Tuesday, November 23, 2010

3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful (AP)

3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful (AP)

3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:31 PM PST

FILE - In a May 2006 file photo, Gilead Sciences Inc. Chief Executive John Martin holds a Truvada pill bottle in a lab in Foster City, Calif. Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Daily doses of Truvada, a pill already used to treat infection with HIV, the virus that causes the disease, helped prevent healthy gay men from catching it through sex with an infected partner. In a study of gay and bisexual men in six countries, the pill, Gilead's Truvada, cut the risk of infection by 44 percent when given with condoms, counseling and other prevention services. Men who took their pills most faithfully, at least 90 percent of the time, had even more protection — 73 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in gay men. And the pope opened the way for the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

Lost in frenzy over searches, travelers hit roads (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 05:13 PM PST

A passenger walks to catch a train at Union Station in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at the start of the Thanksgiving holiday travel rush. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Michael Sommermeyer's Thanksgiving plan goes like this: Load his wife and children into their Ford Taurus, hand his teens an iPad stocked with movies and drive 15 hours — from Las Vegas to Texas.

Don't touch my junk: TSA workers face a tough job (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:32 PM PST

A TSA agent waits for approval to release travelers as they go through airport security at the screening area of the Richmond International airport in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. The Obama administration's top transportation security official on Monday urged passengers angry over safety procedures not to boycott airport body scans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - They've been called molesters, threatened with violence and ordered not to touch "my junk."

Barnes & Noble's Nookcolor E-Reader Challenges the Kindle (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - The book merchant's second-generation touchscreen e-reader isn't perfect, but it's Amazon.com's most formidable competitor to date

Please Remove Your Prosthetic Breast: The TSA Horror Story to Trump Them All (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:10 AM PST

Time.com - Here's the TSA horror story that will leave you heartbroken and outraged: The flight attendant (and cancer survivor) who was forced to remove her prosthetic breast.

Texas priest accused of trying to hire hit man (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:32 PM PST

This Nov. 18, 2010 photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows John Fiala. Fiala, a former Roman Catholic priest charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2008 in his rural Texas parish is now accused of plotting the alleged victim's murder, authorities said. (AP Photo/Dallas County Sheriff's Department)AP - A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse. Authorities said John Fiala first offered the job to a neighbor, who blew the whistle and helped police arrange a sting. They said Fiala got as far as negotiating a $5,000 price for the slaying before investigators moved in.

Deputy: Map led to arrests in home invasion case (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST

Mara Skinner shows her injuries in court in Port Huron, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 during a preliminary hearing for her 17-year-old daughter Tia Skinner, and two 18-year-old men Jonathan Kurtz, and James Preston who are charged in the murder of her husband Paul Skinner. Mara Skinner described how her mortally wounded husband fended off two masked men who stabbed them in their bedroom in the middle of the night, chasing them from the home before collapsing and dying. All three have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, assault and conspiracy in the attack on the couple. (AP Photo/ Andre J. Jackson, Pool)AP - It was evidence so glaring detectives could hardly believe it, and it led them straight to their suspects: a hand-drawn map found outside the scene of a horrific home invasion with the words "my house" scrawled on it.

Conviction in Chandra Levy case overcame long odds (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:08 PM PST

This undated file photo released by DC Police authorities shows Chandra Levy. A Salvadoran man accused of killing government intern Chandra Levy nine years ago was found guilty of her murder Monday, capping a case that scandalized US politics when a congressman admitted having an affair with her.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Attorneys prosecuting the man ultimately convicted of murdering Chandra Levy didn't have much to work with.

Fla. woman accused in school threats arrested (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:12 PM PST

AP - A woman charged with making threats that caused 300 Florida schools to be locked down and a congressman-elect's top aide to step down was arrested Tuesday, federal authorities said.

AP Enterprise: Rig victims' kin feel left out (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:18 AM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2010 photo, family members of Dale Burkeen, one of 11 oil rig workers killed during the April 20, 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, gather at his grave near Philadelphia, Miss. The grave only holds mementos of Burkeen, as his body was never recovered. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Roy Wyatt Kemp's family is waiting for his headstone, black marble engraved with the deer and ducks he loved to hunt. The grave, however, lacks a body.

