Friday, October 1, 2010

Photos show US soldiers posing with Afghan corpses (AP)

Photos show US soldiers posing with Afghan corpses (AP)

Photos show US soldiers posing with Afghan corpses (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the U.S. Army, Cpl. Jeremy Morlock is shown. Morlock, 22, of Wasilla, Alaska, is among five Stryker soldiers charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. In interviews with Army investigators, he described a plot led by Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs to randomly kill civilians while on patrol in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, an investigator testified Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - Those who have seen the photos say they are grisly: soldiers beside newly killed bodies, decaying corpses and severed fingers.

NJ student's suicide resonates on campus, beyond (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:15 PM PDT

Rutgers University students sign condolence cards Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, at Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J., for the family of fellow student Tyler Clementi. The death of Clementi, 18, is being felt by his Rutgers University classmates who said they wished they could have stopped the teen from jumping off a bridge after secret video of his sexual encounter with a man was streamed online. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, and fellow Rutgers freshman Molly Wei, both 18, have been charged with invading Clementi's privacy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - "Things will get easier; people's minds will change," Ellen DeGeneres pleads in an Internet video, staring into the camera, her voice breaking. "And you should be alive to see it."

Mich. worker's blog sparks debate on free speech (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT

In this Sept. 7, 2010 photo, University of Michigan alumnus and assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell speaks about the University of Michigan's student assembly president Chris Armstrong at a Michigan Student Assembly meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/ The Michigan Daily, Marissa McClain) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A Michigan prosecutor who used his personal blog to attack the openly gay student body president at the University of Michigan has spurred debate about public employees' rights to say terrible things on their own time.

US apologizes for '40s syphilis study in Guatemala (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:12 PM PDT

Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom, offers a press conference in Guatemala City were he described as AP - American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible research."

Washington wealthy clash over income tax on rich (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:35 PM PDT

Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates is seen during his visit with investor Warren Buffett at a Dairy Queen in Beijing, China, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - The state that produced America's richest man has never taken a cut of its residents' income. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and his father would like to change that.

Arizona Medicaid cuts include transplant funding (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - A Phoenix man awaiting a bone-marrow transplant got good news Friday — word of two donors who are possible matches.

Grand jury indicts accused California kidnappers (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Nancy Garrido, center, who faces multiple charges related to the 1991 kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard, and her court appointed attorney Stephen Tapson, are given the grand jury indictment brought against her following a hearing at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 The indictment supersedes the previous charges filed against Garrido, and her husband, Phillip, allowing prosecutors to skip a preliminary hearing and go straight to trial without having Dugard appear.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard and her two young daughters will be spared from having to testify in open court any time soon following a grand jury indictment of the couple charged with kidnapping and holding her captive for 18 years, a prosecutor said Friday.

US balloonists plunged at 50 mph, likely dead (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:29 PM PDT

This image provided by Robin Macey shows balloonists Carol Rymer Davis, left, and Richard Abruzzo launching for the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race at Bristol, England, on Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. Abruzzo and Davis were participating in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race when contact was lost Wednesday morning, Sept. 29, 2010, over the Adriatic Sea. (AP Photo/Robin Macey)AP - Two missing American balloonists were plunging toward the Adriatic Sea at 50 mph (80 kph) when they dropped off air traffic control radar, a sign that they crashed and almost certainly were killed, organizers of the race they were competing in said Friday.

Conn. attorney: 2 home-invasion suspects at fault (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided in February 2010 by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Steven Hayes, accused of severely beating Dr. William Petit, Jr., and killing his wife and two daughters during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., July 23, 2007. Defense and prosecution lawyers were scheduled to make closing arguments in Hayes' murder trial Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction, File)AP - Two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 house invasion inflicted unimaginable terror on a model family that had enjoyed their final pleasant summer day together, prosecutors told a jury during closing arguments Friday.

