Sunday, April 10, 2011

Firefighters struggle to contain Texas wildfire (Reuters)

Firefighters struggle to contain Texas wildfire (Reuters)

Firefighters struggle to contain Texas wildfire (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Wildfires scorched more than 230,000 acres in Texas on Sunday, roaring through a West Texas town, destroying an estimated 80 homes and buildings and critically injuring a firefighter.

Gallon of gas jumps to $3.76: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:13 AM PDT

A surge in global food prices has prompted fresh criticism of US subsidies for ethanol, which diverts massive amounts of corn from global food supplies for energy.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)Reuters - The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States has moved closer to $4, jumping more than 19 cents since mid-March to a level less than 10 percent below its all-time high, a widely followed survey said on Sunday.

Severe weather with warm front for western New York to Louisiana (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:15 PM PDT

Reuters - Severe weather including damaging winds, rain and hail cut through the Midwest and Plains on Sunday and is forecast to move eastward overnight.

Summer vacations may test new Utah regional airport hopes (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT

Reuters - The skies are opening up in southern Utah as a new $159 million regional airport is in service and air travelers now have daily flights from Los Angeles when planning their travel.

AP photographer located in Libya (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:47 PM PDT

In this undated photo, Associated Press photographer Altaf Qadri poses in Dhemaji, Assam, India. Qadri, an award-winning AP photographer, went missing while covering the conflict in Libya, the news agency said Sunday, April 10, 2011. Qadri became separated from his colleagues near the eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya while on assignment Saturday according to the AP. (AP Photo)AP - An award-winning Associated Press photographer covering the conflict in Libya was located Sunday after being missing for more than a day, the news agency said.

Maine Woods National Park idea faces challenges (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 08:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, the East Branch of the Penobscot River is seen near land owned by conservationist Roxanne Quimby, the founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics company. The river flows through some of the thousands of acres that Quimby wants to donate to the federal government for the creation of a North Woods National Park. Members of Maine's congressional delegation have reacted cooly to Quimby's proposal. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)AP - Judging by the reaction of Maine's congressional delegation, a wealthy conservationist has some convincing to do if she's to sell her idea of another national park in Maine.

School founded by Blue Man Group gets new stage (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 08:31 AM PDT

In this March 31, 2011 photo, children run along a hallway illuminated by ultraviolet lamps at the Blue School in New York. The private preschool and elementary school was founded by original members of the Blue Man Group so they could send their own children to a school that was creative enough for them. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - In the 20 years since they became a performance art sensation, the Blue Man Group has taken its men with blue heads on the road to stages in New York, Las Vegas and Europe.

Fervor of Wis. debate shifts to recall elections (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:02 AM PDT

FILE -This April 1, 2011 file photo shows Chris Taylor, left, and Peppi Elder, right, joining demonstrators calling for the recall of State Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-LaCrosse, outside the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board in Madison, Wis. Nearly a month after the Wisconsin standoff over union rights ended, some of the fervor from that debate has shifted to recall efforts targeting lawmakers in both parties — Republicans who voted to cut back collective bargaining and Democrats who fled the state to try to stop them. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, File)AP - Nearly a month after the Wisconsin standoff over union rights ended, some of the fervor from that debate has shifted to recall efforts targeting lawmakers in both parties — Republicans who voted to cut back collective bargaining and Democrats who fled the state to try to stop them.

Hot, dry weather stokes raging Texas wildfires (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:40 PM PDT

WIth mile rising from a wildfire in the background, a state trooper drives along a road in Fort Davis, Texas, Sunday, April 10, 2011. A fast-moving wildfire had spread to more than 60,000 acres in Presidio County and Jeff Davis County, where it destroyed about 20 homes in Fort Davis. (AP Photo/Billy Marginot)AP - Firefighters on Sunday continued battling out-of-control wildfires scorching nearly 400 square miles across the state, including a West Texas blaze that narrowly missed a historic frontier Army cavalry fort and one of the world's leading astronomical research facilities.

