Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Dangerous hurricane Irene threatens U.S. Northeast (Reuters)

Dangerous hurricane Irene threatens U.S. Northeast (Reuters)

Dangerous hurricane Irene threatens U.S. Northeast (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:34 PM PDT

NASA handout image of Hurricane Irene moving over the Caribbean taken by astronaut Ron Garan from the International Space Station, August 22, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Ron Garan/HandoutReuters - Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely populated U.S. Northeast, including New York, starting on Sunday.

Apple fans sad as Jobs steps down, fear for health (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Apple Inc fans paid tribute to Steve Jobs on Wednesday, but expressed mostly sadness at his resignation as CEO and aired their fears for the health of the technology giant's guiding visionary.

Dick Cheney had secret resignation letter (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:17 PM PDT

Reuters - Former Vice President Dick Cheney signed a secret resignation letter shortly after taking office in 2001 and kept it in a safe, according to an excerpt of an NBC interview released on Wednesday.

Calling All Psychics: Prove Your Worth for $1 Million (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The $1 million treasure just sits there for the taking. Quite literally

7 Tips for Choosing the Best School for Your Child (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Time.com - How do you tell which schools do a good job? What kinds of questions should you ask teachers and administrators? Education expert Peg Tyre has the answers. (Hint: it's not about high tuition or test scores)

Phoenix bus drivers to negotiate to avert strike (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Negotiators for Phoenix's bus company and union drivers will return to the bargaining table to try to avoid a strike that could affect nearly 125,000 riders on the city's transit system, officials said on Wednesday.

Crews slowed by heat in attacking Calif. rail fire (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:02 PM PDT

Firefighters pour water on a burning a rail car loaded with 29,000 gallons of liquid propane in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The fire, which started Tuesday, forced the evacuation of about 4,800 homes in the area. Firefighters have set up four fixed hoses to soak the tanker and to keep down its temperatures while the propane burns off, a process that could take several days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Firefighters began making a bold attempt Wednesday to drain a burning propane rail tanker but the process to head off a catastrophic explosion in a Northern California town was slowed by the fire's intense heat.

Professor-student romance ends in murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:13 PM PDT

AP - A college professor who alternately referred to himself as a "psychopathic killer" and "the beast" committed suicide after killing a graduate student he had recently dated, police said in newly revealed court documents.

SF transit board developing cellphone policy (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) agency board of director member Lynette Sweet gestures during a public meeting at BART headquarters in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 to help ease tensions over whether there should be a policy on cutting wireless access to its stations during protests. The discussion was whether it wants to continue using the tactic, which drew unfavorable comparisons to Hosni Mubarak's attempts to cut Internet access to most of Egypt to quell demonstrations protesting his regime. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Transit agency directors appeared ready Wednesday to set a policy allowing police to cut wireless phone access on San Francisco Bay area train platforms, but only in extreme public safety circumstances.

Is East Coast prepared for truly powerful quake? (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:09 PM PDT

Ted Tuz, a Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation contractor with Pickering, Corts, and Summerson, Inc., inspects an Interstate 95 overpass Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, in Philadelphia. Inspectors across the state are making spot checks on bridges, roads, dams and more in the aftermath of tremors from the 5.8 magnitude quake that was centered in Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - There were cracks in the Washington Monument and broken capstones at the National Cathedral. In the District of Columbia suburbs, some people stayed in shelters because of structural concerns at their apartment buildings.

Category 4 Irene possible by Thursday (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:38 PM PDT

People arrive at Cape Hatteras ferry terminal in Cape Hatteras. N.C. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Evacuations began on the tiny barrier island of Ocracoke Island off North Carolina as Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm over the Bahamas on Wednesday with the East Coast in its sights. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Irene that is taking aim at the East Coast could become a Category 4 monster by Thursday.

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and creative force, resigns (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 2, 2011 file photo, Apple Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs waves to his audience at an Apple event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - The man in the black shirt and jeans who knew people would fall in love with the iPod, iPhone and iPad before they did is stepping back from Apple Inc., which grew into one of the world's strongest companies as its leader's health failed him.

AG calls phone hacking report 'very disturbing' (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:35 PM PDT

Attorney Norm Siegel speaks to reporters at the Justice Department on behalf of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York following their meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder about allegations that a British newspaper attempted to gain access to the cell phones of their loved ones who perished in the World Trade Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. From left to right are retired firefighter James Riches, whose firefighter son Jimmy died on Sept. 11, Peter Gadiel, whose 23-year-old son James worked on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower, attorney Norm Siegel, Charles Wolf, whose British wife Katherine was one of many British victims who died in the New York attacks, and Maureen Santora and husband Al Santora, whose son Christopher, a New York city fireman, died Sept. 11. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday called a report of possible phone hacking targeting 9/11 victims and their families very disturbing and he assured them in a lengthy meeting that the department is pursuing a preliminary criminal investigation of the matter.

Apple fans: Company is more than Steve Jobs (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. He will be replaced by Tim Cook, who was the company's chief operating officer. It said Jobs has been elected as Apple's chairman. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Apple fans and would-be customers seemed to agree that while Steve Jobs' charisma and innovative genius is one-of-a-kind, the company he built will survive without him.

Husband defends wife in Calif. baby's death (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:57 PM PDT

This image provided by the Orange Police Department shows Sonia Hermosillo who was arrested Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, on charges that she allegedly tossed her 7-month-old son from the upper level of a parking structure. The baby is in critical condition at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. (AP Photo/Orange Police Department)AP - The husband of a woman accused of tossing her disabled 7-month-old son off the fourth story of a hospital parking structure said Wednesday that his wife suffered from postpartum depression and he doesn't blame her for her actions.

Ambush strains Israel-Egypt ties; violence spikes (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 04:13 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers secure the area near roads leading to the sites of several attacks in the Arava desert, near the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. On Thursday, gunmen who appear to have originated in Gaza and who crossed into southern Israel through the Egyptian desert ambushed civilian vehicles traveling on a remote road in southern Israel, killing eight people. Six were civilians, and two were members of Israeli security forces responding to the incursion.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)AP - Egypt registered an official complaint with Israel Friday over the deaths of five of its soldiers in fighting after an ambush targeting Israelis near the border between the two countries as tensions spiked between the two formerly staunch allies.

Iraqi-Americans receive threats after drug arrests (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:44 PM PDT

AP - Members of an Iraqi immigrant community have been targeted with threatening phone calls and questions about their U.S. patriotism after a federal takedown of a drug trafficking ring operating from an Iraqi social club in a working-class city east of San Diego, officials said Wednesday.

Federal lawyer: no room for Ala. immigration law (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:47 PM PDT

Students sit in the gym at Crossville Elmentary School in Crossville, Ala., on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. Despite being in an almost all-white town, the school's enrollment is about 65 percent Hispanic. Both English- and Spanish-speaking residents say they are awaiting the outcome of a federal court hearing on Alabama's new law cracking down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP - Lawyers for the federal government and for a coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a new Alabama law cracking down on illegal immigration, arguing that it stomps on such basic rights as free speech and free travel.
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