Monday, November 8, 2010

State official fired after targeting gay student leader

State official fired after targeting gay student leader


State official fired after targeting gay student leader

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:56 PM PST

An assistant AG in Michigan has been fired, weeks after coming under fire for targeting an openly gay university student online and in person, the attorney general said.

U.S.-born cleric rails against Iran, U.S.

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:14 PM PST

An American-born cleric believed to be hiding in Yemen blasted Sunni leaders, Shiite Iran and the United States in a video posted on jihadist websites Monday.

Two miners killed in Chile blast

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:07 PM PST

Two miners were killed and a third was injured in a dynamite explosion at a copper and gold mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, not far from another mine where 33 miners were trapped for 69 days.

Former Argentine dictator dies

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:02 PM PST

Emilio Massera, a former admiral who was part of a military junta that ruled Argentina in the 1970s, died Monday in the hospital were he had been for some time, the state-run Telam news agency reported.

884 arrested in child prostitution sweep

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:45 PM PST

A three-day federal crackdown on child prostitution rings across the country resulted in the recovery of 69 children and the arrest of 884 persons, authorities said.

Jurors: Death for Connecticut killings

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 01:47 PM PST

A man convicted of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a brutal 2007 home invasion should die for the crime, jurors decided Monday after more than 16 hours of deliberation. FULL STORY | 'GOD WILL BE FINAL ARBITER'

Mom of beaten 'angel' wants justice

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:52 PM PST

The mother of a teen beaten outside a house party referred to her son as a "silent hero" and called for justice after four teens accused of his murder appeared in court.

Elizabeth Smart testifies on 'nightmare'

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:55 PM PST

Elizabeth Smart recounted to a rapt courtroom how she was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint in 2002 before being "sealed" to a man and raped at age 14.

Opinion: Can the Tea Party endure?

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 07:38 PM PST

The midterm elections dealt a powerful blow to President Obama and the Democratic Party as the country appeared to shift decisively to the right, moved by mass anger, "due to a combination of two kinds of fear," historian Michael Kazin told CNN.

Police: Woman tried to sell grandson

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 03:36 PM PST

A Florida grandmother and her boyfriend were in jail Monday after trying to sell the woman's 8-week-old grandson for $30,000, police said.

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