Friday, February 3, 2012

Suspect kills Alabama police officer, wounds another (Reuters)

Suspect kills Alabama police officer, wounds another (Reuters)

Suspect kills Alabama police officer, wounds another (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:22 PM PST

Reuters - An assailant stabbed a Mobile police officer to death Friday afternoon outside Mobile County Metro Jail before fleeing in a police cruiser.

Mother of Lisa Irwin tearfully denies role in her disappearance (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:19 PM PST

Reuters - The mother of missing infant Lisa Irwin on Friday tearfully denounced "insane theories" she had something to do with the girl's disappearance four months ago.

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

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 08:05 AM 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 08:05 AM PST

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

Jobless rate at 3-year low as payrolls surge (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:14 PM PST

Reuters - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama.

Congressmen question pace of probe at Arlington (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:34 PM PST

Army Inspector General Lt. Gen. Peter Vangjel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, before a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Arlington National Cemetery. At left is Belva Martin, a Government Accountability Office official. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Members of Congress on Friday questioned why nobody has been prosecuted as part of a criminal investigation of mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery, nearly three years after reports of problems that included misidentified graves first surfaced in the press.

Obama pushes for veterans jobs programs (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:19 PM PST

AP - In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees on public lands.

More charges ahead for man held in homeless deaths (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:59 PM PST

FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, provided by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. The ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Orange County has been linked to the stabbing deaths of a woman and her son, Anaheim police said Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Investigators determined there is an association between Ocampo and Eder Herrera, who is charged in the deaths his mother and his brother, and remains in custody, Anaheim police Lt. Julian Harvey said. . (AP Photo/Anaheim Police Dept.,File)AP - Prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., plan to file two more murder charges against an ex-Marine accused of killing 4 homeless men.

2nd teacher from LA school arrested on sex claim (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:04 PM 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 - A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom.

Deported Texas teen maintains alias in jail calls (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2012 file photo, Jakadrien Turner, 15, arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Grapevine, Texas. Turner was mistakenly deported to Colombia after Immigration and Customs Enforcement say she claimed to be Colombian woman named Tika Lanay Cortez, 21, when she was arrested in April for theft by Houston Police. More than two dozen recorded telephone calls reviewed by The Associated Press show Turner expected to be deported to Colombia yet did not complain of having no ties to the country. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes, File)AP - A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia.

Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:30 PM PST

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cyber crime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard. The hacker group Anonymous has released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous.

Army orders court-martial in WikiLeaks case (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:49 PM PST

In this file photo taken Dec. 22, 2011, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. An Army officer has ordered a court-martial, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 for Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP - An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

INFLUENCE GAME: Big donors and what they want (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:13 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at an economic roundtable at WesternNevada Supply in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.

No charges against Armstrong (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:44 PM PST

FILE - In this July 17, 2009, file phot, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong reacts as he answers questions of reporters prior to the start of the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 200 kilometers (124.3 miles) with start in Vittel and finish in Colmar, central France. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski, File)AP - The case against Lance Armstrong is closed. His legacy as a seven-time Tour de France champion endures.

NY's Schneiderman sues banks in foreclosure effort (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:53 PM PST

AP - New York's attorney general on Friday accused some of the nation's largest banks of deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that he said puts homeowners at a disadvantage in foreclosures while saving banks over $2 billion.

Violence in Mexico curtailing faith-based missions (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:34 PM PST

Mourners pay homage to U.S. missionary Wanda Casias during an open casket funeral service held for her and her husband John at the couple's church in the town of El Cercado, about 20 minutes from Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. John and Wanda Casias, originally from Amarillo, Texas, who moved to a remote and violence-plagued area of northern Mexico to run a Baptist church were found slain last Jan. 31 at their ransacked home. (AP Photo/Hans Maximo Musielik)AP - John and Wanda Casias knew the risks of being missionaries in one of Mexico's most violent, cartel-dominated regions, their children say, but they refused to curtail their work and instead put their ministry ahead of their safety.

Charges dropped against soldier in Afghan deaths (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:19 PM PST

AP - The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier it had accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment.

Heavy snowstorm hits Colorado on its way east (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:48 PM PST

Lonnie Schultz clears his sidewalk in front of his home during a winter snowstorm on Friday Feb. 3, 2012 in Laramie, Wyo. A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Andy Carpenean)AP - The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains, cancelling more than 600 flights in Denver and closing hundreds of miles of highway between major Colorado cities and the Kansas border.
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