Tornado destroys dozen or more blocks in Iowa town (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:35 PM PDT

Rubble from damaged homes litters the street in Mapleton, Iowa, Sunday, April 10, 2011, after a large tornado flattened a grain elevator and destroyed homes and buildings on its weekend rampage through this small western Iowa town. Authorities reported no serious injuries.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Jamy Garden's house began to rumble with the approach of a tornado that at one point measured three-quarters of a mile wide. Then the windows shattered, spraying her with glass. Using her cell phone as a flashlight, she fled downstairs and called her grandmother.

2012 in sight, Obama looks back to Chicago again (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Nov. 4, 2008 in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama walks on stage with his family to speak at his election night party at Grant Park. A week after formally launching his second White House bid with an understated email and online video, Obama is returning to Chicago Thursday, April 14, 2011, to raise money. And he's setting up his campaign headquarters in a downtown high rise near Grant Park. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - President Barack Obama's relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other.

Red River Valley flood fight shifts north of Fargo (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:36 PM PDT

North Dakota National Guardsmen, left, walk the levee protecting downtown Fargo, N.D. from the floodwaters of the Red River on Saturday, April 9, 2011. At right are engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Red River neared its spring flooding peak on Saturday, approaching historic highs yet short of the levels that might have cracked the defenses of a city used to dealing with high water. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - The Red River Valley flood fight shifted Sunday from the cities of Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., to rural areas north of the north-flowing river, which crested Saturday night in Fargo at its fourth highest level in recorded history.

Federal judge, 103, still hearing cases in Kansas (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:57 PM PDT

AP - In a courtroom in Wichita, the day begins much as it has for the past 49 years: Court is in session, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown presiding. But what happens next is no longer routine; it's a testament to one man's sheer determination.

US gay-marriage ban under assault but still potent (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 08:22 AM PDT

This September 2010 picture provided by the family shows Tim Smulian, a South African citizen, left, and Edwin Blesch, an American, outside the Au Petit Poucet restaurant in Val David, Quebec, Canada. They married in 2007 in South Africa. Because of the U.S. law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages, Smulian uses tourist visas which limit him to six months annually in the U.S. That means that to be together, the two retirees have to uproot themselves from their home on Long Island and spend half the year abroad. (AP Photo)AP - These are frustrating, tantalizing days for many of the same-sex couples who seized the chance to marry in recent years.

Company to be questioned Monday over Hawaii blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 04:20 PM PDT

This image provided by KITV shows the entrance to the bunker where fireworks were stored at Waikele Business Center Friday, April 8, 2011 in Waipahu, Hawaii. At least two men were killed, injuring two others and two are missing after the explosion. (AP Photo/KITV)AP - Investigators plan to question officials at an ordnance disposal company Monday to try to determine the age and type of fireworks inside a storage bunker that exploded, killing five workers and injuring another, afire official said.

Coach arrested in attack on parent in San Diego (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:01 PM PDT

AP - A youth football coach was arrested after a confrontation with a parent — apparently stemming from a dispute over recruitment of a top player — in which the parent was kicked and punched, then knocked unconscious when he tripped and hit the ground, police said.

Debate stirred over 1st major US tar sands mine (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:42 PM PDT

FILE - This June 25, 2008 photo shows an aerial view just north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, where the world's largest oil companies are building massive open pit mines to get at the oil sands. A proposed tar sands mine on Utah's eastern Uinta basin, that would be the first commercial project of its kind in the U.S. has environmentalists concerned that shortsightedness may trump reason. A Canadian company aims to mine roughly 62 acres on the Uinta basin to produce bitumen, a tar-like form of petroleum, from oil-soaked sands. For decades, other Utah operators have used oil sands as a poor-man's asphalt, and Canada has been wringing oil from the dirt for years, but nobody has yet tried to produce petroleum from U.S. soil on such a large scale. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Eamon Mac Mahon, File) ** NO ARCHIVE **AP - Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States. It would be a first-of-its kind project in the country that some fear could be a slippery slope toward widespread wilderness destruction.
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