Sunday, June 3, 2012

Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail

Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail


Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:33 PM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives at jail after having his bond revokedSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the Florida killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, returned to jail on Sunday after a court revoked his bond and ordered him back into custody. Zimmerman, who had been free on a $150,000 bond and hiding in an undisclosed location, arrived at the Sanford County jail in a white police mini-van shortly before the 48-hour deadline imposed by Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. on Friday. ...


Firefighters make progress against historic New Mexico blaze

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Handout aerial photo of forest fire in the Whitewater-Baldy Complex in New Mexico.SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Firefighters battling New Mexico's largest-ever blaze gained ground on Sunday and officials said they would begin to allow evacuated residents to return home on Monday. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire, which has burned 241,701 acres in the Gila National Forest, is now 17 percent contained with progress being made by the hour, said Fire Information Officer Heather O'Hanlon. Residents of the historic mining town of Mogollon, which was evacuated last Saturday, will be allowed to return starting on Monday, she said. ...


Penn State coach's child sex abuse trial to start Tuesday

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT

Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State football defensive coordinator, arrives for a hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, PennsylvaniaBELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The child sex abuse trial of a former Pennsylvania State University football coach starts on Tuesday in a scandal that shook the school and its vaunted football program and opened a national dialogue on sexual predation in sports. Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach, faces 52 counts of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Prosecutors allege Sandusky, 68, met the boys through a charity he founded and some of the assaults occurred at Penn State facilities. ...


FDA to let women try new breast drugs earlier

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Regulators are moving the goal posts in testing new drugs for breast cancer in the hopes of giving more women with aggressive, early-stage cancers the chance to try breakthrough drugs while they have the best shot at a cure. A new guidance document issued this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow drug companies to test their medications for a few months on women with highly aggressive breast cancers before they have surgery, instead of waiting until the drug has been proven first in gravely ill patients. ...

Exclusive: SEC investigator previously pushed to carry gun

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lead internal investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is on leave after employees complained he wanted to carry a gun at work, previously tried to get a gun permit when he worked for another government agency, but the permit was denied. David Weber, the assistant inspector general of investigations at the SEC, applied more than two years ago with the Maryland State Police to carry a concealed weapon while he worked as a special counsel of enforcement at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ...

Tesoro Martinez Refinery workers to vote on contract: union

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:51 PM PDT

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hourly workers at independent western U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp's largest refinery are scheduled to vote on Wednesday on a contract proposal reached after three days of talks between the company, the United Steelworkers union (USW) and a federal mediator aimed at averting a strike, a union spokeswoman said. Members of USW local 5 have already authorized a strike by workers at Tesoro's 166,000 barrel per day (bpd) San Francisco Bay area refinery in Martinez, California, if a new contract is not ratified by its 170 members. ...

Looming court ruling worries some with health woes

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texan Sam Lovett had no health insurance in August 2010 when an emergency hospital stay brought the news from his doctors that his liver was failing and he could die within less than a year without a transplant. The small distribution center where he worked did not provide health insurance. Lovett, 43, who lives near Comfort, Texas, was not able to buy private coverage on his own because of his already bad health. Though he had the resources to cover routine medical bills, he now needed a $400,000 organ transplant and no doctor or clinic would take him without insurance. ...

Biden's daughter Ashley wed in private Delaware ceremony

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 09:49 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures after giving a speech regarding the Obama administration's foreign policy record at New York University in New York(Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, was married in a private ceremony on Saturday evening in Delaware, he said in a statement. Ashley Blazer Biden was married to Dr. Howard Krein in Wilmington, Biden and his wife, Jill, said in a joint statement released by the vice president's office. "We're happy to welcome Howard into our family, and we wish them all the best in their new life together," the Bidens said. ...


Pot smoking mother drives off with baby on car roof

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 07:54 PM PDT

A young cannabis plant grows at The Joint Cooperative in Seattle, WashingtonPHOENIX (Reuters) - A marijuana-smoking woman was arrested on Saturday in Phoenix after she accidentally drove away with her five-week-old son in a child safety seat on the roof of her vehicle, police said. The baby fell off the car in the middle of an intersection and was found unharmed and strapped into the seat, said Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes. The mother Catalina Clouser, 19, was booked into jail on child abuse and aggravated assault charges, he said. The infant was taken to a local hospital as a precaution and is in the custody of state Child Protective Services. ...


Tornadoes, heavy rains leave U.S. mid-Atlantic battered

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 10:13 PM PDT

(Reuters) - High winds, heavy rains and six tornadoes have descended on the mid-Atlantic region, causing at least one serious injury but no deaths and damaging homes, businesses and boats, officials said on Saturday. The violent storms that struck Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia on Friday collapsed a fabric dome near Pittsburgh, stranded motorists on flooded roads, and ruined homes and boats. The National Weather Service said in a post on Twitter late on Saturday that six tornadoes had been confirmed as part of the weather outbreak. No other details were immediately available. ...

