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- Obama makes biggest gun-control push in decades
- "We expect Lance to be completely truthful": Livestrong
- California teacher fired for porn films loses appeal to keep job
- Virginia executes convicted murderer who wanted the death penalty
- Defense casts accused would-be Oregon bomber as vulnerable
- As "Roe v. Wade" turns 40, most oppose reversing abortion ruling
- Lawyer for accused Ohio rapist blames online group for notoriety
- Theft of $400,000 in diamonds reported in Florida
- Football star Te'o's girlfriend and her death a hoax, U.S. college says
- Dozens arrested in New York/New Jersey extortion probe
- Trayvon Martin's mother urges Florida to repeal self-defense law
- New York City school bus drivers go on strike
- Detroit council approves cost cuts to stave off state takeover
- Obama makes biggest gun-control push in decades
- Massachusetts governor offers new gun laws after Newtown
- United Airlines says 787 fleet flying as scheduled
- District of Columbia uses Obama's limo, parade to press for statehood
- Malicious virus shuttered power plant: DHS
- Home builder sentiment holds near seven-year highs
- In test of influence, NRA gets personal in anti-Obama ad
- Snow, sleet glaze roads, shut schools in Northeast
- Moody's now has negative outlook for all U.S. universities
- White House calls NRA ad "repugnant and cowardly"
- Missouri museum faces criminal probe over spending, document shredding
- Oprah's OWN network gets ad premium for Armstrong confession
- Ex-subway chief leads New York Republicans in mayoral poll
- FBI says Oregon bomb suspect originally wanted to blow himself up
- Kids at center stage in emotional gun debate
- Factbox: Obama's gun-control plan draws strong response
| Obama makes biggest gun-control push in decades Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:36 PM PST
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| "We expect Lance to be completely truthful": Livestrong Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:33 AM PST
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| California teacher fired for porn films loses appeal to keep job Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:51 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California middle school teacher fired for appearing in pornographic scenes under the alias "Tiffany" has lost an appeal to get back into the classroom after a panel found she acted immorally. The Oxnard school board in April voted unanimously to fire Stacie Halas, 32, over allegations that she was unfit to continue in her job as a teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School because of her role as a porn actress. ... |
| Virginia executes convicted murderer who wanted the death penalty Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:48 PM PST PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - A man who admitted to strangling two fellow prison inmates and threatened to continue killing until he received the death penalty was executed in Virginia on Wednesday, the first time the state has used the electric chair in nearly three years. Robert Charles Gleason Jr., 42, was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. (0208 GMT on Thursday), Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said. ... |
| Defense casts accused would-be Oregon bomber as vulnerable Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:26 PM PST
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| As "Roe v. Wade" turns 40, most oppose reversing abortion ruling Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:49 PM PST
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| Lawyer for accused Ohio rapist blames online group for notoriety Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:15 PM PST PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - An Ohio football player seeking to have his rape trial moved and closed to the public is blaming notoriety fueled by an online activist group, according to documents obtained on Wednesday by Reuters. Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, is one of two members of a Steubenville, Ohio, high school football team charged with raping a classmate at a party attended by many teammates last August. ... |
| Theft of $400,000 in diamonds reported in Florida Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:12 PM PST ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A diamond wholesaler visiting Florida reported the theft of $400,000 worth of loose gems in what could amount to a well-orchestrated crime or the case of an ordinary burglar who got incredibly lucky, police said on Wednesday. Jain Rajesh, 47, of New Jersey told police he left the diamonds in a red bag in his Orlando rental car for 13 minutes on Monday evening outside a buffet restaurant and the bag and diamonds were gone when he returned. "They took the whole bag. ... |
| Football star Te'o's girlfriend and her death a hoax, U.S. college says Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:55 PM PST (Reuters) - Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o, whose on-field excellence after his grandmother and online girlfriend purportedly died made him a hero in the sports media, was the victim of a hoax because the girl never existed, the university said on Wednesday. School spokesman Dennis Brown said on the football team's Facebook page that the girlfriend, a Stanford graduate who called herself Lennay Kekua, was merely an online persona who "ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia. ... |
| Dozens arrested in New York/New Jersey extortion probe Posted: 16 Jan 2013 11:07 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of organized crime figures from the New York area were arrested Wednesday following an investigation of extortion of local garbage haulers, authorities said. Many of those arrested are suspected members or associates of the Gambino, Genovese and Luchese organized crime families, three of the five largest Mafia factions in the New York area, according to a federal indictment. Thirty suspects in New York and New Jersey were taken into custody, the FBI said. ... |
| Trayvon Martin's mother urges Florida to repeal self-defense law Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:16 PM PST
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| New York City school bus drivers go on strike Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:48 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City school bus drivers went on strike for the first time in 34 years, creating headaches for up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on a sleet-soaked Wednesday. The strike was triggered by the city's decision to seek new, less expensive contracts for routes that serve children with special needs. The union representing bus drivers - who are employed by private contractors, not the city - says the city is unfairly blaming bus drivers for cost increases. ... |
