Friday, September 28, 2012

Police: Masked teen killed by father had knife

Police: Masked teen killed by father had knife

Police: Masked teen killed by father had knife

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

Visitors arrive at the home of Jeffrey Giuliano in New Fairfield, Conn., Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Giuliano fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense during what appeared to be an attempted burglary early Thursday morning, then discovered that he had killed his son, Tyler, state police said. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)A popular fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked, knife-wielding prowler outside his house during what appeared to be a late-night burglary attempt, only to discover he had killed his 15-year-old son, police say.

Colleges try new fixes to recurring remedial rut

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Math teacher Thora Broyles, right, counts on her fingers in an effort to help student Jamal Mabry in a remedial math class Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at Missouri State University-West Plains in West Plains, Mo. At the two-year school in south-central Missouri, fully 75 percent of first-year students take at least one remedial class, well above the national average of 50 percent at community colleges and 20 percent at four-year schools. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)After leaving high school as a teen mother, Ashley McCullough is back on track to receive a two-year degree and work as a respiratory therapist. But she first had to conquer a remedial math class and its core lessons on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — the same basic skills her now 6-year-old daughter will soon start to learn in elementary school.

Minneapolis police probe shooting rampage that killed 5

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minneapolis police on Friday sorted through evidence from a shooting rampage that left at least five people dead, including the founder of a sign company, a UPS driver and the man who opened fire at the business. The suspected gunman in the Thursday shooting had once worked at Accent Signage Systems Inc and police were not searching for other suspects in the attack, the worst work-place homicide death toll in Minnesota in at least two decades. Police have not officially released a motive for the attack but were treating it as a work-place shooting. ...

Italian business greets prospect of 2nd Monti term

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti speaks to the media during a press conference at the Italian Mission, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Italian business and church leaders on Friday warmed to the prospect that Premier Mario Monti might stay on for a second term, while politicians insisted the post must return to a political leader.

Romney: Military strike on Iran may be unnecessary

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem. Romney is set to speak by telephone with Netanyahu on Friday. The Republican presidential nominee's campaign confirms the scheduled conversation. It would come the same day that President Barack Obama also is expected to speak with Netanyahu phone. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)Mitt Romney says he doesn't believe military action will be necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

French budget heavy on taxes, could hurt Hollande

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

France's President, Francois Hollande, left, and Chief Executive of French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen Philippe Varin, right, are seen on the eve of the opening of the Paris Auto Show, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. The Paris Auto Show will open its gates to the public from Sept. 29 to Oct. 14. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)France's new budget may be the worst of both worlds. It lacks the serious spending cuts that economists say are needed to put the country on a path to growth — but also doesn't unleash the wave of stimulus that voters expected from their Socialist president, Francois Hollande.

Minneapolis police: Office shooter was ex-employee

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Police say the gunman who killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had been fired hours before the attack.

Obama blocks Chinese purchase of US wind farms

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the U.S. military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions.

Spain bank audit paves way for state bailout

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT

A lottery vendor talks with a customer outside a Spanish Banco Popular branch in MadridMADRID (Reuters) - Spanish banks will need a total of 59.3 billion euros ($76.3 billion) in extra capital to ride out a serious economic downturn, an independent report said on Friday, removing a major obstacle in the way of an international bailout for Madrid. Spain said around 40 billion euros of the total will come as European aid while the rest could be raised by the banks themselves. ...

Police: Minn. office gunman practiced shooting

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Police say the gunman who killed at least four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had packaging for 10,000 rounds of ammunition in his house.

Mass. chemist in drug test flap is arrested

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Annie Dookhan, center, is escorted to a cruiser outside her home in Franklin, Mass., Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Dookhan is accused of faking drug results, forging signatures and mixing samples a state police lab. State police say Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples involving 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the lab. Defense lawyers and prosecutors are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the fallout. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)A Massachusetts chemist accused of faking drug test results and forging paperwork at a state police lab has pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice and falsely pretending to hold a degree.

4 girls charged as adults in taped Pa. beating

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Four teenage girls were being held Friday on $50,000 bail on charges they beat a neighbor on her stoop just "for fun" and then posted cellphone video of the attack on Facebook, authorities said.

GM's 3Q stock rise surprises industry

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 25, 2006 file photo, General Motors Corp. headquarters are shown in Detroit. The top-performing stock among automakers in the U.S. this quarter is General Motors. The company, which endured management upheaval during the quarter and announced that it would lose substantial cash in Europe, saw its shares rise almost 18 percent from July through late September. The gain was the best since the first quarter of this year, when the stock climbed about 23 percent. GM posted strong profits in that period. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)Surprise! The top-performing stock among automakers in the U.S. this quarter is General Motors.

Who's watching? 3-D TV is no hit with viewers

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, June 27, 2012, photo, ESPN coordinating producer Phil Orlins shows a 3-D camera set up used by ESPN 3-D Network coverage at the ESPN X-Games held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Only 2 percent of TVs in American homes were able to show 3-D last year, according to IHS Screen Digest. That's about 6.9 million sets out of 331 million installed. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Phil Orlins knows everything about producing TV in three dimensions. The ESPN producer has captured the undulating greens of Augusta National and the flying motor bikes of the X-Games for ESPN's 3-D channel. But he can only guess how well his shows resonate with viewers. That's because 3-D audiences are so small they can't be measured by Nielsen's rating system.

