Friday, November 5, 2010

Scientists find damage to coral near BP well (AP)

Scientists find damage to coral near BP well (AP)

Scientists find damage to coral near BP well (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:07 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Lophelia II 2010 research group, shows coral, several miles from the site of the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, apparently covered with brown material. For the first time, federal scientists say they have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life from the the Deepwater Horizon rig, but tests are needed to verify that the coral died from oil from released in the disaster. (AP Photo/Lophelia II 2010, NOAA, OER and BOEMRE) NO SALESAP - For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well — a strong indication that damage from the spill could be significantly greater than officials had previously acknowledged.

White ex-transit officer given 2-year prison term (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 06:33 PM PDT

Hundreds of demonstrators attend a rally after the sentencing of former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, Calif., Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant at a BART station on Jan. 1, 2009. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry sentenced Mehserle  to two years in prison. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A white former transit officer was sentenced to the minimum possible prison sentence of two years Friday for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform, angering the victim's family and friends, who demanded a much harsher punishment.

Shuttle launch off until end of month to fix leak (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:28 PM PDT

Space shuttle Discovery's hydrogen gas connector, seen connected to the external tank, lower right, developed a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak which halted the launch countdown, Friday Nov. 5, 2010. Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage was postponed Friday until the end of the month so NASA can fix a fuel leak. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage is off until at least the end of the month because of a large fuel leak that forced yet another launch delay.

Tanned, Tested, Ready: New Speaker John Boehner (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Yes, John Boehner plays a lot of golf. Yes, he has a deep tan. And yes, he hangs out with corporate lobbyists. But there's more to him than that. Meet the Washington insider who's leading the opposition

After the Bruising: Where Obama Goes From Here (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Barack Obama is bruised. Republicans are sounding humble. Is that a recipe for partnership?

Officials: Suspect lived unnoticed after 'death' (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:54 PM PDT

Thomas Steven Sanders is seen in an undated photo provided by FBI New Orleans. The FBI has issued a federal kidnapping warrant for Thomas Steven Sanders in connection with a Lexis Kaye Roberts, a 12-year-old Nevada girl whose body was found in early October in Louisiana. Law officials said Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 that Lexis Kaye Roberts was last seen with her mother and Sanders. The girl's skeletal remains were found in a wooded area of Catahoula Parish. (AP Photo/FBI New Orleans)AP - After the skeletal remains of a slain Las Vegas girl were found in the woods of central Louisiana, the investigation led authorities to a startling conclusion: The man suspected of kidnapping her was supposed to have died 16 years earlier.

2 nabbed in Halloween shooting of costumed LA boy (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 06:52 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department, shows Aaron Shannon Jr., 5, who was shot while showing off his Halloween costume in his backyard on Oct. 31, 2010 in Los Angeles. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, that police have arrested two suspects in the shooting. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the arrests are to be announced at an afternoon news conference. (AP Photo/LAPD, File)AP - Two reputed gang members were arrested in the Halloween killing of a 5-year-old boy who was shot in the head as he showed off his Spider-Man costume in his backyard, police said Friday.

Victims remembered 1 year after Fort Hood shooting (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:48 PM PDT

An unidentified woman touches a name on a memorial stone after it was unveiled during a ceremony and memorial stone unveiling commemorating the one-year anniversary of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, where 13 people were killed and dozens wounded, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Parents, spouses and children reverently approached the 6-foot-tall granite memorial Friday, some kneeling and wiping away tears as they gently touched a name etched on the stone — each belonging to one of the 13 people killed in the Fort Hood shooting rampage a year ago.

Appeals court rejects effort to move Smart trial (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:22 PM PDT

AP - The Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trial is set to resume Monday after a federal appeals rejected defense efforts to move the proceedings out of Utah.

Removal of Iowa judges may inspire similar efforts (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2010 file photo, Cal Flynn, of Grimes, Iowa, holds a sign during a rally held before a bus tour by gay marriage opponents through the state to remove three state Supreme Court justices who joined in a unanimous ruling legalizing gay marriage in Des Moines, Iowa. Emboldened by the success of a campaign to oust several Iowa judges who supported gay marriage, conservative activists are looking for new ways to use the ballot box to strike back against the courts. Judicial-removal campaigns have generally been difficult and expensive to sell to the public. But some groups are beginning to view them as a new tool in the battle over abortion, illegal immigration or other hot issues. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Emboldened by the success of a ballot initiative to oust Iowa judges who supported gay marriage, conservative activists are looking for new ways to use the power of the vote to strike back against the courts.

