Money scheme "smelled wrong": Senator Edwards' aide says |
- Money scheme "smelled wrong": Senator Edwards' aide says
- Two more Secret Service agents resign; Obama blames "knuckleheads"
- Empire State Building about to lose status as tallest in NYC
- Chicago OKs private investment for infrastructure
- Ghost of Occupy Wall Street to haunt GE meeting
- California's population growth seen slowing
- NATO summit protesters to be kept away from leaders
- U.S. refuses request to probe 1970 Kent State shooting
- Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home
- WikiLeaks suspect Manning seeks dismissal of charges
- California controller can't block lawmakers pay: judge
- Two more Secret Service agents resign over Colombia scandal
- U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute
- Pennsylvania lawmaker wins and loses on the same day
- Arizona sheriff locks down jail over racial tension
- Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen
- App aims to make "Hey Sexy" a sound of old New York
- U.S. indicts Sinaloa cartel boss "El Chapo," 23 others
- Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home
- Connecticut-based hedge fund manager found dead in NC
- British Columbia sawmill fire kills one, hurts 23
- How the Supreme Court justices came to America
- Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested
- South Africa's apartheid land fix withers in fields
- Returning soldiers have more car crashes: study
- MF Global judge OKs payout; Freeh says no bonuses
- Bovis Lend Lease fined $56 million for fraud
- New England's lack of violence reaps economic benefits
- MF Global suits combined in New York over customer objections
- Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears
- Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home
- U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute
- Two more Secret Service agents resign; Obama blames "knuckleheads"
- NATO summit protesters to be kept away from leaders
- Empire State Building about to lose status as tallest in NYC
- California controller can't block lawmakers pay: judge
- Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen
- U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute
- California's population growth seen slowing
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| Two more Secret Service agents resign; Obama blames "knuckleheads" Posted:
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| Empire State Building about to lose status as tallest in NYC Posted:
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| Chicago OKs private investment for infrastructure Posted:
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| Ghost of Occupy Wall Street to haunt GE meeting Posted:
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| California's population growth seen slowing Posted:
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| NATO summit protesters to be kept away from leaders Posted:
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| U.S. refuses request to probe 1970 Kent State shooting Posted:
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| Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home Posted: (Reuters) - The parents of a missing 6-year-old Arizona girl who authorities said may have been snatched from her bedroom in Tucson were allowed home on Tuesday as police began to scale back their physical search efforts after four days. The parents of first-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis told detectives she was last seen on Friday night when they tucked her into bed, and was found to have vanished when a family member entered her room the next morning to awaken her. ... |
| WikiLeaks suspect Manning seeks dismissal of charges Posted:
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| California controller can't block lawmakers pay: judge Posted:
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| Two more Secret Service agents resign over Colombia scandal Posted:
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| U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute Posted: BRASILIA (Reuters) - Another embarrassing incident surfaced involving U.S. personnel and prostitution in Latin America on Tuesday, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Marines had been punished for allegedly injuring a prostitute in Brazil in December. Panetta told reporters during a visit to Brasilia that the incident was fully investigated and the military personnel involved had been "severely punished," demoted and withdrawn from Brazil. A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident involved three Marine security guards assigned to the U.S. ... |
| Pennsylvania lawmaker wins and loses on the same day Posted: HARRISBURG/WAYNESBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - One of Pennsylvania's most influential politicians was certain he would rack up another election victory on Tuesday, but any celebration was spoiled by a hefty prison term handed down earlier in the day. H. William DeWeese ran unopposed to be the Democratic nominee for the state House of Representatives seat he first won in 1976, and his name will be on the November ballot in the general election. The problem with his candidacy, though, is that as a felon he is ineligible to hold state office unless he wins on appeal. ... |
| Arizona sheriff locks down jail over racial tension Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - A hard-line Arizona sheriff under federal investigation for alleged racial profiling of Hispanics placed parts of a Phoenix jail on indefinite lockdown on Tuesday over what he said were rising racial tensions between Latino and black detainees. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said tensions at the jail's maximum security unit rose after the Mexican Mafia prison gang urged Hispanic inmates to refuse to be housed with black prisoners, and encouraged fights between them. ... |
| Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities reported the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years on Tuesday and quickly assured consumers and global importers that meat from the California dairy cow did not enter the food chain. John Clifford, the USDA's chief veterinary officer, said the case was "atypical" and that there was "no cause for alarm" from the animal. Cows can contract the disease spontaneously in rare cases and that it cannot be transmitted unless the brain or spinal tissue is consumed by humans or another animal, according to scientists. ... |
| App aims to make "Hey Sexy" a sound of old New York Posted:
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| U.S. indicts Sinaloa cartel boss "El Chapo," 23 others Posted: MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. authorities accused two dozen top bosses of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including leader Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, of murder, money laundering and racketeering while shipping tons of illicit drugs into the United States. None of the defendants in the indictment unsealed on Tuesday have been arrested by U.S. authorities. The most serious charges carry maximum sentences of life in prison and millions of dollars in fines. The U.S. ... |
| Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home Posted:
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| Connecticut-based hedge fund manager found dead in NC Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Money manager B. Robert Williamson Jr., the nephew of Wall Street investment guru Julian Robertson, was found dead on Sunday in North Carolina, in water surrounding an island. Williamson, who was 55, was managing director and portfolio manager of hedged U.S. equities strategy at Chilton Investment Co in Stamford, Connecticut. He joined the firm in January 2011. He was staying with family members at a house on Figure Eight Island, a gated development on a barrier island near Wilmington. ... |
