Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tragedy on a river: 6 teens from 2 families drown (AP)

Tragedy on a river: 6 teens from 2 families drown (AP)

Tragedy on a river: 6 teens from 2 families drown (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:01 PM PDT

Family react as Shreveport Fire Department and Caddo Sheriff's deputies scour the beach at Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park in Shreveport, La. Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 in search of teens believed to have drowned while swimming in the Red River late Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Shreveport Times, Douglas Collier) MANDATORY CREDIT MAGS OUTAP - DeKendrix Warner was splashing around in the waist-high waters of the Red River with his cousins and friends, trying to escape the oppressive Louisiana heat, when he stepped off a slippery ledge — and was plunged into water 25-feet deep.

Kin of Conn. shooter says he was pushed over edge (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:53 PM PDT

A priest kneels in prayer with three women outside Manchester High School, a gathering point for the families, co-workers and friends of shooting victims in Manchester, Conn., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor refused, then opened fire Tuesday morning, a company executive said. Police said the gunman and several other people were killed and others were wounded. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - A relative of a deliveryman who killed eight people and injured two others in Connecticut before committing suicide says he complained his company was prejudiced and told his mother it pushed him over the edge.

Bristol Palin calls it quits with fiance Johnston (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Republican vice presidential candidate, and Levi Johnston at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called off their second engagement after he told her he may have fathered a baby with another girl, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)AP - Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called off their second engagement after he told her he may have fathered a baby with another woman.

Authorities: Wire cutters aided AZ inmates' escape (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:14 PM PDT

AP - Three convicted murderers escaped a privately run prison in Arizona by using wire cutters that a woman threw over a fence, a state Department of Corrections spokesman said Tuesday.

Police: Illegal immigrant crashes, killing Va. nun (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT

This handout photo provided by the Prince William County, Va. Police shows Carlos Montano, the man who charged with drunken driving in a Northern Virginia crash that killed a nun and left two other nuns in critical condition. (AP Photo/Prince William County, Va. Police)AP - An illegal immigrant awaiting a deportation ruling has been charged with killing a nun and critically injuring two others in a drunken driving crash that has sparked criticism of how immigration enforcement is handled.

Are Americans now more honest about their weight? (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 05:59 PM PDT

AP - Are Americans becoming more honest about their weight?

2 slain at Indianapolis party helped neighborhood (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

Michael Harris consoles family and friends outside a home in Indianapolis the morning a shooting there, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. A masked man armed with an assault-style rifle fired dozens of shots on a birthday party at the house in an inner-city neighborhood of Indianapolis early Tuesday, killing two people and wounding six before fleeing, police said. Harris said he was upstairs asleep when the gun fire rang out and came downstairs to find his girlfriend dead. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Danese Kenon)AP - Two people working to improve their deteriorating inner-city neighborhood died early Tuesday when a masked man opened fire with an assault-style rifle on a birthday barbecue, police said.

NYC panel clears way for mosque near ground zero (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT

Linda Rivera holds up a sign in opposition to the proposed mosque at 45-47 Park Place during a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to vote on giving the building landmark status in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. The commission voted unanimously not to landmark the building, making way for the construction of the mosque. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A city panel Tuesday cleared the way for the construction near ground zero of a mosque that has caused a political uproar over religious freedom and Sept. 11 even as opponents vowed to press their case in court.

Judge's ruling expected in Calif gay marriage case (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 07:01 PM PDT

Anti-Proposition 8 activists shout slogans outside of City Hall on November 4, 2008 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)AP - A federal judge has reached a decision in a landmark case on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians.

Police nab possible suspect in St. Louis heist (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:58 PM PDT

An ATM Solutions Inc. car is parked as police investigate a robbery of the business, in background, hours earlier on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Police say four masked and armed bandits, dressed head to toe in black, overpowered two guards, subdued them in a vault with duct tape, and hauled away an unspecified amount of cash in one of the business' armed vehicles. (AP Photo/Jim Suhr)AP - Officers canvassing the area where gunmen robbed an ATM-servicing company of containers full of cash spotted a car believed to have been used in the heist and arrested its driver after a brief chase through downtown St. Louis, a police official said Tuesday.

Expert disputes trial testimony about Toyota crash (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:03 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 24, 2010 file photo shows Koua Fong Lee being interviewed at the state prison in Lino Lakes, Minn., where he is serving a sentence for a fatal accident involving his 1996 Toyota Camry in June 2006 in St. Paul, Minn., that killed three people. Lawyers for Lee began making their case Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, that he should get a new trial because his Camry may have experienced the same unintended acceleration that led to the company's recent recall of millions of vehicles. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen, File)AP - The Toyota Camry involved in a 2006 crash that killed three people had antilock brakes that would not have left skid marks at the crash scene, according to a defense witness who testified Tuesday at a hearing to determine whether the driver will receive a new trial.

Bernice King breaks silence, asks SCLC to end rift (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. After sitting silent for nearly 10 months amid bitter infighting in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. King is calling for reconciliation among the group she was elected to lead. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - After nearly 10 months of silence, the Rev. Bernice King urged the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Tuesday to end the bitter infighting that has split the group she was elected to lead.

Cheez Doodles creator Morrie Yohai dies at 90 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:42 AM PDT

AP - Morrie R. Yohai, the creator of the crunchy, finger-staining orange Cheez Doodles snack, has died. He was 90.

K-9 PTSD? Some vets say dogs stressed by war, too (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:32 PM PDT

AP - Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-to-door searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions.

Biologist using Noah's Ark idea to save sea life (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 10:08 AM PDT

In this photo taken July 9, 2010, Serge Latour holds a baby stone crab at the docks of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea, Fla. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Jack Rudloe is working on a 'Noah's Ark' project at the facility to protect the species in the gulf effected by the oil. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)AP - On the chance that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens some sea creatures with extinction, naturalist Jack Rudloe hopes his laboratory can save them.

Poll: Identity, blending in important to Hispanics (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:11 AM PDT

Raul Torres proudly poses with his US Passport and naturalization papers in his Mableton, Ga. home Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Torres a native of Mexico, immigrated to the Atlanta Metro area during the late 1980's and became a US citizen in 2000. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)AP - Tomasa Bulux speaks Spanish to her children, maintains an altar at home representing her Mayan culture's view of the world and meets once a week with Mayan immigrants who speak her indigenous Quiche tongue.

NY jury convicts 2 in JFK Airport fuel-tank plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 08:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2007 file photo, Guyanese Abdul Kadir, former member of the South American nation's Parliament, arrives at the Magistrates' Court for an extradition hearing in downtown Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Kadir and Russell Defreitas were convicted Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)AP - Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world.

6 arrested for greasing elderly at CA nursing home (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 07:02 PM PDT

AP - Six former Northern California nursing home employees are under arrest on charges they covered several elderly patients with cream to make them slippery as part of a prank against their co-workers.
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