Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Wisconsin Assembly debates law to curb unions (Reuters)

Wisconsin Assembly debates law to curb unions (Reuters)

Wisconsin Assembly debates law to curb unions (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:56 PM PST

Reuters - The Wisconsin state Assembly debated for hours on Tuesday a Republican proposal to curb the power of public sector unions that has sparked mass demonstrations and a tense stand-off with Democrats.

Judge won't release Loughner arrest materials (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:54 PM PST

Tuscon shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner is pictured in this undated booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service on February 22, 2011. The 22-year-old college dropout is accused of opening fire on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and a crowd of bystanders outside a grocery store on January 8, 2011, killing six people including a federal judge, and wounding 13. Giffords was shot in the head but survived. REUTERS/U.S. Marshals Service/Handout THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by news organizations to release search warrant records of Arizona shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner, saying the investigation was still under way.

Ohio public employees protest proposed union curbs (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:06 PM PST

Reuters - Thousands of people picketed the state Capitol on Tuesday to protest a bill to cut collective bargaining rights for state workers.

Architects Recycle Cargo Containers in New Housing Trend (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:05 AM PST

Time.com - Yes, the same rectangular shipping containers that you see piled high in ports worldwide are being recycled as homes, office buildings and even traveling museum exhibits

Wisconsin Budget Gap: Blame Politicians or Teachers' Unions? (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:05 AM PST

Time.com - Who's to blame for the mess in Madison -- state politicians, the unions or President Obama? Or all of the above?

Texas executes man who killed his young son (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:57 PM PST

Timothy Adams in an undated photo courtesy of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - A man who shot and killed his 19-month-old son in 2002 was executed Tuesday evening, the second prisoner to be put to death in Texas this year.

Sen. Brown defends call not to seek abuse charges (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 04:57 PM PST

Customers wait in line for U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., to sign copies of his new book, 'Against All Odds,' at a bookstore in Boston, Tuesday afternoon Feb. 22, 2011. Brown revealed in the memoir he was sexually abused as a child. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - U.S. Sen. Scott Brown defended his decision not to pursue a criminal investigation against the camp counselor he said molested him when he was a child, saying Tuesday that he's not looking to settle old scores.

Jury convicts Iraqi immigrant in 'honor killing' (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:39 PM PST

AP - A Phoenix jury convicted an Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder Tuesday for running over and killing his daughter in a case termed an "honor killing" by prosecutors who said the father carried out the attack because he believed his daughter had become too Westernized.

Missing Ohio couple's abandoned car found in WV (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 06:28 PM PST

This undated picture released by the FBI shows 84-year-old Richard Russell and his 85-year-old wife, Gladis. Sam Littleton was charged in absentia with murder Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 after the body of his girlfriend's 26-year-old daughter was found in the basement of a home he shared with her mother. Police also want to question him about the disappearance of the Russells, who haven't been heard from since Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - A car belonging to an elderly Ohio couple missing for nearly a week was found abandoned Tuesday night in a Walmart parking lot in West Virginia.

Ariz. Senate committee mull 3 immigration bills (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 03:27 PM PST

George Sprankle, right, and other supporters of the Tea Party movement wait to get into the Senate Appropriations committee hearing room at the State Capitol in Phoenix Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. A sweeping bill that targets illegal immigrants in public housing, public benefits and the workplace drew vocal opposition Tuesday from Democrats. The Senate Appropriations Committee was considering the 29-page bill Tuesday, a day after it was introduced by Republican Senate President Russell Pearce, who authored last year's controversial SB 1070. That law touched off a nationwide debate on whether states can enforce federal immigration laws. Democrats don't have the votes to block the measure, but the topic brought out supporters on both sides and security at the Senate was heightened, with about a dozen uniformed police officers deployed in and around the building. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Jack Kurtz)AP - A sweeping bill that targets illegal immigrants in public housing, public benefits and the workplace drew vocal opposition Tuesday from Democrats who say its sponsor is plotting his political strategy and not focused on Republicans' stated top priority, the economy.

