Thursday, August 25, 2011

East Coast in Irene's path, scrambles to prepare (Reuters)

East Coast in Irene's path, scrambles to prepare (Reuters)

East Coast in Irene's path, scrambles to prepare (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:42 PM PDT

Storm clouds loom as a beachcomber walks on a beach access ramp on the west end of Sunset Beach, North Carolina August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Randall HillReuters - The northeast seaboard, including Washington, D.C. and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday for a possible mauling from powerful Hurricane Irene this weekend.

NYC mayor: Coastal residents should move out Friday (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:25 PM PDT

Reuters - New York City residents in low-lying areas should voluntarily start moving out on Friday, before Hurricane Irene is expected to hit, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday.

Arizona sues federal government over voter rights law (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Arizona filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a U.S. federal voting rights law governing how the state conducts its elections.

Gov. Rick Perry Compared Homosexuality to Alcoholism in 2008 Book 'On My Honor' (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:10 AM PDT

Time.com - The origin of homosexuality has become something of a political litmus test for presidential candidates, almost akin to their stance on abortion

Ron Paul Can't Get Any Respect (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Ron Paul Can't Get Any Respect

U.S. airlines cut flights due to approaching hurricane (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. airlines on Thursday began to cut flights at East Coast airports and made plans to move aircraft from the region due to approaching Hurricane Irene.

Georgia profs offer course to illegal immigrants (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:28 PM PDT

Students march across the campus of the University of Georgia during a protest on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 in Athens, Ga. The group gathered to protest a new university system policy on the admission of illegal immigrants, the latest in a string of demonstrations staged in recent months in Georgia by illegal immigrant young people and their supporters. (AP Photo/Athens Banner-Herald, David Manning)AP - As college students return to campus in Georgia, a new state policy has closed the doors of the five most competitive state schools to illegal immigrants, but a group of professors has found a way to offer those students a taste of what they've been denied.

AP IMPACT: Some 9/11 charities failed miserably (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:16 PM PDT

This Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 photos shows a 9-11 memorial flag 'Flag of Honor' designed by John Michelotti at his warehouse in Greenwich, Conn. At first glance, the Flag of Honor/Flag of Heroes Project looks like any other charity doing philanthropy in the name of 9/11. But people who have bought one of its flags would likely be surprised to learn that nearly all the proceeds have gone to the charity founder's for-profit flag company, not 9/11 victims. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Americans eager to give after the 9/11 terrorist attacks poured $1.5 billion into hundreds of charities established to serve the victims, their families and their memories. But a decade later, an Associated Press investigation shows that many of those nonprofits have failed miserably.

Dedication of MLK Memorial postponed by hurricane (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 file photo, the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is seen unveiled from scaffolding during the soft opening of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington. The dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington has been postponed indefinitely as Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the nation's capital, organizers postponed a planned weekend dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall, dashing hopes of paying tribute to the civil rights leader on the 48th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Hurricane Irene tightens aim on East Coast (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:45 PM PDT

Cars wind their way around downed trees on the coastal road in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in Nassau, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Irene hit Nassau with tropical storm strength winds as it passed to the east. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - A monstrous Hurricane Irene tightened its aim on the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, threatening 65 million people along a shore-hugging path from North Carolina to New England. One of the nation's top experts called it his "nightmare" scenario.

New York City preps for 1st hurricane in decades (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, center, briefs the media on the city’s preparations for Hurricane Irene, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/NYC Mayor’s Office, Kristen Artz)AP - Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were told Thursday to pack a bag and prepare to be evacuated as the nation's biggest city braced for its first hurricane in decades.

Kansas man convicted of capital murder in 4 deaths (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:51 PM PDT

AP - As his attorneys told it, James Kraig Kahler was so distraught his wife of 23 years was leaving him and had fallen for another woman that he snapped. He lost his job and self-control, and in a fit of madness, killed his wife, their two teenage daughters and his wife's grandmother.

Slain grad's roommates named professor on 911 call (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:05 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Andy Benoit shows Katy Benoit. A college professor who alternately referred to himself as a 'psychopathic killer' and 'the beast' committed suicide after killing Katy Benoit, a graduate student he had recently dated, police said in newly revealed court documents. (AP Photo/Andy Benoit)AP - In the immediate aftermath of a brutal killing on their back porch, the roommates of a slain Idaho graduate student told a 911 operator that they could think of only one person who could have fired the fatal shots — a university professor whom their friend had recently dated.

Investigation renews in spiraling missing mom case (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:15 PM PDT

FILE - This undated picture made available by Hardman Photography shows Susan Powell. Powell, a 28-year-old mother of two young children, was reported missing Dec. 7, 2009. Two years after the disappearance of Powell, her case has spiraled into a salacious saga of finger-pointing, accusations of inappropriate flirtations with her father-in-law, the release of her teenage diary, a court order separating family members and a renewed search for evidence. (AP Photo/Hardman Photography, Amber Hardman, File) NO SALESAP - Two years after a Utah mother vanished, her case has spiraled into a salacious saga of finger-pointing and accusations of sex and lies between two sparring families.

Millions of US court records bound for shredder (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:19 PM PDT

AP - Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs — and raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files.

Report: NASA made proper pick for retired shuttles (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 file photo made available by NASA, space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery meet in a 'nose-to-nose' photo opportunity as the vehicles switch locations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA acted properly when it picked new homes for the retired space shuttles, the space agency's watchdog said Thursday. The shuttles were awarded in April to museums in suburban Washington, Los Angeles, Cape Canaveral, Fla., and New York, based on recommendations by a special NASA team and a decision by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former shuttle commander. (AP Photo/NASA, Frankie Martin)AP - NASA acted properly when it picked new homes for the retired space shuttles, the space agency's watchdog said Thursday.

No choking charges for Wis. Supreme Court justice (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 6, 2011, file photo Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices David T. Prosser, Jr. and Ann Walsh Bradley consider oral arguments during a hearing on the state's budget bill at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. A prosecutor said Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, that Justice Prosser won't face criminal charges over allegations he choked Bradley. Justice Bradley accused Prosser of chocking her in June as the justices deliberated on a legal challenge to GOP Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law. (AP Photo/John Hart, Pool, File)AP - A conservative Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who staved off an unusually intense campaign to replace him this summer will not face criminal charges over allegations that he tried to choke a liberal colleague, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Man arrested for hate crime in Ore. mosque fire (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT

This Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, booking photo provided by the Polk County Sherif, shows Cody Crawford. Crawford, 24, has been arrested on hate crime charges for the November, 2010 firebombing of the Salman Al-Farisi mosque in Corvallis, Ore.(AP Photo/Polk County Sheriff Department, HO)AP - Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of firebombing an Oregon mosque last year and said he was motivated by racial hatred following the arrest of a Muslim man accused of plotting to set off a car bomb in Portland.

Report: Vaccines generally safe, some side effects (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:27 AM PDT

AP - Vaccines can cause certain side effects but serious ones appear very rare — and there's no link with autism and Type 1 diabetes, the Institute of Medicine says in the first comprehensive safety review in 17 years.
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