U.S. soldier charged with 17 murders in Afghan killings |
- U.S. soldier charged with 17 murders in Afghan killings
- Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
- Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker's meltdown
- Five people found slain in San Francisco home
- Opponents, supporters to face off outside high court healthcare hearings
- Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close
- Texas Rangers to serve up 2-foot-long hot dog
- Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states
- Former Rutgers student: I did not cause gay roommate's suicide
- Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution
- Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
- Senate to take up Postal Service bill next week
- State regulators close two banks
- Lawmakers release $88.6 million in aid to Palestinians
- Detroit gets union deal, but state oversight looms
- Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution
- Detroit mayor still in hospital as city financial deadline nears
- Snakes, spiders, scorpions taken from New Mexico home
- Defense asks for new jury in Philadelphia Archdiocese trial
- Woman says accused California serial killer raped her in 1961
- High school student sues after dispute over gay-friendly prom
- Game show host Bob Barker pays elephants' airfare
- White supremacist runs for sheriff in Idaho, raising hackles
- Wisconsin town haunted by booms traces noise to small quakes
- Idaho state Senate panel nixes teen tan ban
- Honda recalls 1,300 CR-V SUVs in United States
- White House confirms Obama, Pakistan prime minister to meet
- Woman says Afghan shooting suspect was "obnoxious drunk"
- Man lives to tell of Florida "Shoot First" horror
- Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
- Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close
- Texas Rangers to serve up 2-foot-long hot dog
- Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution
- Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker's meltdown
- State regulators close two banks
- Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states
- Detroit gets union deal, but state oversight looms
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| Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager Posted:
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| Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker's meltdown Posted:
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| Five people found slain in San Francisco home Posted:
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| Opponents, supporters to face off outside high court healthcare hearings Posted:
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| Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close Posted:
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| Texas Rangers to serve up 2-foot-long hot dog Posted:
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| Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states Posted:
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| Former Rutgers student: I did not cause gay roommate's suicide Posted:
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| Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution Posted: MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Less than a week before he is scheduled to be put to death, an Alabama inmate has been granted his fifth stay of execution as a U.S. appeals court considers his objection to the state's lethal injection drug cocktail. An appeals court on Friday postponed the March 29 execution planned for Thomas Douglas "Tommy" Arthur while the full court considers whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol is constitutional. ... |
| Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager Posted:
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| Senate to take up Postal Service bill next week Posted: (Reuters) - Legislation to allow the struggling Postal Service to eventually end Saturday mail delivery is expected to be debated in the Senate next week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning a procedural vote as early as Monday evening to begin debating a bipartisan bill that would allow the mail agency to shrink to five-day delivery after two years, according to congressional aides and a chamber schedule. ... |
| State regulators close two banks Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State regulators on Friday closed two banks, one in Georgia and the other in Illinois, bringing the total number of bank failures in the U.S. this year to 15. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was appointed receiver, said Covenant Bank & Trust of Rock Spring, Georgia, was closed on Friday. The bank's two branches will reopen on Monday as part of Stearns Bank NA, St. Cloud, Minn. Covenant Bank & Trust had about $95.7 million in total assets and $90.6 million in total deposits. ... |
| Lawmakers release $88.6 million in aid to Palestinians Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers on Friday released $88.6 million in development aid for the Palestinians that they had held up since last summer, a move that should help ease a fiscal crisis in the aid-dependent Palestinian economy. Representative Kay Granger announced she was ready for the entire $147 million in U.S. assistance that had been frozen since August to go to the Palestinians. But the other Republican who had a "hold" on the funds, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, limited the release to $88. ... |
| Detroit gets union deal, but state oversight looms Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - Roughly half of Detroit's unionized public employees accepted pay cuts and other concessions designed to save the cash-strapped city $68 million a year, but it may not be enough to save Detroit from state oversight of its finances. The leaders of 30 unions, representing over 6,000 of the 12,600 municipal workers in Michigan's largest city, said their members voted to accept pay cuts, layoffs and changes to city pensions. But a spokesman for Governor Rick Snyder said the unions' actions did not go far enough. ... |
| Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution Posted: MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Less than a week before he is scheduled to be put to death, an Alabama inmate has been granted his fifth stay of execution as an appeals court considers his objection to the state's lethal injection drug cocktail. An appeals court on Friday postponed the March 29 execution planned for Thomas Douglas "Tommy" Arthur while the full court considers whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol is constitutional. ... |
| Detroit mayor still in hospital as city financial deadline nears Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was diagnosed with inflammation of the intestine and will remain at a hospital for further observation, just days before the struggling city faces a key financial deadline, the mayor's office said in a statement on Friday. Monday is the deadline for a panel created by the state of Michigan to recommend what to do to fix Detroit's dire financial situation. The city and the state have been negotiating to try to stave off the appointment of an emergency manager for the nearly-bankrupt city. ... |
| Snakes, spiders, scorpions taken from New Mexico home Posted: SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Animal control officials confiscated 31 venomous snakes, two tarantulas, two black widow spiders and about 10 scorpions from an Albuquerque apartment, an official involved with the collection said on Friday. Following an anonymous tip, animal welfare officials were called to the apartment on Thursday. ... |
