Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Arizona wildfire swallows over 600 square miles (Reuters)

Arizona wildfire swallows over 600 square miles (Reuters)

Arizona wildfire swallows over 600 square miles (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:33 PM PDT

A dog sits in the bed of a pick-up truck with its owners belongings before evacuating the from the Wallow Wildfire in Springerville, Arizona June 7, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - A monster wildfire believed started by careless campers roared unchecked through eastern Arizona for an 11th day on Wednesday, leaving 600 square miles blackened and forcing thousands of edgy residents holed up in two towns to flee.

Lightning strike in Mississippi lands 77 cadets in hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT

Reuters - A lightning strike at a southern Mississippi military base sent 77 cadets to a hospital on Wednesday.

Casey Anthony's computer used for chloroform search (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Casey Anthony (L) sits at the defense table with her attorney Dorothy Clay Sims, before the start of the 13th day of Anthony's murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Joe Burbank/PoolReuters - Someone using Casey Anthony's family computer before the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee surfed the Web for information on chloroform, neck-breaking and making weapons out of household products, a computer expert testified on Wednesday.

Cut Off from His Country, Another Foreign National Faces Execution in Texas (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Two U.S. Presidents, the State Department and the Justice Department, an assortment of diplomats, military brass, and former judges all want the State of Texas to delay the scheduled July 7 execution of Humberto Leal Garcia Jr. But that may not be enough

Herman Cain: A Longshot's Steady Rise (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Cain's momentum is stoking suggestions that the guy most likely to shake up the sluggish GOP field is not one of the national figures that party insiders have pleaded to get in the race

Blagojevich 'flagrantly' violated law, prosecutor says (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:17 PM PDT

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (L) speaks to the media as his attorney Sheldon Sorosky looks on as they leave the Dirksen federal building after his arraignment hearing in Chicago, Illinois April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Frank PolichReuters - A prosecutor on Wednesday compared Rod Blagojevich to a dirty cop shaking down a motorist for money over a speeding ticket, and told the jury in closing trial arguments that the former Illinois governor repeatedly used his power for personal gain.

2 Arizona towns to empty as wildfire approaches (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:16 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 7, 2011 photo, fire lights up a hillside south of State Route 260 Tuesday evening and building lights shine in the foreground. A raging forest fire in eastern Arizona has scorched an area the size of Phoenix, threatening thousands of residents and emptying towns as the flames raced toward New Mexico. (AP Photo/ The Arizona Republic, Pat Shannahan)AP - A raging forest fire in eastern Arizona that already forced thousands from their homes headed Wednesday for a pair of transmission lines that supply electricity to hundreds of thousands of people as far east as Texas.

What's that tree? Try Smithsonian's new app to see (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:14 PM PDT

W. John Kress, director, Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, curator and research scientist, Smithsonian Institute, displays his Leafsnap app on his iPhone along with tree leaf specimens, Thursday, April 28, 2011, at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's specimen storage room in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - If you've ever wondered what type of tree was nearby but didn't have a guide book, a new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity and contribute to science at the same time.

Idaho education firestorm sparks attempt at repeal (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna is seen at his office in this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 file photo in Boise, Idaho. Idaho carried out a sweeping overhaul of its public school system this year and stood out nationally amid a rancorous debate over education around the country. But the man who orchestrated the reforms, Tom Luna, quickly learned that his landmark victory came with a price. Now, Luna's critics want to repeal his education laws and kick him out of office. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)AP - Idaho carried out a sweeping overhaul of its public school system this year and stood out nationally amid a rancorous debate over education around the country. But the man who orchestrated the changes quickly learned that his landmark victory came with a price.

Wife: Mumbai attacks defendant didn't know of plot (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:59 PM PDT

Samraz Rana, the wife of Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, pauses during an interview, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, in Chicago at the office of her husband's attorney. Rana says says the friendship between her husband and an admitted terrorist who was the government's top witness wasn't as close as attorneys claim. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The wife of a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks said Wednesday that the friendship between her husband and an admitted terrorist who's the government's star witness wasn't as close as attorneys have portrayed.

