Friday, November 25, 2011

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping (Reuters)

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping (Reuters)

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:20 PM PST

Reuters - Black Friday turned into a black mark against American shoppers as riotous crowds brawled over video games, waffle irons and towels, drawing international condemnation and even raising questions about the state of humanity.

Black Friday draws crowds, but spending in doubt (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:52 PM PST

Reuters - Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling holiday shopping season.

Los Angeles to evict Occupy camp on Monday (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:01 PM PST

Reuters - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have been camped in front of Los Angeles' City Hall for nearly two months will be evicted on Monday, city officials said on Friday.

Why Won't The Supreme Court Allow TV Cameras? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST

Time.com - Our justices aren't used to being second-guessed, but it's time to demand more transparency in the highest court in the land

Winners and Losers of the Deficit Supercommittee Deadlock (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST

Time.com - With the deficit supercommittee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in savings teetering on the brink of failure, Washington is embroiled in a high stakes round of recriminations

Two bodies found in Ohio, links to online ads possible (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:27 PM PST

Reuters - Authorities recovered two bodies from shallow graves in Ohio on Friday that may be linked to the shooting of one man and suspicious death of another who had responded to online help wanted ads.

Battery fires prompt govt probe of Chevy Volt (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 file photo, the Chevy Volt appears on display at the Washington Auto Show, in Washington. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, it has opened a formal safety defect investigation of the lithium-ion batteries in General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt to assess the risk of fire in the electric car after a serious crash. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - New fires involving the lithium-ion batteries in General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt have prompted an investigation to assess the risk of fire in the electric car after a serious crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday.

Occupy LA stands out for camp-city cooperation (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:39 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011, photo, a Los Angeles police officer looks at tents set up outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles. Occupy LA, a 485-tent camp surrounding City Hall downtown, has marched to a different beat in its drum circle. Protesters, police and city officials early on established a relationship based on dialogue instead of dictate. As camps in other cities degenerated into unrest and led to mass arrests, Occupy LA has remained largely a bastion of peaceful pot smokers with city leaders determined that Los Angeles would emerge from the shadow of Rodney King once and for all. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - When Occupy LA demonstrators recently proclaimed a downtown intersection "our street," police watched as annoyed drivers honked horns and tried to maneuver around gyrating protesters. Officers only moved in after the third intersection takeover — telling protesters they had to quit or face arrest. The activists turned around and marched back to camp chanting slogans.

Pentagon visit ahead for veteran who's dance champ (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:39 PM PST

War veteran and actor J.R. Martinez, winner of the 'Dancing with the Stars' celebrity dance competition, appears on 'Good Morning America' in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has invited soldier-turned-actor J.R. Martinez, winner of this season's "Dancing with the Stars" competition, to meet him at the Pentagon.

Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 11:27 AM PST

AP - A woman trying to improve her chance to buy cheap electronics at a Walmart in a wealthy suburb spewed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppers and 20 people suffered minor injuries, police said Friday.

Former NYT columnist, author Tom Wicker dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:32 PM PST

In this Sept. 13, 1963 photo, former New York Times reporter Tom Wicker stands in front of the White House in Washington. Wicker, who covered President John F. Kennedy’s assassination for the Times, went on to serve as the paper's Washington bureau chief and columnist has died at his home in Rochester, Vt. He was 85. (AP Photo/The New York Times, George Tames) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO ARCHIVE; FOR USE WITH TOM WICKER’S OBITUARY ONLYAP - Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Friday at his home in Rochester, Vt. He was 85.

New bodies could bring Ohio Craigslist toll to 3 (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:46 PM PST

This is an undated hand out photo of Timothy Kern of Massillon, Ohio provided by the FBI. Kern, missing since Nov. 13, interviewed for a Craigslist help-wanted ad that police say was actually a deadly robbery scheme that lured people to a nonexistent farm job in southern Ohio, according to the man’s father, who called the outlook for his son “pretty grim.” (AP Photo/The FBI)AP - The discoveries of two new bodies could bring to three the death toll from a Craigslist ad that police say lured victims into a lethal robbery scheme.

Prosecutor: Reagan, Bush not criminally liable (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:19 PM PST

AP - One of the prosecutors who investigated the Iran-Contra affair concluded two decades ago that neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush was criminally liable in the scandal that tarnished the presidencies of both men, according to reports made public Friday.

Companies give GOP, regulators, different messages (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 09:13 AM PST

In this photo taken June 16, 2009, Anthony Earley Jr., then-chairman and CEO of DTE Energy, speaks at the National Summit in Detroit, Mich. Large and small utility companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the Obama administration succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. 'Without the right policy, we could be headed for disaster,' Early told a committee on April 16. Earley is now chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Large and small companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the Obama administration succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution.

Sharp elbows: Shoppers scuffle on Black Thursday (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:42 PM PST

Early bird shoppers watch a Harry Potter movie being shown on a giant screen outside the Best Buy store in Mayfield Hts., Ohio while waiting for the doors to open at midnight on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. This weekend, many stores will for the first time use midnight openings along with the usual bevy of deals as they try to lure consumers, whose appetite for good-buys has been increasing since the Great Recession. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - A shopper in Los Angeles pepper-sprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargain-hunters crowded stores in an earlier-than-usual start to the madness known as Black Friday.

Ariz. grandfather roughed up by police in Walmart (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PST

AP - Police in suburban Buckeye were under fire Friday when a video was posted online showing a grandfather on the floor of a Walmart store with a bloody face after police said he was subdued trying to shoplift during a chaotic rush for discounted video games.

Gullah-language Bible now on audio CDs (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PST

AP - More than three decades after translators began putting the words of the New Testament into Gullah, everyone can now hear those words in the creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants along the sea islands of the nation's Southeast coast.

Motives of foreign student recruiters questioned (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 11:27 AM PST

AP - As American universities welcome ever-greater numbers of international students, some professors and admissions counselors are questioning the motives of the very professionals who have helped attract so many foreign scholars to their campuses.

Arrest in Chicago hospital parking garage shooting (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:10 PM PST

AP - A housekeeping employee suspected in the fatal shooting of a co-worker inside a hospital parking garage, which prompted an hours-long lockdown, was arrested during a Friday traffic stop, police said.

3 arrested US students to head home from Cairo (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. An official says an Egyptian court has ordered release of 3 US students arrested during Cairo unrest.(AP Photo/ Egyptian TV, File)AP - Three American students arrested during a protest in Egypt were released Friday and planned to catch flights out of Cairo to begin their trips home, an attorney and family said.
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