Owner of burned RI club donates land for memorial

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Gina Russo, left, board president of the Station Fire Memorial Foundation, speaks with the media during a press conference at the site of the nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.I., Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Ray Villanova, not pictured, the owner of the site of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people, is donating the land for a permanent memorial, bringing an end to a years-long effort to secure the site of The Station fire by families of those killed and survivors of the blaze. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)The owner of the site of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people is donating the land for a permanent memorial, bringing an end to a yearslong effort to secure the site of The Station fire by families of those killed and survivors of the blaze.

Baltimore police uncover 1951 Renoir theft report

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:21 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Potomack Company shows an apparently original painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was acquired by a woman from Virginia who stopped at a flea market in West Virginia and paid $7 for a box of trinkets that included the painting. An auction house has put on hold the sale of a painting believed to be by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that a woman bought at a West Virginia flea market because a reporter found evidence someone stole the painting from the Baltimore Museum of Art. A Washington Post reporter discovered documents in the museum's library showing the painting was there from 1937 until 1949. Museum officials then found paperwork showing the painting, Police located a 60-year-old theft report from the day a Renoir painting disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art that matches the description of one that sold for $7 at a flea market. An art theft expert says the museum has a strong case to get it back.

Burnt money, campus ban: Tidbits on Colo. shooter

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided on Sept. 20, 2012 by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office shows James Holmes. Holmes, the suspect in a deadly movie theater attack in Colorado, threatened a professor before the shooting, leading the university to ban him from campus, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Arapahoe County Sheriff, File)The suspect in the Aurora movie shooting case mailed "burnt currency," along with a notebook, to his psychiatrist before the attack. He threatened a professor and was banned from a university campus before withdrawing from its neuroscience graduate program. His defense team has added a psychiatrist.

No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, a woman prays under a statue depicting Jesus and Mary, in the cathedral of Frankfurt, Germany. The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals. A decree issued last week by the country's bishops cast a spotlight on the longstanding practice in Germany and a handful of other European countries in which governments tax registered believers and then hand over the money to the religious institutions. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals.

Blatter tells FIFA advisers to curb criticism

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:19 PM PDT

FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter speaks during a press conference after a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Blatter has told the governing body's anti-corruption advisers to stop publicly criticizing the ruling board members of soccer's governing body. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella)Criticized on all sides after a series of scandals, FIFA's executive committee members should not be publicly targeted by the governing body's anti-corruption advisers, President Sepp Blatter said Friday.

Protesters in Yemen demand return of stolen assets

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, an elderly Yemeni woman, center, walks on a street in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. Women in Yemen are worse off now than a year ago, when they played a significant part in the country's revolution that promised political and economic change, an international aid agency has concluded. In a report released Monday, Oxfam International said four out of five Yemeni women claim their lives have worsened over the past 12 months. Faced with an intensifying humanitarian crisis, which has left a quarter of women between the ages of 15 and 49 acutely malnourished, they say they're struggling to feed their families and are unable to participate in the country's transition. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Thousands of protesters marched in the Yemeni capital on Friday, demanding the return of millions of dollars that were allegedly stolen by the country's former authoritarian ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Romney says Pennsylvania win would be a 'shock'

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at American Legion Post 176 in Springfield, Va., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned Friday on an uphill battle to win Pennsylvania, acknowledging it would be a "shock" if he were able to overcome President Barack Obama's lead in the state.

Jay-Z readies 1st show at NYC's Barclays Center

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2011 file photo, entertainer Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter gestures during a news conference in front of Barclays Center, under construction in the background, as Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz, right, applauds in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. Jay-Z, who is also the co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets, will open the team's new 18,000-seat arena with a concert series beginning on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)Call it his official homecoming: Jay-Z will perform the first of eight shows at the newly built Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night.

Iraqi prisoners escape from prison; 12 killed

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

A relative of former Basra governor, Mohammed al-Wailie, kisses his poster during his funeral in Basra, 340 miles (547 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Gunmen shot dead the former governor, Mohammed al-Wailie, as he was driving his car in the city center, the police said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Prisoners seized weapons and clashed with security guards in an hourslong standoff that killed 12 people, including 10 guards, and allowed dozens of al-Qaida-linked inmates to escape before ending Friday in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Iraqi officials said.

Syrian rebels launch broadest push yet for Aleppo

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighter scans for targets from a building in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)Rebels on Friday pressed their broadest assault yet to drive President Bashar Assad's forces out of Syria's largest city, activists said, with fierce fighting erupting in an Aleppo neighborhood that is home to Kurds, an ethnic minority that has mostly stayed out of the civil war.

Jury: Death for arsonist convicted of 5 murders

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

A jury recommended death on Friday for an arsonist convicted of murdering five men who died of heart attacks during a wildfire that ripped through Southern California nearly a decade ago.

