Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Romney still up in New Hampshire; Trump a wild card (Reuters)

Romney still up in New Hampshire; Trump a wild card (Reuters)

Romney still up in New Hampshire; Trump a wild card (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney leads potential Republican primary opponents in the early voting state of New Hampshire, but celebrity candidate Donald Trump has substantial support, according to a new poll.

Accused 'Grim Sleeper' suspected in more deaths (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:48 PM PDT

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. stands in court during his arraignment on 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in Los Angeles Criminal Court July 8, 2010. REUTERS/Al Seib/PoolReuters - A retired sanitation worker accused of murdering 10 women and girls who has been dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" may have killed eight additional victims, police said on Tuesday.

Alabama lawmakers approve immigration crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:47 PM PDT

Reuters - The Alabama state House of Representative passed an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration on Tuesday, despite opposition from Democrats and civil rights groups.

Obama's Climbdown on Guantanamo Continues (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:55 AM PDT

Time.com - Liberals have long-bemoaned Obama's transformation from would-be demolisher of Bush's "War On Terror" architecture to its most effective buttress

Study: The 'Best Years of Our Lives' Could Be In Our Eighties (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:55 AM PDT

Time.com - It turns out that, rather than reminisce about the 'golden age' of youth, we should look forward to turn our grandparents' age to be happy

Two Tennessee workers die in sewage plant collapse (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Two workers were killed in Tennessee on Tuesday when the wall of a basin that holds up to 1.5 million gallons of sewage at a treatment plant collapsed on them, authorities said.

Storms fell trees, crush homes in South, killing 9 (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:21 PM PDT

Marcie Moorer, whose 4-year-old son Alix Bonhomme III, was killed along with his father Alix Bonhomme Jr., walks near a downed tree in Jackson, Ga., on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011. At least six people died in the South as fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the region, uprooting trees and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, including in metro Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, John Spink) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUTAP - An enormous tree limb that crashed through a Georgia family's bedroom killed a father and the young son he was holding in his arms Tuesday as a fast-moving storm system pounded the South with tornadoes, hail and spectacular lightning. At least nine people were killed around the region, including several who died on roads made treacherous by downed trees and power lines.

Wis. Supreme Court race a dead heat (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 07:01 PM PDT

AP - Early returns show Wisconsin's Supreme Court election is very close.

Space junk safely passes space station; crew OK (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 file picture, U.S. astronaut Catherine Coleman, left, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, center, and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, pose through a window after a news conference at the Baikonur, Kazakhstan cosmodrome. A small piece of space junk is drifting dangerously close to the International Space Station. NASA has ordered the three station astronauts to seek shelter late Tuesday afternoon, April 5, 2011 in the Russian Soyuz capsule that is docked at the orbiting complex. A NASA spokesman says there's no time to steer the station out of harm's way. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - After monitoring a small piece of space junk for 11 hours, NASA determined it posed no danger Tuesday to the International Space Station and its three residents.

Cell carriers to roll out "mobile wallets" in Utah (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:35 PM PDT

AP - A joint venture between three of the nation's four largest cell phone carriers will soon offer the United States' first commercially available mobile fare payment program to a public transportation system.

Bells, tears mark year since mine blast killed 29 (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:55 PM PDT

File- In this file April 10, 2010 file photo, people from the coal mining towns along the Coal River participate in a memorial vigil in Naoma, W.Va., for 29 miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W.Va. A year since the disaster, Massey Energy company and their CEO Don Blankenship, ' King of Coal' , are no longer around.(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Family members wept and church bells pealed across West Virginia for 29 fallen coal miners on the first anniversary of the powerful explosion that tore apart the Upper Big Branch Mine.

Release date set for man in Calif. bus kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:25 PM PDT

AP - California's parole board on Tuesday granted parole for a man convicted of hijacking a school bus and holding 26 children and their driver captive underground in 1976, the latest turn in a years-long debate over whether the three men involved in the crime have served enough time.

Bristol Palin earns $262K for teen pregnancy work (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT

In this July 25, 2009, photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin holds her and Levi Johnston's son Tripp Johnston at the governor's picnic in Anchorage, Alaska. Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009. The most recent data for The Candie’s Foundation that’s posted online by research firm GuideStar shows compensation at $262,500 for the now-20-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role in helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009.

USDA: Delay in meat sales could prevent recalls (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:08 AM PDT

AP - The Obama administration is aiming to prevent meat recalls by withholding meat and poultry products from grocery store shelves until government testing is complete.

2 bodies found after Tenn. sewage plant gives way (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:12 PM PDT

Damage caused by the collapse of a basin wall holding untreated sewage is seen in Gatlinburg, Tenn., Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Two workers were missing after the wastewater treatment plant failed and spilled over a million gallons of sewage. (AP Photo/The Mountain Press, Curt Habraken)AP - Crews on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two workers from the rubble of a wastewater-treatment plant wall that collapsed earlier in the day, while officials continued to investigate what caused the breach that released sewage into a rain-swollen river at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

1st trial starts in Conn. doctor sex-abuse case (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:41 PM PDT

AP - Middle-age men took the witness stand Tuesday and recounted how they were sexually abused when they were children by a late Connecticut doctor who police believe molested hundreds, if not thousands, of young victims over three decades.

Vt. collegian recounts detention in Syrian jail (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:35 PM PDT

Pathik 'Tik' Root is interviewed at his home on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Ripton, Vt. The Vermont college student who spent two weeks in a Syrian jail after being detained at a demonstration says he was packed so tightly into a 10-by-12 foot cell he had to sleep sideways on the floor. Twenty-one-year-old Pathik 'Tik' Root was arrested near a demonstration in Damascus on March 18 when he pulled out a BlackBerry. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - An American college student who was arrested on a Syrian street after he pulled out his smartphone near a demonstration and then spent two weeks in jail told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was interrogated, threatened with violence and packed so tightly with other prisoners that everyone had to sleep on their sides on the floor.

GOP budget plan would revamp Medicare, Medicaid (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 04:06 PM PDT

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. touts his 2012 federal budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - House Republicans set up a politically defining clash over the size and priorities of government Tuesday, unveiling a budget plan that calls for both unprecedented spending cuts and a fundamental restructuring of taxpayer-financed health care for the elderly and the poor.
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