No verdict yet on sentence in Conn. home invasion (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:16 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 - Jurors deciding punishment for a man convicted in a deadly home invasion suggested Friday on their first day of deliberations that they were divided over whether special circumstances existed that could automatically spare him the death penalty.

Chilean miner scopes out route before NYC Marathon (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena visits the Empire State Building observation deck on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, in New York. Pena is aiming to finish the New York City Marathon on Sunday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Going from a half-mile underground to 1,050 feet above it, Chilean miner Edison Pena visited the Empire State Building on Friday and scoped out the route he will run in the New York City Marathon.

Lesbian who sued over prom talks about gay bullies (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2010 file photograph, Itawamba County Agricultural High School senior Constance McMillen, gestures as she leaves the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss., following a hearing regarding the ACLU's preliminary injunction to force the prom at her high school. McMillen's fight against intolerance is a reason Glamour magazine has named her as one of its 'Women of the year 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - The lesbian who successfully challenged a rural Mississippi school district's ban on same-sex prom dates says she wept when she read about the recent spate of gay teen suicides linked to harassment.

Ohio court reverses conviction in microvave death (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2007 file photo, China Arnold is shown in common pleas court in Dayton, Ohio. A state appeals court on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, reversed Arnold's murder conviction in her baby daughter's burning death in a microwave oven. Arnold was sentenced in 2008 to life in prison without parole after being convicted of killing 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005. The conviction was reversed by the 2nd District Ohio Court of Appeals based on prosecutorial misconduct and a witness's recanting of her testimony, said Arnold's attorney, Jon Paul Rion. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)AP - A state appeals court on Friday reversed a woman's murder conviction in her baby daughter's burning death in a microwave oven.

FBI to military buildings shooter: Call us (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:07 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 10, 2006 file photo shows the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. Police in Virginia are investigating an overnight shooting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the fourth such shooting at military-related buildings in the area. First Sgt. Kim Chinn, a Prince William County police spokeswoman, says multiple shots were fired sometime after the museum closed Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. The museum is in Triangle, Va., about 30 miles south of the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - FBI investigators have a simple message for the shooter who has hit the Pentagon, a Marine museum and two military recruiting stations in the Washington area: Call us.

ND president: School responsible in student death (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:48 PM PDT

The casket is carried out after the funeral Mass for Declan Sullivan on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, at St. Mary Church in Buffalo Grove, Ill. Sullivan, 20, a student at Notre Dame, died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in South Bend, Ind., after the tower from which he was filming football practice fell over during high winds. (AP Photo/Eric Essex)AP - The president of the University of Notre Dame sent an e-mail to students, faculty, staff and alumni Friday saying that the school is responsible for a student videographer's death because it failed to protect him.

3 gulls found with jagged beer cans around necks (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:28 PM PDT

FILE -- In this undated photo provided by WildRescue, a gull is seen at a beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif., with a beer can around its neck. Three seagulls with jagged beer-can collars slipped around their necks have been discovered in the San Francisco area. Rebecca Dmytryk of the Moss Landing-based WildRescue group says the organization first received photographs in September showing a gull with a sliced-open Budweiser can stuck around its neck.(AP Photo/WildRescue, Lana Ellis) NO SALESAP - Three seagulls with jagged beer-can collar slipped around their necks have been discovered in the San Francisco area.

Ohio NASA lockdown spurred by test system glitch (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:46 PM PDT

AP - A NASA research center was locked down and employees hunkered down in their offices for about an hour Friday because a misdirected phone call during a security test led them to believe there was a gunman on campus.

NJ train worker who burned Quran sues over firing (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:17 PM PDT

AP - A former New Jersey train worker fired after publicly burning pages from the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks filed a lawsuit Friday seeking reinstatement and monetary damages.
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