Unfazed by deadline, Akin vows to fight on in Missouri Senate race |
- Unfazed by deadline, Akin vows to fight on in Missouri Senate race
- Alabama professor gets life in prison for killing co-workers
- Stolen 1778 bust of Ben Franklin, worth $3 million, in bag on bus
- "Savage" jihad ad debuts in New York City subway
- White House said to plan executive order on cybersecurity
- Man killed, at least 20 homes lost in brush fire east of San Diego
- Seattle city council votes to back NBA arena plan
- Family of Arizona grandfather shot dead by police files suit
- Judge dismisses New York's anti-drilling lawsuit
- Giant panda cub that died at U.S. zoo had abnormal liver
- Ex-Marine convicted of rape at Denver International Airport
- Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students
- Brush fire east of San Diego swallows about 20 houses
- Health insurers begin to provide user-friendly plan guides
- Morning-after pills made available to N.Y. high school students
- State, local government jobs won't recover until 2017: report
- Actress to sue anti-Islam filmmaker in federal court: lawyer
- U.S. says best protection for religious dignity is free speech
- Alabama professor stands trial in deaths of three co-workers
- Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study
- Accused Fort Hood shooter Hasan in hospital
- St. Maarten police arrest suspect in killing of American couple
- Exclusive: LA billionaire Soon-Shiong, Guggenheim plot AEG bid
- White House said to plan executive order on cybersecurity
- Seattle city council votes to back NBA arena plan
- Man killed, at least 20 homes lost in brush fire east of San Diego
- Family of Arizona grandfather shot dead by police files suit
- Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students
- Judge dismisses New York's anti-drilling lawsuit
- Alabama professor gets life in prison for killing co-workers
- Stolen 1778 bust of Ben Franklin, worth $3 million, in bag on bus
- Morning-after pills made available to N.Y. high school students
- "Savage" jihad ad debuts in New York City subway
| Unfazed by deadline, Akin vows to fight on in Missouri Senate race Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT
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| Alabama professor gets life in prison for killing co-workers Posted: 24 Sep 2012 04:35 PM PDT HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - A former Alabama biology professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday after a jury convicted her in a shortened trial. Amy Bishop, 47, avoided a death sentence by admitting earlier this month to gunning down her colleagues during a biology department staff meeting at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Alabama law requires a jury to decide the punishment and confirm a guilty plea for a capital murder charge. ... |
| Stolen 1778 bust of Ben Franklin, worth $3 million, in bag on bus Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:43 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Ben Franklin is back home, a little worse for the wear after a trip on a bus. A bust valued at $3 million by its owner of the famous founding father was returned to the Philadelphia region after authorities arrested a former cleaning woman who they said was carrying the stolen sculpture in a bag on a bus in Maryland. The bust's owner, George D'Angelo, was relieved to hear authorities had recovered his family's heirloom, a 1778 plaster of Paris creation by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, which was stolen from his home in August. ... |
| "Savage" jihad ad debuts in New York City subway Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
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| White House said to plan executive order on cybersecurity Posted: 24 Sep 2012 06:56 PM PDT
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| Man killed, at least 20 homes lost in brush fire east of San Diego Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:55 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - California firefighters battled to contain a brush fire on Monday that has damaged or destroyed at least 30 homes, forced dozens of others evacuated and claimed one life east of San Diego near the U.S.-Mexico border. The body of an unidentified man was found on Monday in the charred rubble of a house after authorities said they were searching for an 82-year-old man who resides in the area and was reported missing. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection declined to immediately confirm that the missing man turned up as a fatality. ... |
| Seattle city council votes to back NBA arena plan Posted: 24 Sep 2012 06:52 PM PDT
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| Family of Arizona grandfather shot dead by police files suit Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:27 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - The family of an Arizona man who was shot dead while holding his 7-month-old grandson by a police officer responsible for five other fatal shootings on Monday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Phoenix valley city. The suit alleging police misconduct was filed against the City of Scottsdale on behalf of the surviving daughter and father of John Loxas, 50, who was killed with a single rifle shot to the head in February by city officer James Peters. Police said they were called to Loxas' home after neighbors said he threatened them with a gun. ... |
| Judge dismisses New York's anti-drilling lawsuit Posted: 24 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Brooklyn dismissed a lawsuit on Monday brought by New York state and environmental groups challenging proposed natural gas drilling in the Delaware River basin. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis threw out the action on procedural grounds, saying there was no basis for the lawsuit since the regulations it sought to halt had not yet been finalized. "The court concludes that this dispute is not currently fit for judicial review," Garaufis wrote. ... |