| Detroit council approves cost cuts to stave off state takeover Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:37 PM PST (Reuters) - The Detroit City Council on Wednesday continued its offensive against a possible state takeover of the city by passing a cost-cutting measure sought by Mayor Dave Bing for his reform agenda. A majority of the nine-member council has been approving contracts and measures in recent weeks to fill Detroit's near-empty coffers and aid efforts to restructure city operations. ... |
| Obama makes biggest gun-control push in decades Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:24 PM PST
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| Massachusetts governor offers new gun laws after Newtown Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:27 PM PST
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| United Airlines says 787 fleet flying as scheduled Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:46 AM PST
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| District of Columbia uses Obama's limo, parade to press for statehood Posted: 16 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Local politicians stepped up their campaign for the District of Columbia to become the 51st state this week, introducing a bill in the House of Representatives and mounting a PR campaign tied to President Barack Obama's inauguration next Monday. From presidential license plates to a parade reviewing stand, Washington is using the pomp of the inauguration to put its case for more self-government before crowds of onlookers and millions of television viewers. ... |
| Malicious virus shuttered power plant: DHS Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:54 PM PST BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company last fall when a technician unknowingly inserted an infected USB computer drive into the network, keeping a plant off line for three weeks, according to a report posted on a U.S. government website. The Department of Homeland Security report did not identify the plant but said criminal software, which is used to conduct financial crimes such as identity theft, was behind the incident. ... |
| Home builder sentiment holds near seven-year highs Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:06 AM PST
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| In test of influence, NRA gets personal in anti-Obama ad Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:32 PM PST
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| Snow, sleet glaze roads, shut schools in Northeast Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:38 AM PST (Reuters) - A wintry mix of snow and sleet pelted the Northeast early Wednesday, making for a sloppy morning commute that snarled roadways but delighting schoolchildren with a surprise day off. Up to six inches of snow fell from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts and Maine, while the New York City metropolitan area was glazed by sleet that turned to rain, said meteorologists on AccuWeather.com. The brief storm offered a taste of the frigid conditions in store later this week when an arctic air mass from Canada is expected to roll into New England, said AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. ... |
| Moody's now has negative outlook for all U.S. universities Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:32 AM PST
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| White House calls NRA ad "repugnant and cowardly" Posted: 16 Jan 2013 08:34 AM PST
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| Missouri museum faces criminal probe over spending, document shredding Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:43 PM PST ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Known for its collections on the Lewis & Clark expedition, aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh and the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri History Museum is coming under fire for a more recent land deal. St. Louis' top prosecutor has opened an investigation into reports of document shredding and unanswered questions about the museum's spending. The Missouri History Museum has been criticized for buying an acre of land from a former museum board member that the city says is worth only a fraction of the purchase price. ... |
| Oprah's OWN network gets ad premium for Armstrong confession Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:04 PM PST
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| Ex-subway chief leads New York Republicans in mayoral poll Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:00 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who stepped down as head of the New York City subway system to run for mayor of New York led rivals this month in a possible Republican primary battle but was far behind potential Democratic candidates, a poll released on Wednesday showed. Joseph Lhota was favored by 23 percent of those surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll, more than any other Republican, but trailed the "undecided" category at 53 percent. The next closest potential candidate was businessman John Catsimatidis with 9 percent, Quinnipiac said. ... |
| FBI says Oregon bomb suspect originally wanted to blow himself up Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:31 PM PST PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Somali-born man charged in a Christmas-season bomb plot in Oregon was eager to "martyr" himself in a suicide mission, but FBI agents posing as al Qaeda operatives talked him into a plan to set off explosives remotely instead, one of them testified on Tuesday. Returning to the witness stand on the second day of testimony in the trial of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, an undercover agent identified in court only by his pseudonym, Youssef, recounted offering the defendant a number of chances to back out of the plot. ... |
| Kids at center stage in emotional gun debate Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:46 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Dear President Obama," began a letter from 8-year-old Grant Fritz, with the shaky printing -- missed words, spelling errors -- of someone just learning how to put thoughts down on paper. "I think there should be some changes in the law with guns," Fritz said in the December 17 letter he sent to the president days after the Newtown school shootings. Invited to the White House on Wednesday, Fritz and three other children in their Sunday best sat on stage as Obama read out parts of their letters to illustrate why he wants to tighten gun laws. ... |
| Factbox: Obama's gun-control plan draws strong response Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:10 PM PST (Reuters) - President Barack Obama revealed plans on Wednesday for America's biggest gun-control push in decades, spurred by last month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults. Many of Obama's proposals, which include enhanced background checks for gun buyers and the reintroduction of a ban on assault weapons, face tough opposition from gun enthusiasts led by the powerful National Rifle Association. Below are some of the comments on gun rights and controls by key debate-shapers and observers. ... |
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