Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Gay marriage wins final legislative approval in Washington state (Reuters)

Gay marriage wins final legislative approval in Washington state (Reuters)

Gay marriage wins final legislative approval in Washington state (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:01 PM PST

Reuters - A bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state won final legislative approval on Wednesday in a largely party-line vote that moved the state to the cusp of becoming the seventh in the nation to recognize same-sex nuptials.

Mississippi executes murderer who claimed to have mental illness (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:03 PM PST

Reuters - A Mississippi man convicted of murdering two people during convenience store robberies was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection, becoming the first person to be put to death in the state this year, a corrections official said.

Teens learn robotics as factories lack skilled workers (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:59 PM PST

Reuters - At the Escuela Vieau School in downtown Milwaukee, seventh-grader Camila Garcia was building a model wind turbine in a class intended to spark interest in engineering.

Even Counterfeiters Are Trading Down These Days (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:25 AM PST

Time.com - Faux luxury goods have been a scourge of high-end manufacturers for years

The Lesson of the Komen/Planned Parenthood Brouhaha (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:10 AM PST

Time.com - Nothing entices the right -- and the left -- like a battle over a woman's body

Sheriff, facing abuse charge, granted visits with son (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:09 PM PST

Reuters - San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, embroiled in a child custody dispute since he was charged with spousal abuse in January, has won a loosening of court-ordered restrictions on contact with his 2-year-old son.

28 more airports will test lower-hassle screening (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:10 PM PST

Transportation and Security Adminstration (TSA) workers screen passengers at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole announced the expansion of a passenger pre-screening initiative. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights.

GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:44 PM PST

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to criticize President Barack Obama for insisting that employers must provide health insurance that includes birth control for women. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."

NYPD boss' son, not charged, returns to TV Friday (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:41 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2010, file photo, TV personality Greg Kelly, the son of New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly, arrives at the New York Comedy Festival's Stand Up For Heroes concert in New York. Prosecutors in New York say that have decided not to pursue charges against Kelly following a woman’s claim that he raped her in October 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)AP - The police commissioner's son, cleared of the prospect of criminal charges of raping a woman he met for a drink, will return to his job as host of a popular local morning TV talk show this week, his station said.

GOP targets child tax break for illegal immigrants (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:20 PM PST

FILE - In this July 8, 2011 file photo, House Social Security subcommittee Chairman Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas presided over the subcommittee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans are looking to deny illegal immigrants the child tax credit, and refund checks as one way to help pay for extending the Social Security tax cut another 10 months. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to illegal immigrants — refund checks averaging $1,800 a family — in an effort that has roused anger among Hispanics and some Democratic lawmakers.

APNewsBreak: 8 minutes to send cops to Powell home (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:36 PM PST

In this pool photo provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept., an investigator walks through the garage area, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in the rubble of the home in Graham, Wash., where Josh Powell and his two sons were killed Sunday in what police said appeared to be a deliberately set fire. Powell's wife Susan went mysteriously missing from their West Valley City, Utah, home in December 2009. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Dept., Ed Troyer, Pool)AP - Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when sheriff's deputies were dispatched. It took another 14 minutes for a deputy to get to the home, but by then, the home was engulfed in flames with Powell and his two young sons inside.

Washington state lawmakers pass gay marriage bill (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:40 PM PST

Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, center, is congratulated by Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, left, and Drew Hansen, D-Kitsap County, after the House voted to legalize gay marriage in Washington state Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, in Olympia, Wash. The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, saying it was a violation of the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples. Gregoire is likely to sign the bill next week. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

More photos found in Calif. teacher abuse case (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:25 PM PST

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy takes his seat following a closed-door meeting of the Board of Education in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Prosecutors have filed a lewd-acts complaint against the second of two teachers removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school, and the Board voted to fire him in the closed-door meeting. On Monday night Deasy said that more than 120 staff members at Miramonte Elementary School â€AP - The scandal embroiling an elementary school where two teachers were arrested last week on lewdness charges widened Wednesday with revelations of 200 more inappropriate photos of children and that one teacher sent warmly written birthday cards and presents to students who participated in his "games."

Mo. teen gets life sentence, apologizes for murder (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:14 PM PST

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 by the Cole County sheriff's office shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante, 18, who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl, was described as a thrill killer by prosecutors and a mentally disturbed child by her defense attorneys as a judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or something less. (AP Photo/Cole County Sheriff's Office)AP - A Missouri teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an "ahmazing" thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl's family and was sentenced to a potential lifetime in prison.

Dems hit lax fed drilling oversight (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:11 PM PST

AP - Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats said in a report Wednesday.

APNewsBreak: Sources: New military roles for women (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2009 photo, U.S. Marine Female Engagement Team members Lance Cpl. Mary Shloss, right, of Hammond, Ind., Sgt. Monica Perez,, center, of San Diego, Calif. and Cpl. Kelsey Rossetti, of Derry, N.H. wait for the signal to begin their patrol with Golf Company, 2nd Batallion, 3rd Regiment of the 2nd MEB, 2nd MEF in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. The team's mission is to engage local Afghan women to find out and address their concerns. On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, Pentagon rules will catch up a bit with reality, recommending to Congress that women be formally allowed to serve in more jobs closer to the front lines. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)AP - For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Univ. of ND will use Fighting Sioux nickname (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:54 PM PST

North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger, center, and Jaeger's elections director, Lee Ann Oliver, right, dig through stacks of referedum petitions on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in the secretary of state's office in the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., as Reed Soderstrom, left, a Minot attorney, looks on. Soderstrom is chairman of a referendum campaign to require the University of North Dakota to use its Fighting Sioux athletics nickname and a logo that features the profile of an American Indian warrior. The university wants to retire the nickname and logo, which the NCAA considers offensive. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)AP - The University of North Dakota resumed using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname Wednesday even though it triggered NCAA sanctions, leaving some fans weary of the seven-year fight over a moniker that critics believe is demeaning.

Split verdict for corporate espionage suspect (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:03 PM PST

AP - A judge convicted a Chinese-born American Wednesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of economic espionage at a trial that highlighted persistent fears about China pilfering vital information from U.S. companies to bolster its own economy and military.

Rescued dog bites TV anchor during broadcast (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:23 PM PST

AP - An 85-pound Argentine mastiff dog dramatically rescued a day earlier from an icy lake was impounded Wednesday after viciously biting a Denver television news anchor on her face during a live in-studio segment.

US judge questions prison conditions in arms case (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:24 PM PST

AP - A judge on Wednesday upheld the jury conviction of a Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, but said his prison conditions seemed "harsh" and "brutal."
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