Monday, December 31, 2012

Who might fill the NFL coaching openings

Who might fill the NFL coaching openings

Who might fill the NFL coaching openings

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:40 PM PST

When NFL coaching jobs open, the names Jon Gruden, Bill Cowher and Tony Dungy immediately surface as potential candidates.

Eagles fire Andy Reid after 14 seasons

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:38 PM PST

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie speaks to members of the media during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Philadelphia Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by owner Jeffrey Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction."

Illinois Sen. Kirk to return a year after stroke

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:37 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday Nov. 3, 2010, in Wheeling, Ill., Illinois Sen.-elect Mark Kirk, R-Ill., speaks to media as he celebrates his election win. Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senate's front door this week _ a walk that's significant not just for Illinois' junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senate's front door this week — a walk that's significant not just for Illinois' junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients.

Review: 'Promised Land' doesn't dig deep

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:36 PM PST

This undated publicity film image provided by Focus Features shows Frances McDormand starring as Sue Thomason in Gus Van Sant's contemporary drama, "Promised Land," a Focus Features release. (AP Photo/Focus Features, Scott Green)"Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections.

Armstrong better, Green Day to resume tour in 2013

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:34 PM PST

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012 file photo shows Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day on stage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The Grammy-winning punk band announced new tour dates, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Green Day's tour is scheduled to begin in March 28, 2013, in Chicago. (Photo by Eric Reed/Invision/AP, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Green Day is going back on the road.

Pa. railroad calendar delivered 63 years late

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950.

Bombs kill 23 across Iraq as sectarian strife grows

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:29 PM PST

A resident is seen behind the broken windshield of vehicle after a bomb attack in BaghdadBAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed and 87 wounded in attacks across Iraq on Monday, police said, underlining sectarian and ethnic divisions that threaten to further destabilize the country a year after U.S. troops left. Tensions between Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni factions in Iraq's power-sharing government have been on the rise this year. Militants strike almost daily and have staged at least one big attack a month. The latest violence followed more than a week of protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by thousands of people from the minority Sunni community. ...

Vanderbilt wins Music City Bowl to cap 9-4 season

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:26 PM PST

Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin, second from right, leads his team onto the field for the Music City Bowl NCAA college football game against North Carolina State, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jordan Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as the Vanderbilt Commodores capped their best season in nearly a century Monday by beating North Carolina State 38-24 in the Music City Bowl.

Central African Republic rebels ignore negotiation

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:25 PM PST

Soldiers from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, arrive by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — President Francois Bozize's government came under growing threat Monday as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government.

Ryan stays as Jets coach, GM Tannenbaum fired

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2009 file photo, New York Jets Chairman and CEO Woody Johnson, left, and General Manager Mike Tannenbaum talk prior to an NFL preseason football game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The New York Jets have fired Tannenbaum and say coach Rex Ryan will be back next season. Johnson said in a statement Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, that "like all Jets fans, I am disappointed with this year's results." (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Mike Tannenbaum pulled out a letter as he stood in front of the New York Jets players for one last time.

UConn takes top spot in AP women's basketball poll

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:24 PM PST

Connecticut took over No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll after routing Stanford over the weekend.

Minimum wage gap grows wider between states

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:23 PM PST

This Friday, Dec. 28,2012 photo Kaylee Feight talks about the impact of a minimum wage increase on her job at Quiznos in Helena, Mont. Montana's minimum wage workers are getting a small pay raise on New Year's Day when an automatic cost-of-living increase takes effect. (AP photo/Matt Gouras)OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — With a bump in the minimum wage to $9.19 an hour on Tuesday, high school student Miranda Olson will edge closer to her goal of purchasing that black Volkswagen Beetle she's been researching online.

Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:21 PM PST

In this image provided by the New York City Police Department, a composite sketch showing the woman believed to have pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 is shown. Police arrested Erika Menendez on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, after a passer-by on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video. The attack was the second time this month that a man was pushed to his death in a city subway station. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and she was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday.

Protester shot in Cairo may have been targeted

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:16 PM PST

An Egyptian woman holds a poster with Arabic that reads, "my Christian siblings.. happy new year.." in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen drove into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Monday and fired at an anti-government sit-in, seriously wounding a protester who had been jailed and tortured by former military rulers after he witnessed the killing of another activist. Two lawyers involved in the case suggested it was a targeted attack.

Egypt's pound slips further against dollar

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:15 PM PST

Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Kandil says his country will resume talks in January with the International Monetary Fund over a $4.8 billion loan, after they were suspended during this month's political turmoil over the now-adopted constitution. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian pound slipped further against the dollar on Monday, a downward plunge on the first two days of trading under a new system, as the president tried to assure a worried public that the crisis atmosphere will end soon.