| Defense asks for new jury in Philadelphia Archdiocese trial Posted: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Defense lawyers for the highest ranking church official to go on trial in the Catholic church's pedophilia scandal, charged with child endangerment, asked a judge on Friday to pick a new jury because a co-defendant pled guilty. Opening arguments in the trial of Monsignor William Lynn, 61, former secretary of the clergy under the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, were slated to begin on Monday. A jury has already been selected. Lynn was to go to trial with defrocked priest Edward Avery and Rev. ... |
| Woman says accused California serial killer raped her in 1961 Posted:
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| High school student sues after dispute over gay-friendly prom Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - A high school senior in suburban Atlanta who said he was removed from his student body president post for trying to make prom more inclusive for gay and lesbian students filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking to be reinstated. Reuben Lack, 18, said Alpharetta High School violated his First Amendment rights by ousting him after he introduced a resolution to change the name of "Prom King and Queen" to "Prom Court" to allow a same-sex couple to be elected. ... |
| Game show host Bob Barker pays elephants' airfare Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "The Price is Right" host Bob Barker is spending $880,000 to fly three elephants to sunny California in style aboard a private cargo plane, he said on Friday. Barker agreed to foot the bill to move Thika, Iringa and Toka to PAWS Sanctuary in San Andreas, California from the Toronto Zoo after growing concerned that Canada's chilly climate was unsuitable for them. In the wild, elephants live in the warmer weather regions of Africa and the Indian subcontinent. ... |
| White supremacist runs for sheriff in Idaho, raising hackles Posted: SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - White supremacist Shaun Patrick Winkler, a convicted batterer who once worked for an Aryan Nations leader, wants to add an unlikely notch to his spotty resume -- sheriff of Idaho's Bonner County. He is vying for the Republican nomination for the post in a three-way race that will culminate in a May 15 primary, and a local party leader has likened his prospects at victory to the chances of "hearing a dying calf in a windstorm. ... |
| Wisconsin town haunted by booms traces noise to small quakes Posted: (Reuters) - Geologists said small earthquakes may explain the mysterious booms, bangs and rumblings rattling residents of Clintonville, Wisconsin, who have flooded local police with hundreds of calls since early Monday. The loud bangs, shaking or rumbling noises touched off a broad investigation by the town 40 miles West of Green Bay into possible causes such as someone setting off explosives, issues with the sewers, or explosions at a local landfill, city officials said. Then the U.S. Geological Survey offered a possible explanation: a small earthquake registering magnitude 1. ... |
| Idaho state Senate panel nixes teen tan ban Posted: SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho Senate committee on Thursday nixed a measure that would have banned the use of tanning beds by teenagers amid worries about rising skin cancer rates. The bill, which was defeated by a 5-3 vote, came as lawmakers in Idaho and 16 other states consider following California's lead in putting new restrictions on teen tanning. California last year became the first state to ban tanning beds for anyone under the age of 18. Idaho's law would have outlawed tanning beds for teens and children, ages 15 and younger. ... |
| Honda recalls 1,300 CR-V SUVs in United States Posted:
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| White House confirms Obama, Pakistan prime minister to meet Posted:
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| Woman says Afghan shooting suspect was "obnoxious drunk" Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A woman living near the U.S. base of a soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians remembered him on Friday as an "obnoxious drunk" who pressed her hand into his crotch and picked a fight with her boyfriend. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 38, was charged on Friday with murdering 17 civilians and trying to kill six more on the night of March 11 near his army base in Afghanistan. His lawyer has admitted that Bales had had something to drink on that night but played it down as a factor. ... |
| Man lives to tell of Florida "Shoot First" horror Posted: MIAMI (Reuters) - On June 5, 2006, not long after Florida enacted the first "Stand Your Ground" law in the United States, unarmed Jason Rosenbloom was shot in the stomach and chest by his next-door neighbor after a shouting match over trash. Exactly what happened that day in Clearwater, Florida, is still open to dispute. Kenneth Allen, a retired police officer, said he shot Rosenbloom because he was trying to storm into his house. ... |
| Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager Posted:
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| Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close Posted:
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| Texas Rangers to serve up 2-foot-long hot dog Posted:
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| Appeals court temporarily halts Alabama execution Posted: MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Less than a week before he is scheduled to be put to death, an Alabama inmate has been granted his fifth stay of execution as a U.S. appeals court considers his objection to the state's lethal injection drug cocktail. An appeals court on Friday postponed the March 29 execution planned for Thomas Douglas "Tommy" Arthur while the full court considers whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol is constitutional. ... |
| Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker's meltdown Posted:
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| State regulators close two banks Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State regulators on Friday closed two banks, one in Georgia and the other in Illinois, bringing the total number of bank failures in the U.S. this year to 15. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was appointed receiver, said Covenant Bank & Trust of Rock Spring, Georgia, was closed on Friday. The bank's two branches will reopen on Monday as part of Stearns Bank NA, St. Cloud, Minn. Covenant Bank & Trust had about $95.7 million in total assets and $90.6 million in total deposits. ... |
| Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states Posted:
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| Detroit gets union deal, but state oversight looms Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - Roughly half of Detroit's unionized public employees accepted pay cuts and other concessions designed to save the cash-strapped city $68 million a year, but it may not be enough to save Detroit from state oversight of its finances. The leaders of 30 unions, representing over 6,000 of the 12,600 municipal workers in Michigan's largest city, said their members voted to accept pay cuts, layoffs and changes to city pensions. But a spokesman for Governor Rick Snyder said the unions' actions did not go far enough. ... |
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