Sunday, December 26, 2010

Snowstorm coats East, frustrating holiday travel (AP)

Snowstorm coats East, frustrating holiday travel (AP)

Snowstorm coats East, frustrating holiday travel (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:25 PM PST

Motorists pull over to the side of the Long Island expressway to try and clear their windshield during a blizzard in Long Island, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A winter storm made travel torturous in the Northeast on Sunday, dropping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and made motorists think twice about hitting after-Christmas sales.

Citing police abuse, Hispanics leaving Conn. town (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 photo, a woman pushes a shopping cart past Los Amigos Grocery in East Haven, Conn. Luis Rodriguez, an immigrant from Ecuador and owner of the Los Amigos Grocery, said he was arrested two months ago and jailed for five days after a woman pointed out to police that his 3-year-old son was not supervised on the sidewalk outside the store. A federal civil rights investigation is under way and the FBI recently opened a criminal probe for allegations of racial profiling against Hispanics by East Haven police. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Santiago Malave has worked law enforcement jobs in Connecticut for more than four decades, but as a Puerto Rican, he says he cannot drive through his own town without worrying about police harassing him.

Deadly Afghan year takes toll on 101st Airborne (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:51 AM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 picture, an Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Cpl. Kenneth E. Necochea Jr. of San Diego Calif., as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. James E. Cartwright, left, and Lt. Gen. William J. Troy, second from left, salute at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Necochea was among six American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Ky. who were killed in a Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. The 101st Airborne Division, a force in America's major conflicts since World War II, is seeing its worst casualties in a decade as the 2010 U.S. surge in Afghanistan turns into the deadliest year in that war for the NATO coalition. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The 101st Airborne Division, a force in America's major conflicts since World War II, is seeing its worst casualties in a decade as the U.S. surge in Afghanistan turns into the deadliest year in that war for the NATO coalition.

Daley now Chicago mayor 1 day longer than father (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:38 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2010 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley laughs as he meets with the media after a city council meeting. Daley on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 surpassed his father's tenure, becoming the longest-serving mayor of Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Richard M. Daley on Sunday surpassed his father's tenure, becoming the longest-serving mayor of Chicago.

Dead Chicagoans don't vote, but living have tricks (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 1960 file photo President John F. Kennedy poses in his White House office with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, left of Kennedy, and his family, from left: Bill 13, Mrs. Daley, Patricia 22, John 13, Mary 21, Eleanor 19, and Michael 17. On the 50th anniversary of suspicions that Richard J. Daley orchestrated big vote numbers to help Kennedy win the presidency in 1960, experts say the city has instituted safeguards over the years to assure that the kind of wide-scale vote fraud perpetrated by the old Chicago Machine couldn't happen again in the first wide open mayor's race in more than two decades. (AP Photo, File)AP - It's not on a par with how Chicagoans used to keep voting after they died. Or with the curious case of the man in the 1980s whose signature wound up on a local ballot application — twice_ even though he had no fingers or thumbs.

NY, other states scrimp on Civil War anniversary (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:35 AM PST

In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, a 23rd New York Infantry Civil War uniform is on display at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. New York state contributed 448,000 troops and $150 million to the Union cause during the Civil War, not to mention untold tons of supplies, food, guns and munitions. But with the 150th anniversary of the war's start just months away, New York state government has so far failed to scrounge up a single Yankee dollar to commemorate a conflict it played such a major role in winning. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - New York state contributed 448,000 troops and $150 million to the Union cause during the Civil War, not to mention untold tons of supplies, food, guns and munitions.

Bighorn sheep start new year in new Texas home (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST

This Dec. 21, 2010, photo shows a desert bighorn sheep scampering up Bofecillos Mountains along the Rio Grande River that she and about 39 others now call home. The rams and ewes were captured by helicopter from Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area in West Texas and released about 80 miles away in Big Bend Ranch State Park, the first reintroduction onto state park land. The two-day effort was the latest phase of a restoration project begun in 1954 as numbers of the majestic curly-horned mountain sheep dwindled in Texas. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney)AP - Dozens of majestic bighorn sheep have moved into a Texas state park as part of wildlife restoration efforts aimed at returning the sheep to their historic range.

AP Exclusive: Jackson Jr says 'everyone has erred' (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:20 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., right, and his wife Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, left, applaud as President Barack Obama is introduced at Ford Motor Company Chicago Assembly Plant. Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says he's a 'public servant' not a 'perfect servant.' The Democrat tells The Associated Press that even as he's been dogged by links to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and questions about his relationship with a female 'social acquaintance,' he's never deviated from his mission of bringing jobs to his Chicago area district. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn't rule out a future run at higher office.

'Octomom' faces eviction from Southern Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:15 PM PST

AP - The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he's going ahead with eviction proceedings because she hasn't made a long overdue $450,000 payment.

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

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST

In this Dec. 22, 2010 photo, attorney Daniel Balsam, who hates spam so much that he launched a Website Danhatesspam.com, poses outside in San Francisco. From San Francisco Superior Court small claims court to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco-based Balsam has been wielding a one-man crusade against e-mail marketers he alleges run afoul of federal and state anti-spamming laws with dozens of lawsuits filed even before he graduated law school in 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)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.

Exhibit opens on Curious George's wartime escape (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:31 PM PST

AP - Long before he pedaled himself into all sorts of mischief in "Curious George Rides a Bike," the famous monkey took a much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped the Nazi invasion of France.
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