Friday, July 22, 2011

U.S. East Coast hit by searing heat, records broken (Reuters)

U.S. East Coast hit by searing heat, records broken (Reuters)

U.S. East Coast hit by searing heat, records broken (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:44 PM PDT

A man tosses a small child in the air while standing in the water at the Astoria Park Pool in New York July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - East Coast residents sought refuge on Friday from sweltering temperatures, flocking to beaches, pools and air-conditioned malls as the mercury climbed into the triple-digits along the U.S. Eastern seaboard.

From City Hall to Niagara Falls, NY gays to marry (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT

A participant in the Gay Pride Parade holds a sign reading, 'Promise Kept!' in reference to the recent legalization of gay marriage as they march past the Stonewall Inn in New York June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiReuters - Gay and lesbian couples across New York are gearing up to become bride and bride or groom and groom starting at a minute after midnight on Sunday, when a law making New York the sixth U.S. state to allow such marriages comes into effect.

U.S. military's ban on gays to end on September 20 (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:42 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday announced the U.S. military's ban on gays will end on September 20, in a major victory for rights advocates who overcame concerns about enacting the change during wartime.

The Republicans' Alternate Reality on Debt Crisis (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Failing to strike a deal would be an enormous, unprecedented disaster. But this is a reality that a chunk of House Republicans have yet to accept

Tour bus crash in upstate New York kills one (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:40 PM PDT

Reuters - A tractor trailer collided with a tour bus in upstate New York on Friday, killing the truck driver, injuring dozens of bus passengers and engulfing both vehicles in flames, state police said.

Crowd welcomes home, thanks final shuttle crew (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:09 PM PDT

NASA astronaut Rex Walheim signs an autograph at the welcome home ceremony for the astronauts of the final shuttle mission Friday, July 22, 2011, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - It may have been the final big official event of the last space shuttle mission, but a welcome-home and thank-you party for the crew of Atlantis Friday wasn't dwelling on any sad ending.

Feds say Yellowstone cleanup will take more people (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT

ExxonMobil cleanup workers remove bags of oil-covered vegetation from a side channel along the Yellowstone River near Billings, Mont. on Friday, July 22, 2011. After a pipeline spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil into the river on July 1, receding floodwaters are revealing more contamination miles downstream from the spill site. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)AP - Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as receding floodwaters reveal new contamination, federal officials said Friday.

Historian: 3 possible Japanese airmen for skull (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:32 PM PDT

AP - The skull found in Pearl Harbor believed to be from a Japanese pilot in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack could belong to one of three airmen who were aboard a torpedo plane that was shot down where the surprising discovery was recently made.

State cites NY theme park in vet's coaster death (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:59 PM PDT

This March 2011 photo provided by Help Our Military Heroes (HOMH), shows Iraq war veteran Sgt. James T. Hackemer on the day he was awarded a van in Beltsville, Md., from proceeds raised by HOMH. Hackemer, who had lost both his legs to a roadside bomb, was killed Friday, July 8, 2011, when he was ejected from a roller coaster at Darien Lake Theme Park Resort, located between Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y.. Hackemer's family insists the father of two who lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq was no thrill-seeker, but his fatal fall from a roller coaster highlights the challenge of balancing the desire for both excitement and normalcy with the reality of new disabilities. (AP Photo/ Help Our Military Heroes, Marybeth Vandergrift)AP - Operator error was to blame for an amputee Iraq war veteran's deadly fall from a roller coaster and the amusement park was cited for having improperly trained workers, state officials said Friday.

Debt talks crisis: Boehner, Obama trading blame (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:14 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2011 on the break down of debt ceiling talks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - House Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to make major cuts in federal spending and avert a threatened government default, sending already uncertain compromise efforts into instant crisis.

Calif. man gets 4 years for stalking on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:47 PM PDT

George Bronk, who had pleaded guilty in January 2011 to charges of computer intrusion, false impersonation and possession of child pornography, listens as he is sentenced to more than four years in prison in Sacramento, Calif., Superior Court Friday, July 21, 2011. Bronk, who violated the online privacy of women in 17 states, Washington, D.C., and England, had searched their Facebook pages for clues that allowed him to take over the their email accounts. After searching their folders for nude or semi-nude photographs or videos they had sent to their husbands or boyfriends, he then distributed the images to their contact lists. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A California man who trolled women's Facebook pages searching for clues that allowed him to take over their email accounts was sentenced Friday to more than four years in state prison after a judge rejected a plea for a lighter sentence and likened the man to a peeping Tom.

