Sunday, February 27, 2011

Airport in Alabama reopens after security scare (Reuters)

Airport in Alabama reopens after security scare (Reuters)

Airport in Alabama reopens after security scare (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 05:56 PM PST

Reuters - Authorities reopened the airport at Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday after closing it for several hours due to a suspicious package, airport spokeswoman Toni Bast said.

Many protesters refuse to exit Wisconsin Capitol (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:04 PM PST

Protestors continue to occupy the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, February 25, 2011. REUTERS/Darren HauckReuters - Dozens of protesters against proposed legislation to weaken state public unions refused to leave the Wisconsin state capitol building on Sunday and police said they would be allowed to stay the night.

Local Mexico drug boss tied to U.S. agent death caught (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:11 PM PST

Women bow before the casket of slain U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata during a funeral mass at the Brownsville Events Center in Brownsville, Texas, February 22, 2011. REUTERS/Brad Doherty/PoolReuters - The Mexican Navy said on Sunday it arrested the alleged regional head of the feared "Zetas" drug gang in connection with this month's murder of a U.S. customs agent by a drug gang.

High tech, medieval weaponry combine in trebuchet competition (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:20 PM PST

Reuters - In a mashup of 12th-century weaponry and 21st-century technology, employees of an area Google Data Center triggered a 6-foot wooden siege weapon this weekend with an Android cell phone, a computer the size of a credit card and a Blue Tooth receiver.

Police: Rioters threw flares at Seattle officers (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:43 PM PST

AP - Demonstrators clad in black threw flares and a large firework at police during a melee that began where an officer shot to death a homeless woodcarver last summer, authorities said Sunday.

ND residents along Red River avoid flood buyouts (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:36 PM PST

In a Feb. 17, 2011 photo, John Stern points out to the Red River from what he calls his favorite room of his south Fargo home designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright family. The city is offering to buy out Stern's house to help protect the city from flooding. Fargo has bought about 50 properties since the record-setting flood in 2009 that damaged 100 homes and caused millions of dollars of damage. City officials say the goal is to protect the city from Red River flooding without sandbagging. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)AP - John Stern has lived in Fargo all his life, buying a dream home on the Red River more than 25 years ago.

Oscar who? Astronauts too busy for earthly awards (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:33 PM PST

In this frame grab from video taken from NASA television, space shuttle Discovery performs a maneuver as it zooms toward an afternoon check-in at the International Space Station, its final visit before being parked at a museum, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex said Sunday that gearing up for their first spacewalk and accomplishing other chores kept them too busy to pay attention to the Academy Awards back on Earth.

Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2 (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:15 PM PST

This Oct. 26, 2010 photograph provided by Joule Unlimited shows the company’s ethanol and diesel production testing facility in Leander, Texas, where arrays of bacteria gather sunlight and carbon dioxide and convert them to fuel. (AP Photo/Joule Unlimited, Felicia Spagnoli) NO SALESAP - A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Police allow protesters to remain at Wis. Capitol (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 07:00 PM PST

Damon Terrrell speaks to protesters at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011. Protests to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are in their 13th day at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - The occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol by protesters fighting efforts to strip public workers of union bargaining rights carried on Sunday after police decided not to forcibly remove demonstrators and end a nearly two-week-long sit-in.

AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:15 PM PST

FILE - In this June 25, 1945 picture, army doctors expose patients to malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the malaria ward at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by participating in studies that could help the troops. A series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other penitentiaries were designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific. Shocking as it may seem, government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. (AP Photo/File)AP - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

Union bargaining just a dream for many gov workers (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:23 PM PST

FILE - In a Feb. 21, 2011 file photo, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour talks with an Associated Press reporter at the Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa. Across the South, governors like Barbour and state legislatures dominated by conservative lawmakers find it relatively easy to chip away at public employees' benefits or eliminate government jobs because most state employees in the region, even when represented by a union, lack collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Steve Pope, File)AP - Whenever Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has asked lawmakers to weaken benefits for state employees, his proposals have met little resistance from workers.

Wis. governor says protests haven't swayed him (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 07:40 AM PST

Sean Conard, left, of Green Bay, Wis., and Shyla Deacon of Milwaukee cheer during protests at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Protests to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are in their 12th day. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the two weeks of protests in the state capital haven't swayed his resolve to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

Lieberman: Report on Army mind tricks `weird' (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 09:22 AM PST

AP - One of the U.S. senators allegedly targeted by an Army unit using psychological operations to help get more money and troops for the Afghanistan war says he doesn't believe he's been "brainwashed."

Soldier impersonators target women in web scams (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:44 PM PST

This screen shot take from Facebook.com on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 shows a Facebook page set up by a person impersonating Army Sgt. James Hursey and showing Facebook friend Janice Robinson. Hursey, 26, discharged and sent home from war in Iraq to nurse a back injury, found a page with his photos on Facebook — on a profile that wasn't his. It was fake, set up by someone claiming to be an active-duty soldier looking for love. The fake's cover was blown by Janice Robinson, of Orlando, Fla., after she had begun talking to him thinking he was one of several people named Mark Johnson that she knew. (AP Photo/Facebook) NO SALESAP - Con artists are targeting women on Facebook in what's becoming an all-too-common ruse: They steal photos of soldiers to set up profiles, profess their love and devotion in sappy messages — and then ask their victims to cut a check.

US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:47 AM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2011, plaintiff Abdullah al-Kidd, right, and his attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Director of the Immigrants' Rights Project, Lee Gelernt, talk about a Supreme Court lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, during an interview with the Associated Press in Los Angeles. Abdullah al-Kidd, 37, a former University of Idaho football player, was arrested in 2003 on a material witness warrant. Ashcroft was serving then as attorney general under President George W. Bush and helped write the Patriot Act. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking.

Native American groups sue to stop solar projects (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:04 PM PST

In a Feb. 7, 2011 photo, Alfredo Figueroa, with the La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle, who has filed three federal lawsuits against six fast-tracked solar projects, poses in Blythe, Calif., at the site of a desert geoglyph. The group claims federal officials sped through the approval process for a series of solar projects planned on vast tracks of public land in the West dismissing their concerns that the massive projects could harm sacred sites. (AP Photo/Noaki Schwartz)AP - Native Americans are clashing with the federal government over plans to fast-track approval and construction of massive solar energy projects that the Indians fear will harm sacred and culturally significant sites in Western deserts.

US Sen. John Thune won't run against Obama in 2012 (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 03:36 PM PST

FILE - In this June 25, 1945 picture, army doctors expose patients to malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the malaria ward at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by participating in studies that could help the troops. A series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other penitentiaries were designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific. Shocking as it may seem, government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. (AP Photo/File)AP - U.S. Sen. John Thune said Tuesday that he won't join what's expected to be a crowded GOP field of presidential hopefuls next year, concluding he would have a difficult time fundraising and that President Barack Obama would be tough to beat.

Air travelers may have been exposed to measles (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 10:06 PM PST

AP - Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been exposed to measles from a traveler arriving from London.
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