Saturday, November 5, 2011

Ex-Penn State assistant coach charged with abuse (Reuters)

Ex-Penn State assistant coach charged with abuse (Reuters)

Ex-Penn State assistant coach charged with abuse (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Penn State head coach Joe Paterno answers questions during a news conference following a loss to Alabama in their NCAA football game in State College, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2011. REUTERS/Tim ShafferReuters - A longtime former assistant to celebrated Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno was charged with sexually abusing eight boys, a state prosecutor said on Saturday.

Frazier severely ill with cancer, says manager (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, who earned boxing immortality after three epic fights with Muhammad Ali, is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager said on Saturday.

Costco pours money into Washington state liquor vote (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Reuters - An initiative backed by Costco to allow supermarkets and warehouse stores to sell liquor in the state of Washington has shattered an election spending record, and a recent poll showed the measure may pass.

Magic Johnson and HIV: The Lasting Impact of Nov. 7, 1991 (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Twenty years ago, Magic Johnson announced that he contracted HIV. Why that day will live forever

"Why Are There So Many Military Suicides?" (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The problem of suicides continues to haunt Pentagon personnel officials

Green candidate for mayor based in Occupy Tucson tent (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 06:53 AM PDT

Mary DeCamp, the Green Party candidate for mayor of Tucson, Arizona, sits outside her tent at the Occupy Tucson camp in Viente de Agosto Park November 4, 2011. REUTERS/Brad PooleReuters - There is no bank of telephones at Mary DeCamp's campaign headquarters, no volunteers eager to bring her message to the masses.

Fort Hood victims' kin holding private memorials (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 11:26 AM PDT

In this file combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas; Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va.; Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga.; Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of San Diego, Calif.; Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn.; Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis.; Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah; Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolingbrook, Ill.; Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis.; Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago; Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, of Havre de Grace, Md.; and Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo, File)AP - Two grieving families walked through endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery on a cool autumn day to pay their respects to two soldiers they never met.

5 charged in Va. Halloween candy theft (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 09:37 AM PDT

AP - Police in Virginia say five teenagers have been charged with beating two youngsters who wouldn't hand over their Halloween candy.

Boomers' aging casts light on geriatrics shortage (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PDT

In this Oct. 7, 2011 photo, Dr. Brian Kiedrowski, right, walks his patient Victoria Cohen, 100, in Miami. The baby boomers entrance into old age is casting light on the drastic shortage of medical professionals trained to treat the elderly. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - In this sleepy, riverside town in northeast Florida, 86-year-old Betty Wills sees the advertisements of obstetricians and gynecologists on the main road's billboards and has found specialists ranging from cardiologists to surgeons in the phone book.

Andy Rooney: Each Sunday he looked at the everyday (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 05:51 AM PDT

CORRECTS DAY AND DATE OF DEATH - FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney, center leaves the Celebration of Life Memorial ceremony for Walter Cronkite at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. CBS says former '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney died Friday Nov. 4, 2011 at age 92. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)AP - It would be interesting to know what Andy Rooney would say now about the great beyond.

Penn St ex-coach, others charged in child sex case (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 07:15 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald 'Jerry' Sandusky, center, is placed in a police car iin Bellefonte, Pa. to be taken to the office of a Centre County Magisterial District judge on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on Monday on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania’s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Commonwealth Media Services)AP - An explosive sex abuse scandal and possible cover-up rocked "Happy Valley" on Saturday when former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once considered Joe Paterno's heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15-year period. Among the allegations was a 2002 incident in which a graduate assistant for the team said he saw Sandusky assault a boy in the shower at the Nittany Lions' practice center.

Andy Rooney, wry '60 Minutes' commentator, dies (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 20, 2005 file photo shows '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney in New York. CBS says former '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 at age 92. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

Eyes of nation on Ohio vote on union-limiting law (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:25 PM PDT

In this Nov. 3, 2011 photo, opponents of Issue 2 await the arrival of Ohio Gov. John Kasich for a rally in Independence, Ohio. A momentous showdown over Ohio’s tough new restrictions on public employee unions culminates Tuesday in a vote that will resound nationally in a crucial victory for the embattled labor movement or a backlash against government spending. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - A ballot battle in Ohio that pits the union rights of public workers against Republican efforts to shrink government and limit organized labor's reach culminates Tuesday in a vote with political consequences from statehouses to Pennsylvania Avenue.

A little pot is trouble in NYC: 50k busts a year (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 04:12 PM PDT

In this Nov. 1, 2011 photo, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 27, a community organizer for Vocal-NY, which advocates for people with HIV, drug users and formerly incarcerated is photographed in New York. Every year the city arrests 50,000 people for having small amounts of marijuana and Carrasquillo has been arrested numerous times for possession. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - As the nation's biggest city deals with threats of terrorism and a variety of violent crimes, carrying a little bit of marijuana is still a big deal.

Billionaire NY mayor grapples with Wall St protest (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:23 PM PDT

AP - It would seem that Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be a natural foe for protesters now in their seventh week on Wall Street's footstep.

FBI says end near in civil rights-era prosecutions (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 08:38 AM PDT

In this Oct. 31, 2011 photo, Juanita Evangeline Moore poses in Bowie, Md., with photographs of her father, Harry, the NAACP's first statewide executive secretary in Florida, left, and mother, Harriette. Moore's parents were killed after a bomb went off beneath their bedroom floor on Christmas Day 1951. The FBI closed its second investigation into the case in July. No one was charged for the crime. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Every time we think we've seen the last of the trials for civil rights-era atrocities, it seems, prosecutors will parade some stooped, white-haired defendant before the cameras in shackles.

Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 09:30 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, Kelly Leonard, left, vice-president at the Second City comedy club and Liz Garibay with the Chicago History Museum, sit within a display highlighting Chicago's Jazz and Blues history at the museum in Chicago. Second City, famed for its parody and improvisation, has partnered with the museum to turns its wit on Chicago itself. The finished product, 'Second City's History of Chicago,' previewing in late November, will likely touch on familiar subjects like the historical cast of political characters,the miserably cold winters, and the woebegone Chicago Cubs. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Imagine a city where winters are frigid enough for polar bears, where a baseball team is so woebegone it hasn't won the World Series since Model Ts puttered down the streets and where electoral shenanigans are summed up in the cheeky phrase, "vote early, vote often."

Abramoff criticizes reforms after lobbying scandal (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 07:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2010, file photo former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff arrives for work at Tov Pizza, a kosher pizzeria in northwest Baltimore. Abramoff writes in his autobiography out Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, that when a rising star as Republicans expanded their power in Washington, a senior partner in his firm warned him against his win-at-all-costs approach to business: 'At the rate you're going you're either going to be dead, disgraced or in jail in five years,' the boss said. The line rang in his ears for the next ten years, Abramoff says, including in the federal penitentiary, where he spent three years paying for his bribery of public officials and other crimes. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)AP - Jack Abramoff can't say he wasn't warned.

American who joined Libyan rebels returning to US (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2011 09:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, American writer and filmmaker Matthew VanDyke, from Baltimore, released from Abu Salim prison after spending 6 months imprisoned, stands in front of the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya. VanDyke is expected to return home Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, after spending more than five months in solitary confinement in Libyan prisons, then joining rebel forces. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP - An American writer is returning home Saturday after spending more than five months in solitary confinement in Libyan prisons, then joining the rebel forces who opposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
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