Baked Apple: Heat wave hits urban northeast (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:51 PM PDT

William Dyer, Jr., of Gortham, Maine stays cool seated on his beach chair waist-deep in Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine, Thursday, July 21, 2011. The heat that has gripped much of the nation arrived in Maine on Friday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - The urban Northeast baked like a potato wrapped in foil Friday as record-breaking, 100-degree temperatures and steambath humidity combined with the heat-trapping effects of asphalt and concrete to make millions of people miserable.

Boehner withdraws from debt talks with Obama (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:29 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2011 on the break down of debt ceiling talks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama said Friday night that House Speaker John Boehner was "walking away" from negotiations to raise the nation's debt ceiling and avert financial catastrophe. Still, Obama said he was expecting congressional leaders from both parties at the White House Saturday morning.

2 charged in LA in brutal beating of baseball fan (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Private investigator Ray Lara, left, attorney Jose Romero, middle, and attorney Edgar Coronado, all members of the defense team for Giovanni Ramirez, a suspect in the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, comment on the innocence of their client Thursday, July 21, 2011, downtown Los Angeles. Two new suspects were arrested Wednesday in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium and the original suspect Giovanni Ramirez, may well be exonerated, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The investigation into the near-fatal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan on opening day at Dodger Stadium took a surprising turn Friday when prosecutors charged two new suspects and the police chief acknowledged officers initially arrested the wrong man.

Chicago man once thought dead arrested in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles shows Arthur Gerald Jones, 72, a Chicago commodities broker who disappeared more than three decades ago and was declared legally dead. Jones has been found living under a false name and working as a writer in Las Vegas. Jones was arrested Tuesday, July 19, 2011, on identity theft and fraud charges. DMV and Social Security investigators say Jones has been living under the name Joseph Richard Sandelli since he was reported missing from Highland Park, Ill., in 1979. (AP Photo/Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles)AP - A former Chicago commodities broker who disappeared amid gambling and marital problems 32 years ago and was later declared legally dead has been found living under a false name and working as a bookie in Las Vegas, authorities said Friday.

Ohio man convicted of murder in 11 deaths (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:06 PM PDT

Anthony Sowell raises his arms in the air before being escorted from a court room after he was found guilty of multiple aggravated murder charges in the slayings of 11 women in Cleveland on Friday, July 22 in Common Pleas Court in Cleveland (AP Photo/Marvin Fong, Pool)AP - A man who lived among the rotting remains of 11 women was convicted Friday of killing all of them, bringing closure to a case that has haunted the city of Cleveland ever since the bodies were unearthed from a house that smelled like death.

'30 days of hell' for US victim of German E. coli (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, June 30, 2011 picture, a spice dealer holds up fenugreek seeds at his shop in Cairo, Egypt. In early May 2011, John Meyer stayed at a lakeside hotel in Hamburg, Germany and became one of the few U.S. victims in one of the worst food poisoning outbreaks in recent world history from a rare and deadly strain of E. coli bacteria that caused thousands of illnesses in Europe. The outbreak ultimately was traced to a batch of fenugreek seeds from Egypt. Fenugreek seeds, which taste a bit like burnt sugar, are sometimes used as a spice in cooking. Fenugreek sprouts are used in salads. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - In early May, John Meyer stayed at a lakeside hotel in Hamburg, Germany. He attended a business conference. He went sailing. And he became one of the few U.S. victims in one of the worst food poisoning outbreaks in recent world history.

Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:21 PM 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 at midnight nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.

Hey, Americans: Advice from Earth's heat experts (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 20, 2011 file photo, Libyan women sit in the surf at a beach in Tripoli, Libya. In the hot corners of the world, where temperatures like those that have bedeviled the American midsection and East Coast this week, are so commonplace that they go unnoticed, correspondents for The Associated Press asked the locals how people in the United States should deal with the heat. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - There are places in the world where no one would think of frying an egg on the sidewalk — if only because there are few sidewalks, and eggs can be in short supply as well.
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