Sunday, November 20, 2011

Penn State trustees panel sets news conference Monday (Reuters)

Penn State trustees panel sets news conference Monday (Reuters)

Penn State trustees panel sets news conference Monday (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 06:34 PM PST

Reuters - A special committee formed by Penn State trustees to investigate the university's actions after reports of child sex abuse by a former football coach said it will hold a news conference Monday in connection with its investigation.

Founder sells Milwaukee cafe for $100, promise of food (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:55 PM PST

Reuters - For a mere $100, Nell Benton has found herself not just a job, but sole ownership in a restaurant that would seem to be a perfect fit.

UC Davis investigates pepper spray incident (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 06:54 PM PST

Reuters - Two University of California, Davis police officers have been placed on leave while the school investigates the apparent use by campus police of pepper spray against seated student protesters, the university said Sunday.

Okla. State to examine travel rules after deaths (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 04:56 PM PST

AP - Oklahoma State University officials will examine the school's travel policy in the wake of a plane crash that killed women's basketball coach Kurt Budke, an assistant coach and two other people in central Arkansas, a spokesman said Sunday.

Officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 07:38 PM PST

In this Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, photo University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad Friday in Davis, Calif. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters were placed on administrative leave Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock)AP - A California university placed two of its police officers on administrative leave Sunday because of their involvement in the pepper spraying of passively sitting protesters, while the school's chancellor accelerated a task force's investigation into the incident amid calls for her resignation.

'Breaking Dawn' rises to $283.5M worldwide debut (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 12:17 PM PST

In this image released by Summit Entertainment, Kristen Stewart, foreground, and Robert Pattinson are shown in a scene from 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.' (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Andrew Cooper)AP - "The Twilight Saga" has staked out another huge opening with a $139.5 million first weekend domestically and a worldwide launch of $283.5 million.

Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:22 AM PST

In this Oct. 5, 2011 photo, a child's grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing on the now dry, sandy lake near Bluffton, as the Texas drought shrinks the state's largest inland lake. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later.

NYC mayor: al-Qaida sympathizer arrested (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 07:43 PM PST

This police photo shown at a news conference in New York on Sunday, Nov. 20 2011 shows who authorities say is Jose Pimentel making a bomb. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Pimentel, of Manhattan, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was arrested Saturday for allegedly plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - An "al-Qaida sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

Attorney: Truck in Yale tailgating death faulty (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 02:35 PM PST

Authorities work the scene where the driver of a rental truck carrying beer kegs through a parking area before an NCAA college football game between Yale and Harvard suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old woman and injuring two other women, police said, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - A rented U-Haul that struck and killed a Massachusetts tailgater at a Yale-Harvard football game malfunctioned as a Yale undergraduate drove the vehicle into a crowded parking lot, the student's attorney said Sunday.

Debt panel poised to admit failure (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 06:26 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2011 file photo Supercommittee co-chairs Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, confer as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction meets to hear testimony about the national debt from the Congressional Budget Office director on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fanning out to the sets of various talk shows Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, Democrat and Republican Supercommittee members blamed one another other for a deepening impasse that has all but doomed any chances for accord. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - A special deficit-reduction supercommittee appears likely to admit failure on Monday, unable or unwilling to compromise on a mix of spending cuts and tax increases required to meet its assignment of saving taxpayers at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.

More police departments look to tune public out (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST

Scanner hobbyist Rick Hansen holds his scanner/Ham radio device at his home Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Silver Spring, Md. In an effort to restrict access to their internal communications police departments around the nation are moving to encrypt them. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Police departments around the country are working to shield their radio communications from the public as cheap, user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld devices to keep tabs on officers responding to crimes.

Police: Fake doc injected cement in woman's rear (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 04:12 PM PST

AP - A woman who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a curvier body. Police say what she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tire sealant.

Aging in place: a little help can go a long way (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PST

Beryl O'Connor stands in front of her home in Verona, N.J., Friday Nov. 11, 2011. Physically spry and active, 80-year-old O'Connor is the embodiment of 'aging in place', growing old in one's own longtime home and remaining engaged in the community, rather than moving to a retirement facility. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - Retirement communities may have their perks, but Beryl O'Connor says it would be tough to match the birthday surprise she got in her own backyard when she turned 80 this year.

Courts put huge California water pact in limbo (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 11:48 AM PST

AP - A landmark accord that ended decades of acrimony over how Southern California gets its water is in jeopardy.

Rice: Assad taking Syria to brink of civil war (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST

Pro-Syrian regime protesters carry a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration to show their solidarity with their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 20, 2011. Residents in the Syrian capital awoke to two loud explosions Sunday amid reports from activists that the Damascus headquarters of the ruling Baath party had been hit by several rocket-propelled grenades. But eyewitnesses said the party headquarters appeared intact and reported no significant security deployment around it. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking his country to the brink of civil war.

Fire crews focusing on hot spots in Reno fire (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 12:04 PM PST

AP - Austin and Sarah Hardage's home is burned to its foundations — the sad aftermath of an early-morning conflagration that raged through an area of southwest Reno.
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