Mormon group shows its support in Salt Lake City gay parade

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 06:04 PM PDT

Participants march with rainbow-colored dragons in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake CityNearly 300 Mormons marched in a gay pride parade on Sunday, holding signs that read "God Loves His Children" in a unique display of support from believers of a religious tradition that has long opposed homosexuality. "When people hear that Mormons are marching with gay and lesbian people in Salt Lake City... I think that's going to be a surprise," said Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the 2008 movie "Milk" about slain San Francisco gay activist Harvey Milk. Black, who is gay and was raised Mormon, was the parade's grand marshal. ...


Exclusive: SEC investigator previously pushed to carry gun

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lead internal investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is on leave after employees complained he wanted to carry a gun at work, previously tried to get a gun permit when he worked for another government agency, but the permit was denied. David Weber, the assistant inspector general of investigations at the SEC, applied more than two years ago with the Maryland State Police to carry a concealed weapon while he worked as a special counsel of enforcement at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ...

Florida shooter George Zimmerman returns to jail

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:33 PM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives at jail after having his bond revokedSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the Florida killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, returned to jail on Sunday after a court revoked his bond and ordered him back into custody. Zimmerman, who had been free on a $150,000 bond and hiding in an undisclosed location, arrived at the Sanford County jail in a white police mini-van shortly before the 48-hour deadline imposed by Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. on Friday. ...


Penn State coach's child sex abuse trial to start Tuesday

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT

Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State football defensive coordinator, arrives for a hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, PennsylvaniaBELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The child sex abuse trial of a former Pennsylvania State University football coach starts on Tuesday in a scandal that shook the school and its vaunted football program and opened a national dialogue on sexual predation in sports. Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach, faces 52 counts of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Prosecutors allege Sandusky, 68, met the boys through a charity he founded and some of the assaults occurred at Penn State facilities. ...


Tesoro Martinez Refinery workers to vote on contract: union

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:51 PM PDT

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hourly workers at independent western U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp's largest refinery are scheduled to vote on Wednesday on a contract proposal reached after three days of talks between the company, the United Steelworkers union (USW) and a federal mediator aimed at averting a strike, a union spokeswoman said. Members of USW local 5 have already authorized a strike by workers at Tesoro's 166,000 barrel per day (bpd) San Francisco Bay area refinery in Martinez, California, if a new contract is not ratified by its 170 members. ...

Firefighters make progress against historic New Mexico blaze

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Handout aerial photo of forest fire in the Whitewater-Baldy Complex in New Mexico.SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Firefighters battling New Mexico's largest-ever blaze gained ground on Sunday and officials said they would begin to allow evacuated residents to return home on Monday. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire, which has burned 241,701 acres in the Gila National Forest, is now 17 percent contained with progress being made by the hour, said Fire Information Officer Heather O'Hanlon. Residents of the historic mining town of Mogollon, which was evacuated last Saturday, will be allowed to return starting on Monday, she said. ...


FDA to let women try new breast drugs earlier

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Regulators are moving the goal posts in testing new drugs for breast cancer in the hopes of giving more women with aggressive, early-stage cancers the chance to try breakthrough drugs while they have the best shot at a cure. A new guidance document issued this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow drug companies to test their medications for a few months on women with highly aggressive breast cancers before they have surgery, instead of waiting until the drug has been proven first in gravely ill patients. ...

Factbox: Health benefits Americans could lose in court ruling

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling by the end of this month on the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law. Following are some of the provisions already in effect under the law that Americans would lose immediately if it were to be overturned. Other provisions not listed below would come into force in 2014 if the court were to leave the law in effect. Young adult children being allowed to remain on their parents' medical insurance coverage through age 26. ...

Looming court ruling worries some with health woes

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texan Sam Lovett had no health insurance in August 2010 when an emergency hospital stay brought the news from his doctors that his liver was failing and he could die within less than a year without a transplant. The small distribution center where he worked did not provide health insurance. Lovett, 43, who lives near Comfort, Texas, was not able to buy private coverage on his own because of his already bad health. Though he had the resources to cover routine medical bills, he now needed a $400,000 organ transplant and no doctor or clinic would take him without insurance. ...

Tornadoes, heavy rains leave U.S. mid-Atlantic battered

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 10:13 PM PDT

(Reuters) - High winds, heavy rains and six tornadoes have descended on the mid-Atlantic region, causing at least one serious injury but no deaths and damaging homes, businesses and boats, officials said on Saturday. The violent storms that struck Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia on Friday collapsed a fabric dome near Pittsburgh, stranded motorists on flooded roads, and ruined homes and boats. The National Weather Service said in a post on Twitter late on Saturday that six tornadoes had been confirmed as part of the weather outbreak. No other details were immediately available. ...

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