Thursday, June 9, 2011

One dead, four others wounded in Brooklyn boardwalk shooting (Reuters)

One dead, four others wounded in Brooklyn boardwalk shooting (Reuters)

One dead, four others wounded in Brooklyn boardwalk shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:51 PM PDT

Reuters - A woman was killed and four men were shot on Thursday afternoon when bullets starting flying on a popular Brooklyn beach boardwalk, police said.

Chicago man guilty of aiding Pakistan militant group (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:48 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. jury on Thursday found a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman guilty of providing support to an Islamic militant group but not guilty of participating in the group's 2008 assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Scientists Welcome Two New Elements to the Periodic Table (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Things change, including the periodic table, which just made two new elements official.

America's Next Top Weiner (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Athletes, musicians and politicians have shared theirs. Is it time for my closeup?

Alabama sets nation's toughest immigration law (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:55 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday signed into law a crackdown on illegal immigration in Alabama that both supporters and critics consider the toughest in the nation.

Alabama passes tough illegal-immigration law (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:49 PM PDT

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signs into law, what critics and supporters are calling the strongest bill in the nation cracking down on illegal immigration, on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at the state Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. The bill allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if they're stopped for any other reason. It also requires public schools to determine students' immigration status and makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)AP - Alabama vaulted past Arizona on Thursday with what is being called the most restrictive law in the nation against illegal immigration, requiring schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.

Huge Arizona wildfire rekindles forest debate (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:50 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona taken Wednesday June 8, 2011 from the MODIS instrument on board the Aqua satellite. The blaze has blackened about 389,000 acres and destroyed 11 buildings, primarily in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. No serious injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A raging wildfire that could become the largest in Arizona history is rekindling the blame game surrounding ponderosa pine forests that have become dangerously overgrown after a century of fire suppression.

2 teens charged with murdering their NM foster mom (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT

AP - Two 15-year-old girls who went missing after their foster mother was killed have been apprehended and charged with murdering her, Lincoln County authorities said Thursday.

Blagojevich's future again in hands of jurors (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:51 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich signs an autograph as he departs the Federal Court building on the first day of closing arguments in his corruption trial Wednesday, June 8, 2011 in Chicago. A federal prosecutor began making final arguments Wednesday at the corruption retrial of Blagojevich, telling jurors that the ousted Illinois governor lied to their faces for seven days on the witness stand. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Rod Blagojevich's future was once again in the hands of jurors, after a day of fist thumping and tears during final arguments Thursday at the ousted Illinois governor's retrial on corruption charges.

Alaska poised to release Palin emails (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:49 PM PDT

AP - The state of Alaska on Friday will release thousands of Sarah Palin's emails from her first two years as governor, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency.

Half the country wilts under unrelenting heat (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:54 PM PDT

An art installation of a melting fan sits on display in a subway station Thursday, June 9, 2011 in Atlanta. Sweltering temperatures across half the country had people doing what they could to stay cool Thursday. While relief was in sight after one more day of misery in the Northeast, the South was forecast to stay hotter than usual at least through the end of the week. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - A third day of unseasonable heat blistered the eastern half of the country Thursday, making tornado cleanup miserable in Massachusetts and sending country music fans in Tennessee to hospitals, while the surge in demand for energy knocked out power to sections of downtown Detroit.

Wash. residents warned of 'bloodthirsty' dog pack (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT

In this May 2011 security camera frame grab provided by the Stevens County Sheriff's Office, dogs are seen at the home of a resident near Deer Park, Wash. A pack of dogs has killed about 100 animals in the past three months while eluding law enforcement and volunteers in northeastern Washington state. The killings are happening in a wide area of mountains and valleys west of Deer Park, a small town about 40 miles north of Spokane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Stevens County Sheriff's Office)AP - A "bloodthirsty" pack of dogs has killed about 100 animals in the past few months while eluding law enforcement and volunteers in northeastern Washington state, residents and authorities said.

Cornell holds first-ever 80th class reunion (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Cornell University Class of 1931 alumni, Rosemary Hunt Todd, 101-years-old, presents a spirit banner to the Class of 2006 Reunion Chairpersons from left, Krystyn Tendy and Marie-Jouvelle Auboury during Toddy's 80th Reunion at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Thursday, June 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP - Rosemary Hunt Todd sang the alma mater and the school fight song and was greeted by a standing ovation from four returning reunion classes at Cornell University.

Space station gets 3 new tenants from 3 countries (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:09 PM PDT

The International Space Station (ISS) crew of Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (top), Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov , centre, and U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, wave before boarding the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo / Shamil Zhumatov, pool)AP - It's a full house again at the International Space Station.

Jury clears Chicago businessman in Mumbai attacks (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:48 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana is shown in federal court as the Tuesday, June 7, 2011, in Chicago. Rana, 50, is accused in the 2008 Mumbai rampage that left more than 160 people dead, and planning an attack that was never carried out on a Danish newspaper. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, including material support to terrorism. (AP Photo/Tom Gianni)AP - A federal jury convicted a Chicago businessman on Thursday of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but cleared him of the most serious terrorism charge accusing him of cooperating in the deadly 2008 rampage in Mumbai.

Sergeant getting Medal of Honor is a hero's hero (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Dec. 12, 2009, United States servicemen, from left to right, Cpl. Javier Rivera, Pfc. William Parker and Staff Sgt. Leroy Petry watch the Dallas Mavericks against the Charlotte Bobcats NBA basketball game from the front row on 'Seats For Soldiers' night on in Dallas. Petry will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, The White House said on May 31, 2011. He will be the second living, active-duty soldier to receive the nation's highest military honor. (AP Photo/Ralph Lauer, File)AP - The soldiers who served with the Army sergeant set to receive the Medal of Honor next month because of his actions in Afghanistan say he's a hero who's maintained his sharp wit and plans to "keep rangering.'"

Oklahoma civil rights icon Clara Luper dies at 88 (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:12 PM PDT

FILE In this Nov. 16, 1971 photo, longtime Oklahoma civil rights leader, Clara Luper announces her candidacy for the U.S. Senate at a rally on Oklahoma city's east side. Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma, has died at age 88. Luper's daughter, Marilyn Hildreth, said Thursday, June 9, 2011 that her mother died Wednesday night after a lengthy illness. Luper, who retired from her role as a school teacher in 1991, said in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press that she had dedicated her life to spreading the message of racial and gender equality. (AP Photo/File)AP - As she watched a television broadcast of President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president.

2 men found guilty in murder of Calif journalist (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:19 PM PDT

AP - A jury on Thursday found the leader of a financially troubled community group and another man guilty of murder in the daytime shooting of the first American journalist killed on U.S. soil for reporting a story in more than a decade.

Top Democratic women dodge tough call on Weiner (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:21 PM PDT

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at his house in the Queens borough of New York, Thursday, June 9, 2011. Weiner admitted four days ago that he had Tweeted sexually charged messages and photos to at least six women and lied about it. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Pursed lips. Frosty glares. Polite demurrals. Icy silence. Women in politics are grappling with the distinctly unfunny choice of restraining themselves or letting rip what they really think about Rep. Anthony Weiner's X-rated online conduct and whether he belongs in Congress.
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