Storm that smacked Northwest moves to Utah, Idaho (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:32 PM PST

U.S. Army Spc. Ron Washington walks from his Humvee and past stuck cars on the Alaskan Way Viaduct to check on the gridlock on the highway Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, in Seattle. Drivers were stuck for hours throughout the Puget Sound region, as Washington state was hit by its first significant snowfall of the season Monday, with several inches on the ground in Spokane and just enough snow in the Puget Sound area to make traffic a mess. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - A ferocious storm that crippled much of the Pacific Northwest barreled into the Rockies on Tuesday, causing whiteout conditions on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

NYPD: 'Ugly Betty' actor killed mom with sword (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:43 PM PST

AP - An actor who once had a small part on "Ugly Betty" was charged Tuesday with stabbing his mother to death with a 3-foot sword in her home after a fight, police said.

Passenger finds ammunition clip on flight to Ariz. (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST

AP - A passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight found a full ammunition clip from a law enforcement officer's service weapon during a flight Tuesday from Burbank, Calif., to Phoenix, an airline spokesman said.

Jury finds man guilty in Calif. teen torture trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:23 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2010, file photo, Anthony Waiters is escorted from the courtroom during a break in his trial for the alleged 2008 kidnapping and false imprisonment of a 16-year-old teen in , in Stockton, Calif. A jury on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, found Waiters, 31, of torturing and beating the teen held captive in a central California home for more than a year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - A jury on Tuesday found a central California man guilty of torturing a teen held captive at his next-door neighbor's house for more than a year.

Mass. serial killer pleads guilty to 8th murder (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 05:03 PM PST

AP - A serial killer from western Massachusetts added an eighth murder to his record Tuesday, admitting that a woman he strangled in 1995 was his first killing.

Texas judge says DeLay jury veering off track (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 06:01 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay waits for his attorneys to finish paperwork inside the Travis County courthouse in Austin. Texas jurors in the money laundering trial of DeLay are to return for their first full day of deliberations on Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010, one day after sending the judge questions seeking clarification about the criminal charge. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)AP - Jurors in former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's money laundering trial ended their first full day of deliberations without a verdict Tuesday, seeming to struggle as they asked questions that had the judge in the case shaking his head and saying they weren't on the right track.

Butterball, Hostess, others going easier on salt (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:56 PM PST

AP - The makers of Butterball turkey, Twinkies and Wonder Bread have agreed to use less salt in some products as part of a national campaign against high blood pressure.

Victims whose remains were found in tree mourned (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PST

AP - Mourners carried sunflowers and baseballs as they left a visitation service Tuesday for a mother and son who were stabbed to death and dismembered in central Ohio, and a family friend who died with them was remembered as full of life and always smiling.

Former NC Gov. Easley guilty of 1 finance charge (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:38 PM PST

Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley arrives at the Wake County Courthouse for a court hearing in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. The hearing follows a yearlong probe into Easley's campaign finances. The State Board of Elections fined Easley's campaign committee $100,000 in October. Board members referred the case to prosecutors, determining there was enough evidence to show the committee failed to report dozens of flights between 1999 and 2004. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley was convicted Tuesday of a low-level felony and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine for an improperly filed campaign finance report, the lone accusation to emerge after sweeping investigations into his personal and professional life.

All-clear given at Boston airport cargo area (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:47 AM PST

A Transportation Safety Administration official talks on his mobile phone at a command center outside a portion of Logan Airport's cargo center in Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. A suspicious package has forced the evacuation of the cargo area of Boston's Logan International Airport. Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella says the suspicious package with a Nigerian address was found Tuesday and sparked federal officials to order an evacuation of the area. He said agents in bomb suits were investigating the matter in the Delta Cargo building. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - A bomb squad has issued the all-clear after examining two suspicious bags found in a cargo area at Boston's Logan International Airport.
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