Monday, August 22, 2011

Dougherty siblings charged with attempted murder (Reuters)

Dougherty siblings charged with attempted murder (Reuters)

Dougherty siblings charged with attempted murder (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:10 PM PDT

Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, Lee Grace E. Dougherty, 29, and Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21 (L-R); are pictured in this combination image of law enforcement photographs released to Reuters on August 5, 2011. REUTERS/Pasco County Sheriff's Office/HandoutReuters - Three Florida siblings accused of carrying out a multi-state crime spree before they were arrested following a shootout with Colorado police were charged on Monday with attempted murder and a host of other crimes.

Prosecutors ask NY judge to drop Strauss-Kahn case (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn smiles as he departs a hearing at the New York State Supreme Courthouse in New York in this July 1, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/FilesReuters - New York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.

Prosecutors ask judge to deny Loughner videotaping request (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:54 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge on Monday to turn down an appeal by defense attorneys seeking to videotape any psychiatric evaluations of Tucson mass shooting spree suspect Jared Loughner.

How Underage Google Users Can Bypass the Age Limit (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Google+ isn't letting anyone under 18 into its social network, and getting shut out of it can mean losing your Gmail account and all the correspondence in it. There's a way to correct a user's birth date, but it'll cost a few dimes

Why Arne Duncan Shouldn't Really Be Dissing Texas Schools (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:10 AM PDT

Time.com - The U.S. Secretary of Education has said he feels "very, very badly" for schoolchildren in Texas, but he can't seem to explain why

Joplin businesses rebounding quickly from tornado (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Businesses destroyed in a deadly tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, in May are quickly bouncing back, with Walgreens cutting the ribbon on a store rebuilt in a corporate record of 90 days.

Doctor says he was surprised to find penile cancer (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:37 PM PDT

In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, Phillip Seaton of Waddy, Ky., center, stands to leave court with his attorney Kevin George and wife Deborah after jury selection in their case against Dr. John Patterson, of Louisville, at the Shelby County Courthouse in Shelbyville, Ky. The dispute over the necessity of amputating Seaton's penis during surgery in 2008 is set to go to trial Monday, Aug. 22. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - A Kentucky doctor said Monday that he saved a truck driver's life when he amputated part of the man's penis after discovering a rare and deadly cancer, but the man told a jury he wanted to escape from the hospital when he learned it was removed without his knowledge.

Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:18 PM PDT

Trevor Reese, 13, gets his Tdap shot from pediatric nurse practitioner Jenny Lu, right, in Tustin, Calif., in this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot? If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot?

AP IMPACT: Uneven post-9/11 data-cloaking persists (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:50 AM PDT

This combination of screen captures shows maps of the Buffalo, N.Y. airport available on the Bing website, left, and Google maps services website on Aug. 18, 2011. In the post-9/11 world, the blurred image of this and other sites is the product of New York state's homeland security apparatus. (AP Photo)AP - Take a virtual tour of New York on Google Maps and some blurry images appear.

Fla. AG: Casey Anthony should serve probation (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT

AP - Casey Anthony should be forced to serve probation for check fraud because it was impossible to enforce the sentence when she was jailed while awaiting trial on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Florida's attorney general said Monday.

NY prosecutors: Dismiss Strauss-Kahn sex charges (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, center, leaves a state office building in New York with her lawyer Kenneth Thompson, right, after a meeting at the Manhattan district attorney's office to discuss the decision not to proceed with the prosecution, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - For all that had been revealed as prosecutors moved Monday to drop their sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, they said they couldn't answer the central question: what happened between him and a maid in his luxurious hotel suite.

Dallas man accused of drowning sons, ages 3 and 5 (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:26 PM PDT

AP - A Dallas father drowned his two young sons after abducting them and their mother while they were walking to school on Monday, police said.

Powerful Hurricane Irene heads toward Bahamas, US (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:19 PM PDT

Civil defense workers remove fallen trees from a road after hurricane Irene hit the area in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. Hurricane Irene headed out over warm ocean water on a path that could take it to northeastern Dominican Republic and part of Haiti early Tuesday and to the U.S. mainland by the end of the week. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)AP - A rapidly strengthening Hurricane Irene cut a destructive path through the Caribbean on Monday, pounding Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic with strong winds and rain as it followed a track that could carry it to the U.S. Southeast by the end of the week.

Experts push disclosure of failed foster adoptions (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:52 AM PDT

In this July 10, 2011 photo, Deb Carlson, left, and her husband Doug, right, have lunch with their adopted sons in Valrico, Fla. The Carlsons' adopted sons have trashed bedrooms, stolen credit cards and threatened to kill them, one drew a disturbing pictures of throwing a party after beheading the southwest Florida couple. While the overwhelming majority of adoptions end happily, some families like the Carlsons say they weren’t told about their new child’s psychological problems and can’t get help from the government agencies that recruited them. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Deb and Doug Carlsons' adopted sons have trashed bedrooms, stolen credit cards and threatened to kill them. One drew a disturbing picture of beheading the southwest Florida couple and throwing a party.

Hospitals are giving faster heart care, study says (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 19, 2011, Linda Tisch poses in her back yard at her home in Westerley, R.I. Tisch suffered a heart attack on Saturday Aug. 13, 2011, was treated in a record 16 minutes and is returning to work today just 10 days after treatment. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - In a spectacular turnabout, hospitals are treating almost all major heart attack patients within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival, a new study finds. Just five years ago, less than half of them got their clogged arteries opened that fast.

Somber mood at King memorial's opening in DC (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:53 PM PDT

People view the new Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. The memorial is to be officially dedicated on Sunday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Some were locals who've watched for years as the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took shape on the National Mall. Some were tourists who happened to be in Washington the day it opened. All felt honored to be a part of history as they gazed at a towering granite sculpture of the civil rights leader.

Dead baby found at CA home where man shot officer (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:18 PM PDT

A photo provided by Heartland Fire & Rescue shows police in San Diego County, Calif., Sunday Aug. 21, 2011 protecting a Heartland Fire crew battling a blaze in a building where gunman had shot an El Cajon policeman. The fire broke out after the policeman was shot. (AP Photo/Heartland Fire and Rescue)AP - A gunman is suspected of killing his baby daughter in his truck, then torching his home, in a dramatic series of events that ended with him critically wounding a police officer before perishing in the blaze, police said Monday.

It's alive! Space station's humanoid robot awake (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2011 file photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 26 commander, right, poses with Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. NASA ground controllers on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 turned on the robot for the first time since it was delivered to the International Space Station in February. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.

Cops increasingly under siege after homeless death (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:24 AM PDT

Kimberly Holifield sits in a bus as a man visits the memorial site for Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Until last month, the most pressing political issue in the Southern California suburb of Fullerton was a debate over whether to build homes and retail on hundreds of acres of rolling hills north of the city. Today, the historic town that's home to five colleges and a vibrant nightlife is the target of international outrage after the mentally ill homeless man died following a violent fight with six police officers that was captured on camera. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Until last month, the most pressing issues in this quiet Southern California suburb were whether to build homes on rolling hills north of the city, how best to preserve a historic movie theater and a downtown bar scene that got a little too popular for its own good.
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