| Giant panda cub that died at U.S. zoo had abnormal liver Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:13 PM PDT
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| Ex-Marine convicted of rape at Denver International Airport Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT DENVER (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine who prosecutors say raped a 22-year-old woman inside a concourse at Denver International Airport in 2011 was convicted of sexual assault on Monday, prosecutors said. A Denver District Court jury found Noel Alexander Bertrand, guilty of sexual assault with force for attacking the woman in the early morning hours of April 12, 2011, Denver District Attorney's spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said in a statement. ... |
| Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of New York City high schools students have received morning-after pills since the launch of a program that provides emergency contraception through public school nurses, the city's health department said on Monday. Many schools around the nation have long made condoms available to students but New York health officials said they believe the city is the first to make hormonal contraceptives available. ... |
| Brush fire east of San Diego swallows about 20 houses Posted: 24 Sep 2012 11:15 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California firefighters battled for a second day on Monday to contain a brush fire that has destroyed an estimated 20 homes and prompted the evacuation of dozens of other dwellings near the U.S.-Mexico border. The so-called Shockey Fire erupted near the Campo Indian Reservation in southeastern San Diego County on Sunday and has scorched at least 2,000 acres, though no injuries have been reported, authorities said. ... |
| Health insurers begin to provide user-friendly plan guides Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday began requiring health insurers to provide user-friendly guides to patients that explain their benefits, aiming to make buying insurance nearly as easy as scanning packages of food for nutrition facts. Under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, employers and insurers must provide a summary of benefits and coverage in a clearly worded, standardized format that allows the private insurance market's 163 million beneficiaries to make side-by-side comparisons of plan offerings. ... |
| Morning-after pills made available to N.Y. high school students Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of New York City high schools students have received morning-after pills since the launch of a program that provides emergency contraception through public school nurses, the city's health department said on Monday. Many schools around the nation have long made condoms available to students, but New York health officials said they believe the city is the first to make hormonal contraceptives available. ... |
| State, local government jobs won't recover until 2017: report Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT (Reuters) - State and local government employment won't return to its pre-recession peak until early 2017, following widespread public sector layoffs that have continued this year, global information company IHS Global Insight said on Monday. Total employment by states and cities could grow 3.2 percent to 19.9 million in 2017 from 19.3 million in 2012 - an addition of 620,000 jobs, IHS Global Insight said. ... |
| Actress to sue anti-Islam filmmaker in federal court: lawyer Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:43 AM PDT
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| U.S. says best protection for religious dignity is free speech Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:50 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States told a UN human rights body on Monday it considered freedom of religion inseparable from free expression, countering calls from many Islamic countries for a treaty outlawing blasphemy. After two weeks of protests around the Muslim world over an online film mocking the Prophet Mohammed, Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told the UN Human Rights Council that religious dignity is best protected where there is free speech. ... |
| Alabama professor stands trial in deaths of three co-workers Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:46 AM PDT HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - A former Alabama biology professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding others in a 2010 shooting rampage will stand trial this week to determine her prison term. Jury selection began on Monday for former University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Amy Bishop's abbreviated trial for murder and attempted murder. As part of a plea earlier this month, Bishop no longer faces the death penalty, Circuit Judge Alan Mann told prospective jurors. However, Alabama law requires a jury to decide the punishment for a capital murder charge. ... |
| Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:23 PM PDT
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| Accused Fort Hood shooter Hasan in hospital Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Army Major Nidal Hasan, who is awaiting trial accused of a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas that left 13 people dead, was hospitalized at the post over the weekend. "He was taken from his cell to Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood," Chris Haug, chief of post media relations said on Monday. Hasan was hospitalized on Saturday. He said the nature of Hasan's medical issue is protected by patient privacy laws. Hasan is paralyzed from the chest down due to wounds he suffered when he was shot by Fort Hood civilian security police during the shooting. ... |
