Thursday, November 4, 2010

Rutgers suicide case poses test for NJ privacy law (AP)

Rutgers suicide case poses test for NJ privacy law (AP)

Rutgers suicide case poses test for NJ privacy law (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:43 PM PDT

FILE - This West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North 2010 yearbook file photo shows high school senior Molly Wei. Attorneys for Wei and fellow Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, who were both accused of secretly broadcasting a classmate's sexual encounter online, insist their clients were the only two people who saw a tame encounter and did not record it, The Associated Press reports Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The classmate later committed suicide. (AP Photo/West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, File) NO SALESAP - The case of a Rutgers University student who committed suicide after a roommate allegedly used a webcam to spy on his tryst with another man could pose the first legal test of a state privacy law passed in 2003.

AP Enterprise: World's oil thirst leads to risks (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 11:58 AM PDT

AP - The world's thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught with environmental and political peril.

After Fort Hood, Army unit put grief aside to help (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:31 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, U.S. Army Col. Kathy Platoni looks at the decorations placed in her yard and on her mailbox by her neighbors to welcome her home from a tour in Afghanistan, in Beaver Creek, Ohio. Col. Platoni was at Fort Hood, Texas, last year when a gunman killed 13 people. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - On the doors of the U.S. Army Reserve's low-slung offices hang posters that proclaim "Battlemind — Armor For Your Mind."

Republican Election Wins: What Next for Obama, Democrats? (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 08:55 AM PDT

Time.com - The swing voters who flocked to Barack Obama two years ago turned against his agenda, leaving Democrats to ponder how to rebuild a winning coalition for 2012

Ike Skelton, Pentagon Favorite, Loses (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 08:55 AM PDT

Time.com - Rep. Ike Skelton was one of the Democratic heavyweights felled in Tuesday's election.

New hearing ordered for 3 in Ark. scout deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, Damien Echols is interviewed in the visiting area of the Arkansas Department of Correction Varner Unit prison in Varner, Ark. The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday Nov. 4, 2010 ordered a judge to consider whether newly analyzed DNA evidence might exonerate three men, including Echols, convicted in the 1993 murders of three West Memphis Cub Scouts. The justices also said a lower court must examine claims of misconduct by the jurors who sentenced Echols to death and Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin to life in prison. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)AP - The three men convicted in the grisly murders of three West Memphis Cub Scouts won new hearings Thursday to argue their innocence, more than 15 years after they were sent to prison despite scant physical evidence linking them to the crime scene.

Slain man's teammates visit police shooting scene (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:53 PM PDT

AP - Four college football players who were arrested after their teammate was shot and killed by police entered not-guilty pleas Thursday, then returned to the scene of the shooting to visit a makeshift memorial.

Ex-GOP official: Money swap in DeLay case common (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, Tom DeLay, right, answers questions from members of the media with his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, left, at the Travis County courthouse in Austin, Texas. Opening statements began Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, in the trial of the former U.S. House Majority Leader, who is accused of helping to illegally finance Texas legislative races in 2002. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)AP - A former Republican National Committee official told jurors Thursday in Tom DeLay's money laundering trial he doesn't believe anything illegal was done when the RNC exchanged $190,000 in corporate donations raised by the ex-House majority leader's political action committee, saying such money swaps were common.

Conn. election official says vote count incomplete (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 06:36 PM PDT

Democratic candidate for governor Dan Malloy shakes hands with supporters in Hartford, Conn., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Connecticut's race for governor remained undecided Thursday night as local election officials continued to tally votes.

Gunman commits suicide after Fla. hospital ordeal (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 06:17 PM PDT

AP - A man who was recently fired from a Florida hospital fired shots inside its cafeteria Thursday and then barricaded himself in a room before killing himself, authorities said. No one else was injured.

Appeals court halts Elizabeth Smart kidnap trial (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PDT

Brian David Mitchell, center, is escorted into the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, in Salt Lake City. A federal judge is expected to empanel a jury and hear opening arguments in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trial. Mitchell's trial on kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor charges began Monday in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court. The trial is expected to last at least five weeks. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday halted the trial of a man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart to decide if he can get a fair trial in Utah.

Murkowski acts like victor but questions linger (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:57 PM PDT

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, center, conducts a phone interview Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 at her campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. With Murkowski are from left, press secretary Steve Wackowski, supporter Bruce Schulte and sister Carol Sturgulewski. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)AP - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is acting as though she pulled off an improbable win with her historic write-in candidacy, telling supporters they'd made history.

Lawsuit filed in Okla. against Islamic law ban (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Muneer Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Oklahoma Chapter, left, answers questions during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The group says a legal challenge is planned against a ballot measure prohibiting state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases. The ballot measure, State Question 755, was approved with 70 percent of the vote in Tuesday's general election. Awad says the measure is deceptive and makes it appear that there is a threat of some kind of Islamic takeover of state courts that does not exist. At right is Imad Enchassi, Imam - Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - An Oklahoma Muslim filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to block a state constitutional amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters that would prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.

Man sentenced to life for NJ schoolyard killings (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PDT

AP - A man who admitted pulling the trigger in the execution-style killings of three college students in a schoolyard was sentenced Thursday to three consecutive life terms in a case that jolted New Jersey's largest city into dealing with its crime problem.

Man declared dead in 1994 wanted for kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PDT

AP - A man declared dead 16 years ago but who authorities say is alive is charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old Nevada girl whose remains were found in Louisiana, officials said Thursday.

Cards, Game of Life enter Toy Hall of Fame in NY (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:25 PM PDT

AP - Deal me in! Playing cards are the latest iconic diversion — in some circles, a pack of trouble — to land in the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Defense: Jail worse than death for Conn. defendant (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:55 PM PDT

FILE - This undated inmate file photo released 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. Hayes' attorneys are challenging a judge's decision to replace a regular juror with an alternate to determine his sentence. A hearing will be held Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, in New Haven, Conn., on the motion. The jury is expected to begin deliberations Friday on whether Hayes should get the death sentence or life in prison. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction, File)AP - A life sentence in prison would actually be harsher than a death sentence for a Connecticut man who killed a woman and her two daughters in a home invasion, because he is so haunted by the crime and isolated in prison, his attorney told a jury Thursday.

Big Mexican drug ring hit by Atlanta-area busts (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:43 PM PDT

AP - Federal and local law enforcement agents have arrested 45 people and seized cash, guns and more than two tons of drugs as part of an investigation into the Atlanta-area U.S. distribution hub of a major Mexican drug cartel, authorities said Thursday.

Victories in hand, governors face vast deficits (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 06:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2010 file photo, Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott waves to supporters in the early morning hours in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Scott, a tea party-backed Republican, has promised to simultaneously return spending to 2004 levels and eliminate corporate income taxes as he faces an estimated deficit of roughly $2.5 billion. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)AP - When stumping on the campaign trail, the nation's new slate of governors could afford to make sweeping but vague promises about how they'd solve their states' massive looming budget deficits.

US, British downplay French comment on mail bombs (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:59 PM PDT

A map showing the locations where two parcel bombs were intercepted in transit to the USA. The United States intercepted parcels from Yemen in September thought to be a dry run for the package bomb plot, a US official said, as Western governments tightened freight and passenger security.(AFP/Graphic)AP - American and British officials moved quickly Thursday to downplay the French foreign minister's comment that one of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was disarmed just 17 minutes before it was set to go off.
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