Friday, April 1, 2011

Florida pastor is focus of Muslim outrage - again (Reuters)

Florida pastor is focus of Muslim outrage - again (Reuters)

Florida pastor is focus of Muslim outrage - again (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteReuters - An American Christian preacher who caused an international uproar last year by threatening to burn the Koran has put himself back in the spotlight after incinerating Islam's holy book -- again with deadly consequences.

Colorado boy arrested in murder of great-grandparents (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:55 PM PDT

Reuters - A 16-year-old boy from rural Colorado was arrested on Friday for the shotgun killings of his great-grandparents, a crime that stunned residents of the small farming and ranching community where the couple lived for decades.

Nation's most dangerous small city rehires police (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Camden, New Jersey, the nation's most crime-ridden small city, on Friday welcomed back 55 police officers and 31 firefighters laid off in January because of lack of funding.

Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Student newspapers at various Ivy League schools are all reporting that as application rates have soared, admission rates have dropped

Michele Bachmann: The Minnesota Clipper (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Though not yet a candidate, Michele Bachmann is upending a stodgy GOP field. Why she's for real

Southwest plane pressure drops, lands at military base (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Sacramento was forced to land at a Marine Corps base in southwest Arizona on Friday because of a sudden cabin pressure drop, an FAA spokesman said.

Defense rests in Cuban ex-CIA agent's perjury case (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys for an elderly ex-CIA agent accused of lying to U.S. immigration authorities about his alleged role in deadly 1997 bombings in Cuba rested their case Friday without calling their client as a witness.

Tenn., Ky. turn over lethal injection drug to DEA (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:55 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has taken supplies of a key lethal injection drug from Kentucky and Tennessee, effectively preventing any executions in three states while it investigates how the drug was imported during a national shortage.

Wisconsin union rights law on hold for 2 months (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:17 PM PDT

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) answers questions from the media after reading to Anna Greenman's third grade class at Hope Christian school Prima in Milwaukee, Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)AP - A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they'd won the fight over the state's polarizing union rights bill. They'd weathered massive protests, outfoxed Senate Democrats who fled the state and gotten around a restraining order blocking the law by having an obscure state agency publish it. They even started preparations to pull money from public workers' paychecks.

FDA proposes calorie counts on menus (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 31, 2008 file photo, customers view the menu in the drive through line at a Burger King in Portland, Ore., Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under menu labeling requirements proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration. The requirements will force chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to clearly post the amount of calories in each item on menus, both in restaurants and drive-through lanes. The new rules will also apply to vending machines where calorie information isn't already visible on the package. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)AP - Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under menu labeling requirements proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration.

Rapid decompression forces emergency landing (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:01 PM PDT

In this photo provided by passenger Brenda Reese, unidentified passengers take photos with cell phones of an apparent hole in the cabin on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011 in Yuma, Ariz. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the cause of the decompression isn't immediately known. But passengers aboard the plane say there was a hole in the cabin and that forced an emergency landing. (AP photo/Brenda Reese) NO SALESAP - A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix was diverted Friday to a military base in Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane, federal officials said.

Army group says there ARE atheists in foxholes (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT

In this March 31, 2011 photo, Army Sgt. Justin Griffith sits in front of his Army uniform at home in Fayetteville, N.C. Griffith, an atheist before he joined the Army, decided to become a public advocate for other members of the Army who shared his lack of belief in God. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - The cliche notwithstanding, there are atheists in foxholes. In fact, atheists, agnostics, humanists and other assorted skeptics from the Army's Fort Bragg have formed an organization in a pioneering effort to win recognition and ensure fair treatment for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.

2 convicted of kidnapping slain US drug trafficker (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:09 PM PDT

AP - A Texas jury on Friday found two men guilty of kidnapping an American drug trafficker who was found slain in Mexico with his hands chopped off in 2009.

Tucson shooting victim honored with 9/11 memory (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Green family, Christina Green is shown. Green, 9, who was one of the victims killed in a mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in January, will be honored by her Canyon del Oro Little League baseball teammates during a ceremony Friday, April 1, 2011, as they start their season. (AP Photo/Green Family, File) NO SALESAP - You think of Christina-Taylor Green when you see the patch of dirt where she scooped grounders at second base in Canyon del Oro Little League. You think of the youngest victim of the Tucson shootings when you see the batter's box where she knocked line drives.

Montana lawmaker's speech perpetuates boozy image (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2010 file photo, people gather outside Red's Bar on a late Friday night in Missoula, Mont. Republican lawmaker Alan Hale's speech railing against drunk driving reform — mocked mercilessly by political opponents — is no laughing matter to activists who say it dangerously perpetuates a boozy culture. (AP Photo/Mike Albans, File)AP - A lawmaker's speech railing against drunken driving reform — mocked mercilessly by political opponents — is no laughing matter to activists who say it perpetuates the state's dangerous boozy culture.

Man gets life sentences in 'Westside Rapist' case (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT

AP - A former state insurance adjuster dubbed the "Westside Rapist" by police was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering seven women in sexual attacks that terrified Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mine workers rally in Pa. for public employees (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Leaders from unions representing steelworkers, farmers, teachers, and maritime workers and others join with mine worker leaders in leading a march along Pa. State route 21 to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Waynesburg, Pa.for a labor rally with nearly 3,000 attending on Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Thousands of union coal miners and supporters from several states tried to fuel an uprising in southwestern Pennsylvania on Friday, proclaiming themselves ready to mobilize for the war they say is being waged on organized labor in the United States.

2 convicted of kidnapping slain US drug trafficker (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A Texas jury has found two men guilty of kidnapping an American drug trafficker found slain in Mexico in 2009.

Locally grown? It all depends on how you define it (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 15, 2008 file photo, a sign advocating buying fresh and local in the Shenandoah Valley is tacked on a bulletin board at the Shenandoah Valley Produce auction in Dayton, Va. A heightened consumer interest in produce grown nearby, which many assume to mean fresher food, fewer chemicals, and grown smaller farms, has led to popular use of the word on displays and menus. While good for many farmers, the trend can be misleading for consumers, as there is no one or regulated meaning for 'local'. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP - The No. 2 official at the Agriculture Department recently got a real-life lesson in the loose definition of the trendiest word in groceries: "local."

Wis. Dems file 1st petition to recall GOP senator (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:53 PM PDT

AP - Wisconsin Democrats say they've collected enough signatures to trigger a recall election for one of eight Republican state senators they're seeking to oust for backing the governor's divisive union rights law.
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