Record-breaking heat grips much of eastern US (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Sanchez drinks water from a gallon jug as he patrols along the Rio Grande in Penitas, Texas Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - The mercury climbed into the 90s across half the country Wednesday in a record-breaking blast of August-like heat, forcing schools with no air conditioning to let kids go home early and cities to open cooling centers. And scientists say we had better get used to it.

Seniors' medical pot collective stirs up trouble (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:38 PM PDT

Lonnie Painter, 65, who uses marijuana for medicinal purposes and is the director of a group known as Laguna Woods for Medical Cannabis, medicates at his home in Laguna Woods, Calif., Monday, May 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Joe Schwartz is a 90-year-old great-grandfather of three who enjoys a few puffs of pot each night before he crawls into bed in the Southern California retirement community he calls home.

US judges seem receptive to health care challenge (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:16 PM PDT

Mike Griffith, of Canton, Ga., holds a sign during a protest against President Barack Obama's health care reform plan outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was hearing arguments on whether to reverse a Florida judge's ruling that struck down the law. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Judges on a federal appeals court panel on Wednesday repeatedly raised questions about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, expressing unease with the requirement that virtually all Americans carry health insurance or face penalties.

Police: We were right to act on tip about bodies (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:17 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials are on the scene of a home in Hardin, Texas Tuesday, June 7, 2011, after receiving an anonymous tip that multiple dismembered bodies were buried there. A sheriff's spokesman said officials were seeking a search warrant for the property. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)AP - The anonymous caller claiming to be a psychic offered police a startling tip: Multiple bodies, including those of children, had been buried at a rural Texas home.

Delta bag fees for soldiers ignites backlash (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010 file photo, passengers walk past a Delta Airlines 747 aircraft in McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich. Reacting to public outcry, Delta said Wednesday, June 8, 2011, it will allow members of the military to check four bags for free. The news came after two Army soldiers returning from Afghanistan complained in an online video that Delta charged their unit a total of $2,800 when some of them checked a fourth bag.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)AP - Delta Air Lines hastily changed its baggage fees for troops Wednesday after a YouTube video showed soldiers complaining that they had to pay $200 apiece to check extra bags as they made their way home from Afghanistan.

Rep. Giffords turns 41, gets framed cartoon (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:01 PM PDT

AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords turned 41 Wednesday, five months to the day after she was shot in the head in a Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people.

2 new elements officially added to periodic table (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:03 PM PDT

AP - They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they've gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table.

California pipeline that blew had prior leak (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:56 PM PDT

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman, right, and U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, walk past an area where a ruptured gas line caused a deadly pipeline explosion nearly nine months ago, in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Officials are still probing the cause of the explosion, which engulfed a San Bruno neighborhood and killed eight people, injured dozens, and destroyed 38 homes. (AP Photo/Darryl Bush)AP - Nearly nine months after federal investigators began probing a deadly pipeline explosion near San Francisco, a California utility quietly revealed its ruptured line had sprung a leak in a spot a few miles away years before, a top safety official said Wednesday.

Anthony trial: Internet searches focus of the day (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Casey Anthony enters the courtroom for the start of the 13th day of her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. Anthony, 25, is charged with killing her daughter Caylee in the summer of 2008. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)AP - Internet searches for how to make chloroform and neck-breaking were done on a computer that a Florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter had access to, an expert who analyzed the machine testified Wednesday at the mother's trial.

Suit: VA misusing LA land meant for homeless vets (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:42 PM PDT

Veterans, including John L. Stamatiades, left, hold a banner at a news conference to announce a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging the misuse a 390-acre plot of land in West Los Angeles that was donated some 130 years ago to house veterans who need care after traumatic military experiences, at the Los Angeles Veterans Administration center in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs leased much of the property at its West Los Angeles facility to private entities, instead of using it for veterans' permanent supportive housing. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the federal government of misusing a 390-acre plot of land in Los Angeles that was donated some 130 years ago for facilities to house veterans who need care after traumatic military experiences.
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