Thursday, July 28, 2011

Police say arrest of soldier foiled "terror plot" (Reuters)

Police say arrest of soldier foiled "terror plot" (Reuters)

Police say arrest of soldier foiled "terror plot" (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT

The main gate at the U.S. Army post at Fort Hood, Texas is pictured in this undated photograph, obtained on November 5, 2009. REUTERS/III Corps Public Affairs/U.S. Army/HandoutReuters - An Army soldier arrested with suspected bomb-making materials near Fort Hood, Texas, was hatching a "terror plot" to attack military personnel, police said on Thursday.

Girl found suffocated was locked in box as punishment (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:40 PM PDT

Four adult relatives of 10 year old Ame Deal, who was found suffocated in a storage bin in Arizona July 12, 2011, are shown in this combination of their police booking mugs which were released to Reuters July 28, 2011. Clockwise from left are aunt Cynthia Stoltzman, grandmother Judith Deal, cousin Samantha Allen and her husband John Allen. The relatives were arrested after investigators determined Ame Deal was locked in the container as punishment for taking a Popsicle without permission. REUTERS/Phoenix Police Department/HandoutReuters - Four adult relatives of an Arizona girl found suffocated in a storage bin have been arrested after investigators determined she was locked in the container as punishment for taking a popsicle without permission.

Former Yankees pitcher Irabu dead in apparent suicide (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT

New York Yankees starting pitcher Hideki Irabu throws against the Toronto Blue Jays in the first inning of their game at New York's Yankee Stadium, August 4, 1999. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - Former Major League Baseball pitcher Hideki Irabu, who started for the New York Yankees for three seasons in the late 1990s, was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home in an apparent suicide, the coroner's office said on Thursday.

Turning Gangstas to Ultimate Fighters: One Man's Quest (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Eugene Jackson used to run with the gangs in East Palo Alto but mixed martial arts saved his life. Now he wants other kids to find salvation too

A Survivor Speaks: The Double Standard of Sex Crimes (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Time.com - What going public really tells us about Nafissatou Diallo

Drought-stricken Texas welcomes Tropical Storm Don (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:23 PM PDT

Reuters - As much of Texas suffers through one of its worst droughts, many rain-starved Texans are doing something they thought they would never do -- looking forward to the arrival of a tropical storm.

Ex-astronaut Nowak dropped from the Navy (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A former astronaut banished from NASA after she attacked a romantic rival is being kicked out of the Navy, officials said Thursday.

Bill Gates: Poverty not excuse for no education (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:21 PM PDT

Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks during a forum on education at the National Urban League annual conference in Boston, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Microsoft founder Bill Gates told the National Urban League on Thursday that a child's success should not depend on the race or income of parents and that poverty cannot be an excuse for a poor education.

CDC: Strokes rise among pregnant women, new moms (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2005 file photo, a physician's assistant checks a pregnant woman who is three days overdue, at a hospital in Salinas, Calif. Strokes have spiked up among pregnant women and new moms, who likely are paying a price for rising rates of high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity, researchers report, according to The Associated Press, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Strokes have spiked in the U.S. among pregnant women and new mothers, probably because more of them are obese and suffering from high blood pressure and heart disease, researchers report.

Post office closures would make long hikes harder (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:06 PM PDT

Postmistress Maie Beane chats with Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, from left, Greg Brown, and David Hyman, of Pleasantville, N.Y., and Madelyn Hoagland-Hanson, of Philadelphia, as they eat lunch outside the post office in Caratunk, Maine, Thursday, July 28, 2011. The U.S. Postal Service plans to close some rural post offices including some that Appalachian Trail hikers have come to rely on for vital supply drops on their trip from Georgia to Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Hiking the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail already is grueling, and the U.S. Postal Service may make it even tougher. A plan to close rural post offices could shutter several outposts long used by hikers to receive food and gear as they walk the trail from Georgia to Maine.

Army: AWOL soldier admits to Fort Hood attack plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:06 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. Army shows Pfc. Naser Abdo. Abdo, 21, arrested Wednesday, July 27, 2011, who had weapons stashed in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, admitted planning an attack on the post, where 13 people died in 2009 in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation, the Army said in an alert issued Thursday. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - An AWOL infantry soldier caught with weapons and a bomb inside a backpack admitted planning what would have been Fort Hood's second terrorist attack in less than two years, the Army said Thursday. He might have succeeded at carrying it out, police said, if a gun-store clerk hadn't alerted them to the man's suspicious activity.

