into uneasy truce (Reuters)

Police, Wall Street protesters fall into uneasy truce (Reuters)

Police, Wall Street protesters fall into uneasy truce (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Protestors and members of Occupy Wall Street shout slogans during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York October 22, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - After a rough start marked by mass arrests and allegations of heavy-handed behavior, the New York Police Department has settled into an uneasy standoff with the protesters of Occupy Wall Street.

Girl shot at North Carolina school, prompting lockdown (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 04:09 PM PDT

Reuters - A high school student was shot in the neck during an outdoor lunch break at a North Carolina school on Monday, prompting a lockdown of two campuses as authorities tried to identify her shooter.

Pennsylvania declares fiscal emergency in Harrisburg (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:08 PM PDT

A welcome marker is pictured in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 12, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel ShankenReuters - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett declared a fiscal emergency for Harrisburg on Monday, putting the state one step closer to a takeover of its capital city.

Did You Need to See Gaddafi's Corpse? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Time.com - As the news of Muammar Gaddafi's death in Libya emerged this morning, the pictures in and of themselves did not immediately prove that it had actually happened

1960s Libya: A Glimpse of Life Before Gaddafi (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Time.com - As the owner of a hotel in 1960s Libya, Mohamed Nga lived in the rarefied circles of Tripoli's cosmopolitan society. His son, photographer Jehad Nga, writes about his father's life before the Gaddafi regime.

Home invasion murderer said he killed 17 women (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Letters by home invasion murderer Steven Hayes, in which he claims to have murdered 17 women and kept their shoes as trophies, may be used on Tuesday to argue that his accomplice should not get the death penalty.

Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:19 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida's new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits on Monday, saying it may violate the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.

House votes to reject EU emissions control plan (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:02 PM PDT

AP - The House voted Monday to exclude U.S. airlines from an emissions cap-and-trade program that the European Union plans to impose on all airlines flying to and from the continent beginning next year.

Ex-SF mayor endorses incumbent amid tamper claims (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:57 PM PDT

AP - Candidates in San Francisco's mayoral race are teaming up against Mayor Ed Lee, calling for federal and state monitors for the Nov. 8 election after a neighborhood group that supports him was accused of ballot tampering.

Panetta: US at 'turning point,' to refocus on Asia (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:32 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks to service members at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Fussa, west of Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Panetta arrived in Japan Monday on the second leg of a weeklong Asia tour. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - The winding down of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan marks a pivot point for the U.S. military, which must now focus on looming threats such as the rising military might of China, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday.

Defense of Jackson case opens with doctor, police (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:44 PM PDT

Dr. Conrad Murray sits in a courtroom during his involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Pool)AP - Defense attorneys for the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson began their case Monday, targeting Jackson as the architect of his own demise by seeking to cure his insomnia with an intravenous drug, even when he was warned it was dangerous.

Police seek ID of body found in Maine storage unit (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:24 PM PDT

In this undated obituary photo provided by the Sun Journal, Frank Julian smiles in a photo. Julian was the former boyfriend of Kitty Wardwell, who went missing at age 29 in 1983. State authorities are planning an autopsy on human remains found in a Lewiston, Maine, storage facility last week that may be those of Wardwell. (AP Photo/Obit photo via Sun Journal)AP - A man who died this month at age 80 nearly took a secret to his grave — a secret that was discovered only after his family went through his belongings in a storage unit.

Obama offers mortgage relief on Western trip (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in Las Vegas, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Obama, in Las Vegas during a three-day trip to the West Coast, announced new rules to help homeowners with little or no equity in their home to refinance their mortgages to avoid foreclosures. (AP Photo/John Locher)AP - President Barack Obama offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled him as he seeks a second term.

Sheriff: Ga. deputy's killer had drinking problem (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:13 PM PDT

AP - The girlfriend of an Army National Guard soldier who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy and himself told investigators the gunman "definitely had a drinking problem" and grabbed an assault rifle from his trunk after she made him pull over while he was driving drunk, a Georgia sheriff said Monday.

2 taken into custody in NC high school shooting (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:48 PM PDT

AP - Two teenagers were in custody in the shooting of a 15-year-old fellow student who was wounded in the neck during a lunch period outside her North Carolina high school, and a sheriff said Monday the pair will be charged.

Government job losses a growing drag on recovery (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, job-seekers flock to employer tents during a job fair at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. Politics aside, government already is shrinking. State and local governments have shed over a half million jobs since the recession began in December 2007. Those losses are holding back broader recovery efforts and keeping national unemployment painfully high (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)AP - Conservative Republicans have long clamored for government downsizing. They're starting to get it — by default.

GOP pitches transportation bill as jobs program (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:17 PM PDT

AP - House Republicans are pitching a six-year transportation construction plan as a major jobs bill that can win bipartisan approval before next year's election, a key GOP lawmaker said Monday.

US man pleads not guilty in Saudi ambassador plot (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 01:26 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
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