Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Sandusky case heads to trial after hearing waived (Reuters)

Sandusky case heads to trial after hearing waived (Reuters)

Sandusky case heads to trial after hearing waived (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:06 PM PST

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky (2nd L) arrives with his wife Dottie (2nd R) for a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to hold him for trial on charges of sexually abusing boys, at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania December 13, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on Tuesday abruptly waived his right to a preliminary hearing on child sex abuse charges, meaning his case will go straight to trial.

Sandusky's unorthodox lawyer grabs spotlight in abuse case (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:12 PM PST

Reuters - It was expected to be a day when accusers of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky -- listed up to now in court documents only as nameless alleged Victims 1 to 10 -- would tell their stories.

Analysis: Waiving hearing was Sandusky's best option: experts (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:51 PM PST

Reuters - When Jerry Sandusky waived his right to confront his accusers at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, the former Penn State football coach passed up a potentially valuable opportunity to bolster his defense.

Boogaard Death Calls Fighting into Question in NHL (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:15 PM PST

Time.com - If fighting were phased out of the NHL, could a similar future tragedy be avoided?

Ron Paul's Army Eyes an Iowa Caucus Upset (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:40 PM PST

Time.com - It's a cold Thursday night the week before finals, and a light dusting of snow is falling on the Iowa State campus

Man arrested for beating student with a shoe (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST

Reuters - A man was arrested for brutally beating a fellow college student mistakenly suspected of stealing his pair of $200 Nike Foamposite sneakers, police said on Tuesday.

Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:22 PM PST

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists Carl Haber shows the frequencies of the sound recorded in 1885 by Alexander Graham Bell at Volta Laboratory, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, during a news conference at Library of Congress in Washington. Early sound recordings by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and others that had been packed way at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time Tuesday using new technology. The recordings revealed a portion of Hamlet's Soliloquy, a trill of the tongue and someone reciting numbers starting with 1-2-3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. Yet the inventor certainly never could have anticipated that his audio-recording experiments in a Washington, D.C., lab could be recovered 130 years later and played for a gathering of scientists, curators and journalists.

Police remove Occupy Baltimore protesters (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:51 PM PST

An American flag is seen on a cone at the Occupy Baltimore encampment as sanitation workers clear the site after occupiers were evicted in McKeldin Square in Baltimore, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Baltimore City police moved into McKeldin Square around 3:30 a.m. and closed off surrounding streets. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Occupy Baltimore demonstrators who spent 10 weeks protesting economic disparity were removed peacefully from a downtown plaza near the Inner Harbor tourist district during a pre-dawn raid Tuesday.

House backs bill to speed oil pipeline from Canada (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. A crucial vote is scheduled in the House Tuesday on a GOP effort to back an extension of the payroll-tax cut and other measures including an provision to speed approval on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Sensing a political opening, House Republicans on Tuesday approved a plan that links speedy approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut.

NATO: Pakistan talking again to US-led coalition (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:20 PM PST

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta walks to his vehicle after being greeted by US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, right, and Gen. John Allen, left, upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec., 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)AP - Voicing cautious optimism, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that he's seeing some signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan's communications blackout imposed on the U.S.-led coalition after NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month.

Texas school may build safety wall after shooting (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:01 PM PST

A mother picks up her daughter at Carmen Avila Elementary after a shooting at the nearby campus of Harwell Middle School Monday evening, Dec. 12, 2011 in Edinburg, Texas. Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire while trying out for a basketball team. Classes were not in session at Harwell Middle School when the shooting happened around 4:45 p.m., but the school complex was immediately placed on lockdown. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)AP - Dozens of law enforcement officers trudged through soggy brush near a South Texas middle school Tuesday looking for casings and other evidence to help explain how two boys were shot while they were trying out for the school basketball team.

Republicans muscle tax cut bill through House (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:40 PM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, departs after speaking at a news conference after House passage of legislation to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Defiant Republicans pushed legislation through the House Tuesday night that would keep alive Social Security payroll tax cuts for some 160 million Americans at President Barack Obama's request — but also would require construction of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline that has sparked a White House veto threat.

5 men arraigned in NYPD officer's shooting death (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:26 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the New York City Police Dept. shows Officer Peter Figoski, who was shot in the face and killed early Monday morning, Dec. 12, 2011, while responding to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment. Figoski was pronounced dead at 7:17 a.m. at a hospital just hours after the shooting, authorities said. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - A convict accused in the cold-blooded slaying of a New York Police Department officer during a botched robbery already was wanted in a non-fatal shooting in North Carolina but remained on the streets because arrest warrants didn't require his return there, NYPD officials said Tuesday.

New operating system for space: High-tech tycoons (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:25 PM PST

In this artist's rendering provided by Stratolaunch Systems, a planned plane that would launch cargo and astronauts into space is seen. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the plane, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons clamoring to write America's next chapter in spaceflight. Their plans, unveiled Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in Seattle, call for a twin-fuselage aircraft with wings longer than a football field to carry a rocket high into the atmosphere and drop it, avoiding the need for a launch pad and the expense of additional rocket fuel. Allen, who teamed up with Rutan in 2004 to send the first privately financed, manned spacecraft into space, said his new project would 'keep America at the forefront of space exploration' and give a new generation of children something to dream about. (AP Photo/Strautolaunch Systems)AP - The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science.

AG Holder vows to enforce civil rights protections (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:12 PM PST

AP - Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year's elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election.

Can't raise taxes? Hike Medicare premiums instead (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:51 PM PST

AP - Republicans may have found a way to squeeze more money out of well-to-do Americans without raising their taxes.

Conn. home invasion killers close by on death row (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:26 PM PST

AP - Two men condemned to die for killing a mother and her two daughters in a home invasion will be in the same prison for the first time since the 2007 crime, but their attorneys and experts say they are likely to have little, if any, interaction.

Gun used in Va. Tech slaying legally bought (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:53 PM PST

AP - The man who fatally ambushed a Virginia Tech police officer had legally purchased the handgun used in the shooting, Virginia State Police said Tuesday.

2 men sue Syracuse, Boeheim for defamation (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:36 PM PST

Former Syracuse ball boys Bobby Davis, left, and Mike Lang, right, flank attorney Gloria Allred during a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in New York. The men say they were molested by former assistant Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine and have sued the school and men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim for defamation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Two men sued Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim and the school for defamation Tuesday, saying they were vilified as liars out for money after they accused his longtime assistant of molesting them.

Judge speeds transcript release in Fla. Ponzi case (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:35 PM PST

AP - A federal judge decided Tuesday to speed up the public release of transcripts of sworn testimony being given by convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein about the scope of his $1.2 billion fraud and those involved.
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