Saturday, July 23, 2011

Back from war, young vets struggle to find good jobs (Reuters)

Back from war, young vets struggle to find good jobs (Reuters)

Back from war, young vets struggle to find good jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Given the high unemployment rate among young male veterans, 25-year-old Thomas Jones and 31-year-old Vincent Moore Jr. are thankful to at least have work at a Suffolk, Virginia video game store.

Three dead in shooting at Arizona motorcycle rally (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:12 PM PDT

Reuters - A shooting late Friday at a motorcycle rally in Northern Arizona left three dead and one critically wounded, police said on Saturday.

Several injured in Seattle-area shooting: reports (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Eight people were injured, some of them seriously, in a mass shooting Saturday afternoon at a car show in suburban Seattle, the Post Intelligencer reported.

Heavy rains soak Chicago as east coast steams (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT

A boy cools off at the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Overnight rains dumped nearly 7 inches of rain on Chicago early Saturday, breaking a record for the city, canceling flights, and causing parts of highways and train lines to shut down.

Texas game warden got peak inside polygamist ranch (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:14 PM PDT

AP - Before there was the SWAT team raid, the 439 children seized from mothers in frontier-style dresses and 19th century hairdos, and tales of underage sex and bigamy — there was a man from Utah with blood in the back of his pickup.

Heat wave roasts East Coast, cooler temps on way (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:40 PM PDT

Teresa Smit and Clifford, a 4-year-old Mastiff Labrador mix, cool off by running through a sprinkler, Saturday, July 23, 2011 in New York. The National Weather Service said the temperature was 92 in Central Park at 10 a.m. Saturday. Friday's high was 104. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A heat wave scorched the East Coast with another day of triple-digit temperatures on Saturday, forcing power authorities to throttle back the voltage to protect straining electrical grids as residents cranked up the air.

States eye fee increases as alternative to taxes (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT

Logo to accompany stories in the Broken Budgets seriesAP - Twenty dollars for a parking place wasn't going to ruin Ellen Majka's day at the beach. But she was still taken aback when she arrived at Rhode Island's popular Scarborough state beach and learned that parking fees had nearly doubled.

Documents: Loughner crying, pacing in prison cell (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT

AP - Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner was put on a 24-hour suicide watch this month at a federal prison in Missouri after he asked a staff psychologist to kill him, federal prosecutors said in newly released court documents.

Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili dies (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1993 file photo, Army Gen. John Shalikashvili speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington accompanied by President Bill Clinton and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell. On Saturday, July 23, 2011, the White House said Retired Gen. Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)AP - Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who counseled President Bill Clinton on the use of troops in Bosnia and other trouble spots, has died, the Army said in a statement. He was 75.

Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:40 AM PDT

AP - Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.

Bittersweet weddings approach for NY gay couples (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:32 PM PDT

Dressed in their wedding attire, Kitty Lambert, left, and Cheryle Rudd, right, pose for a photo for a newspaper photographer before their wedding in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Saturday, July 23, 2011. The Buffalo couple wants Mayor Paul Dyster to pronounce them married one second after midnight — the moment the law takes effect and makes New York the sixth and largest state to sanction gay marriage. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Elissa Kane and Lynne Lekakis wed in an emotional ceremony in 2004 with their 7-year-old daughter, Nora, spreading rose petals down the aisle, church members standing with them in support and Kane's father toasting the couple.

Airlines are taking savings from expired taxes (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, passengers arrive for flights out of Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Cleveland. Some airline customers won't see savings this weekend even though several federal taxes on tickets have expired. The taxes expired after midnight Friday, July 22, 2011, when Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration running. A number of airlines say they've raised fares to offset any tax savings. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets.

Daunting space task — send astronauts to asteroid (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT

FILE - This file image released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, July 18, 2011 shows the asteroid Vesta, photographed by the Dawn spacecraft on July 17, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL, File)AP - With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.

A decade later, firefighters bring 9/11 home (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 08:05 AM PDT

In this June 16, 2011 picture, Dave Murry, left, the public works superintendent for Wauseon, Ohio, and the town's firefighters drape an American flag on a piece of 9/11 steel before it is trucked from Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The steel is headed to Wauseon, Ohio for a 9/11 memorial. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Back home, where Rick Sluder is the police chief of a village of 3,000 surrounded by corn and soybean fields, traffic wouldn't be an issue. But this morning, at the helm of a rented van mired in a New York City traffic jam thicker than the summer heat, he's way out of his jurisdiction.

Debt crisis: Deal sought to head off stock plunge (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:17 PM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Saturday, July 23, 2011, in Washington, to discuss the debt. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek.

PMS-themed Calif. milk campaign sparks discussion (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT

AP - California milk producers have modified an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign that promoted their product to men as a way to lessen the effects of premenstrual syndrome in their wives or girlfriends. But some critics wonder if it's time the dairy organization moved on to greener pastures.

Joplin digs out from debris 2 months after tornado (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:09 PM PDT

This two-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 23, 2011, top, and again on July 21, 2011 showing progress made in Joplin, Mo. nearly two months after a tornado destroyed a large swath of the city and killed 159 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Empty concrete pads where houses once stood. Untouched playgrounds still riddled with broken glass. A once-bustling retail district, eerily quiet on a weekend night.
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