Rahm Emanuel elected next mayor of Chicago (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 07:02 PM PST

Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun, left, talks to a reporter at Yolk restaurant in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation's third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley.

Marshals release photo of alleged Tucson shooter (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Jared Loughner. The photo was taken in Phoenix while Loughner was in the agency's custody. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Office)AP - The U.S. Marshals Service released a new image Tuesday of the man suspected of shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killing six people and wounding a dozen others near Tucson last month.

Wis. Dems try to stall bargaining rights bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 06:55 PM PST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker rehearses his fireside speech at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are in their eighth day of large scale protests. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to try to stymie the Republican governor's plan to strip unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights.

Friends mourn 4 US yachters killed by pirates (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 04:24 PM PST

This undated photo provided Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011 by the Del Rey Yacht Club, shows Scott and Jean Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., who were killed by pirates Tuesday after being taken hostage several hundred miles south of Oman. (AP Photo/Del Rey Yacht Club)AP - Four American yachters killed by Somali pirates early Tuesday were longtime sailors whose passion for the high seas outweighed any fear of the risks, friends said.

Report decries lack of paid parental leave in US (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:57 PM PST

In a photo made Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, Cathy and Joe Frazier are shown at their home in Mendota Heights, Minn. The couple believe Cathy's post-partum depression could have been avoided or at least mitigated if Joe had been able to take time off from work to be with her after their son's birth six years ago. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Americans often take pride in ways their nation differs from others. But one distinction — lack of a nationwide policy of paid maternity leave — is cited in a new report as an embarrassment that could be redressed at low cost and without harm to employers

Fla. agency didn't tell police about alleged abuse (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 04:12 PM PST

AP - State child welfare officials said Tuesday they never contacted police after receiving an abuse allegation that 10-year-old twins were being tied up and locked in the bathroom of a Florida home. The girl's body was later found in her adoptive father's truck beside the road.

4 American hostages killed by pirates off Somalia (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST

In this June 11, 2005 photo provided by Joe Grande, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle are seen on a yacht in Bodega Bay, Calif. Macay and Riggle, both of Seattle, are reportedly on the yacht Quest, hijacked by Somali pirates Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 off the coast of Oman. The Quest's owners, Scott and Jean Adam of California, are also onboard. (AP Photo/Joe Grande) NO SALESAP - A U.S. Navy destroyer was shadowing a hijacked yacht with four Americans aboard when a pirate fired a rocket-propelled grenade, followed by bursts of gunfire. U.S. special forces scrambled onto the occupied vessel only to find the four Americans fatally wounded.

Daughter of Malcolm X to stay in NC jail for now (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:56 PM PST

This Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 booking photo provided by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office shows Malikah Shabazz. Shabazz was being held in a North Carolina jail and could be extradited to New York to face charges on several outstanding warrants, authorities said Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Madison County Sheriff's Office)AP - The children of Malcolm X say they continue to stand behind one of their sisters who prosecutors accuse of stealing the identity of the widow of one of the slain civil rights leader's former bodyguards and using it to run up $55,000 in credit card bills.

Census: Near-record level of US counties dying (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:22 PM PST

A coal truck drives through an railroad tressel near downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Coal brought a large population to the McDowell County in the 1940's. Now the population is shrinking and the county suffers from unemployment and poverty. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock)AP - In America's once-thriving coal country, 87-year-old Ed Shepard laments a prosperous era gone by, when shoppers lined the streets and government lent a helping hand. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia's graying residents are slowly dying off.

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

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST

South Dakota Senator John Thune talks with a supporter about his decision to not run for president in 2012 in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Thune says he decided not to run for president next year after concluding he'd have a difficult time fundraising and that President Barack Obama would be tough to beat. The South Dakota Republican told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he's not as well-known and wouldn't be able to raise as much money as other potential GOP candidates. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Devin Wagner)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.
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