Americans tread water in gulf between rich, poor (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:29 PM PDT

Charles Fox, 68, sits on a bench in Morgantown, W.Va., that has become his daytime home since a fire four weeks ago destroyed the place he'd been living. Fox, who is disabled and relies on federal assistance, is homeless because he can't afford the ever-increasing rents. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)AP - A Wall Street adviser leaves early for work to avoid panhandlers at his suburban train station. In coal country, a suddenly homeless man watches from a bench as wealthy women shop for dresses. A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb. A freshly elected politician loses his day job.

Mich. mom accused of faking son's cancer arraigned (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:47 PM PDT

AP - An unemployed Detroit-area mother accused of drugging and shaving her healthy 12-year-old son so he appeared to have cancer, then accepting thousands of dollars in donations for his treatment, was arraigned Friday on charges of fraud and child abuse.

Pot possession in Calif now like speeding ticket (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - A new law makes possessing up to an ounce of marijuana in California no more serious than getting a speeding ticket — a development both sides battling over a marijuana legalization ballot measure hope to exploit with the vote just a month away.

Official at center of Pa. terror-alert flap quits (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - The director of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has quit, telling the governor that he made the decision after reflecting on the uproar over anti-terrorism bulletins that tracked the actions of peaceful citizens' groups.

Judge allows 2 Blagojevich attorneys to step aside (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug 17, 2010 file photo, attorney for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Sam Adam Jr. speaks to the media at the Federal Court building. At left is Sam Adam. Sheldon Sorosky, another Blagojevich attorney, said Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, that Sam Adam Jr. will ask to withdraw from the case at a Friday hearing. A legal fund Blagojevich drew on during his first trial to pay his team of more than a dozen attorneys has run dry. Now that taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Blagojevich's defense, Zagel has said he'll only allow the impeached governor to have two attorneys. That, plus pressure on Blagojevich attorneys to represent clients in other cases, led the to the decision to try and withdraw, Sorosky said. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - A federal judge has granted a request by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lead attorney to withdraw from his principal defense role in an upcoming retrial.

Army investigates plot warning from soldier's dad (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:41 PM PDT

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. William Dixon, left, holds the hands of retired Marine Corps Col. Thomas Minion, and Janet Minion, after delivering the flag to them at the reinternment ceremony for their son, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Travis Manion, of Doylestown, Penn., at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Manion was buried in Pennsylvania after being killed in Iraq in 2007, and is being reinterned at Arlington so that he can be buried next to his best friend, Marine Corps Lt. Brendan Looney, who was killed in Afghanistan and will be buried on Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The Army said Friday it takes seriously a father's claims that he warned military officials early this year about a plot in his son's unit to kill Afghan civilians, and investigators have tracked down the soldier who answered a phone call the father made about the case.

Mardi Gras float-makers spar over company control (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - A father and son are battling over a family business that has made Mardi Gras floats for more than 50 years, and the son accuses his 83-year-old father's much younger fourth wife of manipulating the older man.

New sex ed funding ends decade of abstinence-only (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:54 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2010, high school students Monica Andres, left, and Leticia Vargas, both 16-years-old, listen to the teacher during sex education class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla. For the first time in more than a decade, the federal government is funding sex education programs that aren't based solely on abstinence. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - For the first time in more than a decade, the federal government is funding sex education programs that aren't based solely on abstinence. But they're not just about handing out condoms, either.

Maid dispute could hurt Whitman's Latino strategy (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Nicky Diaz, former housekeeper for California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, listens as attorney Gloria Allred talks to reporters in Los Angeles Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Diaz alleges that Whitman was notified seven years ago that the worker might be in the country illegally, but did nothing about it. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - The airwaves in California have been dominated by images of a teary immigrant housekeeper claiming she was mistreated by her billionaire employer and turned away when she asked for citizenship help.

Bin Laden evidence allowed at detainee's NYC trial (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 09:56 AM PDT

FILE - An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010 in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, described by federal authorities as a bomb maker, document forger and former bin Laden aide. He's charged with conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. (AP Photo/File)AP - Jurors in the trial of a Guantanamo detainee accused of supplying explosives for the deadly bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa can see Osama bin Laden's orders more than a decade ago that his followers kill Americans, a judge ruled Friday.
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