Saturday, February 4, 2012

Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control (Reuters)

Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control (Reuters)

Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:19 AM PST

Reuters - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.

Indianapolis officials urge Super Bowl crowds to play it safe (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 03:41 PM PST

Reuters - Indianapolis authorities called on Super Bowl celebrants to play it safe on Saturday night at festivities near the city's football stadium, after at least 10 people were injured the previous evening.

Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 02:52 PM PST

Reuters - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe.

Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:20 PM PST

Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason

Inside Facebook's IPO: How the Social Web Will Reshape the Economy (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:20 PM PST

Time.com - Facebook's IPO -- the largest in Internet history -- is a once-in-a-generation milestone in the evolution of the web

Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:43 AM PST

Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.

Lives intersect on deadly stretch of Fla. highway (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 01:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, hundreds of Sprayberry High School students in Marietta, Ga., hold a candlelight vigil for Leticia Carmo, 17, a junior who was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 75 on a darkened stretch of road in Florida with her parents and two other Restoration Church members on Jan. 29, 2012. Her sister, freshman Lidiane Carmo, 15, is the only survivor in the family from the crash. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton, File) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUTAP - There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south from the Panhandle for a family funeral. A young man coming home from bowling.

Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 04:20 PM PST

Rhonda Johnstone wipes out while snowboarding with her friends dogs Sake and Lola as a snow storm hits the Denver metro area Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 in Lakewood, Colo. A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska. The storm stretched as far south as New Mexico, where Department of Transportation reported difficult driving conditions on several state highways because of the winter weather, leaving highways snow packed and icy. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)AP - A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.

In Miramonte, questions amid a sense of betrayal (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 08:26 AM PST

In this undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after photos surfaced. Berndt been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10. AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department)AP - Mr. Berndt's third-grade classroom was up on the second floor, tucked away at the rear of Miramonte Elementary School, its windows looking out onto a playground.

Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 11:08 AM PST

AP - Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.

11 injured in massive crowd for band LMFAO (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:28 PM PST

AP - Overwhelming "human gridlock" in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village was causing police to rethink crowd control Saturday on the eve of the big game.

Romney rolls to easy win in Nevada GOP caucuses (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:23 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets supporters after speaking at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace.

Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 06:35 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 file photo, some of an estimated 45,000 people participate in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Little Rock, Ark. After watching The Susan G. Komen for the Cure announce plans to cut funding to Planned Parenthood on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, then abandon those plans days later amid a public furor, many longtime Komen supporters were feeling conflicted at week's end. (AP Photo/Brian Chilson)AP - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.

Police clear tents from Occupy site in DC; 7 held (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 04:40 PM PST

U.S. Park Police remove evidence seized in Occupy DC demonstrator's tents as they enforce no camping laws at McPherson Square in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules.

Mushroom pickers found alive but hurt after 6 days (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 05:47 PM PST

This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking mushrooms and survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest, taking shelter part of the time in a hollowed-out tree. Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were spotted by a helicopter pilot and later flown to a hospital. Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said Daniel Conne suffered a back injury, Belinda Conne had hypothermia, and their son Michael had a sprained foot. All three also were dehydrated and hungry. (AP Photo/Karanda Williams)AP - A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead.

Clinton: US, Europe must do more against tyrants (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:57 AM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at the Security Conference on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Politicians and military representatives will join for the 48. Munich Security conference from Friday, Feb. 3 until Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond and repair damage from the global financial crisis.

Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American' (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:12 AM PST

This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo shows Gibre George, who started a Facebook page called 'Don't Call Me African-American,' in Hollywood, Fla. The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: 'black.' The debate has waxed and waned since 'African-American' went mainstream, and gained new significance after the son of a black Kenyan and a white American moved into the White House. President Barack Obama's identity has been contested from all sides, renewing questions that have followed millions of darker Americans: What are you? Where are you from? And how do you fit into this country? (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: "black."

Navy: 8 Calif.-based sailors discharged for hazing (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:17 PM PST

AP - Eight sailors have been discharged from the Navy after video surfaced of a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship that included the choking of a fellow sailor, a Navy spokesman said Saturday.

Marine's wife killed in Calif. propane explosion (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 03:33 PM PST

AP - The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a Navy corpsman and his wife, military officials said on Saturday.

Dems want their candidate as Ind. elections chief (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST

AP - While Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels held off Saturday on appointing a permanent replacement for the state elections chief convicted early that morning of voter fraud, Democrats said they planned to move quickly to wrest control of the politically powerful office from the GOP.
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