Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption (Reuters)

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption (Reuters)

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:55 PM PST

Disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (R) arrives at his Chicago home, after the first day of his sentencing hearing, December 6, 2011. REUTERS/John GressReuters - Three years after he was arrested outside his Chicago home on federal corruption charges, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Economic protesters target Washington lobbyists (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:21 PM PST

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street gather for a sit-in in the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (not pictured) on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 6, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Police arrested 62 economic protesters in Washington on Wednesday as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in an area famous as a center for the offices of lobbyists.

Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky arrested on new charges (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST

Reuters - Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, already charged with 40 counts of abusing eight boys over 15 years, was arrested at his home on Wednesday and charged with 12 new counts of sexual abuse, Pennsylvania's attorney general said.

Newt Gingrich: Can the GOP's True Believers Trust Him? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - Newt Gingrich drips with disdain for sound-bite politics, but last week he authored perhaps the best bumper sticker of the Republican primary race

Ohio State's Urban Meyer and the Cult of Coach (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - By giving coaches an honorific, we elevate their status. If we stopped, maybe college sports wouldn't be so out of control

New Orleans police trial from Hurricane Katrina nears end (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:49 PM PST

Reuters - Jury deliberations may begin on Thursday in the federal perjury trial of two New Orleans police officers accused of lying about the killing of a civilian in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

9 years later, SU accuser's abuse claim believed (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:47 PM PST

FILE - This Nov. 14, 2011 file photo shows Syracuse basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine watching a college basketball game against Manhattan in the NIT Season Tip-Off in Syracuse, N.Y. Prosecutors investigating allegations of child molestation against Fine face obstacles that include finding corroborating proof, statutes of limitations on old accusations, and the credibility of the men who accuse him of sex abuse, according to defense attorneys. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli, File)AP - Over the course of nine years, former ballboy Bobby Davis told his story of sexual abuse at the hands of Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine to the police, the college, the local newspaper and a national TV network. Each time, either he was too late or his story couldn't be proved.

Maintenance man arrested in Ga. girl's slaying (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 07:05 PM PST

This booking photo provided Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011, by the Cherokee Sheriff’s Department, shows 20-year-old Ryan Brunn of Canton after his arrest for the murder in the beating death of a 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Cherokee Sheriff’s Department)AP - A 20-year-old maintenance man with no known criminal past was arrested Wednesday in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted at the apartment complex where she lived and he worked and her body left in a trash bin.

Relative: Mom in welfare standoff mentally unsound (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:42 PM PST

AP - The grandmother of two children shot by their mother inside a Texas welfare office said Wednesday her former daughter-in-law had a history of mental problems leading up to the standoff in a state building where the struggling family had been denied food stamps.

Big promise is seen in 2 new breast cancer drugs (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:58 PM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, Rachel Midgett of Houston, Texas, foreground, stretches with Heather Keister of Lubbock, Texas before heading to the start line to run in the half marathon of the Las Vegas Marathon, in Las Vegas. Afflicted with breast cancer, Midgett has been taking the drug Afinitor for the last nine months and said that the cancer has not progressed in that time period, longer than other cancer drugs she has taken in the past. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.

5 killed in tour helicopter crash near Lake Mead (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:01 PM PST

AP - A helicopter taking people on a luxury sunset tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam crashed into a mountainside Wednesday, killing the pilot and the four passengers on board, federal authorities said.

Nation marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:36 PM PST

Pearl Harbor survivors stand at attention during the National Anthem during the Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Today marks the 70th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base which pulled the US into a war with Japan. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)AP - In wheelchairs and on walkers, the old veterans came Wednesday to remember the day 70 years ago when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But FDR's "date that will live in infamy" is becoming a more distant memory.

'MythBusters' cannonball rips through house, van (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:43 PM PST

'Mythbusters' stars Adam Savage, right, and Jamie Hyneman speak to the media outside the home damaged by an errant cannonball fired during a filming of an episode of their show, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 in Dublin, Calif. Sheriff's deputies are still measuring how, exactly, the cannonball flew from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban San Francisco Bay area neighborhood and rocketed into the front door of a home and through its master bedroom before landing in a neighbor's parked minivan. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Zany experiments testing scientific theories in real-world settings have earned the TV show "MythBusters" a devoted following, but a stunt gone awry met with an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball went shooting through a California family's bedroom.

Families demand prosecutions in W.Va. mine blast (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:14 PM PST

Kevin Stricklin, the Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) Coal Administrator, speaks during a public hearing Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 in Beaver, W.Va. The new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay a record $210 million in penalties over what the government called an 'entirely preventable' tragedy caused by the pursuit of profits ahead of safety. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)AP - Money — even a lot of it — is cold comfort to some relatives of the 29 men who died in the worst mining disaster in decades. They want justice, the kind that comes with a courtroom and a prison cell.

Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison for corruption (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:46 PM PST

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife Patti, right, listens at the federal building in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, after being sentenced for 14 years on 18 corruption counts, including trying to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.

US: No to over-the-counter morning-after pill (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:26 PM PST

This frame grab from video shows a box of Plan B morning after pill. In a surprise move with election-year implications, the Obama administration's top health official overruled her own drug regulators and stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms. (AP Photo)AP - In a surprise move with election-year implications, the Obama administration's top health official overruled her own drug regulators and stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms.

Family of wounded toddler wants time for recovery (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:17 PM PST

AP - The family of a 1-year-old California boy who was shot in the head when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video issued a public plea Wednesday to keep him on life support.

APNewsBreak: Coverage for gender surgery jumps (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:15 PM PST

AP - The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation's largest gay rights group.

Sandusky jailed on new child sex abuse charges (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:02 PM PST

Former Penn State associate head football coach Jerry Sandusky is escorted to a police car, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, in Bellefonte, Pa., after being arrested on new child sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities. The claims bring the number of Sandusky's alleged victims to 10, and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations he molested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times (Knight Ridder), Christopher Weddle) ALTOONA MIRROR OUT; MAGS OUTAP - Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was jailed Wednesday after new child sex abuse charges were filed against him based on the claims of new two accusers, one of whom says he screamed in vain for help while Sandusky attacked him in a basement bedroom.
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