Monday, December 27, 2010

Flights resume at NY airports following blizzard (AP)

Flights resume at NY airports following blizzard (AP)

Flights resume at NY airports following blizzard (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 06:33 PM PST

Elliott Levey, 16, of Hudson, Wis., sleeps as he waits with his father Richard and sister Avalon Levey, 18, Dec. 27, 2010 in Bloomington, Minn. . They were trying to get to Peru via Newark, NJ. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores)AP - Planes began landing again Monday at two of the nation's busiest airports after a blizzard that clobbered the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow grounded flights in the New York metropolitan area, stranding thousands of travelers trying to get home after the holidays.

400 spend frigid night on A train in NYC nightmare (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 06:51 PM PST

AP - It took hours for Christopher Mullen to get off a plane from sunny Cancun and on to a half-empty subway car, his only way home. It would be another eight hours and more — a night spent huddled under a thin blanket on the frigid, grungy car — before he could get off the A train.

SC's governor mum on plans, affair as tenure ends (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:47 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 photo, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford talks with Associated Press reporters in his office in Columbia, S.C. about his time in office and his future. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)AP - Things are looking up for Gov. Mark Sanford as he prepares to leave office on his own terms more than a year after the international affair that derailed his once-promising political career.

Behind Google's Holiday Doodle (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - If you're into Google Doodles then Micheal Lopez is your very own Santa

Web Legend "TRON Guy" Banned from Seeing TRON: Legacy in Famed Suit (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - When you've become an Internet meme for your love of TRON, a movie theater really ought to let you watch the film in costume

More farmers markets expand to year-round (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:33 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 9, 2010, Weston Lant, of Rochester, Mass., owner of Lucky Field Organics, right, assists customer Dean Wong, of Plymouth, Mass., at Lant's indoor farm stand at the visitor center at Plymouth Plantation, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)AP - A steady stream of customers filled baskets and shopping bags with vegetables, cranberries, cheese, fresh-baked breads and pies while chatting with the dozen or so farmers selling goods in the visitor's center of a local museum.

Snowbound New Yorkers upset about unplowed streets (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

People pass a city bus stuck in the snow, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would be travelers Monday. Two buses and two sanitation trucks were stuck on the same block in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - A windy winter storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on New York City also whipped up criticism about how the city responded to it.

Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 07:22 AM PST

AP - Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.

Snail mucus, potheads add to strange Fla. news (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 08:15 AM PST

AP - This year, Floridians learned that burials at sea don't work if the body doesn't sink, giant snail mucus can make you sick and that an underwire bra can stop a lawyer from visiting her client in prison.

Miller lifts opposition to certifying AK election (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 picture, Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, right, confers with his lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, before the Alaska Supreme Court convened in Anchorage, Alaska. On Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision in the disputed U.S. Senate race, saying the state correctly counted write-in votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)AP - Alaska's certification of results showing U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski winning re-election over Republican rival Joe Miller could come as soon as Thursday.

Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 06:33 PM PST

Linda Reaves poses for a picture at the Jewish Council for the Aging in Rockville, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Reaves never had much opportunity to save as a single mother raising two sons and a daughter. After holding a variety of positions over the years — hotel office manager, research analyst for a mortgage company, hospital mental health counselor — she was still living paycheck to paycheck. Reaves, who turns 60 this month, plans to work until she’s at least 70 and then wants to travel, even if she doesn't know where the money will come from. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they're hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.

Mass. officer shot dead with suspect during holdup (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 02:57 PM PST

This undated handout provided by the Woburn Police on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 shows Officer John Maguire. Officer Maguire was responding to reports of a robbery at a department store jewelry counter and was killed in a shootout that also claimed the life of a suspect, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Woburn Police Department)AP - Two men pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they were involved in the shooting death of a veteran police officer who responded to an armed robbery at a department store jewelry counter. One suspect was also killed.
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