Friday, September 30, 2011

Boeing arrest points to U.S. workplace drug problems (Reuters)

Boeing arrest points to U.S. workplace drug problems (Reuters)

Boeing arrest points to U.S. workplace drug problems (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT

The Osprey assembly line at Boeing's Ridley Park, Pennsylvania plant is seen in this May 6, 2002 file photograph. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer/FilesReuters - The arrest of more than three dozen people on drug charges at a Boeing military aircraft plant highlights the growing problem of prescription drug abuse by U.S. workers, experts said on Friday.

California desert drug bust nets $22.6 mln in marijuana (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:19 PM PDT

Reuters - A record 14 tons of marijuana, valued at over $22.6 million, was seized in the California desert at a checkpoint roughly 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, federal officials said on Friday.

Released video shows Casey Anthony's reaction to body discovery (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:38 PM PDT

Reuters - A Florida judge on Friday released a grainy video showing Casey Anthony's reaction in 2008 to a news report saying the remains of her missing 2-year-old daughter Caylee had been found.

Why Chris Christie Is No Savior for Conservatives (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Christie delivered a crowd-pleasing address complaining that President Obama had failed to meet his promise and that America needs new leadership to restore its greatness

Man arrested in shooting death of Hells Angels boss (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Police in San Francisco have arrested a man suspected in the shooting death of a Hells Angels motorcycle club chapter president during a brawl between rival bikers in Nevada last week, authorities said on Friday.

Authorities trying to close in on Calif. fugitive (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:14 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 2011 file photo provided by the Mendocino County (Calif.) Sheriff shows Aaron Bassler. Bassler, 35, is suspected of killing a city councilman on Aug. 27 and one other person several weeks before. Bassler is thought to be hiding out in the redwoods outside of Fort Bragg and is believed to have broken into several cabins to steal food and at least two other weapons. Authorities say they are closing in on a murder suspect who has been the subject of Northern California's largest manhunt in decades — even as they reported that he shot at a group of sheriff's deputies Thursday Sept. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Mendocino County Sheriff)AP - Authorities said Friday that they were closing in on a murder suspect who shot at a group of officers during the largest local manhunt in decades.

Questions and answers about Yemen-based al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:29 PM PDT

File - This October 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Yemen's Defense Ministry said in a statement Friday Sept. 30, 2011 the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALESAP - Based in the Yemeni tribal hinterlands but possessing global ambitions, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has become the most active and lethal of the affiliates to emerge from the shadow of Osama bin Laden's old network. Now the deadly U.S. attack on its leadership has complicated its prospects.

FAA workers furloughed in shutdown get back pay (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:23 PM PDT

AP - Nearly 4,000 workers who were furloughed in a two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration this summer were told Friday in an email that they will receive back pay.

Fear in Colo. town at heart of Listeria outbreak (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:35 PM PDT

Eric Jensen walks a field with rotting cantaloupes on the Jensen Farms near Holly, Colo., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Eric and his brother Ryan own Jensen Farms that has been identified as the source of the national listeria outbreak that has killed more than a dozen people so far. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Eric Jensen surveys his dusty cantaloupe field and seems equally stunned and puzzled at the fate that has befallen his crop: row upon row of melons rotting on the vine.

Officials: Drone likely killed Saudi terrorist (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT

AP - Two US officials say the drone strike in Yemen that killed Anward al-Awlaki appears to have also killed al-Qaida's top Saudi bomb-maker.

Killing Americans: On uncharted ground in attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:39 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks on the killing of US-born Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, during a 'Change of Office' ceremonies at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.

Gov't backs 4 more solar loans as deadline looms (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:29 PM PDT

This artist rendering released by SolarReserve LLC shows what will be the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a solar generating facility, that is being constructed northwest of Tonopah, Nev., in Nye County. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, the department has completed a $737 million loan guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy, for a 110 megawatt solar tower on federal land near Tonopah. SolarReserve LLC, of Santa Monica, Calif., is the parent company for Tonopah Solar Energy. (AP Photo/SolarReserve)AP - The Energy Department on Friday approved four more solar energy loan guarantees worth nearly $5 billion, hours before a controversial loan program was set to expire.

Calif. man found alive by his children after wreck (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:21 PM PDT

Two cars at the bottom of a remote mountain are recovered in Castaic, Calif., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 .   David Lavau, whose car had plunged 200 feet off a remote mountain road, was found yesterday by his three adult children, who had enlisted the help of a missing persons detective. Lavau suffered multiple rib fractures, a broken arm and multiple fractures in his back. While he was being rescued, another vehicle was found nearby, its driver dead. Authorities don't know if that vehicle was involved in a collision with Lavau's car, or if it was a separate accident. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)AP - David Lavau's children drove slowly along the perilously curved mountain road, stopping to peer over the treacherous drop-offs and call out for their father, missing for six days.

Medic: Info from Jackson doctor didn't add up (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:46 PM PDT

Paramedic Richard Senneff testifies during the Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - After just a few moments in Michael Jackson's bedroom, the paramedic dispatched to save the singer's life knew things weren't adding up.

Rival accused of killing Hells Angels boss caught (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:10 PM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 photo, officers keep an eye on handcuffed men at the east entrance to John Ascuaga's Nugget after a shooting in Sparks, Nev. One person has been killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a hotel-casino in Sparks that witnesses say involved members of rival motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, ) NEVADA APPEAL OUT; NO SALES; MAGS OUTAP - A man accused of killing the leader of the San Jose Hells Angels in a shootout at a Nevada casino has been arrested on a college campus in San Francisco, authorities said Friday.

Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities. In Montgomery County, more than 200 Hispanic students were absent the morning after the judge's Wednesday ruling. A handful withdrew. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Obama: Still on track to remove Afghanistan troops (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:19 PM PDT

Tears of the Sun, a rock band from Uzbekistan, performs during an underground pre-rock festival concert in Kabul September 27, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodAP - Citing "huge challenges" ahead, President Barack Obama says he still intends to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year and says the administration's strategy for winding down the war remains unchanged.

'Pope' of Illinois politics faces corruption trial (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, Springfield, Ill., powerbroker William Cellini leaves federal court in Chicago. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, for Cellini, 76, who is charged with conspiring to shake down a Hollywood producer for a $1.5 million contribution to then Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign. It is the last major trial stemming from a nearly decade-long investigation of the former governor. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The former high school teacher-turned-mega millionaire cozied up to successive Illinois governors from both parties, while staying in the shadows and rarely speaking publicly. But so powerful was he behind the scenes that he was referred to in awe as The King of Clout and the pope of Illinois politics.

Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:59 PM PDT

A woman waits at the gates of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. U.S. air strikes in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric at the mosque, who became a prominent figure in the terror network's most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American.
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