Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection (AP)

Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection (AP)

Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:35 PM PDT

A knocked down tree is shown Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010, after a tornado touched down near Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver)AP - A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nation's midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs, delaying flights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas.

Officials say NJ-NYC tunnel project likely doomed (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:41 PM PDT

In this photo taken Oct. 7, 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announces in Trenton, N.J., that he has stopped a decades-in-the-making train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, saying the state can't afford to pay for cost overruns on the already under-construction project. In many states, infrastructure projects are languishing on the drawing board, awaiting the right mix of creative financing, political arm-twisting and timing to move forward. And a struggling economy and a surge of political candidates opposed to big spending could make it a long wait. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is standing firm on calling off the biggest public works project under way in the country — a multibillion-dollar rail tunnel under the Hudson River linking his state with New York City, officials said Tuesday.

US man jailed in Cuba can call home more often (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:21 PM PDT

This undated family photo released by Judy Gross, posted in the Internet and taken from a computer screen, shows her with her husband Alan Gross, left, in an undisclosed location. Judy Gross, The wife of a Maryland man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy said Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010, that she and her husband have been able to talk on the telephone more regularly after she wrote an August letter to Cuban President Raul Castro, but that her husband's health is 'not great.' (AP Photo/Gross Family) NO SALESAP - The wife of a Maryland man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy said Tuesday that she and her husband have been able to talk on the telephone more regularly after she wrote an August letter to Cuban President Raul Castro, but that her husband's health is "not great."

Rocky and Bullwinkle Creator Alex Anderson Dies (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Animation has had plenty of unknown geniuses but few were more obscure, or more important, than Alexander Anderson, who died Friday at 90 in Carmel, Calif.

After the Midterm Elections: How Obama Can Meet Promises (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:35 AM PDT

Time.com - It is time for a new White House plan. Even the best case for Democrats in the midterm elections will leave President Barack Obama with the tarnish of repudiation and far fewer members of his own party with whom to work

Jury chosen for Tom DeLay's money laundering trial (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 07:04 PM PDT

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay arrives at the Travis County courthouse in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 for jury selection in his corruption trial. The 63-year-old DeLay is charged with money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - A jury was chosen Tuesday in the trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a once powerful but polarizing politician accused of illegally financing Texas GOP legislative races in 2002.

Soros gives $1M to Calif. pot legalization measure (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 06:18 PM PDT

In this Sept. 7, 2010 file photo, Philanthropist George Soros speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote. The contribution reported Tuesday by The Sacramento Bee is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19's main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee.

'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:46 AM PDT

Joe Patten, 83, known as the 'Phantom of the Fox', who has lived above the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta for the past 31 years, stands outside the theatre Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Atlanta. Patten recently sued the Fox board in an attempt to remain living above the venue. In August, the board voted to break Patten's 1979 lease, which allowed him to live in the 3,640-square-foot apartment for the rest of his life. (AP Photo/Rich Addicks)AP - Behind the faux Moorish splendor of Atlanta's historic Fox Theatre lives the "Phantom of the Fox" — a beloved local figure who twice helped save the landmark from destruction and now is battling to stay in the place where he has lived for more than 30 years.

Defendant: I never met man who died by collar bomb (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT

AP - A woman on trial for a bizarre bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a collar bomb he was forced to wear said she first saw the man when video of his death was broadcast on the evening news.

US Supreme Court clears way for Arizona execution (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 07:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Arizona Deptartment of Corrections, Jeffrey Landrigan is shown. Arizona is appealing a federal judge's order blocking the scheduled Tuesday execution of Landrigan. The order issued Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 by U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver says more time is needed to consider a challenge to the use of a knockout drug from an unidentified manufacturer. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections, File)AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a stay preventing Arizona from executing an inmate for a 1989 murder.

Cops: Human remains found near Ill. college burned (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., shows student Antinette 'Toni' Keller, 18, of Plainfield, Ill., who disappeared Oct. 14, 2010, after saying she was going to walk toward a park in DeKalb. (AP Photo/Northern Illinois University) NO SALESAP - Human remains found in a park where authorities were looking for a missing Northern Illinois University student were burned beyond recognition, and the case is now being handled as a homicide investigation, police said Tuesday.

NC police: Stepmother talking in missing girl case (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:17 PM PDT

FILE- A May 2010 file photo shows Zahra Clare Baker, 10, waiting to get a hearing aid at an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Catawba County District Judge Robert Mullinax Jr. increased bond for the girl's stepmother, Elisa Baker, from $45,000 to $65,000 Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 after prosecutors convinced him she was a flight risk. Mullinax Jr. said there were 'disturbing and unsettling allegations' in the case as he dismissed a request by Baker's lawyers to reduce her bond on a charge of obstructing justice to $10,000. (AP Photo/Independent Tribune, James Nix, File)AP - The stepmother of a missing 10-year-old girl is cooperating with investigators who are searching in rural North Carolina for the disabled child or evidence in her disappearance, police said Tuesday.

RI to vote on dropping 'Plantations' from its name (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2000 file photo, the seal of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is seen on the floor of the Statehouse rotunda in Providence, R.I. On Nov. 2, 2010, voters will decide for the first time whether to change the state name by dropping the words 'Providence Plantations,' an issue that has been debated for years. (AP Photo/Susan E. Bouchard, File)AP - This state's official name — The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island's prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Rand Paul volunteer ordered to court for scuffle (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:11 PM PDT

In this Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 image taken from video and released by WDRB/Louisville, Lauren Valle of liberal group MoveOn.org, seen in red, is held on the ground by supporters of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul as she tries to confront the candidate, in Lexington Ky., after Paul and Democratic opponent Jack Conway debated. (AP Photo/WDRB/Louisville) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The volunteer with Rand Paul's Republican U.S. Senate campaign who stepped on the head of a liberal activist and pinned her face to the concrete said Tuesday the scuffle was not as bad as it looked on video and blamed police for not intervening.

Charges dropped against 3 in NYC anti-gay attacks (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against three people accused of taking part in anti-gay attacks on two men and two teens, citing a lack of evidence.

Witness: Jail violence unlikely from Conn. convict (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Steven Hayes. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)AP - Even though he threatened to kill a correction officer seven months ago, a Connecticut man convicted in a deadly home invasion is unlikely to commit serious violence if he spends his life in prison, a defense expert testified Tuesday.

NY chief urges caution in judging police shooting (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT

FILE- This file handout photo from Pace University shows Danroy Henry, 20, a student and football player at Pace University's Pleasantville campus who was shot and killed by local police . (AP Photo/Pace University,Handout) NO SALESAP - The chief of a police department involved in the fatal shooting of a college football player implored the public Tuesday to let investigations play out before jumping to conclusions about the officers who fired — or the student who died.

Court approves new Hanford toxic cleanup schedule (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:46 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. District Court in Spokane has approved a new schedule that delays the cleanup of radioactive waste from the nation's most contaminated nuclear site by about 20 years.
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