Wednesday, October 6, 2010

APNewsBreak: Donation pledged for Ariz. transplant (AP)

APNewsBreak: Donation pledged for Ariz. transplant (AP)

APNewsBreak: Donation pledged for Ariz. transplant (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:21 PM PDT

AP - An Arizona man who lost his eligibility for a state-funded transplant due to state budget cuts learned Wednesday he is the beneficiary of an anonymous donation to pay for the life-saving procedure.

Judge bars key witness from Gitmo detainee's trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:26 PM PDT

FBI handout image from 2004 shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused of a key role in the killing of 224 people during the bombings against two US embassies in Africa in 1998. His trial was delayed for a second time on Wednesday after the judge ruled to bar the government's star witness.(AFP/FBI/File)AP - The judge in the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee barred the prosecution's star witness Wednesday from testifying, dealing a major setback to the government's effort to build criminal cases with evidence obtained through harsh CIA interrogations overseas.

iPhone vs. Android: Apple and Google's Smart-Phone War (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Time.com - The fierce competition between Apple and makers of Google-powered handsets is great news for consumers

Q&A: Rabbi Naomi Levy on Faith and her Child's Condition (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Rabbi Naomi Levy's life was going according to plan until she was told her daughter had a rare, fatal degenerative disorder. Levy spoke to TIME about her daughter's condition, her faith and her new book Hope Will Find You/i>

Ohio woman pretended to be boy to date teen girl (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:33 PM PDT

AP - A 31-year-old woman who posed as a teenage boy, cutting her hair and using male aliases, so she could date teenage girls pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to six months in jail.

APNewsBreak: Blowout preventer testing not started (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2010 file photo, workers watch as the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer stack is lifted onto the deck of the Helix Q4000 on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard official on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 told The Associated Press that the 300-ton device that failed to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has not been analyzed a month after it was raised from the seafloor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP - The 300-ton device that failed to stop the massive Gulf oil spill — considered a key piece of evidence in the investigation into the disaster — has not been analyzed a month after it was raised from the seafloor, a Coast Guard official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Memphis, Tenn. boy testifies, says uncle killed 6 (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:56 PM PDT

AP - A boy who was left to die in a bathtub with a knife sticking out of his skull testified Wednesday that his uncle was the one who attacked him in a rampage that left six people dead, including his parents and two siblings.

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:28 PM PDT

U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) speaks at a statewide town meeting in memory of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 at the Rutgers University Student Center in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)AP - U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Wednesday he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online.

4 tornadoes tear across N. Arizona, damage homes (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:26 PM PDT

A man walks through a Bellemont, Ariz., backyard after a tornado swept through the community west of Flagstaff on Wednesday, Oct. 6. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)AP - A rare swarm of tornadoes shoved semis off highways and destroyed homes in the pre-dawn darkness Wednesday, leaving startled residents wondering if they were in Arizona anymore or had woken up in the twister-prone Midwest.

Gay teen suicides create a `teachable moment' (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2010 file photo, people participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. Clementi jumped to his death off a bridge a day after two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet. A recent spate of teenage suicides and two apparent anti-gay attacks have drawn attention to the gay community. In addition to the sympathy and outrage, manifested in campus vigils, viral videos by the likes of Ellen DeGeneres, a call for awareness by comedian Margaret Cho on 'Dancing With the Stars,' and even state legislation addressing the New Jersey case, political strategists think it might be an opportunity to advance gay rights. (AP Photo/Reena Rose Sibayan, File)AP - Gay Americans have arrived at a "teachable moment."

Panel: Gov't blocked scientists on spill estimate (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:40 PM PDT

Deepwater Horizon joint investigation board members David Dykes, left, and retired U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen, center, listen to Jason Mathews while presiding over testimony from BP PLC offshore land negotiator Michael Beirne, not pictured, during joint investigation hearings held by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Management Regulation and Enforcement in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)AP - The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that raised questions about its competence and candor during the crisis, according to a commission appointed by the president to investigate the disaster.

Company: Electronic monitoring went down across US (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:49 PM PDT

AP - An electronic monitoring system tracking sex offenders, parolees and others shut down, leaving authorities in 49 states blind to offenders' movements for about 12 hours, authorities said Wednesday.

Woman doesn't blame firefighters who let home burn (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:57 PM PDT

AP - A Tennessee woman said Wednesday she doesn't blame the firefighters who watched while her house burned to the ground after her family failed to pay a $75 annual protection fee.

Ore. woman pleads guilty to killing pregnant woman (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:12 PM PDT

AP - An Oregon woman obsessed with having a baby pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of a pregnant woman whose unborn child was cut from her abdomen after she was bludgeoned to death.

Trio wins Nobel for developing key chemistry tool (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:51 PM PDT

American Richard Heck and his Filipino wife Socorro, kiss during an interview with the Associated Press at their residence at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines shortly after The Royal Academy of Sciences announced in Sweden he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday Oct.6, 2010. Heck, a long-time resident in the Philippines and married to a Filipino, and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the Nobel Prize for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs and make thinner computer screens. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A method for building complex molecules has paid off by helping to fight cancer, protect crops and make electronic devices — and now it has earned its developers a Nobel Prize.

Even in Chicago, residents wanted more from Obama (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

AP - Even in President Barack Obama's hometown, they had hoped for more.

Lawyers make final arguments in Smith drug case (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2000 file photo, Anna Nicole Smith, right, smiles as she walks to the courthouse with her attorney Howard K. Stern in Houston. Attorneys in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial are set with final arguments aimed at swaying jurors in reaching a complicated and crucial set of verdicts that will affect two doctors and the deceased model's former boyfriend. (AP Photo/Brett Cooomer, File)AP - Anna Nicole Smith was plagued by unremitting pain most of her life, and her doctors did not break the law by prescribing medications to help her, attorneys for two physicians told jurors Wednesday in their closing arguments at the drug conspiracy trial.

Environmentalists get rare look at island off NY (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT

Adrienne Esposito, Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, walks to the top of an old battery, previously used for defense, on Plum Island in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The federal government wants to relocate the animal disease lab on the island to the central state of Kansas and is proceeding with plans to sell the isolated, 840-acre (340-hectare) pork chop-shaped island off the eastern tip of nearby Long Island, a move that has some environmentalists fretting about Plum Island's future. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The classified ad might read: "Island for sale. Gem of a property, teeming with fish and wildlife, only a two-hour drive from nation's largest metro area. Features power plant, sewage treatment. Ripe for development."

Sludge-hit Hungarian villagers demand compensation (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:26 PM PDT

Hungarian police officer, wearing a protective mask, stands in front of a home destroyed by the flood of toxic mud in Kolontar, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Emergency workers and construction crews on Wednesday swept through the Hungarian towns hardest hit by a flood of toxic sludge, trying to clear roads and homes of acres (hectares) of deep red mud and caustic water. Hundreds of people were evacuated after the disaster Monday, when a gigantic sludge reservoir burst its banks at metals plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital. The torrent inundated homes, swept cars off roads and damaged bridges, disgorging an estimated 1 million cubic meters (35.3 million cubic feet) of toxic waste onto several nearby towns. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - There was no stopping the avalanche of toxic red sludge: It smashed through the door of Kati Holczer's house, trapping the mother and her toddler in a sea of caustic waste.
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