Wednesday, March 23, 2011

U.S. soldier gets 24 years for murdering Afghans (Reuters)

U.S. soldier gets 24 years for murdering Afghans (Reuters)

U.S. soldier gets 24 years for murdering Afghans (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:33 PM PDT

Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock is seen in this undated handout. Morlock, 22, is charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of three Afghan civilians, assaulting a fellow soldier and Reuters - The first of five U.S. soldiers charged with killing unarmed Afghan civilians last year was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of premeditated murder.

Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:21 PM PDT

Elizabeth Taylor arrives for a play in Los Angeles in this December 1, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/FilesReuters - Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose violet eyes, tumultuous love life and passion for diamonds epitomized Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday at age 79.

U.S. nuclear agency plans safety review of reactors (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:19 PM PDT

Reuters - The top U.S. nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved the launch of a safety review of U.S. nuclear reactors sought by President Barack Obama in response to the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant.

Facebook Flub: Man Charged with Polygamy After Posting Second Wedding Photo Online (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Here's a tip we never thought we'd have to share: If you’re already married, don't post pictures of your new wife on Facebook

E-Book Era: Will Digital Best Sellers Force End of Print? (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PDT

Time.com - In the still sluggish publishing business, e-books are rising stars

Wildfires cause evacuations in two Oklahoma towns (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Wildfires caused evacuations in two northeast Oklahoma towns on Wednesday evening as dry and windy conditions continued to make the state vulnerable to sudden blazes.

Toenail study: No heart risk from mercury in fish (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:22 PM PDT

AP - In an unusual health study, researchers analyzing toxin levels in tens of thousands of toenail clippings determined that mercury from eating fish does not raise the risk of heart disease or stroke.

Philly abortion doc agrees to freeze most assets (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT

AP - A jailed Philadelphia abortion doctor will sell his $900,000 beach home if he needs cash to defend himself in a capital murder case but will freeze other assets indefinitely amid a wrongful-death lawsuit, his lawyer said Wednesday.

SC train wreck conductor: I'm a victim, too (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, March 19, 2011, rescue workers attend to injured children after a children's train ride at Cleveland Park derailed in Spartanburg, S.C. A state inspector falsified a safety report and never tested the children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, officials said Monday, March 21. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Tim Kimzey)AP - The man at the helm of the children's train ride that crashed and killed a 6-year-old boy said Wednesday that the wreck hurt him emotionally and physically.

Barges break loose, hit bridge on Miss. River (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:05 PM PDT

AP - A section of the flood-swollen Mississippi River was closed Wednesday after several loaded barges broke loose from a tow and struck a bridge, causing one of them to sink, authorities said.

Gulf probe: Blowout preventer was flawed (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. A federal probe has found that a trapped piece of drill pipe prevented a blowout preventer from properly sealing to stop last year's massive Gulf oil spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday in a report that appears to shift some blame for the disaster away from the oil giant and toward those who built and maintained the 300-ton safety device.

Teacher letter to Ariz. lawmaker leads to inquiry (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:28 PM PDT

AP - A metropolitan Phoenix school district has launched an inquiry into a substitute teacher who wrote a letter that portrayed Hispanic students in a harsh light and was read aloud last week at the Arizona Legislature during a debate on an immigration bill.

US soldier gets 24 years for murders of 3 Afghans (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the U.S. Army, Cpl. Jeremy Morlock is shown. Morlock, accused of taking a lead role in a brutal plot to murder Afghan civilians, has agreed to plead guilty to three counts of murder, one count of conspiracy to commit assault and battery, and one count of illegal drug use in exchange for a maximum sentence of 24 years, said Geoffrey Nathan, one of his lawyers. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - A U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murders of three Afghan civilians was sentenced to 24 years in prison after saying "the plan was to kill people" in a conspiracy with four fellow soldiers.

Slain Ky. couple banned teen from seeing girl (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:10 PM PDT

AP - A troubled 15-year-old shot and killed relatives who had taken him in because his mother could not control him, then stole their car and fled with the younger girlfriend they had ordered him not to see, police and family members said.

Agents nab immigrants, others posing as military (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:38 PM PDT

AP - At first glance, the white van seemed full of clean-cut Marines in uniform — not necessarily an unusual sight near the Border Patrol's desert checkpoint along Interstate 8.

Lawyers: Loughner sent to Missouri for mental exam (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:34 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 8, 2011 file photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office shows Jared Loughner. In a ruling late Monday, March 21, 2011, an Arizona judge has ordered Loughner, the suspect in Tucson's shooting rampage, to undergo a mental evaluation at a specialized facility in Springfield, Mo., as soon as possible. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns says that the evaluation will be videotaped and provided to prosecutors and defense attorneys. (AP Photo/Pima County Sheriff's Dept. via The Arizona Republic, File)AP - The suspect in the January shooting rampage in Tucson was flown Wednesday to a specialized facility in Missouri to undergo a court-ordered mental evaluation, and his lawyers immediately asked an appeals court for him to be returned.

New NAACP seeing more gay, diverse chapter leaders (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:50 AM PDT

This Aug. 24, 2010 photo shows Ravi Perry, who was elected president of the greater Worcester, Mass., chapter of the NAACP Saturday, March 5, 2011. Perry, an openly gay political science professor at Clark University, is among the new leadership diversity at chapters of what was historically a largely black and aging organization. (AP photo/The Telegram & Gazette, Jim Collins)AP - The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned to a 30-something white man.

Coast Guard boat pilot gets jail in fatal wreck (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Paul Ramos, right, leaves a military courthouse with his attorney Lt. Steven Stephard, left, after a verdict in Alameda, Calif., Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Ramos was the driver of a Coast Guard vessel involved in a collision that left a child dead on San Diego Bay. He was acquitted Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter. A jury also found Ramos guilty of the lesser charge of dereliction of duty for failure to conduct a risk assessment. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A Coast Guard petty officer was sentenced Wednesday to three months in the brig for his role in a boat collision in San Diego Bay that killed an 8-year-old boy.

Regulators: Ohio funeral home can't liquefy bodies (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:28 PM PDT

AP - An Ohio funeral home that is the first in the nation to use a cremation alternative that dissolves bodies with lye and heat has effectively been blocked from using the procedure by state regulators.

Panel: security probe missed clues in anthrax case (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT

AP - A court-ordered review found Wednesday that security screeners repeatedly failed to recognize signs of mental illness that should have prevented the man blamed for deadly 2001 anthrax attacks from working with the deadly spores at the Army's flagship biodefense laboratory
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