Monday, October 25, 2010

Wash. case raises alcoholic energy drink concerns (AP)

Wash. case raises alcoholic energy drink concerns (AP)

Wash. case raises alcoholic energy drink concerns (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:44 PM PDT

Cans of Four Loko are seen on display at a liquor store in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. After students at northern New Jersey's Ramapo College were hospitalized because of the effects of Four Loko, which contains caffeine and other common energy-drink ingredients — and as much alcohol as four beers, the college president ordered last month that it and similar drinks be banned. He's encouraging other colleges and the state to follow suit. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Sugary, high-alcohol energy drinks that are popular with college students who want to get drunk quickly and cheaply came under renewed scrutiny Monday as investigators announced that nine freshmen had been hospitalized after drinking them at an off-campus party.

As bedbugs creep out NYC, tourists crawl away (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Orkin LLC shows bed bugs. New York City's bedbugs have climbed out of bed and boldly marched into places like the Empire State Building, Bloomingdales and Lincoln Center, causing fresh anxiety among New Yorkers and tourists alike. New Yorkers have to deal with them in the workplace, while tourists planning trips are frantic about how to avoid getting bitten and bringing home the bloodsucking pests. (AP Photo/Orkin LLC, File)AP - New York City's bedbugs have climbed out of bed and marched into landmarks like the Empire State Building, Bloomingdale's and Lincoln Center, causing fresh anxiety among tourists who are canceling Big Apple vacations planned for the height of the holiday season.

'Hiccup girl' charged with murder in Florida (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:44 PM PDT

An Oct. 24, 2010 photo provided by the Pinellas County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Jennifer Mee, 19, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Mee, whose uncontrollable hiccups brought her worldwide attention in 2007, is charged in the killing of a 22-year-old man during a robbery. Mee and two others are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shannon Griffin on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Sgt. T. A. Skinner of the St. Petersburg Police Department says Mee lured Griffin to a home where the others robbed him at gunpoint. Police say Griffin was shot several times. )(AP Photo/Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)AP - An uncontrollable case of the hiccups brought an odd sort of fame to Jennifer Mee, who was 15 when she appeared on television morning shows trying to find a cure for her mysterious affliction.

Fareed Zakaria on How to Restore the American Dream (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 03:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Technology and globalization are shattering the middle class. With the midterms around the corner, the good news is that a bipartisan policy agenda can return the U.S. to prosperity. But no one says it will be easy

Paging Principal Skinner: Evaluating School Leaders (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 03:55 PM PDT

Time.com - The current attempts to assess principals' effectiveness are no better than for teachers, and in some ways worse

Protection request against anti-gay lawyer dropped (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

AP - The gay student government president at the University of Michigan dropped a request Monday for a personal protection order against an assistant state attorney general who heckled his speeches and criticized him on a blog.

Hair, hair! Off-duty NY cop praised in salon heist (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

AP - Feris Jones' make-my-day moment came Saturday evening at a Brooklyn beauty salon.

Police: Pa. mom killed her 4 newborns, kept bones (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

AP - A woman who secretly conceived several children through an extramarital affair killed at least four of her newborns, then kept their remains in coolers or encased in concrete in her closet until family members found them this year, authorities said Monday.

Convicted murderer, 2 others, escape Mo. jail (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

In this photo provided Oct. 25, 2010, by the Daviess County Sheriff's Department is Carlos Sarmiento, one of three men being sought by authorities after they crawled under a fence to get out of the Daviess/DeKalb County jail in Pattonsburg, Mo. Sarmiento was convicted in September for first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Daviess County Sheriff)AP - Three inmates, including a convicted murderer, escaped from a northwest Missouri jail by crawling under a fence, leading authorities to lock down the surrounding community's school and to go door-to-door warning residents.

