Friday, December 30, 2011

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Follower says he was expelled from FLDS for violating Warren Jeffs' sex ban

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 11:30 PM PST

A long-time follower of a jailed polygamist sect leader says he has been ex-communicated after admitting to having sex with his wife -- a violation of an order that Warren Jeffs apparently issued from behind bars.

No holiday break for candidates as Iowa caucuses near

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 11:18 PM PST

It may be New Year's Eve weekend, but with the Iowa caucuses closing in, there will be no holiday for all but one of the Republican presidential candidates.

California officials post $60,000 reward after 21-fire arson spree

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 10:48 PM PST

Twenty one fires, set in rapid succession in the Hollywood area, have prompted authorities in California to post a $60,000 reward in what they say is one of the worst arson sprees in recent memory.

U.N. deploys peacekeepers to protect South Sudan town facing attack

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 10:15 PM PST

The United Nations is deploying peacekeeping troops to the remote town of Pibor in South Sudan, saying it faces an imminent attack by thousands of fighters engaged in ethnic clashes in the war-torn region.

8 killed in Texas head-on collision

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:56 PM PST

Eight people, including a mother and her three children, were killed in a head-on crash in east Texas, authorities said late Friday.

Tentative agreement averts strike by New York office cleaners

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST

The union representing some 22,000 commercial office cleaners in New York has reached a tentative agreement with the workers' employers, averting a strike set to begin just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

After a momentous year, people worldwide to ring in 2012

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:42 PM PST

After a year marked by a wave of popular uprisings, deadly natural disasters and continued economic uncertainty, millions around the world are set to ring in 2012 with a party.

More hacked Stratfor info released

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:29 PM PST

Hackers representing themselves as members of the activist group Anonymous said Friday they have dumped onto the web a wealth of personal information about the nearly 1 million people who have registered on the website of Stratfor, a global intelligence company.

Claim of octogenarian chimp prompts questions

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:57 PM PST

A Florida primate sanctuary on Thursday maintained its chimpanzee named Cheetah, who died last week, was more than 80 years old and acted in the Tarzan movies during the 1930s, amid doubts about his age.

Thousands of protesters in Syria 'Crawl to Freedom Square'

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:55 PM PST

Large-scale anti-government protests and more violence unfolded across Syria Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators converged on public squares to protest President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

U.S., UAE reach deal for missile-defense system

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:50 PM PST

The United States and the United Arab Emirates have signed a deal for a missile-defense system in the Persian Gulf country, the Pentagon said Friday.

Kim Jong Un assumes control of North Korean military

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:39 PM PST

Kim Jong Un has assumed "the supreme commandership" of the North Korean army, state media said Saturday.

Agencies: No need for baby formula recall

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:33 PM PST

A fourth infant has been discovered to have been infected with a rare, sometimes fatal form of bacteria that can come from baby formula, but there is no evidence the cases are related, federal health authorities said Friday.

Police chief: 'Foul play' suspected in Maine child's disappearance

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:18 PM PST

A central Maine police chief said Friday that authorities now believe there was "foul play" in the disappearance two weeks ago of a 20-month-old girl.

FBI agent drowns trying to save swimmer in Puerto Rico

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:23 PM PST

An FBI agent drowned Thursday in Puerto Rico while trying to save a swimmer, the FBI announced Friday.

Nigerian violence threatens to ignite wider Muslim-Christian conflict

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:18 PM PST

There are ominous signs in Nigeria that the campaign of violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is leading to wider and more explosive sectarian tensions -- in a country where Christian-Muslim relations are often tense and sometimes bloody.

Egyptian raids leave nonprofit groups "bewildered'

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:21 PM PST

In his downtown office in Washington, D.C., Leslie Campbell is emailing staff in the Cairo office of the National Democratic Institute. They're locked out, their office stripped of computers, personal laptops, documents and even cash after an armed raid by Egyptian security forces.

Thousands of N.Y. office cleaners threaten to strike

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:15 PM PST

Some 22,000 commercial office cleaners in New York could go on strike once 2012 begins, a union representing them said.

Detroit women ID'd amid probe of escort ads

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:58 PM PST

Authorities have identified three of the four women found dead this month in two incidents in Detroit, an investigator with the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.
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