| St. Maarten police arrest suspect in killing of American couple Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:11 AM PDT CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Police in St. Maarten have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of an American couple in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten, officials said on Monday. Michael and Thelma King, a couple in their 50s who lived near Charleston, South Carolina, were found dead on Friday in their condominium at the Ocean Club Resort in St. Maarten, the Dutch half of the Caribbean island shared with France. Thelma King, 57, was tied to a chair and her husband, 53, was lying on the floor and partially over another chair, local officials said in a statement. ... |
| Exclusive: LA billionaire Soon-Shiong, Guggenheim plot AEG bid Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:39 AM PDT
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| White House said to plan executive order on cybersecurity Posted: 24 Sep 2012 06:56 PM PDT
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| Seattle city council votes to back NBA arena plan Posted: 24 Sep 2012 06:52 PM PDT
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| Man killed, at least 20 homes lost in brush fire east of San Diego Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:55 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - California firefighters battled to contain a brush fire on Monday that has damaged or destroyed at least 30 homes, forced dozens of others evacuated and claimed one life east of San Diego near the U.S.-Mexico border. The body of an unidentified man was found on Monday in the charred rubble of a house after authorities said they were searching for an 82-year-old man who resides in the area and was reported missing. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection declined to immediately confirm that the missing man turned up as a fatality. ... |
| Family of Arizona grandfather shot dead by police files suit Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:27 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - The family of an Arizona man who was shot dead while holding his 7-month-old grandson by a police officer responsible for five other fatal shootings on Monday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Phoenix valley city. The suit alleging police misconduct was filed against the City of Scottsdale on behalf of the surviving daughter and father of John Loxas, 50, who was killed with a single rifle shot to the head in February by city officer James Peters. Police said they were called to Loxas' home after neighbors said he threatened them with a gun. ... |
| Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of New York City high schools students have received morning-after pills since the launch of a program that provides emergency contraception through public school nurses, the city's health department said on Monday. Many schools around the nation have long made condoms available to students but New York health officials said they believe the city is the first to make hormonal contraceptives available. ... |
| Judge dismisses New York's anti-drilling lawsuit Posted: 24 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Brooklyn dismissed a lawsuit on Monday brought by New York state and environmental groups challenging proposed natural gas drilling in the Delaware River basin. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis threw out the action on procedural grounds, saying there was no basis for the lawsuit since the regulations it sought to halt had not yet been finalized. "The court concludes that this dispute is not currently fit for judicial review," Garaufis wrote. ... |
| Alabama professor gets life in prison for killing co-workers Posted: 24 Sep 2012 04:35 PM PDT HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - A former Alabama biology professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday after a jury convicted her in a shortened trial. Amy Bishop, 47, avoided a death sentence by admitting earlier this month to gunning down her colleagues during a biology department staff meeting at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Alabama law requires a jury to decide the punishment and confirm a guilty plea for a capital murder charge. ... |
| Stolen 1778 bust of Ben Franklin, worth $3 million, in bag on bus Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:43 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Ben Franklin is back home, a little worse for the wear after a trip on a bus. A bust valued at $3 million by its owner of the famous founding father was returned to the Philadelphia region after authorities arrested a former cleaning woman who they said was carrying the stolen sculpture in a bag on a bus in Maryland. The bust's owner, George D'Angelo, was relieved to hear authorities had recovered his family's heirloom, a 1778 plaster of Paris creation by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, which was stolen from his home in August. ... |
| Morning-after pills made available to N.Y. high school students Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of New York City high schools students have received morning-after pills since the launch of a program that provides emergency contraception through public school nurses, the city's health department said on Monday. Many schools around the nation have long made condoms available to students, but New York health officials said they believe the city is the first to make hormonal contraceptives available. ... |
| "Savage" jihad ad debuts in New York City subway Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
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