Jurors in NH home-invasion trial visit crime scene (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

Steven Spader listens to the hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, New Hampshire Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Spader's homicide trial gets underway Monday. Spader is facing life in prison without parole for allegedly killing Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon on Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Himsel, Pool)AP - A murder suspect walked steps behind jurors touring the grounds Monday of a New Hampshire home where prosecutors say he hacked a woman to death with a machete and badly wounded her 11-year-old daughter during a home invasion.

NJ weighs new bullying laws after Rutgers suicide (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 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. New Jersey lawmakers introduced a bill Monday Oct. 25, 2010 to toughen the state's anti-bullying laws after Clementi's widely publicized suicide. Clementi committed suicide last month after authorities say his roommate secretly webcast his tryst with a man. (AP Photo/Reena Rose Sibayan, File)AP - New Jersey lawmakers introduced an "anti-bullying bill of rights" Monday that one advocate said would be the toughest state law of its kind in the nation, a proposal that follows the widely publicized suicide of a Rutgers University student who was humiliated online.

Trial begins in Fla. couple ninja attack slayings (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

AP - Jurors will start hearing the case Tuesday against a karate instructor charged with leading a group of men dressed as ninjas to rob an kill a wealthy couple while the couple's nine special-needs children cowered or slept nearby.

Squirrel in transformer puts Ohio school on alert (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:25 PM PDT

AP - Police said a lock-down at an Ohio high school resulted from an errant squirrel. Brookhaven High School in Columbus went on alert shortly after 8 a.m. Monday — about a half-hour into the school day — because of reports that shots had been fired in the area.

Sandwich delivery driver nabbed twice for drinking (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:25 PM PDT

AP - Police said a sandwich delivery driver was cited for drinking and driving twice in one night. Police told the Winona Daily News the 19-year-old was drunk Saturday when was making a delivery for Erbert and Gerbert's Sandwich Shop. Police said the Winona man parked in the middle of street and turned off his lights, and a taxi nearly struck his car.

North Dakota police arrest man in urinal shooting (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:25 PM PDT

AP - Police in Williston arrested a man who allegedly shot a urinal in a local bar. Authorities say the 21-year-old man fired a shot from a .45-caliber handgun into a urinal in the bathroom at Whispers. Damage was estimated at $500.

Pa. man complained to police about buying bad pot (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:25 PM PDT

AP - A southwestern Pennsylvania man called 911 to complain about some terrible marijuana he had just purchased, which turned out to be something other than pot. Police said the man told officers he bought the substance earlier that day and that "it was nasty" when he smoked it.

Apology for late calls on Nev. ballot question (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:25 PM PDT

AP - A firm hired to program robo calls has apologized for ringing up 50,000 Nevadans about a ballot measure in the wee hours of the night — by issuing another mass call.

Activists: Mormon beliefs factor in LGBT struggles (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2010 photo, Gay rights activist lay on the sidewalk near The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' temple in Salt Lake City. A sermon by a high-ranking church official on Oct. 3 denouncing homosexual attraction as unnatural and immoral exacerbated the troubled relationship with many lesbian, gay, bixsexual and transgender Mormons who have come out. Mormon-based gay activists said the sermon was also dangerous, coming as it did in the midst of the national furor over a Rutgers University student who jumped to his death. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP - Ben Jarvis has heard a lot of coming out stories.

NPR chief sorry over handling of Williams' firing (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:22 PM PDT

News analyst Juan Williams appears on the 'Fox & friends' television program in New York, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights in the U.S., has been fired by National Public Radio after comments he made about Muslims on Fox News Channel's 'The O'Reilly Factor,' on Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - NPR's chief executive says she's sorry for how analyst Juan Williams' dismissal was handled — but not for firing him.

5 years after indictments, DeLay's trial begins (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) speaks during a taping of 'Meet the Press' at the NBC studios March 18, 2007 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)AP - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, one of the most polarizing politicians of the Bush years, is finally getting his day in court, five years after being charged with illegally funneling corporate money to help elect Republicans to the Texas Legislature.
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