Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Once-a-century earthquake rattles East Coast (Reuters)

Once-a-century earthquake rattles East Coast (Reuters)

Once-a-century earthquake rattles East Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:12 PM PDT

Workers evacuate the New York State Supreme Courthouse in New York after an earthquake strikes the East Coast of the United States, August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.

Quake bolsters calls for public safety wireless network (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Disruption of cell phone service by a rare East Coast earthquake on Tuesday prompted renewed calls for Congress and regulators to provide a dedicated wireless network for emergency workers.

U.S. East Coast alerted to Hurricane Irene threat (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:01 PM PDT

NASA handout image taken by the GOES-13 satellite shows Hurricane Irene approaching the Bahamas on August 23, 2011 at 1932 UTC (3:32 p.m. EDT). No eye was visible in this image, but the extent of Irene's large cloud cover is seen from eastern Cuba over Hispaniola. The United States put its eastern seaboard on alert for Hurricane Irene on Tuesday as the powerful storm barreled up from the Caribbean on a path that could hit the U.S. coast on the weekend. REUTERS/NASA/NOAA GOES Project/HandoutReuters - The U.S. put its eastern seaboard on alert for Hurricane Irene on Tuesday as the powerful storm barreled up from the Caribbean on a path that could hit the U.S. coast on the weekend.

South Dakota Schools Cutting Costs with Four-Day Week (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - It'll be a three-day weekend every weekend for many students across the Mount Rushmore state

Photographer Refuses to Take Portraits of Facebook Bullies (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - A Pennsylvania photographer canceled senior photo sessions with four high school girls after spotting nasty comments they made on Facebook

Jobless Arizona bank robber says he "stole to survive" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:39 PM PDT

Reuters - A jobless man accused of robbing a dozen banks across the Phoenix valley told investigators he did it to survive and that "desperation was a great motivator," authorities said on Tuesday.

NY court dismisses sex case; Strauss-Kahn free (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves Manhattan State Supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, in New York. A New York judge dismissed the sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn, but the order is on hold until an appeals court rules on his accuser's request for a special prosecutor. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - Dominique Strauss-Kahn became a free man Tuesday when a judge ended the sexual assault case against him at the request of prosecutors, who said the hotel maid who accused the former International Monetary Fund chief couldn't be trusted.

Husband: CA mom accused of throwing baby depressed (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:49 PM PDT

A law enforcement officer surveys the parking structure at Children's Hospital of Orange County in Orange, Calif. on Monday Aug. 22, 2011. An unidentified infant boy fell or was thrown from the parking structure, according to police. The baby is in critical condition at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. (AP Photo/Cindy Yamanaka) - MAGS OUT NO SALES -AP - A mother accused of nearly killing her 7-month-old son by tossing him from the fourth floor of a hospital parking garage was treated for depression after the child's birth, her husband said Tuesday.

Woman convicted of child abuse in hot sauce case (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Jessica Beagley, 36, is shown before court on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, in Anchorage, Alaska. A jury convicted her of misdemeanor child abuse for squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the 'Dr. Phil' TV show. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - A woman who squirted hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son for lying about getting in trouble in school was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor child abuse in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the "Dr. Phil" TV show.

Bail raised to $3M for NJ man in wife's killing (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:58 PM PDT

An injured Kashif Parvaiz, originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., sits in a wheelchair during a court appearance in Morristown, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, in the fatal shooting of his wife in Boonton, N.J., last week. Parvaiz and Antoinette Stephen of Billerica, Mass., are charged with murdering Parvaiz's wife, Pakistani-born Nazish Noorani. Bail for Parvaiz was increased bail to $3 million. Bail for Stephen remains at $5 million. Noorani was fatally shot Aug. 16 while she and Parvaiz pushed their son's stroller near Noorani's family home in Boonton. Parvaiz was also shot. The child was unharmed. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Prosecutors successfully pushed for higher bail Tuesday for a man accused of plotting with a woman to murder his wife, saying the pair were a significant flight risk who had spoken of "pulling a Houdini" to escape authorities.

Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, school children practice their 'drop, cover and hold' technique, as they participate in the 'Great Southern California Shakeout' earthquake drill, based on the hypothetical scenario of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, at the Altadena Christian Children's Center in Altadena, Calif. The reaction to the East Coast earthquake triggered mockery from the seismically active West Coast, where similar-sized quakes happen on a regular basis and rarely become a national media obsession. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent.

Navy captain wishes he never made raunchy videos (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:32 PM PDT

AP - The former commander of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fighting to stay in the Navy said Tuesday he wishes he never made a series of raunchy videos that he broadcast aboard the USS Enterprise.

Strongest quake since '44 jars East Coast (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada were jolted Tuesday by the strongest earthquake to strike the East Coast since World War II. Three weeks before the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, office workers poured out of New York skyscrapers and the Pentagon, relieved it was nothing more sinister than an act of nature.

Quake calls to mind terrorism as 9/11 approaches (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:25 PM PDT

Cars are grid locked on L Street NW in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, after an earthquake was felt in the Washington area. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from Georgia to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where President Barack Obama is vacationing. No injuries were immediately reported.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Shaking ground and swaying buildings sent panicked people rushing for exits, pouring into streets or diving under desks. For some in Washington and New York and elsewhere along the East Coast, their first thoughts turned to terrorism — not nature.

Irene weakens but remains big threat to US (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Henry Paul boards up windows at a residence in preparation for Hurricane Irene in Nassau on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, Tuesday Aug. 23, 2011. Irene grew into a Category 2 hurricane late Monday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it could reach Category 3 as early as Tuesday and possibly become a monster Category 4 storm within 72 hours. Irene is expected to rake the Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas on Tuesday and Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - People stocked up on food, boarded windows and gassed up their cars Tuesday as Hurricane Irene threatened to become the most powerful storm to hit the East Coast in seven years.

Ark. gov: Pardons not likely in Cub Scout killings (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:22 PM PDT

AP - The man with the power to grant pardons in Arkansas said Tuesday he doesn't plan to issue them in the "West Memphis Three" case unless evidence shows someone else was to blame for the murders of three Cub Scouts nearly two decades ago.

East vs. West quakes: Way different creatures (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:35 PM PDT

Tony Williams surveys damage at his Mineral, Va. home after an earthquake struck Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Items in his home were knocked over and displaced, and the home suffered some structural damage after the most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to New England. The quake was centered near Mineral, a small town northwest of Richmond. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - The East Coast doesn't get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there's a whole lot more shaking going on. The ground in the East is older, colder and more intact than the West Coast or the famous Pacific Ring of Fire. So East Coast quakes rattle an area up to 10 times larger than a similar-sized West Coast temblor.

Bellagio bandit gets 3 to 11 years for chip heist (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2011 file photo, Anthony Carleo, 30, listens in district court in Las Vegas. Carleo, who admitted to holding up the posh Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip of $1.5 million in casino chips, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, and is expected to get at least three years in prison. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)AP - The son of a former Las Vegas judge who wore a motorcycle helmet and brandished a gun as he carried out a Hollywood movie-style holdup of the posh Bellagio casino was sentenced Tuesday to at least three years in prison.

9/11 brought changes to skyscrapers and high-rises (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:55 PM PDT

David Milberg, an attorney with the Schiff Hardin law firm located in the Willis Tower in Chicago, stands by a window at the firm's 66th floor offices. At Willis Tower, like other skyscrapers around the country, much has changed since two hijacked jets slammed into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center a decade ago. Many high rises are tougher to get into. At Willis Tower, for example, in the immediate aftermath of the attack, airport style security was installed, complete with metal detectors and security officers going through bags. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - What if it happens again?

Fla. court ruling puts Anthony closer to probation (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT

AP - A Florida appeals court on Tuesday denied a request that would have stopped Casey Anthony from being forced to start a one-year probation sentence for check fraud by the end of the week.
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