Global shares up on hopes U.S. to avoid "fiscal cliff"

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:15 PM PST

An employee of a foreign exchange trading company looks at monitors as a television set shows Japan's incoming Prime Minister and the leader of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shinzo Abe speaking in TokyoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street rallied on Monday and global equities headed for their best year in the last three as U.S. lawmakers closed in on a deal to avoid a budget crisis that many fear could cripple the world economy in 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama said Congress was close to an agreement that would start chipping away at the deficit without raising middle class taxes. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also said agreement was "very, very close." U.S. ...

Stocks turn up on hints of 'fiscal cliff' deal

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:14 PM PST

A trader wearing "2013" glasses works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The stock market struggled for direction Monday morning after five days of losses, with the "fiscal cliff" just hours away and lawmakers yet to reach a solution. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market shot higher on Monday afternoon, in the year's final hour of trading, signaling that investors believe the politicians in Washington will work out a budget compromise to avoid the "fiscal cliff."

Texas judge OKs ban on Planned Parenthood funding

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:13 PM PST

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday.

NC governor signs pardons for Wilmington 10

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:13 PM PST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners.

Bears fire coach Lovie Smith after 9 seasons

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:12 PM PST

FILE -- In a Dec. 23, 2012 file photo Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith watches his team during the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz. The Chicago Bears have fired coach Lovie Smith after the team missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri/file)LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears reached the Super Bowl under coach Lovie Smith and consistently boasted a formidable defense.

Final resting place of Newtown gunman a mystery

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:10 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo circulated by law enforcement and provided by NBC News, shows Adam Lanza. Authorities say Lanza killed his mother at their home and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, killing 26 people. Connecticut Medical Examiner Wayne H. Carver II told the Hartford Courant that the remains of Adam Lanza were claimed several days ago by someone who wanted to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/NBC News, File)HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The body of the man who massacred 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school was claimed by his father, a family spokesman said Monday, but the public may never know what happened with the remains.

AP Sources: 'Fiscal cliff' deal emerging

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:06 PM PST

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about the fiscal cliff, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. The president said it appears that an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff is "in sight," but says it's not yet complete and work continues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Working with Congress against a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama said Monday that a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was in sight but not yet finalized. The emerging deal would raise tax rates on family income over $450,000 and individual income over $400,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year.

McConnell: 2 sides close on 'fiscal cliff' deal

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:59 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he and the White House have agreed on preventing tax hikes that the "fiscal cliff" will trigger after midnight. And he says they are very close to an overall deal that would also prevent budget-wide spending cuts.

NC governor sign pardons for Wilmington 10

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:57 AM PST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations of the state holding political prisoners.

Reuters TV cameraman wounded in Syria

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:47 AM PST

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A Reuters television cameraman was shot in the leg and wounded while filming on the front line in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday. Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan citizen working as part of a Reuters multi-media reporting team, was hit by a rifle bullet fired from a distance. He was treated in Syria and then driven across the border to Turkey. His life was not in danger. The ambulance transporting Sahili to Turkey encountered an air strike in Aleppo and maneuvered into an alley until it was safe to continue the journey. ...

Maine man in court for shooting deaths of tenants

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:46 AM PST

In this undated photo provided by York County Jail, James Pak, 74, of Biddeford, Maine, stands during a booking photo. Pak is to face charges Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 in the shooting deaths Saturday of two of his tenants after a possible dispute over where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said. (AP Photo/York County Jail)ALFRED, Maine (AP) — A 74-year-old Maine man has made his first court appearance on charges he fatally shot two tenants after a possible dispute on where they parked their cars during a snowstorm.

In concession, Israel eases restrictions on Gaza

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:40 AM PST

Palestinian workers rebuild a house in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Israel has started allowing long-banned building materials into the Gaza Strip, its first key concession to the territory's Hamas rulers under a cease-fire that ended eight days of intense fighting last month, the military said Monday. A Hamas official described the quantity sent so far as "cosmetic" and Gaza economists said it would take years of round-the-clock shipments to even make a dent in the gap left by the five years of blockade. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)JERUSALEM (AP) — In a major concession to Gaza's Hamas leaders Monday, Israel dropped its five-year ban on construction materials crossing into the territory and raised hopes there that rebuilding could begin following a damaging eight-day Israeli air campaign.