Polygamist leader represents himself; says nothing (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:33 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials escort polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, right, out of the Tom Green County Courthouse Thursday, July 28, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. A prosecutor told jurors Thursday he would present an audio recording of a polygamist sect leader raping a 12-year-old and other evidence showing the 55-year-old impregnated a 15-year-old girl during the man's sexual assault trial. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - A Texas prosecutor told jurors Thursday he would present an audio recording of Warren Jeffs raping a 12-year-old girl and DNA evidence showing he also impregnated a 15-year-old, providing the first hint of the state's case against the polygamist sect leader.

NYPD pioneers new dirty bomb detection system (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:33 PM PDT

Police officers work in the operations center of the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center, Thursday, July 28, 2011 in New York. The New York Police Department is testing ground-breaking counterterror technology expected to dramatically increase its ability to detect and thwart a potential radiation attack. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The New York Police Department is testing ground-breaking counterterror technology expected to dramatically increase its ability to detect and thwart a potential radiation attack, officials said Thursday.

Debt vote delayed into night as GOP seeks support (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:54 PM PDT

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrives at the Capitol office of House Speaker John Boehner as the scheduled vote on Boehner's debt plan bill is delayed in Washington, Thursday night, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - An intense endgame at hand, House Republican leaders struggled late into the night Thursday to quell a revolt by conservatives and pass legislation to avert a threatened government default and slice federal spending by nearly $1 trillion.

Single tweet draws rowdy ravers to Hollywood (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:59 PM PDT

Police hold back a crowd outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles Wednesday July 27, 2011 after a crowd became unruly outside the Hollywood film premiere of a documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival rave, throwing bottles and vandalizing cars and refusing orders to disperse after they were forced to leave an overcrowded theater, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mike Cooper)AP - It started with a DJ's simple tweet telling his followers about a free block party on Hollywood Boulevard.

NJ Gov. Christie is released from hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2011 photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during his Reform Agenda Town Hall at the National Guard Armory in Toms River, N.J. Christie is undergoing tests at a hospital after he had difficulty breathing on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Spokesman Michael Drewniak tells The Associated Press that the governor was being driven to a farm in central New Jersey when the governor had difficulty breathing and was taken to Somerset Medical Center out of an 'abundance of caution.' (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was released from a hospital Thursday evening following emergency treatment for asthma after having difficulty breathing.

APNewsBreak: Firefighters get damages in bias case (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:49 PM PDT

AP - A white group of firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 has been awarded about $2 million in damages from the city of New Haven, ending a 7-year-old legal battle that fueled national debate over racial justice, officials said Thursday.

Ala. county gets 1 week to decide on bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:18 PM PDT

FILE - This October 2006 file photo shows the skyline of Birmingham, Ala. Leaders in Alabama's most populous county say it's time to resolve a multi-billion dollar debt left by questionable sewer financing. The Jefferson County commission meets Thursday, July 28, 2011, to consider filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, Dennis Lathem, File)AP - Alabama's largest county has one week to decide whether to file for the largest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy or take a deal from Wall Street to settle more than $3 billion in debts linked to a massive sewer project stained by corruption.

APNewsBreak: Arctic scientist under investigation (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Subhankar Banerjee shows a polar bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett, whose observation that polar bears likely drowned in the Arctic helped galvanize the global warming movement, was placed on administrative leave as officials investigate him for scientific misconduct. Investigators’ questions have focused on a 2004 journal article that Monnett wrote about the bears, said thePublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility group that is representing him. Monnett was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending an investigation into 'integrity issues.' (AP Photo/Subhankar Banerjee, File)AP - Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement. Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct.

Congressman files bill to honor 2 Ark. soldiers (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:20 PM PDT

FILE - This May 15, 2009 file photo provided by the U.S. Army in Little Rock, Ark., shows Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, Ark. Long was killed outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center two years ago. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., plans to file legislation Thursday, July 28, 2011, that could make U.S. Army Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula and Long eligible for the Purple Heart. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Shannon Mercer, File)AP - A U.S. congressman filed legislation Thursday that could make two soldiers who were shot outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas eligible for the Purple Heart.
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