Friday, October 8, 2010

NJ gov. agrees to reconsider tunnel cancellation (AP)

NJ gov. agrees to reconsider tunnel cancellation (AP)

NJ gov. agrees to reconsider tunnel cancellation (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:27 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a question Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in Trenton, N.J., as he announces 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. Over the years, the cost for the tunnel also has nearly doubled. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Under pressure from the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Chris Christie agreed Friday to rethink his decision to cancel construction of a $9 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City.

Minn. terror suspect deported to Canada (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - A Somali-born Canadian citizen who admitted he attended al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and lectures by Osama bin Laden was released from federal prison Friday after nearly seven years in custody and deported to Canada.

FBI: Tractor-trailer in Conn. has no explosives (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:41 PM PDT

AP - The FBI says a tractor-trailer that agents and police officers had surrounded at a travel stop on Interstate 95 in Connecticut is carrying no explosives.

Why the Internet Isn't Making Us Stupid (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Why the Internet Isn't Making Us Stupid

Obama's Would-Be Watchdog Picks His Battles (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Obama's Would-Be Watchdog Picks His Battles

Alaska moves toward legalized bear trapping (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:39 PM PDT

AP - Alaska wildlife managers say they need help: A growing number of black bears are roaming the state, chowing down on too many caribou and moose and leaving too few for humans to eat.

AP source: Grand jury probing anti-abortion murder (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder listens during pretrial motions in Sedgwick County District Court in Wichita, Kan. A federal grand jury is investigating whether last year's murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case said Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Hutmacher, The Wichita Eagle, File)AP - A federal grand jury is investigating whether last year's murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case said Friday.

2 injured when man opens fire at SoCal school (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:19 PM PDT

AP - A gunman opened fire on a crowded school playground Friday, grazing two young children with bullets before construction workers tackled him, authorities said.

1 Ohio school, 4 bullied teens dead by own hand (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:01 PM PDT

With a portrait on the side table of Sladjana Vidovic, who committed suicide in 2008, her mother Celija, left, father Dragan, and sister Suzana, talk about their loss in their home in Mentor, Ohio on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Sladjana was one of five Mentor High School teenagers who died within two and a half years. Four committed suicide. The fifth died of what her parents say was an accidental prescription drug overdose. Friends and family say bullying drove most of them to kill themselves.(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Sladjana Vidovic's body lay in an open casket, dressed in the sparkly pink dress she had planned to wear to the prom. Days earlier, she had tied one end of a rope around her neck and the other around a bed post before jumping out her bedroom window.

Police officer arrested in Ill., Ind. shootings (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 05:43 PM PDT

This composite sketch provided Thursday Oct. 7, 2010 by Lake County Police Department shows the suspect in Tuesday's random shootings at a work site in Illinois who ended about an hour later across the state line on an Indiana farm. The suspect, described as heavyset, unkempt and mentally unbalanced, is thought to be driving a 1990s Chevrolet pickup with a loud muffler. Authorities say the suspect asked about honeybees before shooting three men, one of them fatally, in rural areas of Illinois and Indiana.(AP Photo/Lake County Police Department)AP - The arrest of a small-town police officer for the seemingly random shootings of three people surprised his family and neighbors Friday even as it brought relief to residents on the Illinois-Indiana border where the shootings took place.

Nevada family's secret life unravels (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:13 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Washoe County Jail, Nancy Dunsavage is shown. Authorities in Nevada arrested Nancy Dunsavage who has been wanted in New Jersey for 25 years for allegedly kidnapping her young daughter that was not in her legal custody. Washoe County sheriff's deputies say they arrested 57-year-old Dunsavage at a residence near Lake Tahoe after she confessed she was the woman wanted in the warrant. (AP Photo/Washoe County Jail via the Reno Gazette Journal)AP - Melissa Reed was a proud fiancee applying for what she thought was a routine marriage license two weeks ago when she learned a stunning secret: She had been abducted as a child and living under an assumed name.

California budget perpetuates deficit spending (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 06:18 PM PDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger walks to the podium where he discussed the state budget that was passed earlier in the morning, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Lawmakers worked overnight to approve an agreement worked out a week ago between Schwarznegger and legislative leaders that closes a $19 billion deficit. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Even as California lawmakers passed a budget Friday to end an unprecedented 100-day impasse, their spending plan looked to be so tenuous that the next governor was expected to face a multibillion dollar deficit from the moment he or she steps into office next year.

Anna Nicole drug conspiracy case goes to jury (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 05:56 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 - The Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case, charging her lawyer-boyfriend and two doctors with providing the former Playboy model with excessive amounts of drugs, was placed in the hands of a jury Friday.

Feds touting National Guard mission in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Victor Manjarrez Jr., chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, speaks to reporters about the National Guard's deployment to the border under President Barack Obama's plan to beef up border security, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)AP - Government officials on Friday showed off a site where National Guard members have been deployed near the Mexican border, despite criticism that the troops will do nothing to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

Deputy: Border agent kills unarmed drug suspect (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 12:40 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Border Patrol agent tipped off that a pickup truck was carrying a suspicious payload shot and killed the teenage driver, who was apparently unarmed, after a brief struggle, authorities said Friday.

Miss. gov's frequent travels raise ire back home (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT

AP - Where's Haley? It's not an easy question to answer these days.

APNewsBreak: Johnson nets savings on prison labor (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT

AP - Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson, who has campaigned against government subsidies to business, employs up to nine prison inmates at his plastics factories whose health care costs are paid by the state, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Judge tells school to admit nose-pierced NC girl (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In a Sept. 15, 2010 file photo, Ariana Iacono, 14, poses for a photograph in Clayton, N.C. Federal judge U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard on Friday, Oct. 8. 2010, ordered a North Carolina school to admit 14-year-old high school student Ariana Iacono, who had been suspended for wearing a nose piercing she says is part of her religion. The teenager was on her way to science class at Clayton High School Friday afternoon at her attorney said. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, File)AP - A federal judge ordered a North Carolina school to admit a 14-year-old high school student suspended for wearing a nose piercing she says is part of her religion, and the teenager headed to science class Friday afternoon.

Lawyers: Death row costly for Conn. murder convict (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:24 PM PDT

Dr. William Petit Jr., center, speaks with his father, William Petit Sr., left, and sister Johanna Petit Chapman outside Superior Court in New Haven, Conn., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Steven Hayes was convicted of capital felony, murder, sexual assault and other counts by a jury that heard eight days of gruesome testimony about the July 2007 attacks on Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A Connecticut man convicted of murdering a woman and her two daughters in a home invasion will try to avoid the death penalty by arguing that executions cost taxpayers more than life sentences.
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