Report details changes in Benghazi explanations

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:39 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate report says the CIA, the FBI and the intelligence community all made major changes in talking points that led to the Obama administration's confusing public explanation of the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

NTSB sends investigators to Ore. bus crash site

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:37 AM PST

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a multiple-fatality accident after a tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy highway and fell several hundred feet down a steep embankment, authorities said, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 about 15 miles east of Pendleton, Ore. The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84, according to the Oregon State Police. (AP Photo/East Oregonian, Tim Trainor)PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A federal agency has sent two investigators to the site of an Eastern Oregon tour bus crash that killed nine people.

Obama says fiscal cliff deal in sight, not done yet

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:34 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that a deal with Congress to avoid the U.S. "fiscal cliff," with its tax increases looming at midnight, was close, but he warned that it was not yet complete. "Today it appears that an agreement to prevent this New Year's tax hike is within sight, but it is not done," Obama said during remarks at the White House complex. "There are still issues left to resolve, but we're hopeful that Congress can get it done, but it's not done." The president made his remarks surrounded by cheering supporters identified as "middle class Americans. ...

Asian nations giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

LONDON (AP) — Sydney's skyline erupted in fireworks as Australia ushered in 2013 on Tuesday, while extravagant displays soon followed in Hong Kong and Beijing, and even the once-isolated country of Myanmar joined the party for the first time in decades.

Tentative "fiscal cliff" deal emerges in Senate

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:16 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about negotiations with Capitol Hill while in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate leaders were hammering out a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on Monday, but it was still unclear if rank-and-file lawmakers would back the agreement, particularly those in the Republican-led House of Representatives. A deal to avert the fiscal crisis was said to be in the works in the Senate that would raise tax rates on household income above $450,000, said a source familiar with the talks. The agreement would permanently extend the lower tax rates for those below the $450,000 cut off. ...

Fla. man pleads guilty in NY in dinosaur dispute

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST

FILE - This photo released by the U.S. Attorney's office shows the fossil of a Tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur at the center of a lawsuit demanding its return to Mongolia. Florida resident Eric Prokopi has pleaded guilty, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Federal Court in New York to smuggling this fossil and others into the United States. In return for his cooperation, prosecutors say they will recommend leniency. (AP Photo/U.S Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia.

Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST

FILE - This Dec. 12, 2012 file image provided by NASA shows the Mars rover Curiosity at a pit stop, a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay." It took the image on the 125th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Dec. 12, 2012), just after finishing that sol's drive. The Sol 125 drive entered Yellowknife Bay and covered about 86 feet (26.1 meters). The descent into the basin crossed a step about 2 feet (half a meter) high, visible in the upper half of this image. Curiosity will now head for Mount Sharp in mid-February after it drills into its first rock. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech, File)PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat.

Vigil recalls NJ homicides, an hour at a time

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:11 AM PST

Sister Helen Cole lights a candle during a vigil for homicide victims at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, N.J., on Dec. 31, 2012. The city of 77,000 had a record 67 homicides in 2012. (AP Photo/Geoff Mulvihill)CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — In this city, everybody knows someone who's been killed or charged with a murder. But no one's sure how to stop the violence.

AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:10 AM PST

Dr. Mark Molitch of Northwestern University, who helped write medical standards meant to limit HGH treatment to legitimate patients, holds an injector pen that contains approximately a weeks worth of doses for a patient in need of the drug at his clinic Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in Chicago. An Associated Press investigation shows that a federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Kardashian, West feel 'blessed' over baby news

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:07 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, television personality Kim Kardashian poses for photographers at the red carpet during the 40th anniversary of Cosmopolitan magazine in Spanish in Mexico City. Kanye West announced at a concert in Atlantic City Sunday night, Dec. 30, 2012 that his girlfriend Kardashian is pregnant. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are feeling lucky about their first child together.

ESPN's Hannah Storm returns 3 weeks after accident

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:05 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, April 23, 2010 file photo, Hannah Storm attends the premiere of "Straight Outta L.A." as part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. ESPN anchor Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home. Storm suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands, and first-degree burns to her face and neck. She lost her eyebrows and eyelashes, and roughly half her hair. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.

Duke still a runaway No. 1 in AP Top 25

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

Duke's Seth Curry, who scored a game-high 31 points against Santa Clara, celebrates a 3-pointer during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. Duke won 90-77. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)For the third straight week Duke is the runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press' Top 25, and for the first time in 16 years Minnesota is in the top 10.

Reid among 6 NFL coaches sacked in firing frenzy

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:57 AM PST

SAN DIEGO (AP) — By lunchtime Monday, six NFL coaches were looking for work.
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