Q&A: Why marches trigger Northern Ireland strife

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Orange Order Grand Secretary Drew Nelson, stands beside an old photograph of the signing of the Ulster Covenant. The Orange Order held a press conference Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, where the Orange Order announced that Saturday's Ulster Covenant celebration were tens of thousands of Protestants will parade in Belfast to mark the centenary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant. The parade organised by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is expected to be the largest demonstration witnessed in Northern Ireland. The covenant was signed in 1912 to oppose Irish Home Rule. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Belfast is bracing for one of its biggest Protestant parades in years on Saturday, with tens of thousands expected to participate amid fears that it will degenerate into street clashes with the police and Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. These one-sided marches have tested tempers each year since the 19th century, and show no sign of abating despite Northern Ireland's successful peace process. The AP explores why.

UK teen who ran away with teacher found in France

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

ADDING THAT FORREST EXPECTED TO APPEAR IN COURT UPCOMING TUESDAY AND OTHER DETAILS - A view of the court of Bordeaux, southwestern France, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, where maths teacher Jeremy Forrest is widely expected to appear on upcoming Tuesday. 15-year-old British schoolgirl Megan Stammers went missing on Sept. 21, along with her 30-year old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest, and sparked an international search to locate them, and they have been found safe and well in Bordeaux. News reports on Friday say that schoolgirl Megan Stammers will return home, and that teacher Jeremy Forrest is likely to appear in court Tuesday Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher was found safe and well in France on Friday, police said.

NHL, locked-out players resume bargaining

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Philadelphia Flyers' Bruno Gervais signs autographs following a charity hockey game in Chateauguay, Quebec, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes_The NHL and the players' association agreed on issues related to player safety and drug testing Friday, but the core economic divide that is preventing an end to the league's latest lockout was not even on the agenda.

Some memorable props used by speakers at the UN

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's use of a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb to convey a message over Iran's disputed nuclear program follows in a long and storied tradition of leaders and diplomats using props to make their points at the United Nations. Here are a few memorable examples:

Romney phones Israeli PM to discuss Iran, Mideast

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem. Romney is set to speak by telephone with Netanyahu on Friday. The Republican presidential nominee's campaign confirms the scheduled conversation. It would come the same day that President Barack Obama also is expected to speak with Netanyahu phone. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)A nuclear-capable Iran and recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa were among the topics Mitt Romney discussed during a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH'-hoo) Friday afternoon.

Dior goes mini, in Raf Simons' debut ready-to-wear

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Models wear creations from Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons for Dior ready to wear Spring-Summer 2013 collection, presented in Paris, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)Freedom was at the heart of Belgian designer Raf Simons' debut ready-to-wear outing for Christian Dior — a confident show that twinned the essence of the 1950's "New Look," with the liberated hemlines of the 1960s.

Voter registration problems widening in Florida

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:50 AM PDT

What first appeared to be an isolated problem in one Florida county has now spread statewide, with election officials in at least seven counties informing prosecutors or state election officials about questionable voter registration forms filled out on behalf of the Republican Party of Florida.

Akin acknowledges protest arrest from long ago

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT

Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin said Friday that he had been arrested during an anti-abortion protest about two decades ago but didn't provide details of where or when the event occurred.

US aims to rally Syrian opposition with new aid

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:47 AM PDT

In this image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network (SNN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a young child is rescued from the rubble of a building destroyed by government airstrike in Azaz, Syria, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. A Syrian activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said a Syrian warplane bombed the northern town of Azaz near the Turkish border, killing several people. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network SNN via AP video)The Obama administration moved Friday to rally Syria's opposition with pledges of $45 million in new non-lethal and humanitarian assistance as the administration and other world leaders lamented the failure of diplomatic efforts to push Syrian President Bashar Assad from power.

Motorsports journalist Chris Economaki dies at 91

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Chris Economaki, a journalist regarded as the authoritative voice in motorsports for decades, died Friday. He was 91.

Why there is an Electoral College and how it works

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Presidents are elected not by national popular vote but by an 18th century constitutional compromise called the Electoral College.

U.N. criticizes "shrill war talk" in Iran nuclear dispute

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:41 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. on Friday urged all sides in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program to tone down "shrill war talk," reacting to this week's clashes at the world body between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "It's obvious that harsh tones and rhetoric are not going to be helpful, that is quite clear," said U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky when asked about Netanyahu's speech on Thursday to the General Assembly. ...

Tea Party freshman uses opponent's mug shot in ad

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:41 AM PDT

In a bid to hold onto his House seat, freshman Republican Rep. Allen West is making his opponent's bleary mug shot the focus of a blistering ad launched Friday.

US seeks calm over Asian disputes; won't mediate

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:40 AM PDT

The Obama administration on Friday pressed U.S. allies Japan and South Korea to continue their cooperation on North Korea and other key issues, despite a dispute over a contested islet, and also urged Tokyo and Beijing to make serious diplomatic efforts on an even sharper dispute over maritime borders.

Nissan offers Leaf discounts to spur sales

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT

Nissan is offering cheap leases and big discounts on the Leaf because of slow sales of the all-electric car.
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