| British Columbia sawmill fire kills one, hurts 23 Posted: VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A worker at a British Columbia sawmill was killed and 23 others were injured when the plant burst into flames on Monday night in the second deadly mill fire in the Western Canadian province this year. The cause of the explosion at the Lakeland sawmill in Prince George, 750 km (469 miles) north of Vancouver, has yet to be determined, Barb McLintock, a spokeswoman for the provincial coroner's office, said on Tuesday. The mill, owned by closely held Sinclair Group Forest Products, would have to cool down for 24 to 48 hours before investigators could enter, she said. ... |
| How the Supreme Court justices came to America Posted: (Reuters) - On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will close out the 2011-2012 term with another controversial case: Arizona v. United States, which challenges Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants. The case will be heard by nine justices, each of whom has his or her own immigration story. There is geographic reach -- from the British Isles to Russia to Puerto Rico -- and also generational, with some members of the bench tracing their roots to pre-Revolutionary times. In his confirmation hearing, Justice Samuel Alito referred to his own father's experience. ... |
| Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested Posted:
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| South Africa's apartheid land fix withers in fields Posted: SENEKAL, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's plans to undo the wrongs of apartheid by returning land seized from native blacks is embodied in the life of Koos Mthimkhulu. He was born on a white-owned farm in 1955 and attended a school set up by white farmers to give him just enough education for a life as field hand. A short childhood gave way to decades of milking cows, driving tractors and ploughing fields for poverty-level wages. When white-minority rule ended in 1994, the new democratic government made it a priority to return land to those dispossessed. ... |
| Returning soldiers have more car crashes: study Posted: BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. military personnel have 13 percent more car accidents in which they are at fault in the six months after returning from overseas duty than in the six months prior, a USAA study revealed on Tuesday. USAA, a major insurer catering specifically to the armed forces and their families, based its study on 171,000 deployments by 158,000 of its members over a three-year period ending in February 2010, when combat was still raging in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... |
| MF Global judge OKs payout; Freeh says no bonuses Posted:
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| Bovis Lend Lease fined $56 million for fraud Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. subsidiary of the Australia's Lend Lease Construction has admitted to a 10-year overbilling scheme on New York area projects and will pay $56 million in fines and victim restitution, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Bovis Lend Lease, as the subsidiary was previously known, has its largest U.S. office in New York City, where it employs more than 1,000 people and has worked on projects such as the September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and the Citi Field baseball stadium in Queens. ... |
| New England's lack of violence reaps economic benefits Posted: BOSTON (Reuters) - The rural New England states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are the most peaceful U.S. states, a distinction that gives them an economic advantage over the most violent, including Louisiana, Tennessee and Nevada. Violence and its aftermath cost the entire U.S. economy some $460 billion last year, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace's second annual United States Peace Index, which was released on Tuesday. ... |
| MF Global suits combined in New York over customer objections Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A slew of lawsuits by investors and customers of MF Global Holdings Ltd who sued over the futures brokerage's collapse have been consolidated into one case in Manhattan federal court, a court document showed. In an order filed late on Monday, a group of judges granted a request by former MF Chief Executive Jon Corzine and three other former company executives named as defendants in the lawsuits to consolidate the cases under one roof. ... |
| Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after confirming to reporters that the United States had found its fourth-ever case of mad cow disease, John Clifford was ready to answer the world's questions about the safety of U.S. beef. Clifford, the government's chief veterinary officer at the agriculture department, had quickly called his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, the first and second-largest buyers of U.S. beef, to tell them about a California cow found to have an "atypical" type of the brain-wasting disease. Having taken up his post in May 2004, just six months after the first U.S. ... |
| Family of missing Arizona girl, 6, allowed home Posted: (Reuters) - The parents of a missing 6-year-old Arizona girl who authorities said may have been snatched from her bedroom in Tucson were allowed home on Tuesday as police began to scale back their physical search efforts after four days. The parents of first-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis told detectives she was last seen on Friday night when they tucked her into bed, and was found to have vanished when a family member entered her room the next morning to awaken her. ... |
| U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute Posted: BRASILIA (Reuters) - Another embarrassing incident surfaced involving U.S. personnel and prostitution in Latin America on Tuesday, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that Marines had been punished after allegedly injuring a prostitute in Brazil in December. Panetta told reporters during a visit to Brasilia that the incident was fully investigated and the military personnel involved had been "severely punished," demoted and withdrawn from Brazil. ... |
| Two more Secret Service agents resign; Obama blames "knuckleheads" Posted:
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| NATO summit protesters to be kept away from leaders Posted:
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| Empire State Building about to lose status as tallest in NYC Posted:
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| California controller can't block lawmakers pay: judge Posted:
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| Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities reported the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years on Tuesday and quickly assured consumers and global importers that meat from the California dairy cow did not enter the food chain. John Clifford, the USDA's chief veterinary officer, said the case was "atypical" and that there was "no cause for alarm" from the animal. Cows can contract the disease spontaneously in rare cases and that it cannot be transmitted unless the brain or spinal tissue is consumed by humans or another animal, according to scientists. ... |
| U.S. says Marines punished over Brazil prostitute Posted: BRASILIA (Reuters) - Another embarrassing incident surfaced involving U.S. personnel and prostitution in Latin America on Tuesday, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Marines had been punished for allegedly injuring a prostitute in Brazil in December. Panetta told reporters during a visit to Brasilia that the incident was fully investigated and the military personnel involved had been "severely punished," demoted and withdrawn from Brazil. A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident involved three Marine security guards assigned to the U.S. ... |
| California's population growth seen slowing Posted:
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