Monday, December 26, 2011

Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site (Reuters)

Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site (Reuters)

Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:34 PM PST

Reuters - Three women discovered dead in Detroit over the past week, including two found burned beyond recognition early on Christmas, were linked to a website called Packages that advertises adult escort services, police said on Monday.

Neiman Marcus Christmas Book: Luxury Gifts for the Rich (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST

Time.com - The Neiman Marcus Christmas book offers luxury gifts that even one-percenters pine for

The Beginning of the End of the 9-to-5 Workday? (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST

Time.com - New evidence shows that we're reaching a tipping point in terms of workplace flexibility

Christmas morning blaze kills 5 in Connecticut family (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST

Reuters - An elderly couple and their three granddaughters were killed when fire roared through a house in Stamford, Connecticut, early on Christmas morning. Two people, including the girls' mother, survived, authorities said.

US cities struggle to control sewer overflows (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

In this photo taken July 22, 2008 and provided by Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, the Lake Michigan shoreline is littered with waste that has been washing up onto the shoreline near Empire, Mich. The waste contains a variety of items including medical waste, plastic and paper products. (AP Photo/Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, Kerry Kelly)AP - Twice in recent summers, visitors to parts of Michigan's western coast were greeted by mounds of garbage strewn along miles of sandy beach: plastic bottles, eating utensils, food wrappers, even hypodermic syringes.

New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

In this Dec. 22, 2011 photo, the sun slowly sets on the empty parking lot at the Zogenix headquarters in San Diego. The pharmaceutical maker is one of at least four companies working on purer, more powerful versions of the nation’s second most-abused medicine, hydrocodone, a trend that has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new round of abuse. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

FBI shooting range is popular deer hangout (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:46 AM PST

ADDS SECOND SENTENCE - Deer roam atop a berm in a shooting range at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The 547-acre FBI Academy, where some of the nation’s best marksmen fire off more than 1 million bullets every month, happens to be one of the safest places for deer during hunting season. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators.

Colleges and suicide threats: when to call home? (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:48 PM PST

In this Dec. 22, 2011 photo, William Kim poses for a portrait in Washington. His son Daniel Kim committed suicide in 2007 while attending college at Virginia Tech. The issue of when colleges should notify parents their adult children may be suicidal remains fraught with legal, medical and ethical dilemmas. College policies, state laws and professional codes of conduct vary widely, and occasionally conflict. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The email that arrived at Virginia Tech's health center in November 2007 was detailed and unmistakably ominous. It concerned a Tech senior named Daniel Kim and came from an acquaintance at another college.

Fla. crash kills doc getting heart for transplant (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:40 PM PST

AP - A surgeon and technician from a Mayo Clinic in Florida flying across the northern corner of the state to retrieve a heart for transplant died Monday in a helicopter crash that also killed the pilot, officials said.

US weighing travel request for Yemen's president (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 04:04 AM PST

An elderly protester chants slogans during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP - The Obama administration is considering whether to allow Yemen's outgoing president into the United States for medical treatment, as fresh violence and political tensions flare in the strategically important Middle Eastern nation.

FBI joins search for missing Indiana girl (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 05:30 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Allen County Sheriff's Department shows Aliahna Lemmon. Numerous police officers and others are searching in Fort Wayne, Ind., for Lemmon, 9, who was last seen the morning of Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Allen County Sheriff's Department Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel says investigators have no indication that Lemmon was abducted or what might have happened to her. (AP Photo/Allen County Sheriff's Department)AP - FBI agents joined the search for a missing 9-year-old Indiana girl with physical and emotional problems on Monday, descending on the mobile home park where she lived that's a known haven for registered sex offenders.

Police arrest suspect in Calif. soldier shooting (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:22 PM PST

This photo provided by the San Bernardino Police Department on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 shows Ruben Ray Jurado, 19, of San Bernardino who is wanted in the shooting of soldier Christopher Sullivan, 22, during a welcome-home party while on leave for Christmas Friday night Dec. 23,2011. (AP Photo/San Bernardino Police Department)AP - Police on Monday arrested a suspect in a shooting that critically wounded a soldier at his Southern California homecoming party after he survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.

Conn. fire victim was Ky. company's safety chief (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:33 PM PST

Yellow tape stretches across the driveway, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, at the house where a fire left five people dead Christmas Day, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - A department store Santa Claus who died with his wife and three grandchildren in a Christmas morning house fire in Connecticut spent a long career trying to prevent danger as safety chief at a liquor company in Kentucky.

Disgraced ex-journalist fights for CA law license (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:34 PM PST

AP - A former journalist who became the subject of a Hollywood movie after he was caught fabricating articles in the late 1990s is fighting to become a lawyer in California over the objections of a state bar committee.

Maine police chief: Someone took missing toddler (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST

AP - A 20-month-old girl who vanished a week before Christmas after being put to bed in her father's home was taken away and didn't walk out on her own, investigators said Monday as they announced the largest reward ever offered in the state to help find a missing person.

Tribe's high-interest online lending venture booms (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:53 AM PST

AP - An Indian reservation in the heart of Montana's farm country may seem an unlikely place to borrow a quick $600, but the Chippewa Cree tribe says it has already given out more than 121,000 loans this year at interest rates that can reach a whopping 360 percent.

Texas police: Man in Santa suit killed 6 relatives (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:50 PM PST

Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)AP - Police in a quiet Fort Worth suburb worked Monday to piece together a family history after a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit apparently shot six relatives and himself on Christmas.
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